Kubernetes Contracts in Ipswich

Kubernetes (k8s)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 10 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 3 1 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 8.57% 2.63% 20.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 75.00% 20.00% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% -14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate £438 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -30.00% -10.71% +3.70%

All Systems Management Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4 5 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 11.43% 13.16% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 24
10th Percentile £463 £179 -
25th Percentile £511 £180 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £201 £700
Median % change year-on-year +195.28% -71.25% +43.59%
75th Percentile £674 £324 -
90th Percentile £720 £490 -
Suffolk median daily rate £250 £213 £700
% change year-on-year +17.65% -69.64% +43.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
Suffolk median hourly rate - £17.00 £18.78
% change year-on-year - -9.48% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Ipswich

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Ipswich.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Ipswich

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) logstash
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) VMware