Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 46 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 +25
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 11 11 57
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 3.08% 2.28% 7.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.00% 20.37% 49.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 46
10th Percentile £406 £597 £517
25th Percentile £407 £625 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +8.33% -4.95%
75th Percentile £569 £675 £624
90th Percentile £607 £676 £694
South East median daily rate £462 £525 £586
% change year-on-year -12.00% -10.45% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.19
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £109.00 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - -19.44%

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 44 54 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 12.32% 11.20% 14.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 49 101
10th Percentile £185 £239 £208
25th Percentile £263 £260 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -25.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £583 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -3.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £52.55 £68.19
25th Percentile - £52.63 -
Median hourly rate £32.77 £54.00 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year -39.31% -29.44% +70.07%
75th Percentile - £56.38 -
90th Percentile - £57.05 -
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £35.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.99% -36.21% +22.22%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Surrey

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 16 October 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 16 October 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
Woking - 3 £481 - 3
Guildford - 2 £495 - 2
Reigate +3 1 - - 1
Staines - 1 £425 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Horley - 1 - -
Camberley - 1 £635 -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 2 (18.18%) CloudFront
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) React
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) Jest
3 2 (18.18%) Sass
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (9.09%) gRPC
4 1 (9.09%) Hugging Face
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Next.js
4 1 (9.09%) NgRx
4 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
4 1 (9.09%) Redux
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
4 1 (9.09%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
5 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) High Availability
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Release Management
5 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) Go
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) JSP 440
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk