Kubernetes Contracts in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 30 51 34
Rank change year-on-year +21 -17 +25
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 9 5 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.02% 0.85% 5.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.13% 13.51% 47.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 35
10th Percentile £344 £503 £494
25th Percentile £393 £575 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +10.64% -6.00%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £604
90th Percentile £588 - £638
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% +0.43%

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 23 37 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 7.72% 6.30% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 60
10th Percentile £330 £257 £301
25th Percentile £406 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -9.57% +46.88%
75th Percentile £568 £634 £619
90th Percentile £589 £720 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.09% - -
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Surrey 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
Guildford - 3 £575 - 27
Woking +1 2 £550 +19.57% 24
Reigate +1 1 - - 9
Weybridge - 1 £350 -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
1 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (11.11%) Couchbase
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Support
2 2 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Hosting Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) LAMP
1 2 (22.22%) React
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (22.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (11.11%) Data Science
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) PHP
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) PagerDuty