Kubernetes Contracts in Sheffield

Kubernetes (k8s)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 34 16
Rank change year-on-year +15 -18 +6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 32 21 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 10.03% 5.54% 10.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.19% 20.00% 53.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 37
10th Percentile £451 £389 £575
25th Percentile £500 £508 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £591 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -15.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £680 £645 -
90th Percentile £780 £650 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £560 £700
% change year-on-year +2.68% -20.00% +21.74%

All Systems Management Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 106 105 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 33.23% 27.70% 18.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 66 67
10th Percentile £358 £305 £463
25th Percentile £388 £430 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -19.37% +20.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £700
90th Percentile £670 £641 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £470 £610
% change year-on-year +6.38% -22.95% +16.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -
75th Percentile - £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -6.32%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Sheffield

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Sheffield

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Sheffield

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) GCP
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (18.75%) GitHub
3 6 (18.75%) OCI
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (12.50%) Azure
4 4 (12.50%) Collibra
5 3 (9.38%) CloudBees
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) HTTP
1 2 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 2 (6.25%) Kerberos
1 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) BGP
2 1 (3.13%) EIGRP
2 1 (3.13%) OSPF
2 1 (3.13%) SSH
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle Database
2 4 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 3 (9.38%) Big Data
3 3 (9.38%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.25%) Hazelcast
5 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.63%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) GitLab
3 2 (6.25%) Jaeger
4 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Database Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) LDAP Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Programme Director
4 2 (6.25%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Administrator
5 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (9.38%) Kafka
2 3 (9.38%) Middleware
2 3 (9.38%) PySpark
3 2 (6.25%) Anaconda
3 2 (6.25%) gRPC
3 2 (6.25%) JWT
3 2 (6.25%) LDAP
3 2 (6.25%) Pandas
3 2 (6.25%) SAML
4 1 (3.13%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Replication
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Linux
2 9 (28.13%) Unix
3 4 (12.50%) Windows
4 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) AIX
5 1 (3.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Containerisation
2 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (28.13%) DevOps
5 8 (25.00%) Data Protection
6 7 (21.88%) Microservices
6 7 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Agile
8 4 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Migration
8 4 (12.50%) Monte Carlo Method
8 4 (12.50%) Observability
8 4 (12.50%) Open Source
9 3 (9.38%) Analytics
9 3 (9.38%) Change Management
9 3 (9.38%) High Availability
9 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Python
2 12 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 5 (15.63%) Java
4 4 (12.50%) Groovy
4 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.38%) Bash
5 3 (9.38%) Kotlin
6 2 (6.25%) ActionScript
6 2 (6.25%) ActionScript 2.0
6 2 (6.25%) SQL
7 1 (3.13%) Go
7 1 (3.13%) Korn
7 1 (3.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (6.25%) IBM Certification
2 2 (6.25%) OCP
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.13%) QA
1 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
1 1 (3.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) vSphere
4 2 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Ansible
2 8 (25.00%) Grafana
3 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.50%) Terraform
5 2 (6.25%) Control-M
5 2 (6.25%) Istio
5 2 (6.25%) Kiali
5 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.25%) Puppet
6 1 (3.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
1 7 (21.88%) Splunk
2 4 (12.50%) Commvault
2 4 (12.50%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) Google
3 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.25%) AppDynamics
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) Cloudera
4 2 (6.25%) ForgeRock
4 2 (6.25%) IBM
4 2 (6.25%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (6.25%) xMatters
5 1 (3.13%) Confluent
5 1 (3.13%) Databricks