Kubernetes Contracts in the East Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 48 84
Rank change year-on-year -3 +36 -29
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 15 39 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.95% 3.68% 1.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.30% 28.89% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 9
10th Percentile £356 £493 £419
25th Percentile £373 £569 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £700 £515
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +35.92% -4.19%
75th Percentile £769 - £545
90th Percentile £775 - £598
England median daily rate £550 £625 £604
% change year-on-year -12.00% +3.48% +15.05%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 92 135 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.96% 12.75% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 101 101
10th Percentile £163 £231 £163
25th Percentile £341 £308 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £398
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +11.95% +0.38%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £500
90th Percentile £750 £700 £525
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 0
10th Percentile £19.00 £20.00 -
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.48 -
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.38 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.13% - -
75th Percentile £26.15 £36.81 -
90th Percentile - £40.25 -
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -7.37%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Nottinghamshire -9 7 £750 +7.14% 14
Northamptonshire +15 6 £356 -35.27% 1
Leicestershire +11 2 £750 +26.05% 5
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (33.33%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (6.67%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) InfiniBand
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) Multicast
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) RDBMS
1 7 (46.67%) Relational Database
2 5 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (20.00%) Big Data
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
1 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 5 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Architect
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Solution Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Data Migration Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Migration Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Migration
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Organisational Awareness
5 3 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
5 3 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
6 2 (13.33%) Database Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Perl
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
2 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Lustre
3 1 (6.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kibana
1 5 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 5 (33.33%) Splunk
3 3 (20.00%) Databricks
4 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Juniper
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) VMware