Kubernetes Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 388 425
Rank change year-on-year +39 +37 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 19 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.019% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.021% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 10
10th Percentile £395 £465 £399
25th Percentile £463 £488 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £500 £609 £673
90th Percentile £610 £626 £676
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £725
% change year-on-year - -20.69% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,455 19,153 21,967
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.33% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,300 11,519 15,082
10th Percentile £220 £213 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,112 2,332 1,190
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.82 £13.49
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +6.67% +79.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.43 £75.99
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +65.50%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 July 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
South East +47 7 £300 -40.00% 2
North West - 7 £475 -
North of England - 7 £475 -
Scotland - 3 - -
South West +38 1 £500 -20.00% 1
West Midlands +6 1 £575 +27.78%
Midlands +3 1 £575 +27.78%
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 July 2025, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (73.68%) Python
3 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
5 10 (52.63%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (52.63%) Java
5 10 (52.63%) Ansible
6 9 (47.37%) DevOps
6 9 (47.37%) Azure
6 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
7 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (42.11%) AWS
7 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
7 8 (42.11%) SQL
7 8 (42.11%) C#
7 8 (42.11%) Migration
8 6 (31.58%) React
8 6 (31.58%) Private Cloud
8 6 (31.58%) Middleware
8 6 (31.58%) Red Hat
8 6 (31.58%) Configuration Management
8 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
8 6 (31.58%) Docker
8 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
8 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
9 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
9 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
9 5 (26.32%) Agile
9 5 (26.32%) Terraform
10 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Amazon EKS
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) AWS
4 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.79%) GitHub
7 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.26%) NewSQL
2 1 (5.26%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) IntelliJ
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) PyCharm
2 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Retail
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Middleware
1 6 (31.58%) React
2 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth
2 1 (5.26%) OpenID
2 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
3 9 (47.37%) DevOps
4 8 (42.11%) Migration
4 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (31.58%) Configuration Management
6 5 (26.32%) Agile
7 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
8 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
8 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
8 2 (10.53%) Issue Tracking
8 2 (10.53%) SDLC
8 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (10.53%) Technology Transformation
9 1 (5.26%) Decision-Making
9 1 (5.26%) Security Hardening
9 1 (5.26%) User Experience
9 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) Java
3 8 (42.11%) C#
3 8 (42.11%) SQL
4 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (52.63%) Ansible
3 5 (26.32%) Terraform
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Nessus
4 1 (5.26%) Packer
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.26%) SendGrid
2 1 (5.26%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) VMware