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 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 34 69 39
Rank change year-on-year +35 -30 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 100 69 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.08% 2.50% 5.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.57% 23.55% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 55 125
10th Percentile £393 £407 £425
25th Percentile £456 £447 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £584 £650 £650
90th Percentile £626 £694 £700
England median daily rate £575 £550 £620
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £42.17
25th Percentile - £52.50 £46.01
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year - +4.66% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £59.21
90th Percentile - - £63.14
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 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 307 293 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 10.64% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 217 377
10th Percentile £250 £231 £325
25th Percentile £382 £375 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £548 £584 £626
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 45
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.67 £16.85
25th Percentile £51.38 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £58.44 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.95 £91.25 £65.00
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 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 1 May 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
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 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
Manchester +17 70 £500 -9.09% 166
Cheshire +16 22 £475 +6.15% 26
Lancashire +8 7 £600 - 59
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 5 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.00%) JBoss
2 4 (4.00%) Confluence
3 2 (2.00%) Camunda
3 2 (2.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (56.00%) AWS
2 31 (31.00%) Azure
3 19 (19.00%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (15.00%) GitHub
5 14 (14.00%) GCP
6 12 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (10.00%) Serverless
8 9 (9.00%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (7.00%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.00%) OpenShift
10 6 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.00%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
12 4 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (4.00%) Azure AI
12 4 (4.00%) dbt
12 4 (4.00%) Google Gemini
13 3 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (3.00%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) DNS
2 4 (4.00%) Firewall
3 2 (2.00%) Calico
3 2 (2.00%) Kerberos
3 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.00%) DHCP
4 1 (1.00%) HTTP
4 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.00%) Relational Database
2 18 (18.00%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 10 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (5.00%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.00%) Airbyte
6 4 (4.00%) Couchbase
6 4 (4.00%) Neo4j
6 4 (4.00%) ObjectStore
7 3 (3.00%) MySQL
8 2 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.00%) GIS
9 1 (1.00%) Apache Accumulo
9 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.00%) Big Data
9 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 26 (26.00%) Git
2 24 (24.00%) GitLab
3 18 (18.00%) Jenkins
4 15 (15.00%) JIRA
5 7 (7.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (6.00%) Maven
6 6 (6.00%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (5.00%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (5.00%) TeamCity
8 3 (3.00%) CircleCI
8 3 (3.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.00%) JUnit
9 2 (2.00%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.00%) Gradle
10 1 (1.00%) Mockito
10 1 (1.00%) Selenium
General
1 18 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.00%) Finance
4 6 (6.00%) Legal
4 6 (6.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (5.00%) Banking
6 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.00%) Military
8 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (28.00%) Senior
2 20 (20.00%) Developer
3 18 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (15.00%) Architect
5 12 (12.00%) Data Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Java Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Java Architect
8 6 (6.00%) Java Technical Architect
8 6 (6.00%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.00%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Python Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.00%) Kafka
2 12 (12.00%) Node.js
3 10 (10.00%) RESTful
4 9 (9.00%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (8.00%) OAuth
5 8 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 7 (7.00%) React
7 6 (6.00%) .NET
8 5 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.00%) OAuth2
8 5 (5.00%) OpenID
8 5 (5.00%) REST
8 5 (5.00%) SAML
9 4 (4.00%) Express.js
9 4 (4.00%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.00%) OpenAPI
9 4 (4.00%) PyTorch
9 4 (4.00%) Swagger
9 4 (4.00%) TensorFlow
10 3 (3.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.00%) PKI
3 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.00%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.00%) Linux
2 12 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.00%) Windows
4 3 (3.00%) Unix
5 2 (2.00%) Android
5 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.00%) VMS
6 1 (1.00%) CentOS
6 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 55 (55.00%) Containerisation
3 46 (46.00%) DevOps
4 30 (30.00%) Microservices
5 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (22.00%) Continuous Integration
7 19 (19.00%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (17.00%) Analytics
9 15 (15.00%) Digital Twin
9 15 (15.00%) Event-Driven
9 15 (15.00%) Visualisation
10 14 (14.00%) Agile
10 14 (14.00%) Test Automation
11 12 (12.00%) Continuous Deployment
12 11 (11.00%) Configuration Management
12 11 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (11.00%) Migration
13 10 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 10 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 60 (60.00%) Python
2 28 (28.00%) Java
3 16 (16.00%) Bash
4 14 (14.00%) SQL
5 10 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.00%) Perl
8 5 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.00%) SPARQL
10 3 (3.00%) Clojure
10 3 (3.00%) Scala
10 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.00%) C#
11 2 (2.00%) Go
12 1 (1.00%) Bicep
12 1 (1.00%) R
12 1 (1.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.00%) CCNA
4 2 (2.00%) CCNP
4 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) NCSC
1 2 (2.00%) NIST
1 2 (2.00%) QA
2 1 (1.00%) COBIT
2 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (62.00%) Docker
2 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (29.00%) Terraform
2 13 (13.00%) Ansible
3 10 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 9 (9.00%) Grafana
5 8 (8.00%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.00%) Istio
7 5 (5.00%) Kibana
8 3 (3.00%) Kustomize
8 3 (3.00%) Puppet
8 3 (3.00%) ZABBIX
9 2 (2.00%) Graylog
9 2 (2.00%) Packer
10 1 (1.00%) Consul
10 1 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.00%) linkerd
10 1 (1.00%) Rancher
10 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Virgin Media
2 7 (7.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.00%) Oracle
3 6 (6.00%) Splunk
4 5 (5.00%) AppDynamics
4 5 (5.00%) Google
4 5 (5.00%) VMware
5 3 (3.00%) Cloudera
5 3 (3.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.00%) IBM
6 2 (2.00%) Infoblox
6 2 (2.00%) Mapbox
7 1 (1.00%) Ariba
7 1 (1.00%) BMC
7 1 (1.00%) Confluent
7 1 (1.00%) Databricks
7 1 (1.00%) Okta
7 1 (1.00%) OpenAI