Kubernetes Contracts in Wiltshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 73 53
Rank change year-on-year +35 -20 -1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 16 15 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.61% 1.54% 3.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.24% 9.43% 21.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 38
10th Percentile £489 £475 £400
25th Percentile £500 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £694
90th Percentile £686 £675 £729
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

All Systems Management Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 105 159 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 23.70% 16.37% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 130 161
10th Percentile £488 £456 £450
25th Percentile £536 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -4.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £669
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £563 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +239.62%
75th Percentile - - £106.25
90th Percentile - - £110.00
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% -48.39% +287.50%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Wiltshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Wiltshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Wiltshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Corsham +40 12 £600 +9.09% 1
Swindon +1 2 £438 -28.57% 82
Chippenham - 1 - - 5
Kubernetes
South West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Alfresco
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) BrowserStack
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
4 1 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) Appium
3 1 (6.25%) Gatling
3 1 (6.25%) JMeter
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
3 1 (6.25%) Snyk
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Electronics
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (12.50%) Keycloak
2 2 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) JPA
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) LAMP
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (25.00%) GitOps
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (12.50%) Benchmarking
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Microservices
6 2 (12.50%) Observability
6 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Security Hardening
6 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 1 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (6.25%) High Availability
7 1 (6.25%) Static Code Analysis
7 1 (6.25%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Groovy
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PHP
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) DV Cleared
3 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Kibana
2 3 (18.75%) logstash
2 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Nessus
4 1 (6.25%) Packer
4 1 (6.25%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.25%) VxRail
4 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) New Relic
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) SAP