Kubernetes Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Kubernetes (k8s)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 27 13
Rank change year-on-year +6 -14 +1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 11 5 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.19% 2.48% 14.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.21% 23.81% 69.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 29
10th Percentile £380 - £552
25th Percentile £434 £406 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £413 £700
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -41.07% +12.00%
75th Percentile £569 £419 £836
90th Percentile £580 - £848
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £523 £413 £700
% change year-on-year +26.67% -41.07% +12.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 39 21 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 18.40% 10.40% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 3 41
10th Percentile £225 £420 £500
25th Percentile £400 £441 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -28.57% +27.27%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £775
90th Percentile £598 £545 £847
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £456 £675
% change year-on-year +4.11% -32.41% +22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £47.50 -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Newcastle upon Tyne

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Newcastle upon Tyne

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Newcastle upon Tyne

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JPA
1 1 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (9.09%) Micronaut
1 1 (9.09%) Next.js
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
1 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) SOLID
6 1 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
6 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
6 1 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) COBOL
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Packer