Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Middlesex

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Middlesex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Middlesex requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Middlesex 23.53% - 13.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £526 - -
25th Percentile £552 - £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 - £570
75th Percentile £618 - £575
90th Percentile £633 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £533 £570
% change year-on-year -6.10% -6.58% +1.11%

All Systems Management Skills
Middlesex

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 Middlesex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesex 23.53% - 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £526 - -
25th Percentile £552 - £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 - £570
75th Percentile £618 - £575
90th Percentile £633 - -
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -3.00% -5.66% +0.95%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesex

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Middlesex

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Middlesex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Middlesex citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesex 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 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google