Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

As of 4 October 2026, 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 Leeds.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.095% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 992 640 649
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 96.68% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 419 415
10th Percentile £363 £300 £330
25th Percentile £420 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £566 £575
90th Percentile £660 £650 £646
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 29
10th Percentile £18.39 £25.05 £17.65
25th Percentile £25.88 £25.13 £19.50
Median hourly rate £26.25 £25.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +5.46% +24.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.13 £48.75
90th Percentile - £26.35 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +100.00% +31.58%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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 Leeds.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 4 October 2026, 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 Leeds region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google