Kubernetes Contracts in Gloucestershire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 10 26 24
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 35 36 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.77% 8.39% 9.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 58.33% 39.56% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 34 31
10th Percentile £575 £475 £500
25th Percentile £594 £519 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% +8.24%
75th Percentile £700 £580 £673
90th Percentile £775 £634 £750
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £80.83 £74.44 £66.85
% change year-on-year +8.58% +11.35% +38.49%

All Systems Management Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 60 91 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 21.90% 21.21% 29.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 73 100
10th Percentile £248 £346 £275
25th Percentile £475 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £600
90th Percentile £775 £735 £700
South West median daily rate £551 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.86% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +562.14%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £74.35 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +85.88% -38.46% +225.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Gloucestershire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Gloucestershire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Gloucestershire

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Gloucestershire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheltenham +7 17 £614 +11.59% 34
Gloucester +4 8 £700 +43.59% 34
Kubernetes
South West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) Apache
2 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) AWS
2 21 (60.00%) Azure
3 20 (57.14%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) IaaS
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) DHCP
1 15 (42.86%) DNS
1 15 (42.86%) HTTP
1 15 (42.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Big Data
2 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
2 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database
2 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) Flink
4 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) JIRA
4 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
General
1 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
1 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Support Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) YAML
2 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.57%) React
3 2 (5.71%) ModSecurity
3 2 (5.71%) Node.js
3 2 (5.71%) REST
3 2 (5.71%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) Spring
3 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.86%) JPA
4 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (77.14%) Linux
2 16 (45.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 16 (45.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Rocky
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Containerisation
2 12 (34.29%) Service Management
3 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
3 11 (31.43%) DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (17.14%) Incident Management
5 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (11.43%) Agile
7 4 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (8.57%) Data Engineering
8 3 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (8.57%) ETL
8 3 (8.57%) Observability
8 3 (8.57%) Requirements Engineering
8 3 (8.57%) Thought Leadership
9 2 (5.71%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Java
2 18 (51.43%) Python
3 15 (42.86%) Bash
3 15 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
4 6 (17.14%) SQL
5 5 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.57%) C
7 2 (5.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (88.57%) Security Cleared
2 28 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (8.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (94.29%) Docker
2 16 (45.71%) Hyper-V
3 14 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (71.43%) Terraform
2 24 (68.57%) Ansible
3 15 (42.86%) Puppet
4 4 (11.43%) Grafana
4 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.57%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Red Hat
1 15 (42.86%) VMware
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Dell