Kubernetes Contracts in Hampshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Hampshire

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 80 56
Rank change year-on-year +43 -24 -36
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 40 25 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 4.78% 1.42% 3.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.14% 7.20% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 32
10th Percentile £410 £425 £475
25th Percentile £418 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £650
90th Percentile £600 £682 £699
South East median daily rate £489 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -13.07% -6.25% +4.35%

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 153 347 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 18.30% 19.76% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 225 145
10th Percentile £405 £300 £404
25th Percentile £487 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £624
90th Percentile £661 £690 £670
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 12
10th Percentile - - £27.80
25th Percentile - £14.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £19.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -64.09% +155.81%
75th Percentile - £43.25 £60.44
90th Percentile - £48.75 £72.94
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £37.33 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -32.12% +152.87%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Hampshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Hampshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Hampshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend 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 1 July 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
Basingstoke +29 9 £575 - 24
Farnborough +11 9 £500 +11.11% 11
Portsmouth - 8 £435 - 38
Fleet - 5 £402 - 3
Southampton - 2 - - 51
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) JBoss
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (65.00%) OpenShift
2 21 (52.50%) AWS
3 12 (30.00%) GCP
4 11 (27.50%) Azure
5 9 (22.50%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (20.00%) IaaS
6 8 (20.00%) PaaS
7 6 (15.00%) GitHub
8 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (12.50%) Serverless
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) DHCP
1 8 (20.00%) DNS
1 8 (20.00%) Firewall
1 8 (20.00%) SMTP
1 8 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (22.50%) Relational Database
3 8 (20.00%) Big Data
4 7 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (15.00%) Redis
6 4 (10.00%) MySQL
6 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
8 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.00%) Git
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (5.00%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.00%) Subversion
4 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.50%) Codeception
5 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Senior
4 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Developer
7 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) React
2 9 (22.50%) Kafka
3 8 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (20.00%) Middleware
4 5 (12.50%) Keycloak
4 5 (12.50%) YAML
5 4 (10.00%) .NET
6 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.50%) Node.js
6 3 (7.50%) RESTful
6 3 (7.50%) Vue
7 2 (5.00%) Laravel
7 2 (5.00%) Phalcon
7 2 (5.00%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.00%) Web Services
8 1 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.50%) REST
8 1 (2.50%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Private Cloud
2 9 (22.50%) Data Centre
3 8 (20.00%) Clustering
3 8 (20.00%) PKI
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Windows
3 8 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) CI/CD
2 24 (60.00%) DevOps
3 18 (45.00%) Containerisation
3 18 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (35.00%) Migration
6 13 (32.50%) Agile
7 8 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 8 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.00%) Software Deployment
8 7 (17.50%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (17.50%) Scrum
9 6 (15.00%) Microservices
9 6 (15.00%) OO
10 5 (12.50%) Immutable Infrastructure
10 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 5 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) Python
2 19 (47.50%) PowerShell
3 16 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (40.00%) SQL
4 12 (30.00%) C#
5 11 (27.50%) Java
6 6 (15.00%) Bash
7 3 (7.50%) Ruby
7 3 (7.50%) Scala
8 2 (5.00%) Perl
8 2 (5.00%) PHP
9 1 (2.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (25.00%) Degree
4 8 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 21 (52.50%) Docker
2 10 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (20.00%) BitLocker
4 8 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 8 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (20.00%) Terminal Services
4 8 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (62.50%) Ansible
2 8 (20.00%) Nagios
2 8 (20.00%) Puppet
2 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 8 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (20.00%) vMotion
3 7 (17.50%) Grafana
3 7 (17.50%) Prometheus
4 5 (12.50%) Packer
5 4 (10.00%) Kibana
6 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 11 (27.50%) Google
3 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (22.50%) VMware
5 8 (20.00%) Citrix
5 8 (20.00%) HP
5 8 (20.00%) Symantec
6 7 (17.50%) Splunk
7 2 (5.00%) AppDynamics
7 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (5.00%) Zend
8 1 (2.50%) Oracle
8 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow