Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Essex

Kubernetes (k8s)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 2.36% - 3.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 60.00% - 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £458 - £495
25th Percentile £458 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - £512
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.30%
75th Percentile £475 - £528
90th Percentile £476 - £590
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £554
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.72% -7.67%

All Systems Management Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5 12 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 3.94% 9.02% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 22
10th Percentile £299 £215 £432
25th Percentile £401 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £275 £540
Median % change year-on-year +69.55% -49.07% +20.00%
75th Percentile £510 £350 £643
90th Percentile £572 £470 £673
East of England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £66.50 £40.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +66.25% -18.37% -32.88%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Essex

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Essex region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Basildon - 1 £465 - 1
Brentwood - 1 £468 -
Kubernetes
East of England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Design Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSR 170
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) OSGi
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Personalization
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler