Kubernetes Contracts in Farnborough

Kubernetes (k8s)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Farnborough 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 27 20
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Kubernetes 14 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 12.50% 4.73% 3.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 58.33% 15.69% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile £475 £415 £408
25th Percentile £494 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year +27.22% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £611
90th Percentile - £630 £642
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £519 £600
% change year-on-year -1.25% -13.50% +19.40%

All Systems Management Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 24 51 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 21.43% 30.18% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 45 11
10th Percentile £490 £475 £400
25th Percentile £500 £581 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +30.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £619 £750 £584
90th Percentile £626 - £663
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £519 £525
% change year-on-year +5.97% -1.14% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Farnborough

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 12 (85.71%) OpenShift
3 10 (71.43%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Git
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) Middleware
1 10 (71.43%) React
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (85.71%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (92.86%) Platform Engineering
3 12 (85.71%) Migration
4 11 (78.57%) Configuration Management
5 8 (57.14%) High Availability
6 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 5 (35.71%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (28.57%) Open Source
8 2 (14.29%) DevOps
8 2 (14.29%) Observability
9 1 (7.14%) Agile
9 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
9 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps
9 1 (7.14%) Event-Driven
9 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
9 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
9 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) PowerShell
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 11 (78.57%) Java
2 11 (78.57%) JavaScript
2 11 (78.57%) SQL
3 10 (71.43%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Kibana
4 1 (7.14%) Proxmox
4 1 (7.14%) Rundeck
4 1 (7.14%) Salt
4 1 (7.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) VMware