Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
East of England > Hertfordshire

As of 8 April 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in Hertfordshire.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate £650 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 770 331 700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 94.03% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 166 311
10th Percentile £263 £306 £240
25th Percentile £413 £413 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £575
90th Percentile £738 £675 £713
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 96 239
10th Percentile £16.64 £31.45 £37.91
25th Percentile £19.91 £50.94 £45.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.37% +8.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67.44 £76.25 £66.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £80.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £40.28
% change year-on-year -58.08% +48.98% +15.07%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Kubernetes Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 April 2026. 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
Hatfield - 1 - -
Kubernetes Engineer
East of England

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 8 April 2026, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hertfordshire region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform