Kubernetes Contracts in Hertfordshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 69 69
Rank change year-on-year +35 0 -32
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 11 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.43% 0.48% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.43% 11.43% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £453 £543 £473
25th Percentile £465 £569 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £625 £775
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% -19.35% +29.17%
75th Percentile £584 £669 £844
90th Percentile £613 £688 £878
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

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 35 35 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 10.90% 4.20% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 82
10th Percentile £450 £258 £280
25th Percentile £468 £394 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.53% -7.61%
75th Percentile £594 £619 £647
90th Percentile £631 £710 £738
East of England median daily rate £477 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +0.92% -5.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - £14.31 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £16.04 £65.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £18.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +275.00% -72.52% +309.38%
75th Percentile £68.75 £20.19 £74.50
90th Percentile - £22.33 £74.80
East of England median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £18.78
% change year-on-year +235.71% -25.45% +29.52%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Hertfordshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Hertfordshire

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 1 May 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
Stevenage +30 1 £500 - 29
Kubernetes
East of England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Wireless
2 2 (18.18%) 3GPP
2 2 (18.18%) 4G
2 2 (18.18%) 5G
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) Flink
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Backend Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Programmer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
3 2 (18.18%) Swagger
4 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Containerisation
2 4 (36.36%) OO
2 4 (36.36%) TDD
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) API Development
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
4 1 (9.09%) API Management
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) QA Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Release Management
4 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
4 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) C++
4 2 (18.18%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) NetApp
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
1 1 (9.09%) VMware