Kubernetes Contracts in the South West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 50 36
Rank change year-on-year -9 -14 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 64 122 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.53% 3.72% 4.89%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.98% 28.31% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 86 142
10th Percentile £469 £475 £425
25th Percentile £513 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £645 £625 £684
90th Percentile £709 £669 £738
England median daily rate £541 £550 £620
% change year-on-year -1.64% -11.25% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 17
10th Percentile £78.96 £61.43 £53.75
25th Percentile £79.35 £70.31 £59.80
Median hourly rate £80.00 £74.22 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.79% -4.85% +61.59%
75th Percentile £81.48 £75.21 -
90th Percentile £82.37 £77.65 £82.80
England median hourly rate £79.50 £67.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +18.22% -7.88% +5.70%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 305 431 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.80% 13.14% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 329 405
10th Percentile £241 £215 £360
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £650
90th Percentile £692 £690 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 23
10th Percentile £17.13 - £53.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.00 £60.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £51.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% -34.62% +235.48%
75th Percentile £78.70 £74.11 £81.88
90th Percentile £80.59 £75.97 £89.50
England median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +53.97% -42.73% +150.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Gloucestershire -2 21 £650 +18.18% 171
Bristol +15 20 £525 - 112
Wiltshire +28 12 £550 +4.76% 36
Dorset +4 6 £550 - 45
Devon +5 1 £475 -13.64% 50
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (14.06%) Apache
2 2 (3.13%) Alfresco
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Camunda
2 2 (3.13%) nginx
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 42 (65.63%) AWS
2 25 (39.06%) Azure
3 16 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 7 (10.94%) GCP
5 6 (9.38%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.25%) Serverless
7 3 (4.69%) GitHub
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.13%) IaaS
8 2 (3.13%) SaaS
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.56%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.56%) PaaS
9 1 (1.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.31%) DNS
2 10 (15.63%) TCP/IP
3 9 (14.06%) DHCP
3 9 (14.06%) HTTP
4 7 (10.94%) Firewall
5 2 (3.13%) Network Security
5 2 (3.13%) VPN
6 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.56%) SAN
6 1 (1.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.25%) MySQL
3 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.56%) Big Data
6 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.56%) Flink
6 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Jenkins
2 9 (14.06%) GitLab
3 4 (6.25%) Git
4 3 (4.69%) JIRA
5 2 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.13%) JUnit
5 2 (3.13%) Selenium
6 1 (1.56%) Appium
6 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.56%) CMake
6 1 (1.56%) Gatling
6 1 (1.56%) Gradle
6 1 (1.56%) JMeter
6 1 (1.56%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.56%) Snyk
6 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Finance
4 2 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.56%) Electronics
5 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.56%) Marketing
5 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.06%) Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Administrator
5 5 (7.81%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (6.25%) Backend Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Lead
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (4.69%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.75%) Node.js
2 7 (10.94%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.38%) REST
4 5 (7.81%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (7.81%) Spring
4 5 (7.81%) Spring Boot
5 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 4 (6.25%) Kafka
5 4 (6.25%) React
6 3 (4.69%) JPA
6 3 (4.69%) Keycloak
7 2 (3.13%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.13%) HTML
7 2 (3.13%) LAMP
7 2 (3.13%) Playwright
7 2 (3.13%) RESTful
7 2 (3.13%) Vue
7 2 (3.13%) XML
7 2 (3.13%) YAML
8 1 (1.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.69%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (4.69%) PKI
2 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.13%) Replication
3 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (48.44%) Linux
2 17 (26.56%) Windows
3 11 (17.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.56%) CentOS
6 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (56.25%) Containerisation
2 28 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 28 (43.75%) DevOps
3 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (23.44%) Agile
5 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (15.63%) DevSecOps
7 9 (14.06%) Service Management
7 9 (14.06%) Task Automation
8 8 (12.50%) High Availability
9 7 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
10 6 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (9.38%) Machine Learning
10 6 (9.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 5 (7.81%) Microservices
11 5 (7.81%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (7.81%) Security Hardening
11 5 (7.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (57.81%) Python
2 22 (34.38%) Bash
3 16 (25.00%) Java
4 11 (17.19%) PowerShell
5 7 (10.94%) SQL
6 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.25%) Perl
8 3 (4.69%) Go
8 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.13%) C
9 2 (3.13%) C++
9 2 (3.13%) PHP
9 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.56%) Groovy
10 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 38 (59.38%) DV Cleared
3 29 (45.31%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CISSP
5 1 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.56%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (1.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) NCSC
1 4 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.13%) NIST
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (79.69%) Docker
2 12 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.56%) NFS
5 1 (1.56%) Samba
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (64.06%) Terraform
2 37 (57.81%) Ansible
3 13 (20.31%) Grafana
3 13 (20.31%) Prometheus
4 12 (18.75%) Puppet
5 3 (4.69%) Kibana
5 3 (4.69%) logstash
6 2 (3.13%) Automic
6 2 (3.13%) Nessus
7 1 (1.56%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.56%) Nagios
7 1 (1.56%) Packer
7 1 (1.56%) Podman
7 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.56%) SCCM
7 1 (1.56%) SELinux
7 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.56%) VxRail
7 1 (1.56%) WSUS
7 1 (1.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) VMware
2 16 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.13%) NetApp
3 2 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (1.56%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.56%) Citrix
4 1 (1.56%) Dell
4 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.56%) New Relic
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle
4 1 (1.56%) SAP