Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 30 54
Rank change year-on-year -17 +24 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 21 23 12
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.55% 5.40% 1.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.08% 31.51% 22.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 6
10th Percentile £451 £448 £500
25th Percentile £522 £465 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.91% +5.50%
75th Percentile £688 £541 £681
90th Percentile £807 £613 £700
East of England median daily rate £550 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £67.00 -
East of England median hourly rate - £67.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 91 73 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 11.07% 17.14% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 56 39
10th Percentile £406 £438 £433
25th Percentile £425 £475 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £575
90th Percentile £704 £669 £640
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile £19.25 £63.63 -
25th Percentile - £65.88 -
Median hourly rate £20.09 £67.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.01% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £66.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -69.79% +90.00% +40.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Hertfordshire

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
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 within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Watford - 8 £550 - 4
Hatfield - 7 £700 - 1
Welwyn Garden City +2 3 £850 -
Stevenage -14 1 - -
Kubernetes
East of England

Kubernetes
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) Azure AKS
3 6 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (28.57%) GCP
3 6 (28.57%) GitHub
3 6 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (28.57%) Serverless
4 5 (23.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (19.05%) Azure Functions
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) OCI
6 2 (9.52%) SaaS
7 1 (4.76%) AWS
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) VPN
2 1 (4.76%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) InfluxDB
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.52%) MySQL
3 2 (9.52%) Redis
3 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) Couchbase
4 1 (4.76%) Neo4j
4 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (23.81%) Retail
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Billing
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Senior
2 8 (38.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Python Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) DBA
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Kafka
1 4 (19.05%) REST
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) Celery
2 2 (9.52%) Django
2 2 (9.52%) FastAPI
2 2 (9.52%) JWT
2 2 (9.52%) OAuth
2 2 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (9.52%) React
2 2 (9.52%) Vue
2 2 (9.52%) XML
3 1 (4.76%) RxJava
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (23.81%) Private Cloud
3 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (9.52%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (9.52%) IoT
4 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Unix
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.76%) VMS
4 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 11 (52.38%) DevOps
3 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (38.10%) Event-Driven
5 6 (28.57%) Microservices
6 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
6 5 (23.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (23.81%) GitOps
6 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) Secrets Management
6 5 (23.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) Zero Trust
7 4 (19.05%) AI
7 4 (19.05%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven Programming
7 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (19.05%) Runbook
7 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) C
4 2 (9.52%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.52%) ProC
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) Bicep
5 1 (4.76%) Cypher
5 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Terraform
2 7 (33.33%) Ansible
3 5 (23.81%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle
1 2 (9.52%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) Google