Kubernetes Contracts in England

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 42 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,459 1,547 2,737
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.49% 4.16% 5.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.20% 32.78% 37.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 1,114 2,030
10th Percentile £400 £407 £453
25th Percentile £450 £475 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £619
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -11.11% -1.00%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £720
90th Percentile £744 £738 £813
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.36% -8.33% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 53
10th Percentile £67.38 £41.47 £50.49
25th Percentile £74.80 £46.23 £61.25
Median hourly rate £79.50 £67.25 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.22% -7.88% +5.70%
75th Percentile £84.12 £74.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £89.75 £76.25 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +17.04% -6.90% +49.93%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,145 4,720 7,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.61% 12.68% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,754 3,385 5,243
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 95 163
10th Percentile £20.13 £16.47 £18.80
25th Percentile £26.45 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.97% -45.22% +161.36%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £71.25 £84.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +155.56%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +8 895 £550 -4.35% 1,189
North of England +4 188 £500 - 305
South East +4 124 £500 -11.11% 239
North West +29 95 £488 -11.36% 191
Midlands +60 85 £525 +16.67% 72
Yorkshire +2 82 £525 +10.53% 95
South West -9 64 £600 +9.09% 132
West Midlands +45 58 £550 +18.92% 59
East Midlands +18 27 £430 +5.85% 13
East of England +16 24 £490 -12.30% 70
North East -2 14 £525 +27.27% 19
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
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 61 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 60 (4.11%) Apache
3 53 (3.63%) Confluence
4 42 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (1.78%) nginx
6 18 (1.23%) JBoss
7 14 (0.96%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.62%) Camunda
9 9 (0.62%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
11 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.27%) Alfresco
13 4 (0.27%) IIS
13 4 (0.27%) MQSeries
14 3 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
15 2 (0.14%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.069%) InVision
3 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.069%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.069%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Endur
1 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.14%) Shopify
3 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.069%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.069%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.069%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 832 (57.03%) AWS
2 480 (32.90%) Azure
3 265 (18.16%) GCP
4 191 (13.09%) GitHub
5 149 (10.21%) OpenShift
5 149 (10.21%) Serverless
6 121 (8.29%) Azure AKS
7 117 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (7.88%) GitHub Actions
9 114 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
10 111 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
12 78 (5.35%) Amazon S3
13 62 (4.25%) PaaS
14 61 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
15 58 (3.98%) IaaS
16 56 (3.84%) SaaS
17 49 (3.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 45 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
19 44 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (5.76%) Firewall
2 68 (4.66%) DNS
3 44 (3.02%) VPN
4 39 (2.67%) HTTP
5 32 (2.19%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.78%) DHCP
7 23 (1.58%) Network Security
8 21 (1.44%) SSL
9 12 (0.82%) SMTP
10 10 (0.69%) HTTPS
10 10 (0.69%) Internet
11 8 (0.55%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.48%) SAN
12 7 (0.48%) Wireless
13 6 (0.41%) 4G
13 6 (0.41%) 5G
14 5 (0.34%) BGP
14 5 (0.34%) MPLS
14 5 (0.34%) NAS
14 5 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (10.35%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (6.03%) NoSQL
3 80 (5.48%) Relational Database
4 76 (5.21%) MongoDB
5 69 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
6 67 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
7 60 (4.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 47 (3.22%) Big Data
9 45 (3.08%) SQL Server
10 33 (2.26%) Data Lake
11 32 (2.19%) MySQL
12 30 (2.06%) Hadoop
13 29 (1.99%) Redis
14 27 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
17 19 (1.30%) Apache Iceberg
17 19 (1.30%) Oracle Database
18 18 (1.23%) BigQuery
18 18 (1.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 337 (23.10%) Jenkins
2 220 (15.08%) Git
3 190 (13.02%) GitLab
4 110 (7.54%) JIRA
5 60 (4.11%) SonarQube
6 38 (2.60%) Artifactory
6 38 (2.60%) Maven
7 30 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 25 (1.71%) JUnit
9 24 (1.64%) CircleCI
10 23 (1.58%) Cucumber
11 22 (1.51%) Bitbucket
12 21 (1.44%) Selenium
13 20 (1.37%) Gradle
13 20 (1.37%) TeamCity
14 19 (1.30%) REST Assured
15 17 (1.17%) Bitbucket Server
16 14 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 12 (0.82%) CA Release Automation
17 12 (0.82%) Cypress.io
General
1 336 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 250 (17.14%) Finance
3 139 (9.53%) Public Sector
4 133 (9.12%) Banking
5 122 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.22%) Investment Banking
7 37 (2.54%) Telecoms
8 26 (1.78%) Retail
9 24 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (1.58%) Front Office
11 20 (1.37%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.10%) Legal
13 15 (1.03%) Law
14 14 (0.96%) Marketing
15 13 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.75%) Military
18 8 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 6 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 337 (23.10%) Developer
2 286 (19.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 213 (14.60%) Senior
4 168 (11.51%) Architect
5 111 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
6 101 (6.92%) Java Developer
7 90 (6.17%) Lead
8 84 (5.76%) AWS DevOps
9 70 (4.80%) Data Engineer
9 70 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
10 69 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 68 (4.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 68 (4.66%) Senior Developer
12 62 (4.25%) Python Developer
12 62 (4.25%) Python Engineer
13 59 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
14 54 (3.70%) Software Engineer
15 53 (3.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 52 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 48 (3.29%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (16.93%) Kafka
2 136 (9.32%) React
3 130 (8.91%) Spring
4 111 (7.61%) .NET
5 103 (7.06%) REST
6 101 (6.92%) Node.js
7 95 (6.51%) Spring Boot
8 82 (5.62%) Elastic Stack
9 79 (5.41%) RESTful
10 68 (4.66%) AngularJS
11 60 (4.11%) gRPC
12 55 (3.77%) OAuth
13 51 (3.50%) FastAPI
14 49 (3.36%) OpenTelemetry
15 44 (3.02%) HTML
16 41 (2.81%) ARM Templates
17 34 (2.33%) GraphQL
17 34 (2.33%) Pandas
18 31 (2.12%) NumPy
18 31 (2.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 151 (10.35%) Cloud Native
2 122 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 41 (2.81%) Data Centre
5 38 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 32 (2.19%) PKI
8 31 (2.12%) Product Ownership
9 26 (1.78%) Private Cloud
10 25 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 22 (1.51%) Algorithms
11 22 (1.51%) Hedge funds
12 21 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.03%) Management Information System
14 15 (1.03%) Security Posture
15 14 (0.96%) Clustering
15 14 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 344 (23.58%) Linux
2 98 (6.72%) Windows
3 73 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (3.50%) Unix
5 37 (2.54%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.10%) CentOS
7 9 (0.62%) Android
7 9 (0.62%) VMS
8 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.41%) Rocky
8 6 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.34%) Solaris
10 4 (0.27%) SUSE
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.21%) AIX
12 2 (0.14%) Debian
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.069%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 770 (52.78%) CI/CD
2 714 (48.94%) DevOps
3 540 (37.01%) Containerisation
4 427 (29.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 391 (26.80%) Microservices
6 358 (24.54%) Agile
7 274 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
8 235 (16.11%) Software Engineering
9 149 (10.21%) Observability
10 147 (10.08%) Test Automation
11 131 (8.98%) Open Source
12 129 (8.84%) Migration
13 127 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
14 126 (8.64%) Configuration Management
15 122 (8.36%) Continuous Integration
16 116 (7.95%) Analytics
17 107 (7.33%) Mentoring
17 107 (7.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 103 (7.06%) TDD
19 102 (6.99%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 682 (46.74%) Python
2 390 (26.73%) Java
3 208 (14.26%) SQL
4 207 (14.19%) Bash
5 181 (12.41%) JavaScript
6 167 (11.45%) Go
7 140 (9.60%) C#
8 132 (9.05%) PowerShell
9 91 (6.24%) TypeScript
10 63 (4.32%) C++
11 55 (3.77%) Shell Script
12 50 (3.43%) Bicep
13 35 (2.40%) Perl
14 25 (1.71%) Rust
14 25 (1.71%) Scala
15 23 (1.58%) PL/SQL
16 22 (1.51%) Groovy
17 20 (1.37%) Kotlin
18 18 (1.23%) Ruby
19 15 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 387 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 298 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 99 (6.79%) Degree
4 84 (5.76%) DV Cleared
5 63 (4.32%) AWS Certification
6 45 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (2.88%) Azure Certification
8 31 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
11 12 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (0.82%) CISSP
12 11 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.69%) OCP
13 10 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.41%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.34%) CISM
15 5 (0.34%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.63%) QA
2 35 (2.40%) GDPR
3 24 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.30%) HIPAA
6 16 (1.10%) NIST
6 16 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 14 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.55%) NCSC
9 8 (0.55%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.27%) EU AI Act
10 4 (0.27%) SLA
11 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.14%) OASIS TOSCA
12 1 (0.069%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.069%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.069%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.069%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 836 (57.30%) Docker
2 59 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 44 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 16 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.10%) vSphere
6 12 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 9 (0.62%) BitLocker
7 9 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (0.62%) Terminal Services
8 7 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.21%) Lustre
9 3 (0.21%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (0.21%) vCloud
9 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.069%) HDFS
11 1 (0.069%) KVM
11 1 (0.069%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 605 (41.47%) Terraform
2 346 (23.71%) Ansible
3 183 (12.54%) Grafana
4 164 (11.24%) Prometheus
5 83 (5.69%) Puppet
6 53 (3.63%) Progress Chef
7 43 (2.95%) Kibana
8 41 (2.81%) Argo
9 32 (2.19%) Packer
10 25 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.64%) Istio
12 20 (1.37%) Consul
13 19 (1.30%) Podman
14 16 (1.10%) Nagios
15 14 (0.96%) Rancher
16 12 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
17 11 (0.75%) logstash
17 11 (0.75%) vCenter Server
18 9 (0.62%) vMotion
19 8 (0.55%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 117 (8.02%) Microsoft
2 105 (7.20%) Google
3 103 (7.06%) Splunk
4 100 (6.85%) Red Hat
5 68 (4.66%) Oracle
6 59 (4.04%) VMware
7 29 (1.99%) IBM
8 26 (1.78%) AppDynamics
9 24 (1.64%) Databricks
9 24 (1.64%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 13 (0.89%) TIBCO
12 12 (0.82%) Cisco
12 12 (0.82%) Cloudera
12 12 (0.82%) Virgin Media
13 11 (0.75%) Confluent
14 10 (0.69%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.69%) Citrix
14 10 (0.69%) HP
15 9 (0.62%) Qualys