Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Kubernetes (k8s)
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 21 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 +10
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 3 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 1.97% 0.67% 6.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.75% 3.33% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £513 - £613
25th Percentile £514 £725 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +7.14% +15.23%
75th Percentile £531 £775 £738
90th Percentile £535 - £775
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £525 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -30.00% +7.14% +15.94%

All Systems Management Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 16 30 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 10.53% 20.13% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 19
10th Percentile £205 £163 £288
25th Percentile £266 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% -22.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £474 £506 £700
90th Percentile £525 £550 £775
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £415 £488 £638
% change year-on-year -14.87% -23.53% +15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.75
Median hourly rate - £13.52 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.87% -75.00%
75th Percentile - - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.50 £13.52 £15.00
% change year-on-year +22.04% -9.87% -75.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle