Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Worcester

Kubernetes (k8s)
Worcestershire > Worcester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcester requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcester 20.00% - 3.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 77.78% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £653 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £300
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £581 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -40.00%

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 9 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester 25.71% 4.26% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £596 - £326
25th Percentile £600 - £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £300 £438
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -31.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile - - £516
90th Percentile - - £559
Worcestershire median daily rate £575 £300 £575
% change year-on-year +91.67% -47.83% +15.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Worcester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Worcester over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) DevSecOps
2 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk
1 1 (14.29%) VMware