Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Kubernetes (k8s)
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 7 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 5.88% 10.61% 5.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.50% 46.67% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £400 £608 -
25th Percentile £450 £654 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +43.59% -18.24%
75th Percentile £750 - £531
90th Percentile - £740 £541
Gloucestershire median daily rate £575 £626 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% +13.86% -7.76%

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 40 15 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 33.61% 22.73% 24.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 13 13
10th Percentile £205 £214 £400
25th Percentile £319 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £615 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.86% +23.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £625
90th Percentile £750 £760 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £515 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -16.26% +11.82% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Gloucester over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Gloucester

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Kubernetes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (57.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Backend Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Python Developer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) FastAPI
1 4 (57.14%) Flask
1 4 (57.14%) GraphQL
1 4 (57.14%) gRPC
1 4 (57.14%) REST
1 4 (57.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Go
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft