Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Kubernetes (k8s)
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 13 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 25 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 13.09% 12.94% 7.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 51.02% 31.43% 46.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 4
10th Percentile £411 £455 £448
25th Percentile £413 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% -3.60% -
75th Percentile £538 £497 £572
90th Percentile £584 £500 £701
Berkshire median daily rate £484 £525 £610
% change year-on-year -7.86% -13.93% +19.61%

All Systems Management Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 49 35 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 25.65% 41.18% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 6
10th Percentile £370 £328 £370
25th Percentile £400 £363 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £466 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% -4.41% +20.67%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £500
90th Percentile £543 £575 £644
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -19.57% +4.55% +7.84%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Wokingham

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Wokingham over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Wokingham

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 24 (96.00%) Azure
2 17 (68.00%) Azure AKS
3 16 (64.00%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (48.00%) Azure Storage
5 9 (36.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (36.00%) IaaS
5 9 (36.00%) PaaS
6 6 (24.00%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (20.00%) AWS
8 4 (16.00%) GCP
9 3 (12.00%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (12.00%) Azure Table
9 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
9 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
10 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (52.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (12.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (12.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Azure Engineer
1 14 (56.00%) Site Engineer
1 14 (56.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 11 (44.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 11 (44.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Migration Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (52.00%) ADO
2 5 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (12.00%) .NET
3 3 (12.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (12.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (12.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (12.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (8.00%) SCADA
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (64.00%) DevOps
2 16 (64.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (20.00%) High Availability
4 4 (16.00%) Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) Release Management
5 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (12.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 7 (28.00%) Bicep
4 4 (16.00%) Go
4 4 (16.00%) Java
5 3 (12.00%) Bash
5 3 (12.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) Grafana
2 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft