Kubernetes Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Kubernetes (k8s)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 18 27 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 19 5 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 7.79% 2.06% 13.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.78% 17.86% 54.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 38
10th Percentile £466 - £561
25th Percentile £511 £406 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £413 £700
Median % change year-on-year +36.97% -41.07% +7.69%
75th Percentile £595 £419 £775
90th Percentile £635 - £847
North East median daily rate £565 £413 £700
% change year-on-year +36.97% -41.07% +16.67%

All Systems Management Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 49 28 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.08% 11.52% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 12 62
10th Percentile £325 £184 £501
25th Percentile £425 £333 £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £423 £600
Median % change year-on-year +24.11% -29.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £590 £532 £700
90th Percentile £625 £549 £836
North East median daily rate £525 £415 £600
% change year-on-year +26.51% -30.83% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
North East median hourly rate - £47.50 -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Tyne and Wear

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Tyne and Wear

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Tyne and Wear

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +5 19 £565 +36.97% 36
Kubernetes
North East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 7 (36.84%) nginx
2 2 (10.53%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (21.05%) Kong
5 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) SSL
2 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (68.42%) GitLab
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) Selenium
General
1 11 (57.89%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Electronics
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
2 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Senior
3 6 (31.58%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Lead
4 4 (21.05%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) pytest
1 3 (15.79%) REST
1 3 (15.79%) SOAP
2 2 (10.53%) cloud-init
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) Keycloak
2 2 (10.53%) Micronaut
3 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (10.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Unix
4 1 (5.26%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (21.05%) Programme Management
5 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (10.53%) API Management
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
6 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
6 2 (10.53%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (10.53%) Observability
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Secrets Management
6 2 (10.53%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Grafana
2 7 (36.84%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.79%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) Packer
4 2 (10.53%) Consul
4 2 (10.53%) HAProxy
4 2 (10.53%) Istio
4 2 (10.53%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (10.53%) linkerd
4 2 (10.53%) Rancher
4 2 (10.53%) ZABBIX
5 1 (5.26%) Kibana
5 1 (5.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Apple
2 2 (10.53%) ESET
2 2 (10.53%) Okta
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk