Kubernetes Specialist Contracts in London

Kubernetes Specialist (K8s Specialist)
England > London

The median Kubernetes Specialist (K8s Specialist) daily rate in London is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.007% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £456 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £438 £500 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,425 15,294 21,659
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 94.04% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,358 10,594 15,878
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 193 231
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.88 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.81% +11.94%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.60% +68.69%

Kubernetes Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Specialist in London

Kubernetes Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Specialist job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Specialist job vacancies in London

Kubernetes Specialist Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 August 2025, Kubernetes Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Kubernetes Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Kubernetes Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform