Kubernetes Contracts in the North of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 50 42
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 +11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 172 160 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.14% 3.40% 4.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.71% 30.77% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 123 191
10th Percentile £393 £407 £469
25th Percentile £458 £456 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £614
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -14.43% +8.58%
75th Percentile £597 £624 £700
90th Percentile £671 £675 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £75.65 £46.81 £38.68
25th Percentile £78.88 £47.76 £41.25
Median hourly rate £87.00 £50.59 £54.34
Median % change year-on-year +71.97% -6.90% -
75th Percentile £92.38 £54.67 £63.75
90th Percentile £93.95 £56.37 £64.75
England median hourly rate £80.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +19.40% -9.46% +23.33%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 599 520 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.91% 11.05% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 360 583
10th Percentile £263 £235 £318
25th Percentile £376 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -12.04% +2.86%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £634
90th Percentile £628 £646 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 50
10th Percentile £62.54 £16.69 £16.25
25th Percentile - £17.72 £22.20
Median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.29% +23.15% +87.50%
75th Percentile £84.88 £57.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £89.15 £89.50 £53.29
England median hourly rate £33.25 £28.75 £53.35
% change year-on-year +15.65% -46.11% +148.14%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 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
North West +27 98 £500 -9.09% 222
Yorkshire +2 63 £575 +10.58% 97
North East +2 14 £525 +27.27% 24
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
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 8 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.49%) Confluence
2 6 (3.49%) JBoss
3 5 (2.91%) WebSphere
3 5 (2.91%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.16%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) nginx
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.58%) Camunda
5 1 (0.58%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (54.07%) AWS
2 40 (23.26%) Azure
3 32 (18.60%) GCP
4 28 (16.28%) GitHub
5 24 (13.95%) Amazon EKS
6 17 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (9.30%) Serverless
8 13 (7.56%) OpenShift
9 12 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.65%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.07%) npm
12 7 (4.07%) OCI
13 6 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.49%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.91%) Collibra
14 5 (2.91%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.91%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.65%) DNS
1 8 (4.65%) Firewall
1 8 (4.65%) SSL
2 7 (4.07%) HTTP
3 5 (2.91%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.33%) Calico
4 4 (2.33%) Kerberos
4 4 (2.33%) NAS
4 4 (2.33%) Network Security
4 4 (2.33%) SAN
5 3 (1.74%) VPN
6 2 (1.16%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.58%) BGP
7 1 (0.58%) DHCP
7 1 (0.58%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.58%) OSPF
7 1 (0.58%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.05%) Relational Database
3 9 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.65%) Oracle Database
5 6 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.49%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.49%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.91%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.33%) Airbyte
7 4 (2.33%) Big Data
7 4 (2.33%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.33%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.33%) ObjectStore
8 3 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.74%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.16%) GIS
9 2 (1.16%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 45 (26.16%) Jenkins
2 42 (24.42%) GitLab
3 41 (23.84%) Git
4 22 (12.79%) JIRA
5 7 (4.07%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.07%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.49%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (3.49%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (3.49%) Maven
6 6 (3.49%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.91%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.74%) Jaeger
8 3 (1.74%) Selenium
8 3 (1.74%) webpack
9 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.58%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.58%) JUnit
General
1 35 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.12%) Finance
3 17 (9.88%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.72%) Banking
6 6 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.49%) Legal
6 6 (3.49%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.91%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.74%) Military
8 3 (1.74%) Retail
9 2 (1.16%) Electronics
9 2 (1.16%) Marketing
9 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (24.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (21.51%) Senior
3 27 (15.70%) Developer
4 24 (13.95%) Architect
5 17 (9.88%) Data Engineer
6 14 (8.14%) AWS DevOps
6 14 (8.14%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (6.98%) Lead
8 10 (5.81%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (4.65%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.65%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Lead DevOps
10 8 (4.65%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Technical Architect
11 7 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.07%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.21%) Kafka
2 14 (8.14%) RESTful
3 13 (7.56%) REST
4 12 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (6.98%) Node.js
5 10 (5.81%) LDAP
5 10 (5.81%) OAuth
6 9 (5.23%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.23%) React
7 8 (4.65%) SAML
8 7 (4.07%) Middleware
8 7 (4.07%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.49%) .NET
9 6 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (2.91%) ARM Templates
10 5 (2.91%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.91%) OpenID
10 5 (2.91%) pytest
10 5 (2.91%) PyTorch
10 5 (2.91%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.81%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.65%) Algorithms
2 8 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.33%) Clustering
3 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.74%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.16%) PKI
5 2 (1.16%) Replication
5 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (27.91%) Linux
2 13 (7.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (7.56%) Unix
2 13 (7.56%) Windows
3 4 (2.33%) Android
3 4 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.16%) VMS
5 1 (0.58%) AIX
5 1 (0.58%) CentOS
5 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.58%) Solaris
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 88 (51.16%) Containerisation
3 81 (47.09%) DevOps
4 46 (26.74%) Microservices
5 40 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (22.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (19.19%) Agile
8 27 (15.70%) Continuous Integration
9 22 (12.79%) Analytics
9 22 (12.79%) Migration
10 21 (12.21%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (11.05%) Test Automation
12 18 (10.47%) Observability
13 17 (9.88%) Deployment Automation
14 16 (9.30%) Event-Driven
14 16 (9.30%) Software Engineering
15 15 (8.72%) Configuration Management
15 15 (8.72%) Digital Twin
15 15 (8.72%) Visualisation
16 14 (8.14%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 104 (60.47%) Python
2 41 (23.84%) Java
3 27 (15.70%) Bash
4 21 (12.21%) Shell Script
5 20 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.88%) SQL
7 9 (5.23%) Perl
7 9 (5.23%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.07%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.91%) Groovy
9 5 (2.91%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.33%) Go
10 4 (2.33%) SPARQL
11 3 (1.74%) Clojure
11 3 (1.74%) Scala
12 2 (1.16%) ActionScript
12 2 (1.16%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (1.16%) Bicep
12 2 (1.16%) C#
13 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.49%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.33%) Degree
4 4 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.74%) IBM Certification
6 2 (1.16%) CCNA
6 2 (1.16%) CCNP
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.16%) OCP
6 2 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.91%) NIST
2 4 (2.33%) GDPR
2 4 (2.33%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.74%) QA
4 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.16%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) COBIT
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 97 (56.40%) Docker
2 9 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (31.40%) Terraform
2 40 (23.26%) Ansible
3 26 (15.12%) Grafana
4 22 (12.79%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.56%) Progress Chef
6 11 (6.40%) Istio
7 7 (4.07%) Puppet
8 6 (3.49%) Kibana
9 5 (2.91%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.74%) Control-M
10 3 (1.74%) Kiali
10 3 (1.74%) Packer
10 3 (1.74%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.16%) Graylog
11 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.58%) Consul
12 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.58%) linkerd
12 1 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (13.95%) Splunk
2 18 (10.47%) Oracle
3 13 (7.56%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.81%) Google
5 9 (5.23%) AppDynamics
5 9 (5.23%) Virgin Media
6 7 (4.07%) IBM
7 6 (3.49%) Cloudera
8 5 (2.91%) Commvault
8 5 (2.91%) Confluent
8 5 (2.91%) VMware
9 3 (1.74%) Databricks
9 3 (1.74%) SAP
9 3 (1.74%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.74%) xMatters
10 2 (1.16%) Cisco
10 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.16%) IBM Sterling
10 2 (1.16%) Mapbox
10 2 (1.16%) PagerDuty