Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Kubernetes (k8s)
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 18 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 6.90% 1.37% -
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% 25.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £644
% change year-on-year -12.00% -2.91% -0.96%

All Systems Management Skills
West End of London

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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 20.69% 5.48% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £519 £423 -
25th Percentile £603 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -5.00% -17.86%
75th Percentile £683 £513 £569
90th Percentile £744 £528 £610
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -8.33%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in West End of London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Westminster - 2 £475 - 1
Kubernetes
Central London

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Loki
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform