Kubernetes Contracts in the East of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 53 75
Rank change year-on-year -37 +22 -42
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 20 67 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.06% 3.37% 2.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.20% 24.19% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 53 59
10th Percentile £438 £433 £457
25th Percentile £506 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £669
90th Percentile £670 - £688
England median daily rate £550 £616 £613
% change year-on-year -10.75% +0.61% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -15.07% -5.81% +52.71%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 of England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 99 277 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 5.27% 13.92% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 192 254
10th Percentile £185 £273 £221
25th Percentile £252 £410 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £600
90th Percentile £636 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 £17.89 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +23.38% -21.09%
75th Percentile £19.00 £65.75 £16.13
90th Percentile £33.69 £74.50 £43.20
England median hourly rate £25.71 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.29% +167.44% -10.42%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
Cambridgeshire -7 8 £525 - 15
Hertfordshire +5 5 £600 -22.58% 14
Essex +1 3 £375 -29.25% 3
Suffolk -8 2 £625 -10.71%
Bedfordshire -10 2 - - 1
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) CloudFront
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (5.00%) dbt
5 1 (5.00%) Route 53
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) BGP
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) OSPF
1 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
1 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
1 7 (35.00%) JUnit
1 7 (35.00%) Mockito
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Network Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Scala Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) RESTful
2 7 (35.00%) Drools
2 7 (35.00%) Quarkus
2 7 (35.00%) Spring
2 7 (35.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.00%) Akka
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) J2EE
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) CentOS
2 3 (15.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (10.00%) Solaris
3 2 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (40.00%) Microservices
2 8 (40.00%) TDD
3 7 (35.00%) Decision Table
4 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Capacity Management
6 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (10.00%) Change Management
6 2 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (5.00%) LPIC
3 1 (5.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.00%) KVM
4 1 (5.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.00%) Rancher
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (10.00%) SCOM
3 2 (10.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Splunk
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Dell
3 2 (10.00%) F5
3 2 (10.00%) HP
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.00%) Zscaler
4 1 (5.00%) Typelevel