Kubernetes Contracts in Cheshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 37 54
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 -28
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 6 25 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.19% 4.62% 0.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.00% 27.78% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 2
10th Percentile - £419 £340
25th Percentile £409 £440 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £463 £445
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% +3.93% +23.61%
75th Percentile £534 £620 £519
90th Percentile £536 £680 £560
North West median daily rate £550 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -7.37% -1.04% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £52.55 -
% change year-on-year +4.66% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 60 90 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 11.90% 16.64% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 71 31
10th Percentile £244 £200 £158
25th Percentile £400 £325 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -1.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £548
90th Percentile £582 £638 £626
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £16.72 £12.35 -
25th Percentile £17.49 £14.00 -
Median hourly rate £17.72 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% - -
75th Percentile - £22.41 -
90th Percentile £17.74 £48.41 -
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -40.93% +50.00% -41.18%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Cheshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Cheshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Warrington +3 1 - - 1
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Route 53
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) GitOps
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (16.67%) Information Governance
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security
5 1 (16.67%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Open Source
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Use Case
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) VMware