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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 22 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 12 15 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.88% 4.66% 10.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.67% 44.12% 64.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 27
10th Percentile £380 - £569
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 - £849
England median daily rate £550 £555 £620
% change year-on-year -0.81% -10.56% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
England median hourly rate £80.00 £67.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.96% -9.12% +7.15%

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 45 34 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 14.56% 10.56% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 5 42
10th Percentile £200 £218 £401
25th Percentile £358 £275 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £413 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -38.89% +28.57%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £775
90th Percentile £575 £540 £847
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +2.86% +301.57%
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.25 £53.35
% change year-on-year +68.00% -41.42% +142.50%

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 29 June 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

Kubernetes
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 29 June 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 +3 11 £523 +26.67% 27
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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (58.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JPA
1 1 (8.33%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (8.33%) Micronaut
1 1 (8.33%) Next.js
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) TDD
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 1 (8.33%) Functional Programming
7 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
7 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 1 (8.33%) Scrum
7 1 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
7 1 (8.33%) TOGAF
7 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
7 1 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) COBOL
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Packer