Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Stockport

Kubernetes (k8s)
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Stockport 8.33% - 5.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 100.00% - 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £531 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +6.23% -9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median hourly rate £55.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +38.89%

All Systems Management Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport 8.33% - 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £389
75th Percentile £625 - £512
90th Percentile - - £555
Manchester median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.60% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -21.88% +143.90%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Stockport

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Stockport

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform