Kubernetes Contracts in England

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -28 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,259 3,104 4,571
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.41% 6.14% 6.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.96% 39.22% 40.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 2,308 3,392
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £475 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £620 £613
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +1.22% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £730 £788 £787
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 34 10
10th Percentile £46.19 £53.75 £47.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £61.44 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.00 £72.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -7.10% +45.54%
75th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £81.56
90th Percentile £76.89 £90.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £70.00 £52.89
% change year-on-year -11.43% +32.36% +11.34%

All Systems Management Skills
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 England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,348 7,914 11,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.76% 15.66% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,145 5,780 8,321
10th Percentile £250 £350 £361
25th Percentile £409 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £675
90th Percentile £700 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 186 161
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.02 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.73 £25.18 £15.25
Median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%
75th Percentile £50.19 £73.74 £42.20
90th Percentile £70.38 £82.50 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London -25 762 £573 -10.30% 420
North of England -24 146 £525 -12.50% 114
South East -18 140 £575 -0.43% 94
South West -39 80 £550 - 80
North West -34 70 £550 -7.37% 63
Yorkshire +2 66 £525 -19.23% 35
Midlands -16 34 £500 -18.37% 54
East of England -30 21 £550 -15.38% 28
West Midlands -12 19 £500 -23.08% 25
East Midlands -4 15 £500 -28.57% 29
North East -9 12 £413 -41.07% 16
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 69 (5.48%) Confluence
2 33 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.46%) Apache
4 30 (2.38%) OpenStack
5 25 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (1.51%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.51%) nginx
7 9 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
8 7 (0.56%) JBoss
8 7 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.48%) IIS
9 6 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.48%) Tornado
10 5 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.32%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.32%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.24%) Camunda
12 3 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.079%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Endur
2 2 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.16%) RMDS
3 1 (0.079%) Magento
3 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.079%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 702 (55.76%) AWS
2 422 (33.52%) Azure
3 211 (16.76%) GCP
4 136 (10.80%) Serverless
5 126 (10.01%) GitHub
6 118 (9.37%) Amazon S3
7 103 (8.18%) OpenShift
8 101 (8.02%) Amazon EC2
9 93 (7.39%) AWS Lambda
10 83 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
11 82 (6.51%) Amazon EKS
12 58 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 58 (4.61%) Azure AKS
13 53 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 44 (3.49%) PaaS
16 43 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (2.78%) Route 53
18 34 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
19 33 (2.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.40%) Firewall
2 63 (5.00%) DNS
3 41 (3.26%) HTTP
4 36 (2.86%) DHCP
5 31 (2.46%) TCP/IP
5 31 (2.46%) VPN
6 26 (2.07%) Network Security
7 20 (1.59%) SAN
8 12 (0.95%) NAS
9 11 (0.87%) Kerberos
10 9 (0.71%) VLAN
10 9 (0.71%) VSAN
10 9 (0.71%) WAN
11 8 (0.64%) HTTPS
11 8 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.56%) 5G
12 7 (0.56%) AMQP
12 7 (0.56%) LAN
13 5 (0.40%) 4G
13 5 (0.40%) Diameter Protocol
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (7.86%) NoSQL
3 90 (7.15%) Apache Cassandra
4 83 (6.59%) Relational Database
5 67 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
6 66 (5.24%) MongoDB
7 55 (4.37%) SQL Server
8 53 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
9 49 (3.89%) MySQL
10 35 (2.78%) Big Data
11 31 (2.46%) DynamoDB
11 31 (2.46%) RDBMS
12 30 (2.38%) Data Lake
13 28 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (1.59%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (1.11%) Redis
18 13 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
19 12 (0.95%) Flink
Development Applications
1 282 (22.40%) Jenkins
2 230 (18.27%) Git
3 171 (13.58%) GitLab
4 101 (8.02%) JIRA
5 48 (3.81%) JUnit
6 46 (3.65%) Selenium
7 44 (3.49%) SonarQube
8 35 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 35 (2.78%) TeamCity
9 30 (2.38%) Bitbucket
10 27 (2.14%) JMeter
11 24 (1.91%) Maven
11 24 (1.91%) Mockito
12 23 (1.83%) Cypress.io
13 22 (1.75%) CircleCI
14 16 (1.27%) Artifactory
14 16 (1.27%) REST Assured
15 15 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (1.11%) Gradle
17 11 (0.87%) Travis CI
General
1 218 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 170 (13.50%) Finance
3 104 (8.26%) Public Sector
4 75 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (4.21%) Banking
6 27 (2.14%) Law
7 24 (1.91%) Telecoms
8 16 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.19%) Retail
10 12 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (0.95%) Tech for Good
11 11 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.71%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.64%) Police
14 7 (0.56%) Legal
14 7 (0.56%) Marketing
15 6 (0.48%) Front Office
15 6 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 319 (25.34%) Developer
2 268 (21.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 169 (13.42%) Senior
4 105 (8.34%) Software Engineer
5 95 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
6 89 (7.07%) Architect
7 80 (6.35%) Java Developer
8 75 (5.96%) Lead
9 74 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 72 (5.72%) Azure Engineer
11 67 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
12 64 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
13 62 (4.92%) Site Engineer
14 54 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 53 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
16 52 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
17 47 (3.73%) Full Stack Developer
18 44 (3.49%) Python Developer
19 41 (3.26%) Scala Developer
20 39 (3.10%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (18.19%) Kafka
2 140 (11.12%) React
3 120 (9.53%) Node.js
4 119 (9.45%) Spring Boot
5 116 (9.21%) REST
6 106 (8.42%) Spring
7 89 (7.07%) RESTful
8 68 (5.40%) Elastic Stack
9 65 (5.16%) .NET
10 41 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
10 41 (3.26%) YAML
11 38 (3.02%) Akka
11 38 (3.02%) ARM Templates
11 38 (3.02%) Web Services
12 37 (2.94%) .NET Core
13 36 (2.86%) HTML
14 32 (2.54%) AngularJS
15 31 (2.46%) Hibernate
15 31 (2.46%) JSON
16 29 (2.30%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 67 (5.32%) Cloud Native
2 59 (4.69%) Public Cloud
3 57 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 35 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 34 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 32 (2.54%) Clustering
7 30 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 30 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (2.30%) PKI
9 28 (2.22%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 14 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.03%) Replication
14 12 (0.95%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 282 (22.40%) Linux
2 109 (8.66%) Windows
3 61 (4.85%) Unix
4 57 (4.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 52 (4.13%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.43%) CentOS
7 16 (1.27%) Solaris
7 16 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (1.03%) Oracle Linux
8 13 (1.03%) VMS
9 10 (0.79%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.64%) Android
11 6 (0.48%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.16%) Windows 2000
13 2 (0.16%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.079%) Debian
14 1 (0.079%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (53.77%) DevOps
2 532 (42.26%) CI/CD
3 403 (32.01%) Agile
4 310 (24.62%) Microservices
5 308 (24.46%) Containerisation
6 256 (20.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 215 (17.08%) Software Engineering
8 154 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
9 146 (11.60%) Test Automation
10 128 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
11 126 (10.01%) TDD
12 109 (8.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 101 (8.02%) Scrum
14 93 (7.39%) Full Stack Development
15 90 (7.15%) Configuration Management
16 81 (6.43%) High Availability
17 77 (6.12%) Platform Engineering
17 77 (6.12%) SDLC
18 66 (5.24%) Machine Learning
19 63 (5.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 493 (39.16%) Python
2 323 (25.66%) Java
3 190 (15.09%) SQL
4 171 (13.58%) Go
5 152 (12.07%) JavaScript
6 139 (11.04%) Bash
7 123 (9.77%) PowerShell
8 82 (6.51%) TypeScript
9 78 (6.20%) C#
10 54 (4.29%) Scala
11 50 (3.97%) Shell Script
12 38 (3.02%) C++
13 31 (2.46%) C
14 28 (2.22%) Ruby
15 25 (1.99%) Bicep
15 25 (1.99%) Perl
16 17 (1.35%) PHP
17 16 (1.27%) VB
17 16 (1.27%) VBScript
18 13 (1.03%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 378 (30.02%) Security Cleared
2 299 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 99 (7.86%) DV Cleared
4 85 (6.75%) Degree
5 38 (3.02%) AWS Certification
6 37 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.40%) CISSP
12 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.16%) CISA
14 2 (0.16%) CISM
15 1 (0.079%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (4.21%) QA
2 19 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.27%) NIST
4 14 (1.11%) GDPR
5 10 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.56%) NCSC
8 6 (0.48%) SLA
9 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.24%) WCAG
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 733 (58.22%) Docker
2 67 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (5.24%) Active Directory
4 47 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.99%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.51%) VMware NSX
7 17 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (1.11%) vSphere
10 11 (0.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 9 (0.71%) vCloud
12 6 (0.48%) Firmware
13 5 (0.40%) KVM
14 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.16%) HDFS
15 2 (0.16%) NFS
15 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.079%) Terminal Server
16 1 (0.079%) Xen
Systems Management
1 502 (39.87%) Terraform
2 272 (21.60%) Ansible
3 149 (11.83%) Prometheus
4 130 (10.33%) Grafana
5 58 (4.61%) Puppet
6 51 (4.05%) Progress Chef
7 39 (3.10%) Docker Swarm
8 34 (2.70%) Istio
9 31 (2.46%) Kibana
10 29 (2.30%) Argo
11 28 (2.22%) Packer
12 23 (1.83%) Rancher
13 20 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (1.59%) Consul
13 20 (1.59%) SCOM
14 19 (1.51%) SCCM
15 16 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
15 16 (1.27%) WSUS
16 15 (1.19%) Podman
16 15 (1.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 105 (8.34%) VMware
3 86 (6.83%) Oracle
4 71 (5.64%) Splunk
5 67 (5.32%) Google
6 47 (3.73%) Red Hat
7 28 (2.22%) Databricks
8 22 (1.75%) CyberArk
8 22 (1.75%) Dell
9 21 (1.67%) Cisco
9 21 (1.67%) IBM
10 19 (1.51%) Typelevel
11 14 (1.11%) AppDynamics
11 14 (1.11%) HP
12 13 (1.03%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.03%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.87%) SaltStack
13 11 (0.87%) SAP
13 11 (0.87%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.79%) Dynatrace