Kubernetes Contracts in the Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 109 69
Rank change year-on-year +56 -40 +15
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 76 29 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.70% 1.04% 2.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.42% 9.54% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 24 60
10th Percentile £312 £275 £480
25th Percentile £425 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -28.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £599 £525 £700
90th Percentile £700 £653 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +19.40% -9.46% +23.33%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 299 304 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.54% 10.92% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 242 284
10th Percentile £200 £201 £308
25th Percentile £332 £350 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £459 £505
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% -9.16% +12.22%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £627
90th Percentile £671 £645 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 15
10th Percentile £16.97 £21.49 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.13 £25.38 £19.13
Median hourly rate £21.39 £25.77 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% +18.90% +31.33%
75th Percentile - £40.57 £33.37
90th Percentile - £63.00 £55.70
England median hourly rate £33.25 £28.75 £53.35
% change year-on-year +15.65% -46.11% +148.14%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
West Midlands +44 52 £539 +7.82% 89
East Midlands +24 24 £440 +21.24% 29
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (7.89%) Apache
2 5 (6.58%) Confluence
3 4 (5.26%) WebLogic
4 3 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.95%) JBoss
4 3 (3.95%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.63%) IIS
6 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) NetSuite
1 2 (2.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) AWS
2 27 (35.53%) Azure
3 15 (19.74%) GCP
4 10 (13.16%) Amazon S3
4 10 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (9.21%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (7.89%) GitHub
7 6 (7.89%) Serverless
8 5 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.26%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.95%) PaaS
10 3 (3.95%) Route 53
10 3 (3.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) Firewall
1 3 (3.95%) HTTP
1 3 (3.95%) HTTPS
1 3 (3.95%) SSL
2 2 (2.63%) Network Security
2 2 (2.63%) VPN
3 1 (1.32%) DNS
3 1 (1.32%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) NoSQL
2 9 (11.84%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.21%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.26%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.95%) Flink
6 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.63%) Apache Hudi
7 2 (2.63%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (2.63%) Big Data
7 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.63%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.63%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.63%) Parquet
7 2 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (27.63%) Jenkins
2 19 (25.00%) Git
3 11 (14.47%) JIRA
4 8 (10.53%) GitLab
5 6 (7.89%) SonarQube
6 5 (6.58%) Maven
7 3 (3.95%) Chocolatey
7 3 (3.95%) JMeter
7 3 (3.95%) JUnit
7 3 (3.95%) Mockito
7 3 (3.95%) Postman
7 3 (3.95%) REST Assured
7 3 (3.95%) Selenium
7 3 (3.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.95%) TestNG
7 3 (3.95%) Travis CI
8 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (2.63%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (2.63%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.32%) Snyk
General
1 31 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.53%) Finance
5 5 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.95%) Banking
7 3 (3.95%) Legal
8 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (23.68%) Developer
2 10 (13.16%) Java Developer
3 9 (11.84%) Architect
3 9 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Senior
5 4 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.26%) Lead
5 4 (5.26%) Python Engineer
5 4 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 4 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.95%) Analyst
6 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.95%) Java Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Site Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) Spring
2 13 (17.11%) .NET
3 11 (14.47%) Spring Boot
4 10 (13.16%) HTML
4 10 (13.16%) React
4 10 (13.16%) Web Services
5 8 (10.53%) Hibernate
5 8 (10.53%) REST
6 7 (9.21%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (9.21%) Kafka
7 5 (6.58%) CSS
7 5 (6.58%) LDAP
7 5 (6.58%) OAuth
7 5 (6.58%) OpenID
7 5 (6.58%) RESTful
7 5 (6.58%) SAML
7 5 (6.58%) YAML
8 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.95%) State Machine
4 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Linux
2 5 (6.58%) Windows
3 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.32%) Rocky
5 1 (1.32%) VMS
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (67.11%) CI/CD
2 35 (46.05%) Containerisation
3 33 (43.42%) Agile
4 31 (40.79%) DevOps
5 25 (32.89%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (28.95%) Microservices
7 19 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (18.42%) ITIL
9 13 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (15.79%) DevSecOps
10 12 (15.79%) Test Automation
11 10 (13.16%) Computer Science
11 10 (13.16%) Task Automation
12 9 (11.84%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (10.53%) BDD
13 8 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
14 7 (9.21%) API Development
14 7 (9.21%) Scrum
14 7 (9.21%) SDLC
14 7 (9.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.53%) Java
2 26 (34.21%) Python
3 20 (26.32%) SQL
4 18 (23.68%) JavaScript
5 12 (15.79%) Bash
6 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
7 8 (10.53%) C#
8 5 (6.58%) PL/SQL
9 4 (5.26%) Scala
10 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.63%) Go
11 2 (2.63%) Perl
11 2 (2.63%) R
12 1 (1.32%) Bicep
12 1 (1.32%) COBOL
12 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.42%) Degree
4 13 (17.11%) DV Cleared
5 10 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.95%) CEH
7 3 (3.95%) CISSP
7 3 (3.95%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.63%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) QA
2 5 (6.58%) GDPR
2 5 (6.58%) HIPAA
3 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.26%) NCSC
4 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.32%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (72.37%) Docker
2 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (32.89%) Terraform
2 13 (17.11%) Ansible
3 6 (7.89%) Kibana
4 5 (6.58%) Grafana
4 5 (6.58%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.32%) Argo
7 1 (1.32%) logstash
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.32%) Podman
7 1 (1.32%) Puppet
7 1 (1.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle
3 6 (7.89%) Google
4 5 (6.58%) IBM
4 5 (6.58%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.26%) Ping Identity
5 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.63%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.63%) Cisco
6 2 (2.63%) Databricks
6 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.63%) Splunk
7 1 (1.32%) BT
7 1 (1.32%) Commvault
7 1 (1.32%) Dell
7 1 (1.32%) Veeam
7 1 (1.32%) VMware