Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Kubernetes (k8s)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 18 13
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 7 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 3.13% 6.09% 5.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 53.85% 38.89% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £397 £395 -
25th Percentile £412 £436 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £492 £356
Median % change year-on-year -11.08% +38.20% -35.27%
75th Percentile £442 £537 £359
90th Percentile £447 £537 £365
Northamptonshire median daily rate £431 £500 £356
% change year-on-year -13.88% +40.45% -35.27%

All Systems Management Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 13 18 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 5.80% 15.65% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 15
10th Percentile £380 £332 £356
25th Percentile £408 £367 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £459 £393
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +16.94% +65.26%
75th Percentile £442 £525 £445
90th Percentile £447 £535 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £430 £457 £393
% change year-on-year -5.83% +16.31% +24.60%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Northampton

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
1 3 (42.86%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Parquet
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Rust Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) J2EE
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth2
1 3 (42.86%) OpenID
1 3 (42.86%) OSGi
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
1 3 (42.86%) SAML
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (42.86%) Data Flow Diagram
3 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
3 3 (42.86%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (42.86%) Remediation Plan
3 3 (42.86%) SABSA
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
3 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 3 (42.86%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bicep
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) GDPR
2 3 (42.86%) GRC
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (42.86%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
2 3 (42.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Adobe
2 3 (42.86%) Splunk