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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 61 59
Rank change year-on-year +30 -2 -34
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 13 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.52% 1.30% 2.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.21% 22.45% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £448 £500 £335
25th Percentile £465 £531 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% +5.50% -9.17%
75th Percentile £569 £681 £569
90th Percentile £613 £700 £810
East of England median daily rate £490 £559 £600
% change year-on-year -12.30% -6.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £69.38
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.38
East of England median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +31.82%

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 56 49 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.18% 5.81% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 38 88
10th Percentile £450 £430 £273
25th Percentile £479 £525 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +12.24% -13.85%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £601 £700 £672
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £49.00
25th Percentile - - £69.38
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.25
East of England median hourly rate £50.23 £17.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +195.44% -75.71% +351.61%

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 3 July 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 +21 3 £475 -13.64% 15
Hemel Hempstead +9 1 £550 -21.43% 1
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 2 (15.38%) IBM Domino
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Wireless
2 2 (15.38%) 3GPP
2 2 (15.38%) 4G
2 2 (15.38%) 5G
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.69%) Flink
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Backend Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Programmer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
3 2 (15.38%) Swagger
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Containerisation
2 4 (30.77%) OO
2 4 (30.77%) TDD
2 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) API Development
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) Multithreading
4 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
4 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Data Science
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) QA Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) C#
4 4 (30.77%) C++
5 2 (15.38%) Go
5 2 (15.38%) R
6 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) NetApp
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) VMware