Kubernetes Contracts in Yorkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 30 39 42
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 68 65 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.69% 3.85% 3.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.67% 30.66% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 57 68
10th Percentile £458 £398 £493
25th Percentile £500 £456 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -19.23% +21.21%
75th Percentile £731 £615 £700
90th Percentile £779 £644 -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £620
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% -13.89% -7.10%

All Systems Management Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 255 212 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.07% 12.55% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 150 206
10th Percentile £257 £312 £306
25th Percentile £375 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -14.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £638
90th Percentile £691 £615 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - - £25.75
25th Percentile - £21.25 £34.46
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -64.00% +212.50%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £66.88
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire +20 39 £575 +2.68% 13
West Yorkshire +7 33 £725 +52.63% 45
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 9 (13.24%) Confluence
2 5 (7.35%) nginx
2 5 (7.35%) Traefik
3 2 (2.94%) Apache
3 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.24%) AWS
2 14 (20.59%) GCP
3 8 (11.76%) Azure
4 7 (10.29%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (10.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (10.29%) AWS Fargate
4 7 (10.29%) GitHub
4 7 (10.29%) Slack
5 6 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 6 (8.82%) OCI
5 6 (8.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (7.35%) Collibra
7 4 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.41%) CloudBees
9 2 (2.94%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.94%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) HTTP
2 7 (10.29%) TCP/IP
3 6 (8.82%) DNS
4 4 (5.88%) NAS
4 4 (5.88%) SAN
4 4 (5.88%) SSL
5 2 (2.94%) Firewall
5 2 (2.94%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.94%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.94%) Network Security
6 1 (1.47%) BGP
6 1 (1.47%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.47%) OSPF
6 1 (1.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) MongoDB
2 15 (22.06%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (13.24%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (13.24%) MySQL
4 7 (10.29%) Oracle Database
5 4 (5.88%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.41%) Big Data
6 3 (4.41%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.94%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.47%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 17 (25.00%) GitLab
3 16 (23.53%) Git
4 11 (16.18%) JIRA
5 7 (10.29%) Cucumber
5 7 (10.29%) Jasmine
5 7 (10.29%) JUnit
6 2 (2.94%) Jaeger
6 2 (2.94%) webpack
7 1 (1.47%) Subversion
General
1 14 (20.59%) Finance
2 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Banking
4 6 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.94%) Military
7 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (23.53%) Senior
3 12 (17.65%) Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Architect
4 8 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (10.29%) Lead
5 7 (10.29%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Data Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Data Protection Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (4.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Angular Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Java Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) LDAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.59%) Kafka
2 10 (14.71%) RESTful
2 10 (14.71%) Spring Boot
3 9 (13.24%) Spring
4 8 (11.76%) Spring Security
5 7 (10.29%) cloud-init
5 7 (10.29%) Middleware
5 7 (10.29%) REST
5 7 (10.29%) Spring Batch
5 7 (10.29%) Swagger
6 6 (8.82%) Keycloak
6 6 (8.82%) LDAP
6 6 (8.82%) OpenAPI
7 5 (7.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (5.88%) PySpark
9 2 (2.94%) Anaconda
9 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.94%) Flask
9 2 (2.94%) gRPC
9 2 (2.94%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 6 (8.82%) PKI
2 4 (5.88%) Clustering
2 4 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.94%) Replication
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 41 (60.29%) Linux
2 19 (27.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (23.53%) Unix
4 7 (10.29%) CentOS
5 6 (8.82%) Windows
6 1 (1.47%) AIX
6 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (54.41%) CI/CD
2 32 (47.06%) Containerisation
3 28 (41.18%) DevOps
4 25 (36.76%) Microservices
5 15 (22.06%) Agile
5 15 (22.06%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (19.12%) High Availability
6 13 (19.12%) TDD
7 11 (16.18%) Observability
7 11 (16.18%) Software Engineering
8 10 (14.71%) Cloud Security
8 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (14.71%) Mentoring
8 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (13.24%) BDD
9 9 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (13.24%) Test Automation
10 8 (11.76%) Data Protection
10 8 (11.76%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 8 (11.76%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (54.41%) Python
2 21 (30.88%) Bash
3 15 (22.06%) Java
4 12 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 12 (17.65%) Shell Script
4 12 (17.65%) SQL
5 8 (11.76%) Go
6 4 (5.88%) Groovy
7 3 (4.41%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.94%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.94%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.47%) Korn
9 1 (1.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.94%) IBM Certification
5 2 (2.94%) OCP
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) NCSC
2 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.47%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (42.65%) Docker
2 6 (8.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.41%) vSphere
5 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (29.41%) Grafana
2 19 (27.94%) Terraform
3 17 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 16 (23.53%) Ansible
5 8 (11.76%) Istio
6 7 (10.29%) Packer
7 6 (8.82%) Consul
7 6 (8.82%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (8.82%) linkerd
7 6 (8.82%) Rancher
7 6 (8.82%) ZABBIX
8 5 (7.35%) HAProxy
9 2 (2.94%) Control-M
9 2 (2.94%) Kiali
9 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.94%) Puppet
10 1 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (26.47%) Splunk
2 11 (16.18%) Oracle
3 6 (8.82%) Okta
4 5 (7.35%) Apple
4 5 (7.35%) Confluent
4 5 (7.35%) ESET
5 4 (5.88%) Commvault
5 4 (5.88%) Google
5 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.88%) VMware
6 2 (2.94%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.94%) Cisco
6 2 (2.94%) Cloudera
6 2 (2.94%) Databricks
6 2 (2.94%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.94%) IBM
6 2 (2.94%) IBM Sterling
6 2 (2.94%) xMatters
7 1 (1.47%) Brio