Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Kubernetes (k8s)
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norfolk requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 0.50% - 10.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.56% - 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.95%
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - £505
East of England median daily rate £606 £495 £563
% change year-on-year +22.47% -12.00% -6.25%

All Systems Management Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 18 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 8.91% 12.82% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 6
10th Percentile - £234 £276
25th Percentile £188 £284 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £348 £400
Median % change year-on-year -35.25% -13.13% +79.78%
75th Percentile £238 £371 -
90th Percentile £478 £372 £488
East of England median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £20.92 - -
25th Percentile £21.06 - -
Median hourly rate £22.58 - -
75th Percentile £24.43 - -
90th Percentile £24.77 - -
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £47.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -57.26% +168.57% -6.82%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Norwich - 1 £425 - 4
Kubernetes
East of England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker