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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 31 66
Rank change year-on-year -26 +35 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 11 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.31% 3.94% 0.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.50% 23.21% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £455 £445 £533
25th Percentile £549 £465 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -14.78% -25.81%
75th Percentile - £575 £644
90th Percentile £678 £613 £678
East of England median daily rate £575 £490 £600
% change year-on-year +17.40% -18.33% -7.69%

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 88 56 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 10.49% 16.97% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 48 33
10th Percentile £406 £450 £266
25th Percentile £425 £479 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £604 £698
East of England median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £18.69 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £20.09 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 - £14.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.65%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 - 5 £550 - 1
Hatfield - 4 £645 - 2
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £650 -
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 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) Azure AKS
1 6 (54.55%) GitHub
1 6 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 5 (45.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
6 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (9.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) InfluxDB
2 1 (9.09%) TimescaleDB
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) GCP DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Development Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
1 5 (45.45%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) GitOps
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Secrets Management
3 5 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Zero Trust
4 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Runbook
4 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (27.27%) Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (18.18%) Data Science
6 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Strategy
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Google