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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 64 48
Rank change year-on-year +24 -16 -3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 97 71 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.98% 2.64% 4.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.68% 26.69% 25.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 56 99
10th Percentile £393 £408 £437
25th Percentile £450 £448 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £584 £650 £650
90th Percentile £635 £694 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £75.65 - £38.31
25th Percentile £78.88 £52.50 £39.14
Median hourly rate £87.00 £55.00 £43.34
Median % change year-on-year +58.18% +26.90% -
75th Percentile £92.38 £57.50 £51.07
90th Percentile £93.95 - £59.88
England median hourly rate £80.00 £67.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year +19.40% -7.90% +21.25%

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 288 266 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.80% 9.87% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 189 362
10th Percentile £274 £210 £325
25th Percentile £386 £375 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £521 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.86% -8.70% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 45
10th Percentile £62.54 £16.64 £16.25
25th Percentile - - £22.13
Median hourly rate £63.40 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +257.79% -40.93% +37.74%
75th Percentile £84.88 £59.38 £47.00
90th Percentile £89.15 £93.00 £52.13
England median hourly rate £29.00 £27.25 £52.32
% change year-on-year +6.42% -47.91% +143.33%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

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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 29 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 +16 65 £488 -11.36% 188
Cheshire +17 24 £475 +6.15% 25
Lancashire +4 7 £600 - 72
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 6 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (6.19%) JBoss
2 4 (4.12%) WebSphere
2 4 (4.12%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.06%) Confluence
4 1 (1.03%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (61.86%) AWS
2 28 (28.87%) Azure
3 19 (19.59%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (16.49%) GCP
5 15 (15.46%) GitHub
6 12 (12.37%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (12.37%) Serverless
7 10 (10.31%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (8.25%) Amazon S3
8 8 (8.25%) OpenShift
9 7 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.12%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (4.12%) Apigee
10 4 (4.12%) Azure AI
10 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.12%) dbt
10 4 (4.12%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.12%) Google Gemini
10 4 (4.12%) IBM Cloud
10 4 (4.12%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) DNS
2 4 (4.12%) Calico
2 4 (4.12%) Firewall
3 2 (2.06%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.03%) DHCP
4 1 (1.03%) HTTP
4 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.59%) Relational Database
2 15 (15.46%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.22%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.19%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.19%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.19%) RDBMS
4 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.12%) Airbyte
6 4 (4.12%) Neo4j
6 4 (4.12%) ObjectStore
7 2 (2.06%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.06%) GIS
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.03%) Apache Accumulo
8 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.03%) Big Data
8 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (27.84%) Git
2 23 (23.71%) Jenkins
3 22 (22.68%) GitLab
4 15 (15.46%) JIRA
5 7 (7.22%) SonarQube
5 7 (7.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (6.19%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (6.19%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (6.19%) Maven
6 6 (6.19%) TeamCity
7 4 (4.12%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.03%) MLflow
9 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 18 (18.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.31%) Finance
4 9 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.22%) Banking
6 6 (6.19%) Legal
6 6 (6.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.12%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.09%) Retail
9 2 (2.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (28.87%) Senior
2 18 (18.56%) Developer
3 14 (14.43%) Architect
3 14 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (12.37%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (7.22%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Java Architect
7 6 (6.19%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Java Technical Architect
7 6 (6.19%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.15%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.15%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Python Data Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.37%) Kafka
1 12 (12.37%) Node.js
2 10 (10.31%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (9.28%) OAuth
3 9 (9.28%) React
3 9 (9.28%) RESTful
4 6 (6.19%) .NET
4 6 (6.19%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.19%) Spring Boot
5 5 (5.15%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.15%) OpenID
5 5 (5.15%) PyTorch
5 5 (5.15%) REST
5 5 (5.15%) SAML
5 5 (5.15%) TensorFlow
6 4 (4.12%) Express.js
6 4 (4.12%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.09%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.09%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) PKI
5 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.59%) Linux
2 7 (7.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (7.22%) Windows
3 4 (4.12%) Android
3 4 (4.12%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.06%) Unix
4 2 (2.06%) VMS
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (63.92%) CI/CD
2 54 (55.67%) Containerisation
3 47 (48.45%) DevOps
4 28 (28.87%) Microservices
5 24 (24.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (19.59%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (19.59%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (18.56%) Agile
7 18 (18.56%) Analytics
8 16 (16.49%) Migration
9 15 (15.46%) Digital Twin
9 15 (15.46%) Visualisation
10 14 (14.43%) Test Automation
11 13 (13.40%) Event-Driven
12 12 (12.37%) Continuous Deployment
12 12 (12.37%) Software Engineering
13 11 (11.34%) Configuration Management
14 10 (10.31%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (10.31%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 64 (65.98%) Python
2 30 (30.93%) Java
3 14 (14.43%) Bash
3 14 (14.43%) SQL
4 10 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.22%) Perl
5 7 (7.22%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.15%) Shell Script
7 4 (4.12%) SPARQL
8 3 (3.09%) Clojure
8 3 (3.09%) Scala
9 2 (2.06%) C#
10 1 (1.03%) Bicep
10 1 (1.03%) Go
10 1 (1.03%) R
10 1 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.09%) Degree
3 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.06%) CCNA
3 2 (2.06%) CCNP
3 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) NIST
1 2 (2.06%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) COBIT
2 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (59.79%) Docker
2 8 (8.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (29.90%) Terraform
2 14 (14.43%) Ansible
3 11 (11.34%) Progress Chef
4 7 (7.22%) Grafana
4 7 (7.22%) Istio
5 6 (6.19%) Kibana
6 5 (5.15%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.09%) Kustomize
7 3 (3.09%) Puppet
8 2 (2.06%) Graylog
8 2 (2.06%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.03%) Packer
9 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (9.28%) Virgin Media
2 8 (8.25%) Red Hat
3 7 (7.22%) Splunk
4 6 (6.19%) AppDynamics
4 6 (6.19%) Google
4 6 (6.19%) Oracle
5 4 (4.12%) Cloudera
5 4 (4.12%) IBM
6 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.06%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.06%) Mapbox
7 2 (2.06%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.06%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.03%) Ariba
8 1 (1.03%) BMC
8 1 (1.03%) Databricks
8 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.03%) Remedy
8 1 (1.03%) VMware