Kubernetes Contracts in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 58 76
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 -41
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 89 98 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.33% 3.34% 2.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.73% 27.07% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 61 64
10th Percentile £413 £425 £393
25th Percentile £488 £488 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.64% +5.74%
75th Percentile £623 £695 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £646
South East median daily rate £575 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -0.43% +0.43% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -38.57% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 321 362 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.01% 12.32% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 273 280
10th Percentile £205 £303 £238
25th Percentile £300 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +9.53%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £608
90th Percentile £650 £725 £656
South East median daily rate £475 £543 £500
% change year-on-year -12.52% +8.60% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 7
10th Percentile £21.34 £48.50 £16.20
25th Percentile £28.41 £54.69 £21.84
Median hourly rate £38.75 £66.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.29% +5.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £52.81 £75.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £66.50 £81.37 £76.25
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £61.38 £21.50
% change year-on-year -29.94% +185.47% -10.42%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire +12 82 £605 +16.35% 26
Oxfordshire -5 4 £500 -4.76% 3
Buckinghamshire +3 3 £575 -17.27% 14
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.87%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.25%) Confluence
3 2 (2.25%) nginx
4 1 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) JBoss
4 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (53.93%) Azure
2 38 (42.70%) AWS
3 20 (22.47%) OpenShift
4 19 (21.35%) Entra ID
5 17 (19.10%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (17.98%) Azure Storage
6 16 (17.98%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (11.24%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (11.24%) GCP
8 7 (7.87%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (7.87%) Serverless
9 5 (5.62%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.62%) SaaS
10 3 (3.37%) Azure API Management
10 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.37%) PaaS
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (2.25%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (21.35%) DNS
2 17 (19.10%) DHCP
2 17 (19.10%) Firewall
3 9 (10.11%) VSAN
4 2 (2.25%) Network Security
4 2 (2.25%) VPN
5 1 (1.12%) 3G
5 1 (1.12%) 4G
5 1 (1.12%) 5G
5 1 (1.12%) GPRS
5 1 (1.12%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.12%) VoLTE
5 1 (1.12%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.47%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.87%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.87%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.12%) Big Data
5 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.12%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.12%) MySQL
5 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (24.72%) Jenkins
2 18 (20.22%) GitLab
3 15 (16.85%) JIRA
4 13 (14.61%) SonarQube
5 12 (13.48%) Cucumber
5 12 (13.48%) REST Assured
5 12 (13.48%) Selenium
6 8 (8.99%) Git
7 5 (5.62%) JUnit
8 4 (4.49%) JMeter
9 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.12%) Axure RP
10 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.12%) Maven
10 1 (1.12%) Mockito
10 1 (1.12%) Spinnaker
General
1 47 (52.81%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.99%) Law
4 8 (8.99%) Police
5 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (22.47%) Developer
2 15 (16.85%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (16.85%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (15.73%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (15.73%) Support Specialist
4 13 (14.61%) Senior
5 11 (12.36%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.99%) Site Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (7.87%) VMware Expert
8 6 (6.74%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (31.46%) ARM Templates
2 19 (21.35%) REST
3 12 (13.48%) Java EE
3 12 (13.48%) Kafka
4 10 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (11.24%) Spring Boot
5 9 (10.11%) Spring
5 9 (10.11%) Web Services
6 8 (8.99%) Node.js
7 7 (7.87%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.49%) React
8 4 (4.49%) RESTful
8 4 (4.49%) SOAP
9 3 (3.37%) .NET
9 3 (3.37%) HTML
9 3 (3.37%) J2EE
9 3 (3.37%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (2.25%) CSS
10 2 (2.25%) jQuery
10 2 (2.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.22%) Cloud Native
2 17 (19.10%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (17.98%) PKI
4 7 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.12%) IoT
6 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.84%) Linux
2 16 (17.98%) Windows
3 15 (16.85%) Windows Server
3 15 (16.85%) Windows Server 2016
3 15 (16.85%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (3.37%) Unix
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (71.91%) DevOps
2 47 (52.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (43.82%) Agile
4 38 (42.70%) CI/CD
5 36 (40.45%) Containerisation
6 27 (30.34%) Technical Leadership
7 24 (26.97%) Microservices
8 21 (23.60%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (22.47%) Software Engineering
10 19 (21.35%) Release Management
11 18 (20.22%) Analytics
11 18 (20.22%) Identity Management
11 18 (20.22%) ITIL
11 18 (20.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 18 (20.22%) Test Automation
12 17 (19.10%) Log Analytics
12 17 (19.10%) Service Management
13 16 (17.98%) Privileged Identity Management
13 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (17.98%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.34%) Java
2 23 (25.84%) C#
3 18 (20.22%) PowerShell
4 16 (17.98%) Bicep
4 16 (17.98%) VB
4 16 (17.98%) VBScript
5 11 (12.36%) Python
6 10 (11.24%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.62%) Ruby
8 4 (4.49%) PHP
9 3 (3.37%) Bash
9 3 (3.37%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.37%) SQL
10 2 (2.25%) Go
10 2 (2.25%) Scala
11 1 (1.12%) Perl
11 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (56.18%) Security Cleared
2 45 (50.56%) SC Cleared
3 19 (21.35%) Degree
4 16 (17.98%) DV Cleared
4 16 (17.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) QA
1 2 (2.25%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (46.07%) Docker
2 22 (24.72%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (21.35%) Active Directory
4 16 (17.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (15.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (10.11%) vCloud
6 9 (10.11%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.25%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.25%) vSphere
8 1 (1.12%) NFS
8 1 (1.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (32.58%) Terraform
2 26 (29.21%) Ansible
3 16 (17.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (17.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (17.98%) SCCM
3 16 (17.98%) SCOM
3 16 (17.98%) WSUS
4 13 (14.61%) Istio
5 12 (13.48%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (13.48%) Podman
6 11 (12.36%) Rancher
7 9 (10.11%) Kibana
7 9 (10.11%) Prometheus
7 9 (10.11%) vCenter Server
8 8 (8.99%) Grafana
9 6 (6.74%) Argo
10 2 (2.25%) Packer
10 2 (2.25%) Puppet
10 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.98%) VMware
3 7 (7.87%) Google
4 5 (5.62%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.25%) Oracle
7 1 (1.12%) BMC
7 1 (1.12%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.12%) Databricks
7 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.12%) Remedy
7 1 (1.12%) Splunk