Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > England

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 471 511
Rank change year-on-year -48 +40 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 34 40 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 53
10th Percentile £400 £444 £475
25th Percentile £508 £556 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £635 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +1.60% -
75th Percentile £625 £788 £763
90th Percentile £648 £838 £863
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £59.39 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £63.79 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +2.06% -
75th Percentile - £68.18 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £63.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +2.06% -

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 27,257 28,735 37,323
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 93.01% 93.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,480 17,554 25,817
10th Percentile £281 £300 £293
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 1,077 1,437
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.22 £15.29
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.47
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +60.48%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies 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 17 November 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 +1 24 £550 -16.67% 10
South East 0 4 - - 3
North of England -39 2 £600 +66.67%
North West -25 1 - -
North East - 1 £600 -
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 30 (88.24%) CI/CD
3 20 (58.82%) DevOps
4 19 (55.88%) Terraform
5 18 (52.94%) Python
6 17 (50.00%) Azure
7 16 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (44.12%) AWS
8 15 (44.12%) Jenkins
8 15 (44.12%) SC Cleared
8 15 (44.12%) Security Cleared
9 14 (41.18%) Ansible
9 14 (41.18%) GCP
10 13 (38.24%) Agile
11 12 (35.29%) Java
12 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
12 11 (32.35%) Docker
13 10 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (26.47%) GitHub
15 8 (23.53%) Bash
15 8 (23.53%) Go
15 8 (23.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (23.53%) Migration
15 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
16 7 (20.59%) Argo
16 7 (20.59%) Continuous Deployment
16 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
16 7 (20.59%) Kafka
16 7 (20.59%) Liquibase
16 7 (20.59%) Observability

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (44.12%) AWS
3 14 (41.18%) GCP
4 9 (26.47%) GitHub
5 8 (23.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (17.65%) OpenShift
7 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
8 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.88%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.94%) Contentful
9 1 (2.94%) Contentstack
9 1 (2.94%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
1 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.82%) Big Data
2 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.82%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Jenkins
2 7 (20.59%) Liquibase
3 3 (8.82%) RStudio
4 2 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.88%) GitLab
5 1 (2.94%) Git
5 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Social Science
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) Kafka
2 5 (14.71%) React
3 4 (11.76%) Middleware
4 3 (8.82%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.94%) Fastify
5 1 (2.94%) MACH
5 1 (2.94%) Next.js
5 1 (2.94%) Node.js
5 1 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Private Cloud
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 20 (58.82%) DevOps
3 16 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (38.24%) Agile
5 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
6 8 (23.53%) Migration
6 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (20.59%) Observability
7 7 (20.59%) TDD
8 5 (14.71%) Microservices
8 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.76%) Analytics
9 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
10 3 (8.82%) Batch Processing
10 3 (8.82%) GitOps
10 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (5.88%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) Java
3 8 (23.53%) Bash
3 8 (23.53%) Go
4 7 (20.59%) Perl
5 6 (17.65%) C#
5 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.76%) SQL
7 2 (5.88%) Groovy
8 1 (2.94%) C++
8 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (44.12%) SC Cleared
1 15 (44.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.94%) CISM
3 1 (2.94%) CISSP
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (55.88%) Terraform
3 14 (41.18%) Ansible
4 7 (20.59%) Argo
5 6 (17.65%) Grafana
6 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (8.82%) Rancher
7 1 (2.94%) Fluentd
7 1 (2.94%) Istio
7 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (8.82%) VMware
3 1 (2.94%) Cribl.io
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Splunk
3 1 (2.94%) Zscaler
12 Kubernetes Engineer jobs in England