Kubernetes Contracts in Worcester

Kubernetes (k8s)
Worcestershire > Worcester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcester 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 9 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcester 21.43% - 1.96%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.50% - 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £700
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile £750 - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £700 £475 £700
% change year-on-year +47.37% -32.14% -

All Systems Management Skills
Worcester

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 Worcester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 16 0 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester 57.14% - 39.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 17
10th Percentile £114 - £359
25th Percentile £145 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +110.00%
75th Percentile £700 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £575 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% +78.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.78
25th Percentile £15.22 - £17.13
Median hourly rate £17.16 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.49%
75th Percentile £18.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median hourly rate £17.16 - £17.72
% change year-on-year - - +15.78%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcester

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Worcester

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcester

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Worcester

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcester 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) React
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Rocky
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) API Design
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Dell