Kubernetes Contracts in Southampton

Kubernetes (k8s)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 3.60% - 7.89%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.18% - 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £432
25th Percentile £401 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £404 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -8.89% +2.27% +6.80%

All Systems Management Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 22 25 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 19.82% 14.04% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 14
10th Percentile £313 £200 £416
25th Percentile £406 £206 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £290 £550
Median % change year-on-year +71.64% -47.27% +23.94%
75th Percentile £547 £350 -
90th Percentile £629 £469 -
Hampshire median daily rate £544 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.76% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Southampton

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Southampton

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (75.00%) Redis
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Codeception
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Laravel
2 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) Phalcon
2 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Vue
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) OO PHP
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) OWASP
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Zend
2 1 (25.00%) SAP