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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 29 32
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 22 40 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.70% 5.06% 5.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.97% 65.57% 47.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 35 50
10th Percentile £470 £418 £525
25th Percentile £500 £453 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £495 £700
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% -29.29% +30.23%
75th Percentile £780 £587 -
90th Percentile - £615 £701
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £495 £700
% change year-on-year +16.16% -29.29% +30.23%
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 116 61 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 24.79% 7.72% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 49 110
10th Percentile £235 £399 £406
25th Percentile £375 £436 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -15.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £700
90th Percentile £638 £615 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £554
% change year-on-year +5.26% -14.22% +10.75%
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 30 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Collibra
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub
4 3 (13.64%) npm
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (9.09%) AWS KMS
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) SSL
2 4 (18.18%) HTTP
2 4 (18.18%) NAS
2 4 (18.18%) SAN
3 2 (9.09%) DNS
3 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) Firewall
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
1 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 6 (27.27%) GitLab
3 5 (22.73%) JIRA
4 3 (13.64%) webpack
5 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.55%) Jasmine
5 1 (4.55%) JUnit
General
1 6 (27.27%) Banking
2 5 (22.73%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
1 7 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Angular Developer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) REST
2 5 (22.73%) Kafka
2 5 (22.73%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (18.18%) LDAP
3 4 (18.18%) Middleware
3 4 (18.18%) RESTful
4 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
4 3 (13.64%) CSS
4 3 (13.64%) Flask
4 3 (13.64%) HTML
4 3 (13.64%) pytest
4 3 (13.64%) Web Services
5 1 (4.55%) ADO
5 1 (4.55%) cloud-init
5 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
5 1 (4.55%) Spring
5 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.55%) Spring Security
5 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Windows
3 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) CentOS
4 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Containerisation
2 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Microservices
4 7 (31.82%) High Availability
4 7 (31.82%) Observability
5 5 (22.73%) Data Governance
5 5 (22.73%) Monte Carlo Method
6 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Key Management
6 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 4 (18.18%) Workflow
7 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.64%) Loose Coupling
7 3 (13.64%) SDLC
8 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 2 (9.09%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) Groovy
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
1 2 (9.09%) SOC 2
2 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
2 4 (18.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Grafana
1 11 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 6 (27.27%) Ansible
3 5 (22.73%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.55%) Consul
4 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.55%) Istio
4 1 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (4.55%) Kustomize
4 1 (4.55%) linkerd
4 1 (4.55%) Packer
4 1 (4.55%) Puppet
4 1 (4.55%) Rancher
4 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Splunk
2 4 (18.18%) Confluent
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Apple
4 1 (4.55%) Brio
4 1 (4.55%) ESET
4 1 (4.55%) Okta
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat