Kubernetes Engineer Contracts in England

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > England

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 529 504
Rank change year-on-year +91 -25 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 47 13 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.035% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.038% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 10 114
10th Percentile £433 £445 £550
25th Percentile £540 £516 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £670
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -15.98% -4.36%
75th Percentile £750 £628 £863
90th Percentile £820 £649 -
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -7.14%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 May 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 +61 30 £694 +20.65% 10
North of England +24 6 £475 - 8
North West - 5 £475 - 8
South East +46 1 £300 -42.86% 2
Midlands +22 1 £575 +27.78%
West Midlands +14 1 £575 +27.78%
North East - 1 £620 -
South West - 1 £500 -
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 47 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (72.34%) Terraform
3 28 (59.57%) CI/CD
4 27 (57.45%) Ansible
5 26 (55.32%) Linux
6 23 (48.94%) Python
7 20 (42.55%) DevOps
8 18 (38.30%) AWS
9 17 (36.17%) Containerisation
9 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (34.04%) Docker
11 15 (31.91%) Grafana
11 15 (31.91%) Finance
12 14 (29.79%) Agile
12 14 (29.79%) Apache Spark
13 13 (27.66%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (27.66%) Jenkins
13 13 (27.66%) Banking
13 13 (27.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (27.66%) Amazon S3
13 13 (27.66%) Observability
14 12 (25.53%) OpenTelemetry
14 12 (25.53%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (25.53%) Hadoop
14 12 (25.53%) Migration
15 11 (23.40%) Cloud Native
16 10 (21.28%) Argo
16 10 (21.28%) GitOps
16 10 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (21.28%) PostgreSQL

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 14 (29.79%) Apache Spark
2 4 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (38.30%) AWS
2 13 (27.66%) Amazon S3
3 10 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (14.89%) OpenShift
5 6 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (12.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (10.64%) GitHub
6 5 (10.64%) Serverless
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.51%) Azure
7 4 (8.51%) GCP
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.13%) IaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (2.13%) SAN
1 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (25.53%) Hadoop
3 10 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (10.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (10.64%) Big Data
5 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (6.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.77%) Artifactory
3 4 (8.51%) GitLab
4 2 (4.26%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) Liquibase
5 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.13%) Git
5 1 (2.13%) Jaeger
General
1 15 (31.91%) Finance
2 13 (27.66%) Banking
3 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Front Office
5 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (12.77%) Kafka
3 5 (10.64%) J2EE
4 1 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.13%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.13%) LDAP
4 1 (2.13%) OAuth
4 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.13%) OpenID
4 1 (2.13%) SAML
4 1 (2.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Tandem
3 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (55.32%) Linux
2 13 (27.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 20 (42.55%) DevOps
3 17 (36.17%) Containerisation
3 17 (36.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (29.79%) Agile
5 13 (27.66%) Observability
6 12 (25.53%) Migration
6 12 (25.53%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (21.28%) GitOps
8 9 (19.15%) Microservices
9 8 (17.02%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
10 7 (14.89%) Batch Processing
10 7 (14.89%) High Availability
10 7 (14.89%) Open Source
11 6 (12.77%) Analytics
11 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
11 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
12 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) Python
2 9 (19.15%) Java
3 7 (14.89%) Go
4 3 (6.38%) Bash
4 3 (6.38%) SQL
5 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.13%) OCP
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 16 (34.04%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.13%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 47 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (72.34%) Terraform
3 27 (57.45%) Ansible
4 15 (31.91%) Grafana
5 10 (21.28%) Argo
6 8 (17.02%) Rancher
7 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
8 2 (4.26%) Puppet
9 1 (2.13%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (2.13%) Karpenter
9 1 (2.13%) Nessus
9 1 (2.13%) Packer
9 1 (2.13%) Podman
9 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Splunk
2 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.13%) Databricks
3 1 (2.13%) Dell
3 1 (2.13%) EMC
3 1 (2.13%) Google
3 1 (2.13%) HP
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.13%) VMware