Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Kubernetes (k8s)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 1.64% 2.13% 2.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.00% 33.33% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile - £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile - £575 £569
90th Percentile - - £603
Oxfordshire median daily rate £600 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +2.50%

All Systems Management Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5 3 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 8.20% 6.38% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £325 £390 £350
25th Percentile £363 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +24.14%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £575 £560 £625
Oxfordshire median daily rate £250 £250 £488
% change year-on-year - -48.72% +30.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Oxford

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IAM Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft