Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.53% 0.58% 3.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.13% 3.13% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £512
25th Percentile £481 £425 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £688
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -34.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £494 £475 £706
90th Percentile - - £734
South West median daily rate £648 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +8.00% +9.09% -8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 32 32 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 16.93% 18.71% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 25
10th Percentile £220 £386 £263
25th Percentile £381 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -2.17% +0.70%
75th Percentile £554 £698 £700
90th Percentile £714 £851 £751
South West median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £63.00 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +384.62% - -
75th Percentile £64.50 £15.00 -
90th Percentile - £15.90 -
South West median hourly rate £89.00 £74.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +20.27% +2.07% +11.54%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Somerset

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Kubernetes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Bath +3 1 £488 +8.33% 2
Kubernetes
South West

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform