Kubernetes Contracts in the South West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 77 38 40
Rank change year-on-year -39 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 80 194 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.53% 5.33% 5.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.66% 32.01% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 164 143
10th Percentile £463 £430 £425
25th Percentile £480 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% +11.58%
75th Percentile £583 £672 £628
90th Percentile £658 £738 £680
England median daily rate £550 £620 £613
% change year-on-year -11.29% +1.22% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 1
10th Percentile £59.88 - -
25th Percentile £65.94 £53.75 £47.02
Median hourly rate £74.44 £66.85 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year +11.35% +38.49% -6.27%
75th Percentile £76.74 £78.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £77.75 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £72.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -13.89% -7.10% +45.54%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 407 606 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.85% 16.64% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 500 378
10th Percentile £205 £318 £261
25th Percentile £397 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £599 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 20
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £62.85 £16.85
Median hourly rate £40.00 £73.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.21% +265.00% -54.25%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.35 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.28 £87.20 £55.03
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire -2 35 £550 -4.35% 23
Bristol -20 23 £494 -3.66% 41
Wiltshire -30 9 £630 +9.57% 6
Dorset +3 5 - - 1
Devon -16 5 £550 - 3
Somerset -5 2 £475 -34.48% 2
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (6.25%) nginx
2 4 (5.00%) Apache
2 4 (5.00%) Apache Solr
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.75%) Confluence
4 1 (1.25%) IIS
4 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 38 (47.50%) AWS
2 22 (27.50%) Azure
3 18 (22.50%) OpenShift
4 17 (21.25%) GCP
5 8 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 8 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (10.00%) Serverless
6 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.25%) GitHub
7 4 (5.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.75%) PaaS
9 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.50%) Apigee
9 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.25%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.25%) VPN
2 7 (8.75%) AMQP
3 6 (7.50%) DNS
3 6 (7.50%) Firewall
3 6 (7.50%) Network Security
3 6 (7.50%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.00%) HTTPS
4 4 (5.00%) IPsec
4 4 (5.00%) SAN
5 2 (2.50%) DHCP
6 1 (1.25%) IPv4
6 1 (1.25%) OSPF
6 1 (1.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (10.00%) InfluxDB
1 8 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.75%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.00%) Couchbase
3 4 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (1.25%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 22 (27.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.00%) GitLab
3 5 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 5 (6.25%) JIRA
3 5 (6.25%) Spinnaker
4 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.50%) Snyk
5 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.25%) Git
6 1 (1.25%) git-flow
6 1 (1.25%) JMeter
6 1 (1.25%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.25%) Selenium
6 1 (1.25%) webpack
General
1 9 (11.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.00%) Legal
5 3 (3.75%) Tech for Good
6 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Electronics
7 1 (1.25%) Law
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) Developer
3 9 (11.25%) Senior
3 9 (11.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Lead
6 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Site Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.75%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Web Developer
9 2 (2.50%) Automation Test Lead
9 2 (2.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) RabbitMQ
2 10 (12.50%) Node.js
2 10 (12.50%) React
2 10 (12.50%) REST
3 5 (6.25%) .NET
3 5 (6.25%) Spring
3 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.25%) YAML
4 4 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
4 4 (5.00%) JSON
4 4 (5.00%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (5.00%) RESTful
5 3 (3.75%) CSS
5 3 (3.75%) HTML
5 3 (3.75%) Jest
5 3 (3.75%) ModSecurity
6 2 (2.50%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.50%) ADO
6 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Cloud Native
1 9 (11.25%) Public Cloud
2 6 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) PKI
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.50%) Linux
2 17 (21.25%) Windows
3 7 (8.75%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.00%) CentOS
4 4 (5.00%) Unix
5 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.50%) VMS
5 2 (2.50%) Windows 2000
5 2 (2.50%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (63.75%) DevOps
2 39 (48.75%) CI/CD
3 16 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 14 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 13 (16.25%) Microservices
5 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
6 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (13.75%) Configuration Management
8 10 (12.50%) Agile
9 9 (11.25%) Migration
10 8 (10.00%) Observability
11 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.75%) Event-Driven
11 7 (8.75%) TDD
12 6 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (7.50%) Project Delivery
12 6 (7.50%) Service Management
12 6 (7.50%) Test Automation
13 5 (6.25%) Full Stack Development
13 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) Python
2 22 (27.50%) Java
3 16 (20.00%) SQL
4 15 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 14 (17.50%) Go
6 12 (15.00%) JavaScript
7 11 (13.75%) C
8 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
9 7 (8.75%) Shell Script
10 5 (6.25%) C#
11 4 (5.00%) PHP
12 3 (3.75%) Bash
13 2 (2.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (51.25%) Security Cleared
2 34 (42.50%) DV Cleared
3 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.50%) Degree
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 6 (7.50%) NIST
3 4 (5.00%) GDPR
3 4 (5.00%) HIPAA
3 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (57.50%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (11.25%) VMware NSX
4 6 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.25%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.50%) vSphere
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (47.50%) Terraform
2 36 (45.00%) Ansible
3 21 (26.25%) Grafana
3 21 (26.25%) Prometheus
4 11 (13.75%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (11.25%) Progress Chef
6 6 (7.50%) Istio
7 3 (3.75%) OPNET
8 2 (2.50%) Argo
8 2 (2.50%) SCCM
8 2 (2.50%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.25%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.25%) Puppet
9 1 (1.25%) rkt
9 1 (1.25%) SELinux
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) VMware
2 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.75%) Google
4 6 (7.50%) Atlassian
5 5 (6.25%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.00%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.50%) Juniper
7 2 (2.50%) Veeam
8 1 (1.25%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco
8 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.25%) IBM
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle
8 1 (1.25%) SAP
8 1 (1.25%) Splunk