Kubernetes Contracts in Suffolk

Kubernetes (k8s)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 18 12 3
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 3 2 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 4.05% 3.28% 16.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.27% 22.22% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 24
10th Percentile - £605 -
25th Percentile £431 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £444 £638 -
90th Percentile - £645 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 11 9 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 14.86% 14.75% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 24
10th Percentile £207 £177 -
25th Percentile £210 £180 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £213 £700
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -69.64% +43.59%
75th Percentile £444 £324 -
90th Percentile £628 £615 -
East of England median daily rate £477 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +0.92% -5.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.89
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £18.78
Median % change year-on-year - -9.48% -
75th Percentile - - £19.67
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £18.78
% change year-on-year +235.71% -25.45% +29.52%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Suffolk

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Suffolk

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Suffolk 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
Ipswich 0 3 £438 -27.08% 21
Kubernetes
East of England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) logstash
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) VMware