Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in Milton Keynes is £393, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £393 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Milton Keynes

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

Contract vacancies in Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 494 195 454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 96.06% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 142 342
10th Percentile £309 £261 £275
25th Percentile £406 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £593 £597 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £660
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.45% +0.05% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 4 33
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.65 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £18.85 £22.52
Median % change year-on-year +57.08% -16.30% +40.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £32.88 £27.00
90th Percentile £39.63 £55.15 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £19.34 £24.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -19.42% +3.38% +40.70%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 7 March 2026, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Milton Keynes region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform