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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 42 58
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 +1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.63% 1.08% 1.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.51% 19.05% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £416 - £494
25th Percentile £430 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.93%
75th Percentile £480 - £545
90th Percentile £492 - £586
East of England median daily rate £550 £444 £548
% change year-on-year +23.94% -18.95% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +36.36%

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 47 21 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.39% 5.65% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 47
10th Percentile £349 £232 £400
25th Percentile £462 £240 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £605 £538 £725
90th Percentile £681 £575 £858
East of England median daily rate £475 £373 £500
% change year-on-year +27.35% -25.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £17.79 - £15.46
25th Percentile - £66.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £67.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.24% +200.00% -69.18%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £37.00
90th Percentile £48.24 - £49.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.18 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -57.65% +163.16% -66.22%

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
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 13 January 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
Stevenage - 4 £456 - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) npm
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) Svelte
2 2 (50.00%) Vue
3 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) pytest
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Lustre
2 1 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Packer