Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Kubernetes (k8s)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 19 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 4.00% 2.46% 2.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.44% 16.67% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £360 £530 -
25th Percentile £431 £556 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £644
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -6.80% +7.29%
75th Percentile - £626 £706
90th Percentile - £642 £718
Wiltshire median daily rate £600 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +11.63% -2.27% -8.33%

All Systems Management Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9 18 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 9.00% 14.75% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 23
10th Percentile £305 - £455
25th Percentile £313 £180 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £378 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% -39.60% +15.74%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £677
90th Percentile - £647 £720
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Swindon

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Swindon

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 2 (50.00%) Alfresco
1 2 (50.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) JPA
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Keycloak
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scalability Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) New Relic
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk