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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.75% - 0.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 66.67% - 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.00%
75th Percentile £473 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

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 3 19 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 2.63% 15.20% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 16
10th Percentile £466 £220 £431
25th Percentile £478 £275 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £315 £550
Median % change year-on-year +65.08% -42.73% +17.96%
75th Percentile £578 £318 £639
90th Percentile £599 £326 £662
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £63.50 £40.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +58.75% -18.37% -32.88%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend 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 19 October 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 -
Kubernetes
East of England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSR 170
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) OSGi
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler