Kubernetes Contracts in South London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 9 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +17
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 46 63 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 18.85% 15.99% 10.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 64.79% 62.38% 54.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 52 33
10th Percentile £363 £496 £475
25th Percentile £475 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £649 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +8.17% +18.52%
75th Percentile £628 £725 £675
90th Percentile £630 - £700
London median daily rate £563 £638 £638
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +15.91%

All Systems Management Skills
South London

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 South London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 71 101 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 29.10% 25.63% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 84 62
10th Percentile £330 £454 £200
25th Percentile £412 £496 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% -4.35% +13.86%
75th Percentile £567 £675 £638
90th Percentile £630 £725 £699
London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £15.54 - -
25th Percentile £19.13 - -
Median hourly rate £25.65 - -
75th Percentile £32.71 - -
90th Percentile £36.62 - -
London median hourly rate £25.00 £66.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -62.12% +176.04% -40.23%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in South London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in South London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in South London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in South London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Croydon +2 45 £525 -19.11% 6
Bromley +5 1 £650 +30.00%
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 15 (32.61%) Confluence
2 6 (13.04%) OpenStack
3 5 (10.87%) nginx
4 1 (2.17%) JBoss
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 41 (89.13%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) Amazon S3
3 14 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (28.26%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (23.91%) Serverless
5 11 (23.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (21.74%) Slack
7 9 (19.57%) Route 53
8 7 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (8.70%) OCI
11 3 (6.52%) Azure
11 3 (6.52%) GCP
12 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (2.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.17%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (15.22%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.35%) Tableau
5 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (58.70%) Jenkins
2 24 (52.17%) Git
3 17 (36.96%) JIRA
4 5 (10.87%) JUnit
5 2 (4.35%) GitLab
5 2 (4.35%) JMeter
6 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.17%) Mockito
6 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (21.74%) Release Manager
3 9 (19.57%) Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Java Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Architect
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.17%) Junior
9 1 (2.17%) Lead DevOps
9 1 (2.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) Spring Boot
2 7 (15.22%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (15.22%) REST
2 7 (15.22%) Spring
2 7 (15.22%) Web Services
3 6 (13.04%) Node.js
4 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
4 4 (8.70%) Kafka
4 4 (8.70%) RESTful
4 4 (8.70%) SOAP
5 3 (6.52%) J2EE
5 3 (6.52%) React
6 2 (4.35%) Apache Camel
6 2 (4.35%) Mustache
7 1 (2.17%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (2.17%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.17%) HTML
7 1 (2.17%) jQuery
7 1 (2.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) DevOps
2 18 (39.13%) Agile
2 18 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 11 (23.91%) Configuration Management
3 11 (23.91%) SDLC
4 10 (21.74%) Change Management
4 10 (21.74%) Microservices
4 10 (21.74%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 10 (21.74%) Performance Testing
4 10 (21.74%) Release Management
4 10 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (19.57%) Scrum
6 8 (17.39%) TDD
7 6 (13.04%) BDD
7 6 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.04%) Kanban
8 5 (10.87%) Full Stack Development
8 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.87%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Python
2 15 (32.61%) Java
3 9 (19.57%) Bash
4 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.04%) Go
6 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.35%) SQL
7 1 (2.17%) C
7 1 (2.17%) C++
7 1 (2.17%) Perl
7 1 (2.17%) Ruby
7 1 (2.17%) Rust
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (86.96%) Security Cleared
2 39 (84.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.17%) NIST
1 1 (2.17%) QA
1 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (60.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (47.83%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Grafana
2 10 (21.74%) Prometheus
3 8 (17.39%) Ansible
4 5 (10.87%) Consul
4 5 (10.87%) Packer
5 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.17%) Splunk