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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 29 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 +3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 11 5 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.68% 2.10% 13.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.50% 22.73% 65.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 29
10th Percentile £380 - £552
25th Percentile £434 £406 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £413 £700
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -41.07% +12.00%
75th Percentile £569 £419 £836
90th Percentile £580 - £848
North East median daily rate £523 £413 £700
% change year-on-year +26.67% -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 40 22 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 17.02% 9.24% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 4 44
10th Percentile £230 £248 £404
25th Percentile £406 £350 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -32.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £775
90th Percentile £593 £543 £847
North East median daily rate £465 £413 £675
% change year-on-year +12.73% -38.89% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
North East median hourly rate - £47.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +2.86% +301.57%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +6 11 £523 +26.67% 23
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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JPA
1 1 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (9.09%) Micronaut
1 1 (9.09%) Next.js
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
1 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) SOLID
6 1 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
6 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
6 1 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) COBOL
4 1 (9.09%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Packer