Kubernetes Engineer Contracts in England

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > England

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 536 499
Rank change year-on-year +94 -37 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 52 18 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.048% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.052% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 16 123
10th Percentile £463 £475 £550
25th Percentile £513 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £613 £725
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% -15.52% +7.41%
75th Percentile £738 £638 £863
90th Percentile £750 £725 -
UK median daily rate £588 £575 £725
% change year-on-year +2.17% -20.69% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 23,627 34,496 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.91% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,455 22,543 31,717
10th Percentile £290 £298 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £748 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 2,588 1,360
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £16.72 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £39.55 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% -9.97% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.51 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +69.37%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +60 27 £644 +3.00% 26
North of England - 8 £475 - 2
South East +59 7 £300 -40.00% 6
North West - 7 £475 - 2
South West +36 1 £500 -20.00%
Midlands +14 1 £575 +27.78%
West Midlands +7 1 £575 +27.78%
North East - 1 £620 -
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 32 (61.54%) Ansible
3 29 (55.77%) Terraform
3 29 (55.77%) Python
4 27 (51.92%) CI/CD
5 25 (48.08%) Linux
6 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (40.38%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (38.46%) Containerisation
8 20 (38.46%) AWS
9 18 (34.62%) DevOps
9 18 (34.62%) Migration
10 16 (30.77%) Docker
10 16 (30.77%) Jenkins
11 15 (28.85%) Agile
11 15 (28.85%) Java
12 13 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (25.00%) Grafana
12 13 (25.00%) GitOps
13 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
13 12 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (23.08%) Azure
14 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
14 11 (21.15%) GCP
14 11 (21.15%) Cloud Native
14 11 (21.15%) Rancher
14 11 (21.15%) Observability
15 10 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (19.23%) Argo
15 10 (19.23%) OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (17.31%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) AWS
2 12 (23.08%) Azure
3 11 (21.15%) GCP
4 10 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (17.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (15.38%) Amazon S3
7 7 (13.46%) OpenShift
8 5 (9.62%) GitHub
9 4 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) SAN
1 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (17.31%) Hadoop
4 6 (11.54%) Big Data
4 6 (11.54%) Data Lake
4 6 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 16 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.62%) Liquibase
3 2 (3.85%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.85%) Git
3 2 (3.85%) GitLab
3 2 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Banking
3 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (11.54%) Kafka
2 6 (11.54%) Middleware
2 6 (11.54%) React
3 1 (1.92%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (48.08%) Linux
2 9 (17.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.85%) Windows
4 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (51.92%) CI/CD
2 24 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (40.38%) Platform Engineering
4 20 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 18 (34.62%) DevOps
5 18 (34.62%) Migration
6 15 (28.85%) Agile
7 13 (25.00%) GitOps
8 11 (21.15%) Observability
9 10 (19.23%) High Availability
10 7 (13.46%) Microservices
10 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
11 6 (11.54%) Analytics
11 6 (11.54%) Batch Processing
11 6 (11.54%) Configuration Management
11 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (9.62%) Continuous Deployment
12 5 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (9.62%) TDD
13 4 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (55.77%) Python
2 15 (28.85%) Java
3 8 (15.38%) C#
3 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
4 7 (13.46%) SQL
5 6 (11.54%) Go
6 5 (9.62%) Bash
7 4 (7.69%) Perl
8 1 (1.92%) C++
8 1 (1.92%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.92%) OCP
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 16 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Lustre
2 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 32 (61.54%) Ansible
3 29 (55.77%) Terraform
4 13 (25.00%) Grafana
5 11 (21.15%) Rancher
6 10 (19.23%) Argo
7 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.92%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (1.92%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.92%) Nessus
8 1 (1.92%) Packer
8 1 (1.92%) Podman
8 1 (1.92%) Puppet
8 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.85%) Google
2 2 (3.85%) Splunk
3 1 (1.92%) Dell
3 1 (1.92%) EMC
3 1 (1.92%) HP
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.92%) SendGrid
3 1 (1.92%) VMware
3 1 (1.92%) Zscaler