Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 49 66
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 -24
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 71 32 30
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 5.60% 3.26% 2.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.81% 19.75% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 26 22
10th Percentile £363 £450 £478
25th Percentile £418 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.98% -3.18%
75th Percentile £547 £675 £624
90th Percentile £623 - £710
South East median daily rate £500 £533 £570
% change year-on-year -6.10% -6.58% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £43.75 - -
75th Percentile £64.94 - -
90th Percentile £94.08 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - -19.44%

All Systems Management Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 210 162 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.57% 16.51% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 126 85
10th Percentile £363 £340 £421
25th Percentile £450 £436 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £641 £681 £695
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -3.00% -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 11
10th Percentile - £20.20 £19.99
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.54 £31.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.24 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.90% -44.41% +9.94%
75th Percentile £48.75 £25.06 £55.70
90th Percentile £64.76 £26.07 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £36.39 £34.00 £49.07
% change year-on-year +7.01% -30.70% -7.22%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Hampshire

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in Hampshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Farnborough +16 27 £500 -6.98% 3
Portsmouth +4 10 £435 -3.33% 8
Southampton +5 4 £475 - 10
Andover - 3 £450 -
Basingstoke -2 2 £650 +18.83% 6
Romsey - 2 £755 - 3
Winchester - 1 £550 - 1
Fleet - 1 £447 -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (56.34%) AWS
2 32 (45.07%) GitHub
3 31 (43.66%) OpenShift
4 24 (33.80%) Azure
5 12 (16.90%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (16.90%) GCP
6 10 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (11.27%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (11.27%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (9.86%) Amazon S3
8 7 (9.86%) Datadog
9 6 (8.45%) Serverless
10 5 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (4.23%) Snowflake
13 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
14 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) Kerberos
2 4 (5.63%) DNS
2 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.23%) Firewall
4 2 (2.82%) DHCP
4 2 (2.82%) HTTP
4 2 (2.82%) SSL
5 1 (1.41%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.41%) Internet
5 1 (1.41%) MQTT
5 1 (1.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.39%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (16.90%) MongoDB
3 10 (14.08%) NoSQL
4 8 (11.27%) HBase
5 7 (9.86%) Redis
6 6 (8.45%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.82%) Big Data
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.41%) Parquet
8 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (40.85%) Jenkins
2 19 (26.76%) GitLab
3 15 (21.13%) Artifactory
3 15 (21.13%) Cucumber
4 13 (18.31%) JUnit
5 12 (16.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (15.49%) Gradle
7 8 (11.27%) Git
8 6 (8.45%) JMeter
8 6 (8.45%) Maven
9 3 (4.23%) Bitbucket
9 3 (4.23%) JIRA
10 2 (2.82%) Gatling
10 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.41%) MLflow
11 1 (1.41%) Poetry
11 1 (1.41%) Postman
11 1 (1.41%) PyCharm
11 1 (1.41%) Selenium
11 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.27%) Finance
3 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.23%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (29.58%) Developer
2 20 (28.17%) Java Developer
3 15 (21.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (21.13%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Senior
5 7 (9.86%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.45%) AWS Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Kafka Developer
9 3 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Security Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Backend Developer
10 2 (2.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (32.39%) Kafka
2 19 (26.76%) Spring
2 19 (26.76%) Spring Boot
3 17 (23.94%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (12.68%) React
5 8 (11.27%) Keycloak
5 8 (11.27%) Middleware
6 6 (8.45%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (7.04%) YAML
8 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.63%) Hibernate
8 4 (5.63%) RESTful
9 2 (2.82%) JSON
9 2 (2.82%) REST
10 1 (1.41%) JPA
10 1 (1.41%) NumPy
10 1 (1.41%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (1.41%) Spring Batch
10 1 (1.41%) Spring MVC
10 1 (1.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Private Cloud
2 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (46.48%) Linux
2 5 (7.04%) Ubuntu
2 5 (7.04%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.82%) CentOS
4 2 (2.82%) Unix
4 2 (2.82%) VMS
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (74.65%) CI/CD
2 39 (54.93%) Containerisation
3 32 (45.07%) DevOps
4 26 (36.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (33.80%) Platform Engineering
6 22 (30.99%) Observability
7 14 (19.72%) Agile
7 14 (19.72%) Configuration Management
8 13 (18.31%) Deployment Automation
8 13 (18.31%) High Availability
9 12 (16.90%) Microservices
9 12 (16.90%) Migration
10 11 (15.49%) Immutable Infrastructure
11 10 (14.08%) DevSecOps
11 10 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (11.27%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
13 7 (9.86%) Event-Driven
14 6 (8.45%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.66%) Java
2 23 (32.39%) Python
3 15 (21.13%) Bash
3 15 (21.13%) PowerShell
3 15 (21.13%) SQL
4 10 (14.08%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.27%) C#
6 2 (2.82%) Perl
7 1 (1.41%) Bicep
7 1 (1.41%) C
7 1 (1.41%) C++
7 1 (1.41%) Go
7 1 (1.41%) Groovy
7 1 (1.41%) Rust
7 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (59.15%) Security Cleared
2 36 (50.70%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) OCP
3 9 (12.68%) Oracle Certification
4 8 (11.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.82%) Degree
5 2 (2.82%) RHCE
5 2 (2.82%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) Def Stans
1 3 (4.23%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (23.94%) Docker
2 6 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.82%) KVM
Systems Management
1 40 (56.34%) Ansible
2 30 (42.25%) Grafana
3 28 (39.44%) Terraform
4 24 (33.80%) Prometheus
5 8 (11.27%) Progress Chef
6 7 (9.86%) Sysdig
7 6 (8.45%) Puppet
8 5 (7.04%) SCOM
9 4 (5.63%) Argo
9 4 (5.63%) Packer
9 4 (5.63%) Podman
9 4 (5.63%) Rsyslog
10 3 (4.23%) Cilium
10 3 (4.23%) Istio
11 2 (2.82%) Kibana
11 2 (2.82%) linkerd
12 1 (1.41%) Rancher
12 1 (1.41%) Rundeck
12 1 (1.41%) Salt
12 1 (1.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (30.99%) Red Hat
2 14 (19.72%) VMware
3 10 (14.08%) Splunk
4 8 (11.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.23%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.41%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle
6 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.41%) Tenable
6 1 (1.41%) Zscaler