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 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 27 24
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 120 251 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.99% 6.79% 7.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.22% 42.26% 41.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 150 278
10th Percentile £425 £500 £475
25th Percentile £490 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £631 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -2.88% +11.21%
75th Percentile £690 £738 £755
90th Percentile £788 £800 £813
London median daily rate £573 £638 £648
% change year-on-year -10.20% -1.62% +17.82%

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 314 594 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.05% 16.07% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 394 671
10th Percentile £350 £370 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £719
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 2
10th Percentile - £23.09 £26.23
25th Percentile £12.75 £36.25 £27.69
Median hourly rate £20.25 £84.09 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -75.92% +173.46% +89.99%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £33.19
90th Percentile £43.28 - £34.28
London median hourly rate £24.18 £63.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year -61.92% +165.58% -40.23%

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 June 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 June 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 -4 117 £600 -4.00% 37
City of Westminster -2 1 £725 -9.38%
West End of London - 1 £450 -
Camden - 1 £450 -
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 4 (3.33%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.50%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.67%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.67%) nginx
3 2 (1.67%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.67%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) Camunda
4 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.83%) Endur
1 1 (0.83%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 62 (51.67%) AWS
2 50 (41.67%) Azure
3 21 (17.50%) GitHub
4 18 (15.00%) Serverless
5 15 (12.50%) GCP
5 15 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 10 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 10 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (7.50%) Azure Functions
9 8 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.50%) Amazon EventBridge
12 3 (2.50%) Azure App Service
12 3 (2.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) Firewall
2 2 (1.67%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) AMQP
3 1 (0.83%) FTP
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) MQTT
3 1 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 12 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.00%) MySQL
5 5 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.17%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.33%) Tableau
7 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.83%) Big Data
9 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.83%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.83%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 17 (14.17%) Git
1 17 (14.17%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.33%) GitLab
3 7 (5.83%) JMeter
3 7 (5.83%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.00%) CircleCI
4 6 (5.00%) Selenium
5 5 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.33%) Maven
7 3 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.50%) Gradle
7 3 (2.50%) JUnit
7 3 (2.50%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (2.50%) Mercurial
7 3 (2.50%) Mockito
7 3 (2.50%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.67%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.67%) Postman
8 2 (1.67%) Subversion
General
1 31 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.67%) Finance
3 16 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.33%) Banking
5 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.33%) Marketing
7 3 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Front Office
9 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (22.50%) Developer
2 22 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (14.17%) Senior
4 16 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 14 (11.67%) Site Engineer
6 11 (9.17%) Full Stack Developer
6 11 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (8.33%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Lead
9 7 (5.83%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Architect
10 6 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
12 4 (3.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (35.00%) Kafka
2 19 (15.83%) RESTful
3 15 (12.50%) .NET
4 12 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 11 (9.17%) React
6 9 (7.50%) pytest
6 9 (7.50%) Spring
6 9 (7.50%) Spring Boot
7 8 (6.67%) Node.js
8 7 (5.83%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.83%) HTML
8 7 (5.83%) REST
8 7 (5.83%) Svelte
9 6 (5.00%) Web Services
10 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.33%) CSS
10 4 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (3.33%) SOAP
11 3 (2.50%) Pandas
11 3 (2.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 10 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 9 (7.50%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.50%) Machine to Machine
8 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.67%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.83%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.83%) MPEG
9 1 (0.83%) Replication
9 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (30.00%) Linux
2 9 (7.50%) Windows
3 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.83%) Android
4 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (49.17%) DevOps
2 53 (44.17%) CI/CD
3 28 (23.33%) Microservices
4 23 (19.17%) Agile
5 19 (15.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 16 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 15 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (10.83%) Software Engineering
9 12 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
10 11 (9.17%) Architectural Design
10 11 (9.17%) Open Source
10 11 (9.17%) Task Automation
11 10 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
11 10 (8.33%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.50%) Computer Science
12 9 (7.50%) SDLC
13 8 (6.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 67 (55.83%) Python
2 36 (30.00%) Java
3 34 (28.33%) SQL
4 16 (13.33%) Go
5 13 (10.83%) Bash
5 13 (10.83%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.00%) C#
6 12 (10.00%) C++
6 12 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.83%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.83%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.50%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.50%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.67%) Clojure
9 2 (1.67%) Haskell
9 2 (1.67%) PHP
9 2 (1.67%) Rust
10 1 (0.83%) R
10 1 (0.83%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 16 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.33%) Degree
4 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.33%) QA
2 3 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) NCSC
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 64 (53.33%) Docker
2 11 (9.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.83%) Ceph
5 1 (0.83%) NFS
Systems Management
1 42 (35.00%) Terraform
2 19 (15.83%) Prometheus
3 17 (14.17%) Grafana
4 12 (10.00%) Ansible
4 12 (10.00%) Consul
5 5 (4.17%) Argo
5 5 (4.17%) Puppet
6 4 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.50%) Nagios
8 2 (1.67%) Graylog
8 2 (1.67%) Packer
9 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.83%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.83%) Kibana
9 1 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.83%) Mesos
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.17%) Databricks
2 11 (9.17%) SaltStack
3 8 (6.67%) Oracle
4 6 (5.00%) Splunk
5 4 (3.33%) Google
6 3 (2.50%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.50%) VMware
7 2 (1.67%) IBM
7 2 (1.67%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.67%) New Relic
7 2 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.83%) Brio
8 1 (0.83%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco
8 1 (0.83%) Confluent
8 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.83%) Juniper
8 1 (0.83%) Veracode