Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Kubernetes (k8s)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 2.30% 1.25% 2.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.00% 7.14% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £505
25th Percentile £538 £363 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £650
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -42.31% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £388 £663
90th Percentile - - £670
Leicestershire median daily rate £575 £375 £650
% change year-on-year +53.33% -42.31% +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 10 14 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 11.49% 17.50% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 12
10th Percentile £370 £297 £318
25th Percentile £425 £304 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £388 £440
Median % change year-on-year +32.26% -11.97% +25.77%
75th Percentile £609 £474 £575
90th Percentile £613 £530 £643
Leicestershire median daily rate £450 £375 £478
% change year-on-year +20.00% -21.50% +36.49%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Leicester

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks