Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 29 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.81% 0.45% 1.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.00% 2.86% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £369
25th Percentile - £275 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £300 £413
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -27.27% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £325 £453
90th Percentile - - £466
North West median daily rate £450 £545 £538
% change year-on-year -17.43% +1.40% -6.52%

All Systems Management Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 20 35 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 9.05% 15.84% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 22
10th Percentile £300 £164 £227
25th Percentile £325 £169 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £250 £388
Median % change year-on-year +82.00% -35.48% -13.89%
75th Percentile £510 £494 £498
90th Percentile £599 £530 £528
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.94
90th Percentile - - £19.28
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -56.69% - +73.15%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Liverpool +2 4 £510 +70.00% 2
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) POJO
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) API Development
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker