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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 31 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 17 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 6.59% 2.48% -
As % of the Systems Management category 44.74% 20.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 0
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £368 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% - -
75th Percentile £440 £369 -
90th Percentile £482 £463 -
East Midlands median daily rate £435 £406 £700
% change year-on-year +7.02% -41.96% +33.33%

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 38 34 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 14.73% 12.06% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 25
10th Percentile £322 £356 £204
25th Percentile £366 £445 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £470 £315
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% +49.21% -37.00%
75th Percentile £463 £620 £350
90th Percentile £525 £622 £505
East Midlands median daily rate £430 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -7.63% -2.11% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.39 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £25.77 £21.97
% change year-on-year -16.98% +17.30% +7.15%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +4 17 £429 +20.51% 18
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 3 (17.65%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.76%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Google App Engine
5 1 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) HTTP
1 3 (17.65%) HTTPS
1 3 (17.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (11.76%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (11.76%) Big Data
3 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Delta Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.76%) Flink
3 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.76%) Parquet
4 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (11.76%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
3 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Identity Management Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Scala Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) Spring
2 7 (41.18%) Hibernate
2 7 (41.18%) LDAP
2 7 (41.18%) OAuth
2 7 (41.18%) OpenID
2 7 (41.18%) SAML
3 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
4 4 (23.53%) Kafka
5 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) HTML
5 3 (17.65%) JPA
5 3 (17.65%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (17.65%) RAML
5 3 (17.65%) React
5 3 (17.65%) REST
5 3 (17.65%) RESTful
5 3 (17.65%) Spring Batch
5 3 (17.65%) Web Services
6 2 (11.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (17.65%) State Machine
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) CI/CD
2 11 (64.71%) Containerisation
2 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (41.18%) DevSecOps
3 7 (41.18%) RBAC
4 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (35.29%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (29.41%) Microservices
6 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) Agile
7 3 (17.65%) API Development
7 3 (17.65%) Clean Code
7 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
7 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
8 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (11.76%) Data Science
8 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) Scala
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
5 2 (11.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) GDPR
1 7 (41.18%) HIPAA
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (94.12%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Kibana
3 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) IBM
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Ping Identity
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle
4 2 (11.76%) AppDynamics
4 2 (11.76%) Databricks
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) Splunk
5 1 (5.88%) Google