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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 31 39
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 75 97 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.08% 5.62% 4.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.75% 42.36% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 81 74
10th Percentile £406 £390 £471
25th Percentile £500 £425 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £495 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.59% -20.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £608 £605 £700
90th Percentile £721 £645 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £620
% change year-on-year - -11.29% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £67.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.96% -9.12% +7.15%

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 303 229 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.57% 13.27% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 159 186
10th Percentile £267 £308 £275
25th Percentile £375 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £663
90th Percentile £635 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £23.00
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +115.00%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +68.00% -43.18% +151.26%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +4 51 £575 +3.60% 13
West Yorkshire -16 27 £544 +17.57% 82
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 2 (2.67%) Apache
1 2 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 38 (50.67%) AWS
2 29 (38.67%) GCP
3 21 (28.00%) Azure
4 13 (17.33%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (14.67%) GitHub
6 10 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (13.33%) Azure AKS
6 10 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (12.00%) Entra ID
7 9 (12.00%) SaaS
8 7 (9.33%) OCI
9 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (6.67%) Collibra
10 5 (6.67%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (5.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (4.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) SSL
2 5 (6.67%) HTTP
3 4 (5.33%) NAS
3 4 (5.33%) SAN
4 3 (4.00%) Firewall
4 3 (4.00%) Network Security
4 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.67%) DNS
5 2 (2.67%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.67%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.67%) VPN
6 1 (1.33%) BGP
6 1 (1.33%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.33%) OSPF
6 1 (1.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.67%) Oracle Database
3 5 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 4 (5.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.00%) Big Data
5 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.67%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (29.33%) Jenkins
2 15 (20.00%) Git
3 14 (18.67%) GitLab
4 5 (6.67%) JIRA
5 3 (4.00%) Jaeger
5 3 (4.00%) webpack
6 1 (1.33%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.33%) Log4j
6 1 (1.33%) Subversion
General
1 26 (34.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.67%) Finance
3 11 (14.67%) Banking
4 6 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (18.67%) Architect
3 8 (10.67%) Business Analyst
3 8 (10.67%) Lead
4 7 (9.33%) Developer
5 6 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Senior
6 5 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 5 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
6 5 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Technical Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Data Protection Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Angular Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Consultant
9 2 (2.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) SAML
2 11 (14.67%) Kafka
3 9 (12.00%) OAuth
4 8 (10.67%) OpenID
4 8 (10.67%) REST
4 8 (10.67%) RESTful
5 7 (9.33%) JSON
5 7 (9.33%) LDAP
5 7 (9.33%) Middleware
6 6 (8.00%) Flask
6 6 (8.00%) OAuth2
7 5 (6.67%) gRPC
7 5 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (5.33%) GraphQL
8 4 (5.33%) PySpark
9 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.00%) Celery
9 3 (4.00%) pytest
9 3 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.33%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.33%) Clustering
5 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) Replication
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (37.33%) Linux
2 11 (14.67%) Unix
3 5 (6.67%) Windows
4 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.33%) AIX
5 1 (1.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (44.00%) DevOps
3 32 (42.67%) Containerisation
4 23 (30.67%) Microservices
5 16 (21.33%) Agile
5 16 (21.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (16.00%) RBAC
6 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (13.33%) Identity Management
8 9 (12.00%) Data Protection
8 9 (12.00%) GAP Analysis
8 9 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (10.67%) High Availability
9 8 (10.67%) Workshop Facilitation
10 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (9.33%) Observability
10 7 (9.33%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (9.33%) Privileged Identity Management
10 7 (9.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 40 (53.33%) Python
2 16 (21.33%) Shell Script
3 14 (18.67%) JavaScript
4 9 (12.00%) Java
5 8 (10.67%) Bash
6 5 (6.67%) Groovy
6 5 (6.67%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.67%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.67%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (2.67%) SQL
9 1 (1.33%) Korn
9 1 (1.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.00%) IBM Certification
4 3 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.67%) OCP
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) GDPR
1 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.00%) NIST
1 3 (4.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.33%) QA
3 1 (1.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (44.00%) Docker
2 7 (9.33%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (33.33%) Terraform
2 21 (28.00%) Ansible
3 17 (22.67%) Grafana
4 15 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 10 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (5.33%) Puppet
7 3 (4.00%) Control-M
7 3 (4.00%) Istio
7 3 (4.00%) Kiali
8 2 (2.67%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.67%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Splunk
2 12 (16.00%) Oracle
3 8 (10.67%) Alibaba
4 5 (6.67%) Commvault
4 5 (6.67%) Confluent
4 5 (6.67%) Google
4 5 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.33%) VMware
6 3 (4.00%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.00%) IBM
6 3 (4.00%) xMatters
7 2 (2.67%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.67%) Databricks
7 2 (2.67%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.67%) ForgeRock
7 2 (2.67%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.33%) Cisco
8 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.33%) TIBCO