Kubernetes Contracts in Northern Ireland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 23 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 7 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.76% 1.27% 2.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.89% 33.33% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £225 - £615
25th Percentile £275 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.81%
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile £512 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% +0.41%

All Systems Management Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 18 6 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.68% 3.82% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 10
10th Percentile £164 £244 £165
25th Percentile £200 £309 £182
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £420 £220
Median % change year-on-year -34.52% +90.91% -56.00%
75th Percentile £446 £534 £638
90th Percentile £544 £601 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £550
% change year-on-year - -6.36% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.75
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.18%
75th Percentile - - £21.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% -47.83% +162.68%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Northern Ireland

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Northern Ireland

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Northern Ireland

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 31 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
County Antrim -6 7 £325 - 40
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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%) GemFire
2 1 (14.29%) Anypoint
2 1 (14.29%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Front Office
3 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Java Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Java Software Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Junior
4 2 (28.57%) Junior Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Junior Java Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Junior Java Software Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Junior Java Software Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Junior Software Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Junior Software Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 5 (71.43%) JSON
2 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 5 (71.43%) XML
3 4 (57.14%) AngularJS
3 4 (57.14%) Apache Avro
3 4 (57.14%) React
3 4 (57.14%) Web Services
4 3 (42.86%) Kafka
5 2 (28.57%) Spring
6 1 (14.29%) JMS
6 1 (14.29%) JWT
6 1 (14.29%) OAuth
6 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
6 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (14.29%) RAML
6 1 (14.29%) SAML
6 1 (14.29%) SOAP
6 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Derivative
1 4 (57.14%) Equities
1 4 (57.14%) Equity Derivative
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) Clean Code
4 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (57.14%) User Experience
5 3 (42.86%) Microservices
6 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (14.29%) API Development
7 1 (14.29%) API Management
7 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (14.29%) ETL
7 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
7 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
7 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow