Kubernetes Contracts in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 72 47
Rank change year-on-year +29 -25 -5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 95 65 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.50% 2.36% 4.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.93% 24.62% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 46 98
10th Percentile £347 £408 £461
25th Percentile £400 £445 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £587 £650 £650
90th Percentile £654 £694 £700
England median daily rate £541 £550 £619
% change year-on-year -1.59% -11.11% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £75.65 - £38.68
25th Percentile £78.88 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £87.00 - £46.18
75th Percentile £92.38 - £59.36
90th Percentile £93.95 - £64.75
England median hourly rate £79.50 £67.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +18.22% -7.88% +5.70%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 280 264 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.28% 9.58% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 188 362
10th Percentile £251 £210 £325
25th Percentile £358 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £650 £687
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 39
10th Percentile £62.54 £16.79 £16.25
25th Percentile - - £20.74
Median hourly rate £63.40 £17.72 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +257.79% -39.52% +56.27%
75th Percentile £84.88 £40.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £89.15 £82.50 £49.52
England median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.97% -45.22% +161.36%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Manchester +11 54 £500 -9.09% 151
Cheshire +20 33 £439 -4.93% 16
Lancashire +1 7 £600 +21.70% 52
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (9.47%) JBoss
2 6 (6.32%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.21%) Confluence
3 4 (4.21%) WebSphere
3 4 (4.21%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (56.84%) AWS
2 27 (28.42%) Azure
3 16 (16.84%) OpenShift
4 15 (15.79%) GCP
5 14 (14.74%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (12.63%) Serverless
7 9 (9.47%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (9.47%) GitHub
8 7 (7.37%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.26%) IaaS
10 5 (5.26%) PaaS
10 5 (5.26%) SaaS
11 4 (4.21%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (4.21%) Apigee
11 4 (4.21%) Azure AI
11 4 (4.21%) Google Gemini
11 4 (4.21%) IBM Cloud
11 4 (4.21%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) Calico
1 4 (4.21%) Firewall
2 2 (2.11%) DNS
2 2 (2.11%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.05%) DHCP
3 1 (1.05%) HTTP
3 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.05%) VPN
3 1 (1.05%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.26%) Relational Database
2 12 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.47%) RDBMS
4 8 (8.42%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (6.32%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.21%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.11%) Airbyte
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.05%) Apache Accumulo
9 1 (1.05%) Big Data
9 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.05%) GIS
9 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.05%) MySQL
9 1 (1.05%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 26 (27.37%) Git
1 26 (27.37%) Jenkins
2 19 (20.00%) GitLab
2 19 (20.00%) JIRA
3 10 (10.53%) SonarQube
4 9 (9.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (9.47%) TeamCity
5 8 (8.42%) Bitbucket Server
5 8 (8.42%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (5.26%) Maven
7 4 (4.21%) CircleCI
8 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.11%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.11%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.05%) MLflow
10 1 (1.05%) Selenium
10 1 (1.05%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.63%) Finance
4 8 (8.42%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.37%) Banking
6 6 (6.32%) Legal
6 6 (6.32%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.21%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.21%) Retail
8 2 (2.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (25.26%) Senior
2 14 (14.74%) Developer
3 13 (13.68%) Architect
4 12 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Lead
6 7 (7.37%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) DevOps Specialist
7 6 (6.32%) Java Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Java Technical Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.79%) Node.js
2 12 (12.63%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (10.53%) AngularJS
3 10 (10.53%) Kafka
4 9 (9.47%) Spring Boot
5 7 (7.37%) OAuth
6 6 (6.32%) .NET
6 6 (6.32%) React
6 6 (6.32%) RESTful
7 5 (5.26%) PyTorch
7 5 (5.26%) TensorFlow
8 4 (4.21%) Express.js
8 4 (4.21%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.16%) ARM Templates
9 3 (3.16%) LDAP
9 3 (3.16%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.16%) OpenID
9 3 (3.16%) Playwright
9 3 (3.16%) REST
9 3 (3.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.37%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.11%) PKI
3 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.05%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (28.42%) Linux
2 15 (15.79%) Windows
3 11 (11.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.21%) Android
4 4 (4.21%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.11%) Unix
5 2 (2.11%) VMS
6 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.05%) CI/CD
2 50 (52.63%) Containerisation
3 48 (50.53%) DevOps
4 30 (31.58%) Microservices
5 20 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (20.00%) Agile
7 18 (18.95%) Migration
7 18 (18.95%) Observability
8 15 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (13.68%) Analytics
9 13 (13.68%) Software Engineering
10 12 (12.63%) Code Quality
10 12 (12.63%) Event-Driven
11 11 (11.58%) Test Automation
12 10 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (9.47%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (9.47%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (68.42%) Python
2 30 (31.58%) Java
3 13 (13.68%) Bash
3 13 (13.68%) SQL
4 10 (10.53%) Perl
5 7 (7.37%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.26%) PHP
7 5 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.16%) Clojure
8 3 (3.16%) Scala
9 2 (2.11%) C#
9 2 (2.11%) SPARQL
10 1 (1.05%) Bicep
10 1 (1.05%) R
10 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.16%) Degree
3 2 (2.11%) CCNA
3 2 (2.11%) CCNP
3 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.05%) CISM
4 1 (1.05%) CISSP
4 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) NIST
2 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) COBIT
3 1 (1.05%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (65.26%) Docker
2 11 (11.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (25.26%) Terraform
2 14 (14.74%) Ansible
2 14 (14.74%) Progress Chef
3 11 (11.58%) Grafana
4 9 (9.47%) Kibana
5 5 (5.26%) Istio
6 4 (4.21%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.16%) Puppet
8 2 (2.11%) Graylog
8 2 (2.11%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.05%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.05%) Packer
9 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (14.74%) AppDynamics
2 11 (11.58%) Oracle
2 11 (11.58%) Red Hat
3 10 (10.53%) Splunk
4 8 (8.42%) Cloudera
4 8 (8.42%) Virgin Media
5 5 (5.26%) Google
6 4 (4.21%) IBM
6 4 (4.21%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.11%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.11%) Infoblox
8 2 (2.11%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.05%) Ariba
9 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.05%) BMC
9 1 (1.05%) Remedy
9 1 (1.05%) SAP
9 1 (1.05%) SendGrid
9 1 (1.05%) VMware