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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 31 13
Rank change year-on-year +15 -18 +17
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 43 33 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 10.46% 7.11% 9.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.86% 21.85% 51.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 40
10th Percentile £469 £439 £570
25th Percentile £509 £470 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% +18.14%
75th Percentile £659 £638 -
90th Percentile £775 £650 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £520 £638
% change year-on-year +10.58% -18.43% +18.60%

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 127 151 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.90% 32.54% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 106 73
10th Percentile £360 £368 £268
25th Percentile £400 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £700
90th Percentile £669 £624 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +2.63% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.32%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £43.00
% change year-on-year - - +115.00%

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 31 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 31 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 +3 36 £590 +7.27% 13
Doncaster - 1 £675 - 1
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 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (37.21%) AWS
2 12 (27.91%) GCP
3 7 (16.28%) GitHub
3 7 (16.28%) OCI
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (9.30%) Azure
4 4 (9.30%) Collibra
5 3 (6.98%) CloudBees
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
1 2 (4.65%) HTTP
1 2 (4.65%) HTTPS
1 2 (4.65%) Kerberos
1 2 (4.65%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) BGP
2 1 (2.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.33%) OSPF
2 1 (2.33%) SSH
2 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) Oracle Database
2 5 (11.63%) BigQuery
3 3 (6.98%) Big Data
3 3 (6.98%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.65%) Hazelcast
5 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 7 (16.28%) GitLab
3 6 (13.95%) Git
4 3 (6.98%) Jaeger
5 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.33%) JIRA
5 1 (2.33%) Subversion
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
4 5 (11.63%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Architect
3 5 (11.63%) Lead
3 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) Data Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Data Protection Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Database Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) LDAP Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Programme Director
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (6.98%) Kafka
2 3 (6.98%) Middleware
2 3 (6.98%) PySpark
3 2 (4.65%) Anaconda
3 2 (4.65%) gRPC
3 2 (4.65%) JWT
3 2 (4.65%) LDAP
3 2 (4.65%) Pandas
3 2 (4.65%) SAML
4 1 (2.33%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.33%) REST
4 1 (2.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (48.84%) Linux
2 10 (23.26%) Unix
3 4 (9.30%) Windows
4 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.33%) AIX
5 1 (2.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
2 17 (39.53%) Containerisation
3 16 (37.21%) Microservices
4 15 (34.88%) DevOps
5 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (23.26%) Agile
7 9 (20.93%) Data Protection
8 8 (18.60%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (16.28%) The Twelve-Factor App
10 5 (11.63%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (9.30%) Data Governance
11 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (9.30%) Migration
11 4 (9.30%) Monte Carlo Method
11 4 (9.30%) Observability
11 4 (9.30%) Open Source
11 4 (9.30%) TDD
12 3 (6.98%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Python
2 14 (32.56%) Shell Script
3 10 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 8 (18.60%) Java
5 5 (11.63%) Groovy
5 5 (11.63%) Kotlin
6 4 (9.30%) Bash
7 2 (4.65%) ActionScript
7 2 (4.65%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (4.65%) SQL
7 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.33%) Go
8 1 (2.33%) Korn
8 1 (2.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
1 3 (6.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (4.65%) IBM Certification
2 2 (4.65%) OCP
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.33%) GDPR
1 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.33%) QA
1 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
1 1 (2.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (46.51%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.98%) vSphere
4 2 (4.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 16 (37.21%) Ansible
2 12 (27.91%) Terraform
3 10 (23.26%) Grafana
4 7 (16.28%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.98%) Control-M
5 3 (6.98%) Istio
5 3 (6.98%) Kiali
6 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.65%) Puppet
7 1 (2.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Oracle
1 8 (18.60%) Splunk
2 5 (11.63%) Commvault
3 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
3 4 (9.30%) VMware
4 3 (6.98%) AppDynamics
4 3 (6.98%) Google
4 3 (6.98%) xMatters
5 2 (4.65%) Cisco
5 2 (4.65%) Cloudera
5 2 (4.65%) ForgeRock
5 2 (4.65%) IBM
5 2 (4.65%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.33%) Confluent
6 1 (2.33%) Databricks