Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Kubernetes (k8s)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 1.49% - 7.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.68% - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £705 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 - £331
Median % change year-on-year - - -52.68%
75th Percentile £772 - £542
90th Percentile - - £625
East of England median daily rate £550 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -

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 31 11 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 15.35% 17.74% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 15
10th Percentile £288 £216 £181
25th Percentile £403 £220 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £225 £300
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -25.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £498 £575 £388
90th Percentile £564 £661 £520
East of England median daily rate £495 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.00% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Kubernetes

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 30 August 2026. 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
Bury St Edmunds - 2 £738 -
Ipswich - 1 - - 5
Kubernetes
East of England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 2 (66.67%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (66.67%) Google Gemini
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Claude Code
2 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber-Physical System
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Next.js
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Monorepo
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Product Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Edge Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Sociotechnical
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker