Kubernetes Contracts in Berkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 57 73
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 -38
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 85 61 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.25% 3.34% 2.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.69% 29.76% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 40 39
10th Percentile £413 £425 £381
25th Percentile £482 £483 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £630 £656 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £642
South East median daily rate £575 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -38.57% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

Kubernetes is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 245 205 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.24% 11.21% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 141 182
10th Percentile £205 £363 £279
25th Percentile £269 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +8.81%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £625
90th Percentile £635 £750 £680
South East median daily rate £475 £539 £500
% change year-on-year -11.83% +7.75% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 3
10th Percentile - £50.53 £20.30
25th Percentile - £58.91 £36.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% +7.44%
75th Percentile - £75.56 £77.50
90th Percentile - £81.98 £83.50
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £58.75 £21.75
% change year-on-year -34.47% +170.11% -23.01%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Reading +12 68 £605 +11.26% 17
Wokingham +5 11 £492 -14.46% 1
Bracknell -11 2 - - 7
Slough +13 1 £372 -7.13% 2
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 15 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.41%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 2 (2.35%) JBoss
3 2 (2.35%) nginx
3 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.18%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (55.29%) Azure
2 35 (41.18%) AWS
3 21 (24.71%) OpenShift
4 18 (21.18%) Entra ID
5 17 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (20.00%) Azure Storage
6 15 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (9.41%) GCP
7 8 (9.41%) Serverless
8 5 (5.88%) SaaS
9 4 (4.71%) PaaS
10 3 (3.53%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.53%) Azure API Management
10 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (2.35%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.00%) DNS
2 16 (18.82%) Firewall
3 15 (17.65%) DHCP
4 9 (10.59%) VSAN
5 2 (2.35%) Network Security
5 2 (2.35%) VPN
6 1 (1.18%) 3G
6 1 (1.18%) 4G
6 1 (1.18%) 5G
6 1 (1.18%) GPRS
6 1 (1.18%) VoLTE
6 1 (1.18%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.06%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.18%) Big Data
6 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.18%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.18%) MySQL
6 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (24.71%) Jenkins
2 16 (18.82%) GitLab
2 16 (18.82%) JIRA
3 13 (15.29%) SonarQube
4 12 (14.12%) Cucumber
4 12 (14.12%) REST Assured
4 12 (14.12%) Selenium
5 11 (12.94%) Git
6 6 (7.06%) JUnit
7 4 (4.71%) JMeter
8 2 (2.35%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.18%) Axure RP
9 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.18%) Maven
9 1 (1.18%) Mockito
General
1 45 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.41%) Law
4 8 (9.41%) Police
5 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (21.18%) Developer
2 15 (17.65%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (16.47%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (16.47%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (16.47%) Support Specialist
4 12 (14.12%) Java Developer
4 12 (14.12%) Senior
5 8 (9.41%) Full Stack Developer
5 8 (9.41%) Site Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) VMware Expert
7 6 (7.06%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 6 (7.06%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (31.76%) ARM Templates
2 20 (23.53%) REST
3 12 (14.12%) Java EE
4 11 (12.94%) Kafka
5 10 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (11.76%) Web Services
6 9 (10.59%) Node.js
6 9 (10.59%) Spring Boot
7 8 (9.41%) Spring
8 7 (8.24%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.88%) RESTful
9 5 (5.88%) SOAP
10 4 (4.71%) J2EE
10 4 (4.71%) React
11 3 (3.53%) .NET
11 3 (3.53%) Apache Camel
11 3 (3.53%) Ruby on Rails
12 2 (2.35%) HTML
12 2 (2.35%) jQuery
12 2 (2.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.18%) Cloud Native
2 15 (17.65%) PKI
2 15 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.18%) IoT
5 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (23.53%) Linux
2 15 (17.65%) Windows
3 14 (16.47%) Windows Server
3 14 (16.47%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (16.47%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.35%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (76.47%) DevOps
2 44 (51.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (45.88%) Agile
4 37 (43.53%) CI/CD
5 34 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 27 (31.76%) Technical Leadership
7 23 (27.06%) Microservices
8 21 (24.71%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (23.53%) Software Engineering
9 20 (23.53%) Test Automation
10 18 (21.18%) Release Management
11 17 (20.00%) Analytics
11 17 (20.00%) Identity Management
11 17 (20.00%) ITIL
11 17 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 16 (18.82%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (18.82%) Log Analytics
12 16 (18.82%) Service Management
13 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (17.65%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.76%) Java
2 23 (27.06%) C#
3 17 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 15 (17.65%) Bicep
4 15 (17.65%) VB
4 15 (17.65%) VBScript
5 11 (12.94%) Python
6 10 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.88%) Ruby
8 4 (4.71%) PHP
9 3 (3.53%) Bash
9 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.35%) Go
11 1 (1.18%) SQL
11 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (57.65%) Security Cleared
2 45 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.00%) Degree
4 15 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 15 (17.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) QA
1 2 (2.35%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (41.18%) Docker
2 20 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (21.18%) Active Directory
4 15 (17.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (16.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (10.59%) vCloud
6 9 (10.59%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (29.41%) Terraform
2 24 (28.24%) Ansible
3 15 (17.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (17.65%) SCCM
3 15 (17.65%) SCOM
3 15 (17.65%) WSUS
4 13 (15.29%) Istio
5 12 (14.12%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (14.12%) Podman
6 11 (12.94%) Rancher
7 9 (10.59%) Kibana
7 9 (10.59%) vCenter Server
8 8 (9.41%) Prometheus
9 6 (7.06%) Argo
9 6 (7.06%) Grafana
10 2 (2.35%) Packer
10 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.65%) VMware
3 7 (8.24%) Google
4 5 (5.88%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.35%) Oracle
7 1 (1.18%) BMC
7 1 (1.18%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.18%) Databricks
7 1 (1.18%) Remedy
7 1 (1.18%) Splunk