Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Kubernetes (k8s)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 26 50
Rank change year-on-year -24 +24 +5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 10 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.73% 4.64% 0.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.73% 27.27% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile £365 £313 £485
25th Percentile £392 £364 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% +2.22% +1.12%
75th Percentile £606 £653 £613
90th Percentile £625 £656 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -21.74% +2.22% +1.12%

All Systems Management Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 44 33 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 7.61% 17.01% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 46
10th Percentile £163 £265 £208
25th Percentile £185 £318 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £421 £538
Median % change year-on-year +9.10% -21.77% +18.13%
75th Percentile £600 £559 £638
90th Percentile £615 £631 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £453 £421 £550
% change year-on-year +7.61% -23.55% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £23.85
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £12.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.00% -
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £12.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year - -55.56% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Milton Keynes

Kubernetes
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 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) Azure AI
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 2 (20.00%) Figma
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jaeger
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) NUnit
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (30.00%) Loki
4 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (20.00%) Node.js
4 2 (20.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Observability
4 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) AI
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Data Science
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) GitOps
5 3 (30.00%) LLM
5 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Text Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Go
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) Bicep
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
1 4 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (30.00%) GRC
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Rancher
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Grafana
2 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (30.00%) Istio
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle