Kubernetes Contracts in Northamptonshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 19 18 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 7 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 4.79% 3.57% 1.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.84% 30.43% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £436 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £356 £550
Median % change year-on-year +31.18% -35.27% +30.33%
75th Percentile £500 £369 £575
90th Percentile £522 £463 -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £700
% change year-on-year - -32.14% +40.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 19 23 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 13.01% 11.73% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 28
10th Percentile £321 £356 £231
25th Percentile £367 £364 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £315
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +58.73% -32.98%
75th Percentile £525 £622 £330
90th Percentile - £627 £480
East Midlands median daily rate £454 £500 £445
% change year-on-year -9.20% +12.36% +4.71%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Northamptonshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Northamptonshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Northamptonshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -3 7 £467 +31.18% 28
Kubernetes
East Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
1 2 (28.57%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Google App Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Hudi
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Delta Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) Flink
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (28.57%) Parquet
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (28.57%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Scala Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Avro
2 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Lineage
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) Scala
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kibana
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) AppDynamics
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Google