Kubernetes Contracts in Gloucester

Kubernetes (k8s)
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 19 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 8 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 8.79% 4.76% 9.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% 18.18% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 11
10th Percentile £608 - £525
25th Percentile £677 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +43.59% -18.75% +26.32%
75th Percentile - £531 £625
90th Percentile £730 £541 £671
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Systems Management Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 24 22 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 26.37% 26.19% 46.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 54
10th Percentile £226 £400 £200
25th Percentile £406 £453 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +52.38%
75th Percentile £700 £606 £599
90th Percentile £715 £625 £618
Gloucestershire median daily rate £613 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +11.36% +4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +562.14%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Gloucester

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Gloucester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Gloucester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Gloucester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Gloucester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Rocky
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) API Design
5 2 (25.00%) API Development
5 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 2 (25.00%) Service Management
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Go
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Dell