Kubernetes Contracts in Reading

Kubernetes (k8s)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 29 60
Rank change year-on-year -6 +31 -8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 25 70 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.74% 5.89% 2.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.67% 41.18% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 45 16
10th Percentile £365 £418 £438
25th Percentile £410 £513 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.79% -3.20% +25.00%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £691
90th Percentile £663 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -21.49% +10.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 60 170 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 11.39% 14.31% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 127 73
10th Percentile £400 £213 £411
25th Percentile £450 £413 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £640
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -8.20% +23.08%
75th Percentile £663 £608 £706
90th Percentile £688 £650 £750
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +8.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.14
25th Percentile - - £72.84
Median hourly rate - - £75.69
Median % change year-on-year - - +656.85%
75th Percentile - - £78.53
90th Percentile - - £80.23
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Reading

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Reading

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Reading over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Reading

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 5 (20.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) AWS
1 16 (64.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Serverless
3 5 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (8.00%) GCP
6 2 (8.00%) npm
7 1 (4.00%) Azure App Service
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) OCI
7 1 (4.00%) Twilio
7 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) 4G
1 1 (4.00%) 5G
1 1 (4.00%) Converged Networks
1 1 (4.00%) DOCSIS
1 1 (4.00%) GPON
1 1 (4.00%) LTE
1 1 (4.00%) MPLS
1 1 (4.00%) Network Security
1 1 (4.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (4.00%) SMS
1 1 (4.00%) VoIP
1 1 (4.00%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (32.00%) GitLab
3 6 (24.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (24.00%) JIRA
3 6 (24.00%) REST Assured
3 6 (24.00%) Selenium
3 6 (24.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.00%) Git
4 2 (8.00%) JMeter
4 2 (8.00%) JUnit
4 2 (8.00%) Mockito
5 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Law
5 4 (16.00%) Police
6 2 (8.00%) Finance
6 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) React Developer
4 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (8.00%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) REST
2 6 (24.00%) ARM Templates
2 6 (24.00%) Java EE
3 5 (20.00%) Node.js
3 5 (20.00%) React
4 4 (16.00%) HTML
5 2 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (8.00%) CSS
5 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (8.00%) jQuery
5 2 (8.00%) JSON
5 2 (8.00%) Material-UI
5 2 (8.00%) Next.js
5 2 (8.00%) Spring
5 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.00%) Swagger
5 2 (8.00%) Web Services
5 2 (8.00%) WireMock
5 2 (8.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) DevOps
2 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (52.00%) Containerisation
3 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (36.00%) Microservices
5 7 (28.00%) Configuration Management
5 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (24.00%) Software Architecture
6 6 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (20.00%) DevSecOps
7 5 (20.00%) Open Source
8 3 (12.00%) Agile
8 3 (12.00%) Front End Development
8 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (8.00%) API Development
9 2 (8.00%) BDD
9 2 (8.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Java
3 5 (20.00%) Bash
4 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.00%) Bicep
7 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (4.00%) CCSP
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.00%) CISSP
2 1 (4.00%) OSCP
2 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) HL7
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Ansible
2 11 (44.00%) Terraform
3 6 (24.00%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (24.00%) Podman
4 2 (8.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (8.00%) Splunk
1 2 (8.00%) Spotify
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) New Relic
2 1 (4.00%) Rapid7