Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Hereford

Kubernetes (k8s)
Herefordshire > Hereford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hereford requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hereford 11.11% 6.25% 17.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% 100.00% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £528 £553 -
25th Percentile £531 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - -
75th Percentile £569 £569 -
90th Percentile £573 £573 -
Herefordshire median daily rate £700 £612 £675
% change year-on-year +14.38% -9.33% -

All Systems Management Skills
Hereford

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 Hereford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford 33.33% 6.25% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £298 £553 -
25th Percentile £444 £556 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £594 £569 £575
90th Percentile £628 £573 -
Herefordshire median daily rate £650 £635 £550
% change year-on-year +2.36% +15.45% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Hereford

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Hereford

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Hereford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hereford 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 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus