Kubernetes Engineer Contracts in England

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > England

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 543 503
Rank change year-on-year +95 -40 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 55 17 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.047% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.051% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 16 115
10th Percentile £463 £475 £525
25th Percentile £513 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £725
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -15.52% +7.41%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £863
90th Percentile £750 £725 -
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £725
% change year-on-year - -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 25,004 33,616 44,854
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 92.94% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,265 22,076 31,771
10th Percentile £293 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,235 2,327 1,389
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.72 £19.40
Median hourly rate £27.64 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.90% -6.98% +70.01%
75th Percentile £57.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.75% -5.88% +65.50%

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 17 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 17 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 +50 30 £608 -2.80% 5
South East +39 7 £300 -40.00% 2
North West - 7 £475 -
North of England - 7 £475 -
South West +47 1 £500 -20.00% 1
Midlands +3 1 £575 +27.78%
West Midlands -1 1 £575 +27.78%
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 55 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (60.00%) Ansible
3 32 (58.18%) Terraform
4 30 (54.55%) Python
5 28 (50.91%) CI/CD
6 26 (47.27%) Linux
7 24 (43.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (38.18%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (36.36%) Containerisation
9 20 (36.36%) DevOps
9 20 (36.36%) AWS
10 19 (34.55%) Migration
11 17 (30.91%) Agile
11 17 (30.91%) Jenkins
12 16 (29.09%) Docker
12 16 (29.09%) Java
13 15 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
14 14 (25.45%) Grafana
14 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
15 13 (23.64%) GitOps
15 13 (23.64%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (23.64%) Azure
16 12 (21.82%) GCP
16 12 (21.82%) Observability
16 12 (21.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 11 (20.00%) Argo
17 11 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
17 11 (20.00%) Rancher
17 11 (20.00%) Cloud Native
17 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared

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 10 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.82%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (36.36%) AWS
2 13 (23.64%) Azure
3 12 (21.82%) GCP
3 12 (21.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 10 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (16.36%) Amazon S3
6 7 (12.73%) OpenShift
7 5 (9.09%) GitHub
8 4 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.82%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) SAN
1 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (23.64%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (18.18%) Hadoop
4 7 (12.73%) Big Data
4 7 (12.73%) Data Lake
4 7 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.91%) Liquibase
3 2 (3.64%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.64%) Git
3 2 (3.64%) JIRA
4 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.82%) GitLab
General
1 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Banking
3 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Finance
4 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.64%) Retail
5 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (12.73%) Kafka
3 6 (10.91%) Middleware
3 6 (10.91%) React
4 1 (1.82%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.82%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (47.27%) Linux
2 10 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.64%) Windows
4 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) CI/CD
2 24 (43.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (38.18%) Platform Engineering
4 20 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 20 (36.36%) DevOps
5 19 (34.55%) Migration
6 17 (30.91%) Agile
7 13 (23.64%) GitOps
8 12 (21.82%) Observability
9 10 (18.18%) High Availability
10 8 (14.55%) Microservices
10 8 (14.55%) Test Automation
11 7 (12.73%) Analytics
11 7 (12.73%) Batch Processing
11 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (10.91%) Configuration Management
12 6 (10.91%) Continuous Deployment
12 6 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (10.91%) TDD
13 4 (7.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (54.55%) Python
2 16 (29.09%) Java
3 8 (14.55%) C#
3 8 (14.55%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.73%) Go
4 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
4 7 (12.73%) SQL
5 6 (10.91%) Bash
6 5 (9.09%) Perl
7 1 (1.82%) C++
7 1 (1.82%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.45%) Degree
3 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.82%) OCP
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Lustre
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 33 (60.00%) Ansible
3 32 (58.18%) Terraform
4 14 (25.45%) Grafana
5 11 (20.00%) Argo
5 11 (20.00%) Rancher
6 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.82%) HP Data Protector
7 1 (1.82%) Karpenter
7 1 (1.82%) Nessus
7 1 (1.82%) Packer
7 1 (1.82%) Podman
7 1 (1.82%) Puppet
7 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.64%) Google
2 2 (3.64%) Splunk
3 1 (1.82%) Dell
3 1 (1.82%) EMC
3 1 (1.82%) HP
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.82%) SendGrid
3 1 (1.82%) VMware
3 1 (1.82%) Zscaler