Kubernetes Architect Contracts in the North of England

Kubernetes Architect (K8s Architect)
England > North of England

The median Kubernetes Architect (K8s Architect) daily rate in the North of England is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.029% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £750 - £563
% change year-on-year - - -35.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,199 4,495 5,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 92.78% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,116 2,726 3,642
10th Percentile £256 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% -3.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £665 £688
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 458 162
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.12 £14.03
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.23 £17.55
Median hourly rate £22.14 £23.48 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year -5.69% -12.57% +34.25%
75th Percentile £47.94 £47.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.50 £67.25 £57.39
England median hourly rate £29.00 £38.50 £44.53
% change year-on-year -24.68% -13.54% +85.54%

Kubernetes Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Architect in the North of England

Kubernetes Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes Architect in the North of England

Kubernetes Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West - 1 £750 - 1
Kubernetes Architect
England

Kubernetes Architect Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2025, Kubernetes Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Kubernetes Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security

Kubernetes Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BiZZdesign