Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Fleet

Kubernetes (k8s)
Hampshire > Fleet

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Fleet requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Fleet 13.33% - 10.00%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.77% - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £449 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £462 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -11.08% -5.64% +10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Fleet

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 Fleet.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 13 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Fleet 43.33% - 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £447 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £521
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.57% -0.76%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Fleet

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Fleet

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Fleet

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Fleet citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Fleet 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (75.00%) Data Lineage
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
2 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Scala
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) RHCE
3 1 (25.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) KVM
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware