Kubernetes Contracts in Leicestershire

Kubernetes (k8s)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 17 24 34
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 2.00% 1.26% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.57% 9.52% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £700
% change year-on-year - -32.14% +40.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 7 21 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 7.00% 13.21% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 4
10th Percentile £414 £320 -
25th Percentile £463 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +39.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £536 £625 £400
90th Percentile £537 £713 £423
East Midlands median daily rate £454 £500 £445
% change year-on-year -9.20% +12.36% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate - £25.77 £22.38
% change year-on-year - +15.13% +9.17%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Leicestershire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Leicestershire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester - 1 - - 24
Kubernetes
East Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Anthos
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Architect
1 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) FinOps
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google