Kubernetes Contracts in West Yorkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 37 43
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 33 41 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.02% 4.10% 4.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.38% 59.42% 41.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 52
10th Percentile £489 £404 £513
25th Percentile £572 £450 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -32.14% +30.84%
75th Percentile £779 £586 -
90th Percentile £780 £615 £711
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +9.52% -19.23% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £66.25

All Systems Management Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 130 69 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.72% 6.91% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 53 134
10th Percentile £235 £319 £383
25th Percentile £350 £413 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% +5.01%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £700
90th Percentile £750 £615 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £470 £550
% change year-on-year +2.39% -14.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £43.25
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +212.50%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -64.00% +212.50%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in West Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in West Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in West Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leeds +2 33 £725 +52.63% 38
Kubernetes
Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 8 (24.24%) Confluence
2 5 (15.15%) nginx
2 5 (15.15%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (21.21%) AWS Fargate
2 7 (21.21%) Slack
3 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 6 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 5 (15.15%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (15.15%) Collibra
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 4 (12.12%) OpenShift
6 3 (9.09%) Azure
7 2 (6.06%) npm
8 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) HTTP
2 6 (18.18%) DNS
2 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.12%) NAS
3 4 (12.12%) SAN
3 4 (12.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (48.48%) MongoDB
2 14 (42.42%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (27.27%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (27.27%) MySQL
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Git
2 10 (30.30%) Jenkins
2 10 (30.30%) JIRA
3 9 (27.27%) GitLab
4 7 (21.21%) Cucumber
4 7 (21.21%) Jasmine
4 7 (21.21%) JUnit
5 2 (6.06%) webpack
General
1 6 (18.18%) Banking
2 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Senior
2 10 (30.30%) Developer
3 8 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (24.24%) Java Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Architect
4 7 (21.21%) Senior Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (12.12%) Data Architect
7 3 (9.09%) Lead
7 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Angular Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Consultant
8 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Lead Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Lead Java Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) Kafka
2 10 (30.30%) Spring Boot
3 9 (27.27%) RESTful
3 9 (27.27%) Spring
4 8 (24.24%) Spring Security
5 7 (21.21%) cloud-init
5 7 (21.21%) Spring Batch
5 7 (21.21%) Swagger
6 6 (18.18%) Keycloak
6 6 (18.18%) OpenAPI
6 6 (18.18%) REST
7 5 (15.15%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (12.12%) LDAP
8 4 (12.12%) Middleware
9 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 2 (6.06%) CSS
9 2 (6.06%) Flask
9 2 (6.06%) HTML
9 2 (6.06%) pytest
9 2 (6.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 6 (18.18%) PKI
2 4 (12.12%) Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (78.79%) Linux
2 18 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (21.21%) CentOS
3 7 (21.21%) Unix
4 6 (18.18%) Windows
5 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 17 (51.52%) Containerisation
3 16 (48.48%) Microservices
4 14 (42.42%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (39.39%) DevOps
6 11 (33.33%) High Availability
6 11 (33.33%) Observability
7 10 (30.30%) Cloud Security
7 10 (30.30%) TDD
8 9 (27.27%) BDD
8 9 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (24.24%) Mentoring
9 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
9 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
10 7 (21.21%) API Design
10 7 (21.21%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (21.21%) OWASP
10 7 (21.21%) Secrets Management
11 6 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Bash
2 11 (33.33%) Python
3 10 (30.30%) Java
3 10 (30.30%) SQL
4 7 (21.21%) Go
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) Groovy
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) SC Cleared
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (48.48%) Grafana
2 15 (45.45%) Prometheus
3 8 (24.24%) Terraform
4 7 (21.21%) Packer
5 6 (18.18%) Consul
5 6 (18.18%) Istio
5 6 (18.18%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (18.18%) linkerd
5 6 (18.18%) Rancher
5 6 (18.18%) ZABBIX
6 5 (15.15%) HAProxy
7 3 (9.09%) Ansible
8 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Splunk
2 6 (18.18%) Okta
3 5 (15.15%) Apple
3 5 (15.15%) ESET
4 4 (12.12%) Confluent
4 4 (12.12%) Oracle
5 2 (6.06%) Databricks
5 2 (6.06%) Google
6 1 (3.03%) Brio
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat