Kubernetes Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Architect (K8s Architect)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Kubernetes Architect (K8s Architect) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.008% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 - -
UK median daily rate £595 £800 -
% change year-on-year -25.63% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 22,854 11,643 18,931
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 91.73% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,182 7,463 11,518
10th Percentile £300 £213 £213
25th Percentile £402 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £684 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,620 816 2,343
10th Percentile £14.64 £13.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.91 £16.95 £15.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.97% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.38% -24.58% -18.89%

Kubernetes Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Kubernetes Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. 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
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 £481 -
West Midlands - 1 £481 -
North of England - 1 - - 3
Kubernetes Architect
UK

Kubernetes Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 May 2026, Kubernetes Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Kubernetes Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Domain Models
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Migration

Kubernetes Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Domain Models
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Sequence Diagram
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft