Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 37 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 7 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 1.34% 2.37% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.28% 15.79% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £556 - £513
25th Percentile £566 £475 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £616 £613 £631
90th Percentile £629 £620 £658
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £606 £500
% change year-on-year -11.39% +21.20% -13.04%

All Systems Management Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 43 57 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 8.24% 15.04% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 34 27
10th Percentile £304 £413 £150
25th Percentile £368 £500 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £624 £636 £600
90th Percentile £638 £717 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £438
% change year-on-year +3.00% +14.29% -8.28%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Warwick -7 7 £588 +17.50% 1
Kubernetes
West Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
2 2 (28.57%) Drupal
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Lucidchart
3 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Backend Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (14.29%) PHP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP Drupal Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Drush
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) OOP
3 2 (28.57%) OWASP
3 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) PHP
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google