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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,347 2,889 4,488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.70% 6.00% 6.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.66% 38.69% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 2,142 3,341
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £475 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.63% +14.95%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £725 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £604
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.66% +13.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 37 7
10th Percentile £46.19 £53.75 £47.19
25th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £49.90
Median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.07% +21.67% +18.23%
75th Percentile £74.44 £80.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £76.89 £90.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £70.00 £48.36
% change year-on-year -7.86% +44.76% +1.86%

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 4,393 7,468 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.06% 15.50% 15.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 5,420 8,200
10th Percentile £258 £355 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £558 £565
% change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 176 158
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.34
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.16%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.56 £34.69
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.75 £57.88
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £54.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year -52.44% +146.25% -45.00%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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
London -22 817 £563 -11.76% 567
North of England -12 157 £525 -12.50% 110
South East -4 150 £575 -2.13% 216
South West -30 93 £550 - 79
Yorkshire +3 76 £520 -16.80% 39
North West -26 71 £550 -6.38% 60
Midlands -21 31 £500 -20.00% 48
East of England -35 23 £600 -7.69% 25
West Midlands -19 19 £500 -28.57% 29
East Midlands -11 12 £450 -35.71% 19
North East -12 12 £413 -41.07% 11
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 78 (5.79%) Confluence
2 41 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.82%) Apache
4 28 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 27 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 26 (1.93%) nginx
7 19 (1.41%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.74%) BizTalk Server
9 8 (0.59%) JBoss
10 7 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.45%) CMS
11 6 (0.45%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.45%) Tornado
12 5 (0.37%) Camunda
12 5 (0.37%) IIS
12 5 (0.37%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.37%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.30%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.074%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.37%) Endur
2 2 (0.15%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.074%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 756 (56.12%) AWS
2 460 (34.15%) Azure
3 236 (17.52%) GCP
4 141 (10.47%) Serverless
5 125 (9.28%) GitHub
6 116 (8.61%) Amazon S3
7 115 (8.54%) OpenShift
8 102 (7.57%) Amazon EC2
9 96 (7.13%) AWS Lambda
10 86 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
11 84 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
12 65 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 58 (4.31%) Azure AKS
14 56 (4.16%) PaaS
15 49 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 44 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
17 40 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (2.75%) Entra ID
18 37 (2.75%) Route 53
19 35 (2.60%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 74 (5.49%) Firewall
2 65 (4.83%) DNS
3 57 (4.23%) HTTP
4 36 (2.67%) DHCP
4 36 (2.67%) VPN
5 33 (2.45%) TCP/IP
6 29 (2.15%) Network Security
7 17 (1.26%) SAN
8 10 (0.74%) NAS
9 9 (0.67%) AMQP
9 9 (0.67%) Kerberos
9 9 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
9 9 (0.67%) VSAN
9 9 (0.67%) WAN
9 9 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.59%) 5G
10 8 (0.59%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.52%) LAN
11 7 (0.52%) SSL
11 7 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (7.87%) NoSQL
3 91 (6.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 83 (6.16%) Relational Database
5 70 (5.20%) MongoDB
6 66 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
7 60 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
8 56 (4.16%) SQL Server
9 49 (3.64%) MySQL
10 38 (2.82%) Big Data
11 35 (2.60%) Data Lake
12 29 (2.15%) RDBMS
13 28 (2.08%) DynamoDB
14 27 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (1.71%) BigQuery
17 21 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
18 16 (1.19%) Apache Arrow
18 16 (1.19%) Dremio
19 13 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 296 (21.97%) Jenkins
2 252 (18.71%) Git
3 185 (13.73%) GitLab
4 113 (8.39%) JIRA
5 48 (3.56%) Selenium
6 46 (3.41%) SonarQube
7 44 (3.27%) JUnit
8 36 (2.67%) Cucumber
9 35 (2.60%) Bitbucket
10 34 (2.52%) TeamCity
11 28 (2.08%) JMeter
12 26 (1.93%) Cypress.io
13 24 (1.78%) CircleCI
14 23 (1.71%) Mockito
15 22 (1.63%) Maven
16 21 (1.56%) Artifactory
17 17 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 17 (1.26%) REST Assured
18 16 (1.19%) Travis CI
19 15 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 233 (17.30%) Social Skills
2 189 (14.03%) Finance
3 105 (7.80%) Public Sector
4 89 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (4.38%) Banking
6 25 (1.86%) Telecoms
7 22 (1.63%) Law
8 16 (1.19%) Investment Banking
8 16 (1.19%) Retail
9 15 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (0.89%) Tech for Good
11 9 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 9 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.59%) Front Office
12 8 (0.59%) Marketing
12 8 (0.59%) Police
13 6 (0.45%) Legal
13 6 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 328 (24.35%) Developer
2 296 (21.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 175 (12.99%) Senior
4 110 (8.17%) Software Engineer
5 105 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
6 91 (6.76%) Architect
7 85 (6.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 78 (5.79%) Java Developer
8 78 (5.79%) Lead
9 77 (5.72%) Azure Engineer
10 72 (5.35%) Site Engineer
11 65 (4.83%) AWS DevOps
12 60 (4.45%) Cloud Engineer
13 57 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
14 56 (4.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 55 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
16 52 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
17 46 (3.41%) Python Developer
18 45 (3.34%) Scala Developer
19 43 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (18.71%) Kafka
2 149 (11.06%) React
3 125 (9.28%) Node.js
4 121 (8.98%) Spring Boot
5 119 (8.83%) REST
6 104 (7.72%) Spring
7 99 (7.35%) RESTful
8 87 (6.46%) .NET
9 69 (5.12%) Elastic Stack
10 44 (3.27%) Akka
11 43 (3.19%) HTML
11 43 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
12 41 (3.04%) .NET Core
12 41 (3.04%) YAML
13 38 (2.82%) ARM Templates
14 34 (2.52%) OAuth
15 33 (2.45%) Web Services
16 32 (2.38%) AngularJS
17 31 (2.30%) GraphQL
17 31 (2.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 70 (5.20%) Cloud Native
2 62 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
2 62 (4.60%) Public Cloud
3 41 (3.04%) Data Structures
4 36 (2.67%) Clustering
5 34 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
6 33 (2.45%) Algorithms
6 33 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 30 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 29 (2.15%) PKI
11 25 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.34%) Hedge funds
13 15 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.04%) Onboarding
15 13 (0.97%) Management Information System
16 12 (0.89%) Private Cloud
17 11 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 312 (23.16%) Linux
2 110 (8.17%) Windows
3 73 (5.42%) Unix
4 57 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (3.64%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.34%) CentOS
6 18 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 18 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (1.19%) VMS
8 15 (1.11%) Solaris
9 11 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
10 10 (0.74%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.67%) Android
12 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.15%) Windows 2000
14 2 (0.15%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.074%) Debian
15 1 (0.074%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (54.86%) DevOps
2 576 (42.76%) CI/CD
3 427 (31.70%) Agile
4 336 (24.94%) Containerisation
5 330 (24.50%) Microservices
6 264 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 223 (16.56%) Software Engineering
8 176 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
9 152 (11.28%) Test Automation
10 131 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
11 123 (9.13%) TDD
12 121 (8.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 106 (7.87%) Full Stack Development
14 101 (7.50%) Configuration Management
14 101 (7.50%) Scrum
15 86 (6.38%) Platform Engineering
16 84 (6.24%) SDLC
17 81 (6.01%) High Availability
18 76 (5.64%) Computer Science
19 74 (5.49%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 525 (38.98%) Python
2 350 (25.98%) Java
3 211 (15.66%) SQL
4 181 (13.44%) Go
5 169 (12.55%) JavaScript
6 146 (10.84%) Bash
7 127 (9.43%) PowerShell
8 92 (6.83%) TypeScript
9 91 (6.76%) C#
10 62 (4.60%) Scala
11 61 (4.53%) Shell Script
12 37 (2.75%) C++
13 31 (2.30%) C
14 30 (2.23%) Ruby
15 26 (1.93%) Bicep
16 24 (1.78%) Perl
17 17 (1.26%) PHP
17 17 (1.26%) VB
17 17 (1.26%) VBScript
18 16 (1.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 399 (29.62%) Security Cleared
2 312 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 106 (7.87%) DV Cleared
4 102 (7.57%) Degree
5 50 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 13 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.37%) CISSP
12 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.15%) CISA
14 2 (0.15%) CISM
15 1 (0.074%) CEH
15 1 (0.074%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.08%) QA
2 20 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.19%) GDPR
3 16 (1.19%) NIST
4 8 (0.59%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.45%) NCSC
5 6 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.45%) SLA
6 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.074%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.074%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 784 (58.20%) Docker
2 69 (5.12%) Active Directory
3 67 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (2.08%) Hyper-V
6 20 (1.48%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 16 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.97%) vSphere
10 12 (0.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 9 (0.67%) vCloud
12 6 (0.45%) Firmware
13 4 (0.30%) KVM
14 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.15%) HDFS
15 2 (0.15%) NFS
15 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.074%) Ceph
16 1 (0.074%) Terminal Server
16 1 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 533 (39.57%) Terraform
2 292 (21.68%) Ansible
3 169 (12.55%) Prometheus
4 145 (10.76%) Grafana
5 66 (4.90%) Puppet
6 55 (4.08%) Progress Chef
7 41 (3.04%) Docker Swarm
8 38 (2.82%) Istio
9 36 (2.67%) Kibana
10 35 (2.60%) Packer
11 33 (2.45%) Argo
12 28 (2.08%) Consul
13 23 (1.71%) Rancher
14 22 (1.63%) SCOM
15 20 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 20 (1.48%) SCCM
16 17 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (1.26%) Podman
16 17 (1.26%) WSUS
17 14 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 152 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 101 (7.50%) VMware
3 90 (6.68%) Oracle
4 77 (5.72%) Splunk
5 74 (5.49%) Google
6 47 (3.49%) Red Hat
7 33 (2.45%) Databricks
8 21 (1.56%) CyberArk
8 21 (1.56%) IBM
8 21 (1.56%) Typelevel
9 20 (1.48%) Dell
10 19 (1.41%) Cisco
11 15 (1.11%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.04%) Atlassian
12 14 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.97%) AppDynamics
13 13 (0.97%) HP
14 12 (0.89%) SaltStack
15 11 (0.82%) SAP
16 10 (0.74%) ServiceNow