Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 24 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 3 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.78% 0.58% 6.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.67% 3.23% 52.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile £513 - £616
25th Percentile £514 £725 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +7.14% +15.94%
75th Percentile £531 £775 £775
90th Percentile £535 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £429 £513 £700
% change year-on-year -16.29% -26.79% +17.40%

All Systems Management Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 18 31 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 10.65% 18.02% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 20
10th Percentile £205 £169 £289
25th Percentile £216 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £488 £638
Median % change year-on-year -14.87% -23.53% +15.91%
75th Percentile £474 £539 £700
90th Percentile £525 £550 £775
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £407 £450
% change year-on-year +2.71% -9.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 - £14.75
Median hourly rate £16.50 £13.52 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.04% -9.87% -75.00%
75th Percentile £16.75 - £15.25
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.50 £13.52 £16.36
% change year-on-year +22.04% -17.36% -18.20%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 3 December 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
Nottingham 0 3 £525 -30.00% 5
Kubernetes
East Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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