Kubernetes Contracts in Staffordshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 2.99% - 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.00% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.71%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £545 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +8.91% -25.93% +35.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 5.97% 4.76% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £240 £229 £194
25th Percentile £300 £274 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £298 £350
Median % change year-on-year +34.23% -14.86% +47.37%
75th Percentile £488 £299 £575
90th Percentile £540 £299 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +16.67%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Staffordshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Staffordshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Staffordshire 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
Lichfield - 2 £550 - 1
Kubernetes
West Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeCommit
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Boomi
1 2 (100.00%) OCI
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
1 2 (100.00%) MACH
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) R
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle