Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 19 31
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 56 56 52
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 6.18% 7.89% 4.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.02% 35.22% 37.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 37 41
10th Percentile £400 £381 £425
25th Percentile £434 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £619
90th Percentile £573 £743 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -6.12% -1.19% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £62.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.43%

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 193 159 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.30% 22.39% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 100 107
10th Percentile £353 £261 £360
25th Percentile £435 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £575 £646 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -1.40% +2.56% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £16.89 - -
25th Percentile £19.73 - -
Median hourly rate £21.30 - £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +175.56%
75th Percentile £65.98 - -
90th Percentile £146.39 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 - £22.50

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in West Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Kubernetes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Kubernetes

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 15 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
Leeds -15 50 £500 +5.26% 21
Bradford - 6 £494 - 2
Halifax - 1 - - 4
Kubernetes
Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.57%) Apache
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (66.07%) AWS
2 29 (51.79%) Azure
3 24 (42.86%) GCP
4 14 (25.00%) Serverless
5 11 (19.64%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (19.64%) GitHub
6 10 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (16.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 6 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
11 3 (5.36%) Azure Functions
11 3 (5.36%) PaaS
12 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
12 2 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Firewall
2 2 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) NoSQL
2 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.79%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) Git
2 18 (32.14%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.71%) GitLab
4 5 (8.93%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.57%) JIRA
6 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.79%) Maven
6 1 (1.79%) Mocha
6 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.79%) Spinnaker
General
1 18 (32.14%) Public Sector
2 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Finance
5 2 (3.57%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Local Government
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Developer
2 10 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Software Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Architect
3 9 (16.07%) Senior
4 7 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (10.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Node.js Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Python Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Technical Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.36%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Product Owner
9 2 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.57%) React
2 11 (19.64%) Node.js
2 11 (19.64%) RESTful
3 8 (14.29%) Flask
4 7 (12.50%) Django
4 7 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 7 (12.50%) Kafka
5 6 (10.71%) GraphQL
6 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
6 5 (8.93%) Jest
6 5 (8.93%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (7.14%) Celery
7 4 (7.14%) gRPC
7 4 (7.14%) Spring
7 4 (7.14%) WebSockets
8 3 (5.36%) .NET
8 3 (5.36%) Express.js
8 3 (5.36%) FHIR
8 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
9 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.36%) Cloud Native
2 10 (17.86%) NHS
3 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 5 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.79%) CUDA
7 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 30 (53.57%) DevOps
3 29 (51.79%) Containerisation
4 25 (44.64%) Agile
4 25 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (23.21%) Microservices
6 12 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 11 (19.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (16.07%) Clean Code
9 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
10 8 (14.29%) Cloud Security
10 8 (14.29%) Event-Driven
10 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (10.71%) Observability
11 6 (10.71%) Roadmaps
11 6 (10.71%) SDLC
11 6 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (57.14%) Python
2 10 (17.86%) Bash
2 10 (17.86%) Java
3 7 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.93%) Bicep
5 5 (8.93%) C#
6 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.14%) SQL
7 3 (5.36%) C
7 3 (5.36%) C++
8 2 (3.57%) Go
9 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.79%) Perl
9 1 (1.79%) Rust
9 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (3.57%) CCSP
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.57%) CISSP
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) CSPO
5 1 (1.79%) Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.79%) OCP
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.57%) GDPR
1 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.57%) NIST
1 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.57%) PSD2
2 1 (1.79%) HL7
System Software
1 34 (60.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (53.57%) Terraform
2 7 (12.50%) Grafana
2 7 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 6 (10.71%) Ansible
4 2 (3.57%) Istio
5 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) Databricks
2 3 (5.36%) Google
3 2 (3.57%) Brio
3 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.79%) CloudEndure
4 1 (1.79%) Pega
4 1 (1.79%) Splunk
4 1 (1.79%) VMware