Kubernetes Contracts in Central London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 28 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 111 253 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.58% 6.71% 7.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.14% 42.03% 42.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 154 305
10th Percentile £440 £500 £475
25th Percentile £490 £535 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £690 £738 £750
90th Percentile £780 £784 £813
London median daily rate £567 £635 £638
% change year-on-year -10.71% -0.39% +15.91%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 291 602 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.00% 15.96% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 408 701
10th Percentile £325 £374 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +8.80%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £768 £775 £788
London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.38% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile - £20.69 £27.20
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.00 £30.13
Median hourly rate £20.25 £84.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.92% +140.26% -
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £56.88
90th Percentile £43.28 - £70.00
London median hourly rate £23.99 £65.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -63.09% +171.85% -51.70%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
City of London -5 108 £600 -4.00% 31
City of Westminster -2 1 £725 -9.38% 1
West End of London - 1 £450 - 2
Camden - 1 £450 - 2
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (5.41%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (2.70%) nginx
3 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.80%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.80%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.80%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.90%) Camunda
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.90%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Endur
1 1 (0.90%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 58 (52.25%) AWS
2 46 (41.44%) Azure
3 22 (19.82%) Serverless
4 17 (15.32%) GitHub
5 16 (14.41%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (12.61%) Amazon S3
7 12 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (10.81%) Azure Functions
8 11 (9.91%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (9.91%) GCP
8 11 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (9.01%) Azure AKS
10 8 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (6.31%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (5.41%) Azure Storage
13 5 (4.50%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (3.60%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) Firewall
2 3 (2.70%) WAN
3 2 (1.80%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.90%) LAN
4 1 (0.90%) MPLS
4 1 (0.90%) MQTT
4 1 (0.90%) Multicast
4 1 (0.90%) Network Security
4 1 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.12%) MongoDB
2 9 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (7.21%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.21%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.31%) MySQL
4 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.41%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.50%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.70%) Tableau
9 2 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.90%) Big Data
10 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.90%) Scylla
10 1 (0.90%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 19 (17.12%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.61%) Git
3 13 (11.71%) GitLab
4 8 (7.21%) JMeter
4 8 (7.21%) Selenium
4 8 (7.21%) SonarQube
5 7 (6.31%) Maven
6 6 (5.41%) Bitbucket
6 6 (5.41%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.50%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.60%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.60%) JUnit
8 4 (3.60%) TestNG
9 3 (2.70%) Gradle
9 3 (2.70%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (2.70%) Mercurial
9 3 (2.70%) Mockito
9 3 (2.70%) Postman
9 3 (2.70%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.80%) REST Assured
General
1 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.22%) Finance
3 14 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.41%) Banking
5 5 (4.50%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Front Office
8 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Law
8 1 (0.90%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (27.93%) Developer
2 18 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (12.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 13 (11.71%) Full Stack Developer
4 13 (11.71%) Site Engineer
5 11 (9.91%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (9.91%) Python Engineer
5 11 (9.91%) Senior
6 9 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Java Developer
10 5 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.50%) Lead
11 4 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Python Developer
12 3 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (36.04%) Kafka
2 17 (15.32%) RESTful
3 15 (13.51%) .NET
4 12 (10.81%) RabbitMQ
5 11 (9.91%) React
5 11 (9.91%) Spring
6 10 (9.01%) Node.js
6 10 (9.01%) Spring Boot
7 8 (7.21%) .NET Core
8 7 (6.31%) pytest
8 7 (6.31%) REST
9 6 (5.41%) Blazor
9 6 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (5.41%) Svelte
9 6 (5.41%) Web Services
10 5 (4.50%) HTML
10 5 (4.50%) SOAP
11 4 (3.60%) AngularJS
11 4 (3.60%) Django
11 4 (3.60%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (9.01%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.21%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.21%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.31%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.31%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.31%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.70%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.80%) PKI
7 2 (1.80%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.90%) DataPower
8 1 (0.90%) Derivative
8 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.90%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 34 (30.63%) Linux
2 11 (9.91%) Windows
3 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.90%) Android
4 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (49.55%) DevOps
2 52 (46.85%) CI/CD
3 30 (27.03%) Microservices
4 23 (20.72%) Agile
5 17 (15.32%) Software Engineering
6 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (14.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 15 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (11.71%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 12 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (9.91%) Open Source
10 11 (9.91%) Test Automation
11 10 (9.01%) SDLC
12 9 (8.11%) Architectural Design
12 9 (8.11%) Front End Development
12 9 (8.11%) Task Automation
13 8 (7.21%) Analytical Thinking
13 8 (7.21%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 67 (60.36%) Python
2 35 (31.53%) Java
3 32 (28.83%) SQL
4 16 (14.41%) Go
4 16 (14.41%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.71%) C++
6 11 (9.91%) Shell Script
7 10 (9.01%) C#
8 9 (8.11%) Bash
9 6 (5.41%) PL/SQL
9 6 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.41%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.50%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.80%) C
11 2 (1.80%) Clojure
11 2 (1.80%) Haskell
11 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.80%) PHP
11 2 (1.80%) Rust
12 1 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (16.22%) SC Cleared
1 18 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.41%) AWS Certification
2 6 (5.41%) Degree
3 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.50%) QA
2 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.90%) NCSC
3 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 57 (51.35%) Docker
2 11 (9.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.90%) Ceph
5 1 (0.90%) NFS
Systems Management
1 41 (36.94%) Terraform
2 17 (15.32%) Prometheus
3 14 (12.61%) Ansible
3 14 (12.61%) Consul
3 14 (12.61%) Grafana
4 6 (5.41%) Argo
5 4 (3.60%) Puppet
6 3 (2.70%) Nagios
6 3 (2.70%) Packer
6 3 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.80%) Graylog
7 2 (1.80%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.90%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.90%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.90%) Kibana
8 1 (0.90%) Mesos
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.91%) Oracle
2 11 (9.91%) SaltStack
3 7 (6.31%) Databricks
4 6 (5.41%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.50%) Google
6 4 (3.60%) Splunk
7 3 (2.70%) Cisco
7 3 (2.70%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.80%) IBM
8 2 (1.80%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.80%) MKS
8 2 (1.80%) VMware
9 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.90%) F5
9 1 (0.90%) Genesys
9 1 (0.90%) Juniper
9 1 (0.90%) New Relic
9 1 (0.90%) Terracotta