Kubernetes Contracts in Worcestershire

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 10 16 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 15.22% 1.33% 0.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.00% 10.00% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £645 - -
25th Percentile - £463 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -32.14% -
75th Percentile - £488 £725
90th Percentile £740 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £545 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +8.91% -25.93% +35.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 20 10 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 43.48% 13.33% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 23
10th Percentile £124 £456 £463
25th Percentile £145 £503 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% +78.72%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £663
90th Percentile - - £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +16.67%
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 - - +15.78%
75th Percentile £18.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.19 £55.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -70.56% +197.30% +14.76%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Worcestershire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Worcestershire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Worcestershire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Worcester - 6 £700 - 3
Malvern - 5 £700 -
Kubernetes
West Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 (85.71%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Rocky
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) API Design
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Go
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) NCSC
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dell