Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
Cheshire > Knutsford

As of 31 October 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in Knutsford.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.36% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cheshire median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Knutsford with a recognized job title 260 167 82
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 93.82% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 138 60
10th Percentile £310 £328 £418
25th Percentile £358 £356 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £415 £537
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -22.65% +9.49%
75th Percentile £492 £549 £593
90th Percentile £551 £654 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.09 £33.00
% change year-on-year +8.65% -33.06% +51.52%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Knutsford region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk