Kubernetes Contracts in Knutsford

Kubernetes (k8s)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 33 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 18 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 7.89% 0.58% 3.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.00% 6.67% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 4
10th Percentile £347 - -
25th Percentile £368 £559 £607
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £568 £647
Median % change year-on-year -30.75% -12.25% +105.32%
75th Percentile £488 £576 £680
90th Percentile £495 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £461 £614
% change year-on-year +2.98% -24.82% +69.24%

All Systems Management Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 36 15 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 15.79% 8.77% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 15 19
10th Percentile £340 £406 £326
25th Percentile £358 £451 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £489 £593
Median % change year-on-year -19.63% -17.54% +45.70%
75th Percentile £488 £598 £602
90th Percentile £492 £675 £632
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £465 £565
% change year-on-year -13.55% -17.70% +28.77%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Knutsford

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Knutsford

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Knutsford over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Knutsford

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 6 (33.33%) JBoss
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) OpenShift
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) IaaS
3 4 (22.22%) PaaS
3 4 (22.22%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 6 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.56%) MySQL
5 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Git
2 11 (61.11%) JIRA
3 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 7 (38.89%) SonarQube
4 6 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (33.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 3 (16.67%) Banking
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Legal
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
3 5 (27.78%) Node.js
4 2 (11.11%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) CSS
5 1 (5.56%) CSS3
5 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) HTML5
5 1 (5.56%) React
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Linux
3 6 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Unix
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (66.67%) Migration
3 9 (50.00%) Microservices
3 9 (50.00%) Observability
4 8 (44.44%) Code Quality
5 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
5 7 (38.89%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (33.33%) Build Automation
6 6 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (33.33%) Data Migration
7 5 (27.78%) Analytics
7 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
8 4 (22.22%) Change Management
8 4 (22.22%) ETL
8 4 (22.22%) Runbook
8 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (22.22%) Task Automation
8 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) Java
3 6 (33.33%) Perl
4 5 (27.78%) Bash
4 5 (27.78%) SQL
5 4 (22.22%) PHP
5 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Docker
2 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Progress Chef
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Kibana
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
4 2 (11.11%) Terraform
5 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) AppDynamics
2 9 (50.00%) Oracle
3 7 (38.89%) Red Hat
4 6 (33.33%) Splunk
5 4 (22.22%) Cloudera
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.56%) VMware