Kubernetes Contracts in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 14 34 15
Rank change year-on-year +20 -19 +13
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 39 22 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 10.46% 4.81% 8.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.91% 16.54% 49.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 37
10th Percentile £456 £390 £575
25th Percentile £500 £510 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -20.00% +21.74%
75th Percentile £650 £645 -
90th Percentile £780 £650 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +9.52% -19.23% +21.21%

All Systems Management Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 115 133 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.83% 29.10% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 91 74
10th Percentile £359 £250 £406
25th Percentile £390 £407 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £610
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -22.95% +16.19%
75th Percentile £600 £559 £700
90th Percentile £676 £625 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £470 £550
% change year-on-year +2.39% -14.55% +10.00%
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% -6.32%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -64.00% +212.50%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +15 32 £550 -6.94% 9
Doncaster - 1 £675 - 2
Kubernetes
Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (2.56%) Apache
1 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) AWS
2 11 (28.21%) GCP
3 6 (15.38%) GitHub
3 6 (15.38%) OCI
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (10.26%) Azure
4 4 (10.26%) Collibra
5 3 (7.69%) CloudBees
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.13%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
1 2 (5.13%) HTTPS
1 2 (5.13%) Kerberos
1 2 (5.13%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) BGP
2 1 (2.56%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.56%) OSPF
2 1 (2.56%) SSH
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle Database
2 4 (10.26%) BigQuery
3 3 (7.69%) Big Data
3 3 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.13%) Hazelcast
5 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 8 (20.51%) GitLab
3 6 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (5.13%) Jaeger
5 1 (2.56%) JIRA
5 1 (2.56%) Subversion
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Banking
4 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Data Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Data Protection Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Database Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) LDAP Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Programme Director
5 2 (5.13%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (7.69%) Kafka
2 3 (7.69%) Middleware
2 3 (7.69%) PySpark
3 2 (5.13%) Anaconda
3 2 (5.13%) gRPC
3 2 (5.13%) JWT
3 2 (5.13%) LDAP
3 2 (5.13%) Pandas
3 2 (5.13%) SAML
4 1 (2.56%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Replication
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Linux
2 9 (23.08%) Unix
3 4 (10.26%) Windows
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.56%) AIX
5 1 (2.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 16 (41.03%) DevOps
3 15 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 13 (33.33%) Microservices
5 10 (25.64%) Agile
5 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.51%) Data Protection
7 7 (17.95%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (17.95%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (17.95%) The Twelve-Factor App
8 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (10.26%) Data Governance
9 4 (10.26%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (10.26%) Migration
9 4 (10.26%) Monte Carlo Method
9 4 (10.26%) Observability
9 4 (10.26%) Open Source
10 3 (7.69%) Change Management
10 3 (7.69%) Software Engineering
10 3 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) Python
2 12 (30.77%) Shell Script
3 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.82%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) Groovy
6 3 (7.69%) Bash
6 3 (7.69%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.13%) ActionScript
7 2 (5.13%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (5.13%) SQL
8 1 (2.56%) Go
8 1 (2.56%) Korn
8 1 (2.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (5.13%) IBM Certification
2 2 (5.13%) OCP
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.56%) QA
1 1 (2.56%) SOC 2
1 1 (2.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.69%) vSphere
4 2 (5.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) Ansible
2 11 (28.21%) Terraform
3 8 (20.51%) Grafana
4 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.13%) Control-M
5 2 (5.13%) Istio
5 2 (5.13%) Kiali
5 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.13%) Puppet
6 1 (2.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle
1 7 (17.95%) Splunk
2 4 (10.26%) Commvault
2 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
2 4 (10.26%) VMware
3 3 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco
4 2 (5.13%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.13%) ForgeRock
4 2 (5.13%) IBM
4 2 (5.13%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (5.13%) xMatters
5 1 (2.56%) Confluent
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks