Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in West London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
London > West London

As of 2 April 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in West London.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.31% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate £500 £638 £568
% change year-on-year -21.57% +12.33% -14.44%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West 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 West London with a recognized job title 279 209 335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.38% 94.14% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 146 241
10th Percentile £231 £213 £189
25th Percentile £425 £307 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £463 £588
90th Percentile £716 £588 £660
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 27
10th Percentile £19.14 £19.95 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.45 £16.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.93% -31.48% -49.22%
75th Percentile £28.82 £29.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £30.59 £44.53 £54.25
London median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -21.66%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in West London

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in West London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in West London

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 2 April 2026, Kubernetes Engineer 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 West London region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Vitest
1 1 (100.00%) YAML

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Vitest
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus