Kubernetes Contracts in Shropshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 23 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 6.92% - 1.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.86% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £456 - £486
25th Percentile £470 - £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £535
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £574
90th Percentile £538 - £594
West Midlands median daily rate £545 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +8.91% -25.93% +35.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 21 18 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 16.15% 13.43% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 11
10th Percentile £235 £187 £518
25th Percentile £456 £352 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £358 £540
Median % change year-on-year +46.65% -33.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £539 - £553
90th Percentile £617 £423 £608
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.18 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.19 £55.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -70.56% +197.30% +14.76%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Shropshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Shropshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Telford - 8 £525 - 5
Kubernetes
West Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 4 (44.44%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Maven
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Camel
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) Next.js
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Quarkus
3 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) BDD
2 4 (44.44%) Business Analysis
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
4 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) COBOL
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Rancher
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle