Kubernetes Contracts in Manchester

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 21 38 31
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 70 60 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 7.56% 3.96% 5.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 47.62% 35.93% 35.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 49 89
10th Percentile £408 £406 £456
25th Percentile £456 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £556 £675 £675
90th Percentile £633 £694 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year - +38.89% -
North West median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.55
% change year-on-year - +4.66% -

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 147 167 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.87% 11.01% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 129 245
10th Percentile £225 £323 £376
25th Percentile £413 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £638
90th Percentile £656 £694 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - £55.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.75 £20.17
Median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £32.80
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +143.90% +64.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £100.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £102.40 -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.86%) Camunda
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (58.57%) AWS
2 24 (34.29%) Azure
3 19 (27.14%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (21.43%) GitHub
5 12 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (12.86%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (12.86%) GCP
7 7 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (7.14%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.71%) Azure AKS
9 4 (5.71%) dbt
10 3 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.29%) Apigee
10 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.29%) Serverless
11 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.86%) IBM Cloud
11 2 (2.86%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) DNS
2 2 (2.86%) Calico
2 2 (2.86%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.43%) DHCP
3 1 (1.43%) Firewall
3 1 (1.43%) HTTP
3 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 13 (18.57%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (12.86%) MongoDB
3 9 (12.86%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.71%) Airbyte
5 4 (5.71%) Couchbase
5 4 (5.71%) ObjectStore
6 2 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.86%) GIS
6 2 (2.86%) MySQL
6 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Accumulo
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.43%) Big Data
7 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (27.14%) GitLab
2 10 (14.29%) Git
2 10 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.57%) Maven
4 5 (7.14%) JIRA
5 3 (4.29%) CircleCI
5 3 (4.29%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.29%) JUnit
6 2 (2.86%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.43%) Gradle
7 1 (1.43%) Mockito
General
1 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Banking
4 2 (2.86%) Finance
4 2 (2.86%) Military
5 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (31.43%) Senior
2 17 (24.29%) Developer
3 13 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (17.14%) Data Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Architect
5 9 (12.86%) Java Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Senior Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Python Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Azure Developer
10 4 (5.71%) Data Architect
10 4 (5.71%) DBA
10 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (5.71%) Python Data Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.71%) Kafka
1 11 (15.71%) Node.js
2 9 (12.86%) RESTful
3 8 (11.43%) OAuth
4 6 (8.57%) React
5 5 (7.14%) OAuth2
5 5 (7.14%) OpenID
5 5 (7.14%) SAML
6 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.71%) Express.js
6 4 (5.71%) FastAPI
6 4 (5.71%) OpenAPI
6 4 (5.71%) REST
6 4 (5.71%) Swagger
7 3 (4.29%) LDAP
7 3 (4.29%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.86%) .NET
8 2 (2.86%) Google Maps API
8 2 (2.86%) Spring
8 2 (2.86%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.86%) PKI
2 2 (2.86%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.43%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.57%) Linux
2 7 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.86%) Android
3 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.86%) Unix
3 2 (2.86%) VMS
4 1 (1.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (58.57%) Containerisation
2 36 (51.43%) CI/CD
3 24 (34.29%) DevOps
4 19 (27.14%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
5 16 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (21.43%) Digital Twin
6 15 (21.43%) Microservices
6 15 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (21.43%) Visualisation
7 13 (18.57%) Analytics
8 11 (15.71%) Continuous Deployment
9 10 (14.29%) Event-Driven
9 10 (14.29%) RBAC
9 10 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 9 (12.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 9 (12.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (11.43%) ETL
11 8 (11.43%) Event-Driven Programming
12 6 (8.57%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (51.43%) Python
2 17 (24.29%) Java
3 9 (12.86%) SQL
4 8 (11.43%) Bash
5 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.71%) SPARQL
7 3 (4.29%) Clojure
7 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.86%) C#
8 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.43%) Bicep
9 1 (1.43%) Go
9 1 (1.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (32.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.43%) Degree
4 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) NCSC
1 2 (2.86%) NIST
1 2 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) COBIT
2 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (58.57%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (31.43%) Terraform
2 7 (10.00%) Grafana
3 6 (8.57%) Istio
3 6 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 5 (7.14%) Ansible
5 3 (4.29%) Kustomize
5 3 (4.29%) Puppet
5 3 (4.29%) ZABBIX
6 2 (2.86%) Graylog
6 2 (2.86%) Packer
7 1 (1.43%) Consul
7 1 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.43%) linkerd
7 1 (1.43%) Rancher
7 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (8.57%) Virgin Media
2 5 (7.14%) Google
3 4 (5.71%) VMware
4 2 (2.86%) IBM
4 2 (2.86%) Mapbox
5 1 (1.43%) BMC
5 1 (1.43%) Confluent
5 1 (1.43%) Databricks
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.43%) New Relic
5 1 (1.43%) Okta
5 1 (1.43%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.43%) Remedy
5 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.43%) Splunk