Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

As of 21 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in Sheffield.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 42 52
Rank change year-on-year -45 +10 -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.14% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.40% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate - £625 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 648 252 345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 85.42% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 146 221
10th Percentile £316 £220 £375
25th Percentile £400 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £609 £697 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £15.39
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £18.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -14.85% +11.84%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £27.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +18.42%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform