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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 47 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -17
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 18 12 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.96% 1.97% 3.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.27% 22.64% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 11
10th Percentile £428 £495 £481
25th Percentile £463 £525 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -9.17%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £561
90th Percentile £613 £670 £788
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £552
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.36% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £63.63 - £69.38
25th Percentile £65.88 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.38
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 - £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 66 53 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 14.51% 8.70% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 37 80
10th Percentile £396 £291 £273
25th Percentile £484 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £689 £625 £738
East of England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile £63.63 - £24.63
25th Percentile £65.88 - £49.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £71.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.40%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £73.88
East of England median hourly rate £66.50 £40.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +66.25% -18.37% -32.88%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +15 13 £450 -18.18% 1
Hemel Hempstead +4 1 £550 -15.38% 1
Welwyn Garden City -3 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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) npm
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) 3GPP
1 2 (11.11%) 4G
1 2 (11.11%) 5G
1 2 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Big Data
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) Flink
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 9 (50.00%) GitLab
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
1 9 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.11%) Git
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Software Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Development Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Linux Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) React
2 10 (55.56%) .NET
2 10 (55.56%) .NET Framework
3 9 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 9 (50.00%) CSS
3 9 (50.00%) HTML
3 9 (50.00%) Node.js
3 9 (50.00%) Svelte
3 9 (50.00%) Vue
4 3 (16.67%) REST
4 3 (16.67%) RESTful
5 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
5 2 (11.11%) Swagger
6 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.56%) Jest
6 1 (5.56%) Kafka
6 1 (5.56%) Keycloak
6 1 (5.56%) Next.js
6 1 (5.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Containerisation
2 12 (66.67%) Agile
3 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 11 (61.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (61.11%) Microservices
4 10 (55.56%) TDD
5 9 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 9 (50.00%) Design Patterns
5 9 (50.00%) DevOps
5 9 (50.00%) OOP
5 9 (50.00%) SDLC
5 9 (50.00%) Software Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) API Development
8 2 (11.11%) Analytics
8 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
9 1 (5.56%) Data Management
9 1 (5.56%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) TypeScript
2 10 (55.56%) C#
3 9 (50.00%) C++
3 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (38.89%) Python
5 3 (16.67%) R
6 2 (11.11%) Go
6 2 (11.11%) Java
7 1 (5.56%) MATLAB
7 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Lustre
2 1 (5.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Packer
2 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks