Kubernetes Contracts in the North East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 12 43 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.63% 11.20% 9.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.50% 57.33% 40.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 36 28
10th Percentile - £561 £427
25th Percentile £406 £594 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -41.07% +7.69% +44.44%
75th Percentile £419 £775 £700
90th Percentile - £848 £704
England median daily rate £550 £620 £614
% change year-on-year -11.29% +1.02% +16.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -15.07% -5.81% +52.71%

All Systems Management Skills
North East

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 North East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 32 75 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 9.67% 19.53% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 59 82
10th Percentile £171 £410 £207
25th Percentile £258 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £534 £700 £650
90th Percentile £560 £838 £706
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £46.20 - -
25th Percentile £46.23 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.74 £55.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -53.20% +155.81% -10.42%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North East

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the North East

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the North East

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Northumberland - 7 - -
Tyne and Wear -16 5 £413 -41.07% 6
Kubernetes
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) 5G
1 4 (33.33%) Diameter Protocol
1 4 (33.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) PyTorch
1 7 (58.33%) TensorFlow
2 4 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (33.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (58.33%) Digital Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) GitOps
2 7 (58.33%) Machine Learning
2 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Systems Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Microservices
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
1 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
1 4 (33.33%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle