Kubernetes Contracts in the North East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 26 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 20 12 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 6.25% 3.55% 10.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.46% 33.33% 54.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 38
10th Percentile £466 - £561
25th Percentile £511 £406 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £413 £700
Median % change year-on-year +36.97% -41.07% +16.67%
75th Percentile £595 £419 £775
90th Percentile £635 - £847
England median daily rate £575 £550 £620
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% -13.89% -7.10%

All Systems Management Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 52 36 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 16.25% 10.65% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 13 63
10th Percentile £332 £141 £430
25th Percentile £419 £220 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £415 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -30.83% +15.38%
75th Percentile £589 £530 £700
90th Percentile £625 £548 £836
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North East

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North East

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear +9 19 £565 +36.97% 19
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 7 (35.00%) nginx
2 2 (10.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (20.00%) Kong
5 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.00%) Serverless
6 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) SSL
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) GitLab
2 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) Selenium
General
1 12 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Electronics
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (20.00%) Marketing
2 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (30.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior
3 6 (30.00%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Lead
4 4 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) pytest
1 3 (15.00%) REST
1 3 (15.00%) SOAP
2 2 (10.00%) cloud-init
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (10.00%) Micronaut
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.00%) CentOS
3 2 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (10.00%) API Management
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (10.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Observability
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Secrets Management
6 2 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (80.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Grafana
2 7 (35.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Packer
4 2 (10.00%) Consul
4 2 (10.00%) HAProxy
4 2 (10.00%) Istio
4 2 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (10.00%) linkerd
4 2 (10.00%) Rancher
4 2 (10.00%) ZABBIX
5 1 (5.00%) Kibana
5 1 (5.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Apple
2 2 (10.00%) ESET
2 2 (10.00%) Okta
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk