Kubernetes Contracts in Leeds

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 27 29 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 33 37 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 7.10% 4.63% 4.89%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.83% 62.71% 44.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 50
10th Percentile £489 £403 £524
25th Percentile £572 £450 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -32.14% +30.84%
75th Percentile £779 £586 -
90th Percentile £780 £615 £714
West Yorkshire median daily rate £725 £475 £700
% change year-on-year +52.63% -32.14% +30.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £66.25

All Systems Management Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 123 59 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 26.45% 7.38% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 48 124
10th Percentile £235 £368 £408
25th Percentile £374 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £579 £700
90th Percentile £750 £615 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% +5.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +211.76%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +212.50%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Leeds

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Leeds

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Leeds

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 8 (24.24%) Confluence
2 5 (15.15%) nginx
2 5 (15.15%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (21.21%) AWS Fargate
2 7 (21.21%) Slack
3 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 6 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (15.15%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (15.15%) Collibra
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 4 (12.12%) OpenShift
6 3 (9.09%) Azure
7 2 (6.06%) npm
8 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) HTTP
2 6 (18.18%) DNS
2 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.12%) NAS
3 4 (12.12%) SAN
3 4 (12.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (48.48%) MongoDB
2 14 (42.42%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (27.27%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (27.27%) MySQL
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Git
2 10 (30.30%) Jenkins
2 10 (30.30%) JIRA
3 9 (27.27%) GitLab
4 7 (21.21%) Cucumber
4 7 (21.21%) Jasmine
4 7 (21.21%) JUnit
5 2 (6.06%) webpack
General
1 6 (18.18%) Banking
2 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Senior
2 10 (30.30%) Developer
3 8 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (24.24%) Java Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Architect
4 7 (21.21%) Senior Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (12.12%) Data Architect
7 3 (9.09%) Lead
7 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Angular Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Consultant
8 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Lead Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Lead Java Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) Kafka
2 10 (30.30%) Spring Boot
3 9 (27.27%) RESTful
3 9 (27.27%) Spring
4 8 (24.24%) Spring Security
5 7 (21.21%) cloud-init
5 7 (21.21%) Spring Batch
5 7 (21.21%) Swagger
6 6 (18.18%) Keycloak
6 6 (18.18%) OpenAPI
6 6 (18.18%) REST
7 5 (15.15%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (12.12%) LDAP
8 4 (12.12%) Middleware
9 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 2 (6.06%) CSS
9 2 (6.06%) Flask
9 2 (6.06%) HTML
9 2 (6.06%) pytest
9 2 (6.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 6 (18.18%) PKI
2 4 (12.12%) Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (78.79%) Linux
2 18 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (21.21%) CentOS
3 7 (21.21%) Unix
4 6 (18.18%) Windows
5 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 17 (51.52%) Containerisation
3 16 (48.48%) Microservices
4 14 (42.42%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (39.39%) DevOps
6 11 (33.33%) High Availability
6 11 (33.33%) Observability
7 10 (30.30%) Cloud Security
7 10 (30.30%) TDD
8 9 (27.27%) BDD
8 9 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (24.24%) Mentoring
9 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
9 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
10 7 (21.21%) API Design
10 7 (21.21%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (21.21%) OWASP
10 7 (21.21%) Secrets Management
11 6 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Bash
2 11 (33.33%) Python
3 10 (30.30%) Java
3 10 (30.30%) SQL
4 7 (21.21%) Go
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) Groovy
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) SC Cleared
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (48.48%) Grafana
2 15 (45.45%) Prometheus
3 8 (24.24%) Terraform
4 7 (21.21%) Packer
5 6 (18.18%) Consul
5 6 (18.18%) Istio
5 6 (18.18%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (18.18%) linkerd
5 6 (18.18%) Rancher
5 6 (18.18%) ZABBIX
6 5 (15.15%) HAProxy
7 3 (9.09%) Ansible
8 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Splunk
2 6 (18.18%) Okta
3 5 (15.15%) Apple
3 5 (15.15%) ESET
4 4 (12.12%) Confluent
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle
5 2 (6.06%) Databricks
5 2 (6.06%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) Brio
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat