Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Kubernetes (k8s)
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 9 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 5.00% 6.52% -
As % of the Systems Management category 66.67% 27.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile £395 - -
West London median daily rate £388 £409 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.11% -23.40%

All Systems Management Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6 11 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 7.50% 23.91% 6.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile - £393 £450
25th Percentile - £409 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% -10.64%
75th Percentile £388 £475 £538
90th Percentile £395 £504 £556
West London median daily rate £603 £409 £450
% change year-on-year +47.31% -9.11% -18.18%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 25 March 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
Heathrow +5 4 £375 -21.05%
Kubernetes
West London

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Datadog
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CEH
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) New Relic
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable