Kubernetes Contracts in Lancashire

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 22 30 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 7 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.00% 1.03% 4.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.17% 16.67% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 8
10th Percentile £543 - £539
25th Percentile £563 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.26%
75th Percentile £615 - £652
90th Percentile - - £683
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -

All Systems Management Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 24 12 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 13.71% 6.15% 23.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 20
10th Percentile £400 £483 £206
25th Percentile £506 £540 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £615 - £681
90th Percentile £651 £650 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 25
10th Percentile - - £25.75
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.25 £28.70
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.36% -35.29% -15.34%
75th Percentile £44.50 £28.75 £49.40
90th Percentile - - £51.09
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Lancashire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Lancashire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Lancashire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) .NET Architect
1 4 (57.14%) .NET Technical Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Applications Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Java Applications Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Java Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Java Technical Architect
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Architect
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Data Integration
2 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
2 4 (57.14%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) Python
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Virgin Media