Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Kubernetes (k8s)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 10.87% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 41.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
Somerset median daily rate £450 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -36.84%

All Systems Management Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 24 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 26.09% 35.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 0
10th Percentile £406 £613 -
25th Percentile £428 £684 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £713 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% - -
75th Percentile £710 £715 -
90th Percentile £730 - -
Somerset median daily rate £600 £633 £330
% change year-on-year -5.14% +91.67% -51.47%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Taunton

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 8 (80.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
2 8 (80.00%) JIRA
2 8 (80.00%) MSI
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
1 8 (80.00%) .NET Core
1 8 (80.00%) .NET Framework
1 8 (80.00%) ATL
1 8 (80.00%) COM
1 8 (80.00%) CSS
1 8 (80.00%) CSS3
1 8 (80.00%) GeoJSON
1 8 (80.00%) HTML
1 8 (80.00%) HTML5
1 8 (80.00%) MFC
1 8 (80.00%) REST
1 8 (80.00%) RESTful
1 8 (80.00%) WPF
2 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 8 (80.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (90.00%) Deployment Automation
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 8 (80.00%) API Design
3 8 (80.00%) Dependency Management
3 8 (80.00%) Design Patterns
3 8 (80.00%) DevSecOps
3 8 (80.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (80.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 8 (80.00%) Microservices
3 8 (80.00%) SOLID
3 8 (80.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 8 (80.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 8 (80.00%) Virtual Environments
4 6 (60.00%) API Development
4 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Bicep
2 8 (80.00%) C#
2 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (80.00%) Python
2 8 (80.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) Accessibility
1 8 (80.00%) NCSC
1 8 (80.00%) WCAG
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) VirtualBox
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware