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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 32 47
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 26 19 14
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.13% 4.22% 2.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.95% 28.79% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 6
10th Percentile £463 £459 £500
25th Percentile £500 £465 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +5.50%
75th Percentile - £581 £681
90th Percentile £789 £613 £700
East of England median daily rate £550 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -0.36%
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 84 66 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 10.12% 14.67% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 49 34
10th Percentile £405 £440 £444
25th Percentile £463 £500 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.13% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £713 £690 £614
East of England median daily rate £495 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £16.26 £63.63 -
25th Percentile £16.66 £65.88 -
Median hourly rate £17.68 £67.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.61% - -
75th Percentile £19.04 - -
90th Percentile £19.66 - -
East of England median hourly rate £39.25 £66.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -40.98% +66.25% +8.11%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 - 10 £550 - 2
Hatfield - 7 £700 -
Stevenage -12 3 - -
Welwyn Garden City +1 2 £850 -
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 (7.69%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) Azure AKS
3 7 (26.92%) GitHub
3 7 (26.92%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (23.08%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (23.08%) GCP
4 6 (23.08%) Serverless
5 5 (19.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Functions
7 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (7.69%) OCI
8 2 (7.69%) SaaS
9 1 (3.85%) AWS
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) VPN
2 1 (3.85%) HTTP
2 1 (3.85%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (19.23%) InfluxDB
3 3 (11.54%) Couchbase
4 2 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (7.69%) Redis
4 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.69%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (3.85%) Neo4j
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.85%) eggPlant
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (23.08%) Retail
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.85%) Billing
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Senior
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Python Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) GCP DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Kafka
1 7 (26.92%) REST
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) FastAPI
2 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (11.54%) Spring
3 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.69%) .NET
4 2 (7.69%) Celery
4 2 (7.69%) Django
4 2 (7.69%) JWT
4 2 (7.69%) OAuth
4 2 (7.69%) pytest
4 2 (7.69%) React
4 2 (7.69%) RxJava
4 2 (7.69%) Vue
4 2 (7.69%) XML
5 1 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Cloud Native
2 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (19.23%) Private Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (11.54%) IoT
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Unix
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
1 15 (57.69%) DevOps
2 12 (46.15%) Event-Driven
3 10 (38.46%) Microservices
4 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (23.08%) Agile
6 6 (23.08%) AI
6 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
7 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven Programming
7 5 (19.23%) GitOps
7 5 (19.23%) Secrets Management
7 5 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Zero Trust
8 4 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) C
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.69%) ProC
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Bicep
5 1 (3.85%) Cypher
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GxP
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Ansible
2 5 (19.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle
1 2 (7.69%) VMware
2 1 (3.85%) Google