Kubernetes Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 54 54
Rank change year-on-year -21 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 506 965 1,263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.47% 4.11% 4.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.86% 27.44% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 727 895
10th Percentile £406 £427 £425
25th Percentile £453 £498 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £650
90th Percentile £684 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 8
10th Percentile £45.24 £53.75 £41.75
25th Percentile £47.81 £59.80 £42.18
Median hourly rate £64.75 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% +37.89% +0.13%
75th Percentile £74.44 £75.50 £49.83
90th Percentile £77.55 £78.00 £52.79
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £70.50 £52.89
% change year-on-year -8.51% +33.31% +11.41%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,315 3,517 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.28% 14.96% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,576 2,986
10th Percentile £213 £281 £237
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £654 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 136 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.93% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £41.13
90th Percentile £70.28 £75.25 £51.66
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -21 144 £550 -10.20% 108
South East -21 139 £575 - 108
South West -33 83 £550 - 82
Scotland -9 77 £480 -8.57% 37
North West -26 70 £550 -8.33% 59
Yorkshire +5 64 £525 -17.65% 39
Midlands -13 31 £500 -20.00% 58
East of England -36 20 £600 -7.69% 31
West Midlands -17 18 £500 -28.57% 28
East Midlands -5 13 £450 -35.71% 30
North East -11 12 £413 -41.07% 10
Wales +22 10 £500 -23.08% 9
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 14
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 31 (6.13%) Confluence
2 22 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.56%) Apache
4 13 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.57%) Apache Spark
5 12 (2.37%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.58%) nginx
7 6 (1.19%) JBoss
8 4 (0.79%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.79%) SAS
9 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.40%) Traefik
11 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.20%) Camunda
11 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (0.40%) RMDS
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 285 (56.32%) AWS
2 190 (37.55%) Azure
3 87 (17.19%) OpenShift
4 71 (14.03%) GCP
5 54 (10.67%) Amazon S3
6 51 (10.08%) Amazon EC2
7 48 (9.49%) Serverless
8 46 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
9 39 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (6.72%) GitHub
11 33 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (4.74%) Entra ID
13 24 (4.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (4.15%) Azure AKS
15 19 (3.75%) Route 53
16 18 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (3.56%) Azure Storage
16 18 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (3.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 42 (8.30%) Firewall
2 38 (7.51%) DNS
3 22 (4.35%) VPN
4 20 (3.95%) DHCP
5 17 (3.36%) Network Security
6 16 (3.16%) SAN
6 16 (3.16%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.78%) VSAN
8 8 (1.58%) HTTP
9 7 (1.38%) AMQP
9 7 (1.38%) NAS
10 5 (0.99%) 5G
11 4 (0.79%) Diameter Protocol
11 4 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (0.79%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.79%) IPsec
11 4 (0.79%) iSCSI
11 4 (0.79%) LTE
12 3 (0.59%) LAN
12 3 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (10.28%) Relational Database
3 40 (7.91%) Elasticsearch
4 34 (6.72%) NoSQL
5 32 (6.32%) MySQL
6 24 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (2.77%) RDBMS
8 13 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (2.57%) MongoDB
9 12 (2.37%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.17%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.17%) InfluxDB
11 10 (1.98%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.58%) Big Data
12 8 (1.58%) Flink
13 7 (1.38%) Couchbase
14 5 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.99%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.99%) DB2
15 4 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 115 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 100 (19.76%) Git
3 97 (19.17%) GitLab
4 57 (11.26%) JIRA
5 32 (6.32%) SonarQube
6 26 (5.14%) JUnit
7 22 (4.35%) Selenium
8 19 (3.75%) Cucumber
9 17 (3.36%) Artifactory
10 14 (2.77%) Bitbucket
11 13 (2.57%) Maven
12 12 (2.37%) REST Assured
13 11 (2.17%) Gradle
13 11 (2.17%) Travis CI
14 10 (1.98%) Mockito
15 9 (1.78%) JMeter
15 9 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (1.78%) webpack
16 8 (1.58%) CircleCI
17 7 (1.38%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 101 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 44 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 32 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.93%) Finance
5 20 (3.95%) Banking
6 9 (1.78%) Law
7 8 (1.58%) Police
7 8 (1.58%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.19%) Legal
9 6 (1.19%) Retail
10 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.59%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.40%) Automotive
11 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.20%) Advertising
12 1 (0.20%) Electronics
12 1 (0.20%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.20%) Marketing
12 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (24.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 112 (22.13%) Developer
3 46 (9.09%) Senior
4 44 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 43 (8.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 42 (8.30%) AWS Engineer
7 38 (7.51%) AWS DevOps
8 34 (6.72%) Platform Engineer
9 33 (6.52%) Lead
10 31 (6.13%) Site Engineer
11 30 (5.93%) Architect
11 30 (5.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 29 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
14 21 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (3.95%) Software Engineer
16 18 (3.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 17 (3.36%) Python Developer
18 16 (3.16%) Active Directory Support
19 14 (2.77%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.66%) Spring Boot
2 56 (11.07%) REST
3 49 (9.68%) React
4 48 (9.49%) Kafka
4 48 (9.49%) Spring
5 42 (8.30%) Elastic Stack
6 36 (7.11%) Node.js
7 33 (6.52%) ARM Templates
8 30 (5.93%) RESTful
9 20 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (3.75%) .NET
11 16 (3.16%) JSON
11 16 (3.16%) YAML
12 13 (2.57%) AWS CDK
12 13 (2.57%) Hibernate
12 13 (2.57%) Web Services
13 12 (2.37%) Java EE
13 12 (2.37%) JPA
13 12 (2.37%) Redux
14 11 (2.17%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.72%) Public Cloud
3 30 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (4.55%) PKI
5 20 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.75%) Data Structures
7 16 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (2.77%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.38%) NHS
11 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.19%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.99%) Clustering
12 5 (0.99%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.79%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.79%) NVMe
13 4 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 145 (28.66%) Linux
2 66 (13.04%) Windows
3 44 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (7.51%) Windows Server
5 34 (6.72%) Unix
6 16 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (2.57%) CentOS
7 13 (2.57%) VMS
8 12 (2.37%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.58%) Solaris
10 4 (0.79%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.40%) Windows 2000
11 2 (0.40%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (58.70%) DevOps
2 220 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 158 (31.23%) Containerisation
4 148 (29.25%) Agile
5 137 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 93 (18.38%) Microservices
7 73 (14.43%) Test Automation
8 67 (13.24%) Software Engineering
9 65 (12.85%) Continuous Integration
10 61 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (12.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 54 (10.67%) Scrum
12 52 (10.28%) Configuration Management
13 39 (7.71%) TDD
14 38 (7.51%) Full Stack Development
15 36 (7.11%) GitOps
15 36 (7.11%) High Availability
15 36 (7.11%) Technical Leadership
16 33 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
16 33 (6.52%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 206 (40.71%) Python
2 137 (27.08%) Java
3 73 (14.43%) Bash
4 61 (12.06%) PowerShell
4 61 (12.06%) SQL
5 42 (8.30%) Go
6 41 (8.10%) JavaScript
7 35 (6.92%) C#
8 32 (6.32%) Scala
8 32 (6.32%) TypeScript
9 29 (5.73%) Shell Script
10 27 (5.34%) Ruby
11 21 (4.15%) Bicep
12 19 (3.75%) Perl
13 18 (3.56%) Groovy
14 16 (3.16%) VB
14 16 (3.16%) VBScript
15 15 (2.96%) C
16 12 (2.37%) PHP
17 10 (1.98%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 179 (35.38%) Security Cleared
2 131 (25.89%) SC Cleared
3 69 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 38 (7.51%) Degree
5 16 (3.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (2.96%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (1.78%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.40%) SANS
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.20%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.20%) LPIC
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.92%) QA
2 9 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.78%) NIST
3 6 (1.19%) GDPR
4 5 (0.99%) SLA
5 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.59%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.40%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 285 (56.32%) Docker
2 47 (9.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (7.31%) Active Directory
4 29 (5.73%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (3.95%) VMware NSX
6 17 (3.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (2.57%) Hyper-V
8 11 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.98%) vSphere
10 9 (1.78%) vCloud
11 5 (0.99%) NFS
12 4 (0.79%) GPFS
12 4 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.59%) HDFS
14 2 (0.40%) KVM
14 2 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.20%) Lustre
15 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 212 (41.90%) Terraform
2 155 (30.63%) Ansible
3 81 (16.01%) Prometheus
4 76 (15.02%) Grafana
5 35 (6.92%) Progress Chef
6 31 (6.13%) Docker Swarm
7 28 (5.53%) Istio
8 26 (5.14%) Kibana
8 26 (5.14%) Puppet
9 20 (3.95%) Rancher
9 20 (3.95%) SCOM
10 18 (3.56%) SCCM
11 16 (3.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (3.16%) WSUS
12 15 (2.96%) Packer
13 14 (2.77%) Podman
14 12 (2.37%) Argo
14 12 (2.37%) vCenter Server
15 11 (2.17%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 64 (12.65%) VMware
2 54 (10.67%) Microsoft
3 43 (8.50%) Splunk
4 29 (5.73%) Red Hat
5 26 (5.14%) Google
6 24 (4.74%) Oracle
7 15 (2.96%) Databricks
8 13 (2.57%) Veritas
9 12 (2.37%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.78%) IBM
11 7 (1.38%) Checkmarx
12 6 (1.19%) WSO2
13 5 (0.99%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.99%) Arqiva
13 5 (0.99%) Cisco
13 5 (0.99%) Dell
13 5 (0.99%) Veracode
14 4 (0.79%) EMC
14 4 (0.79%) HP
14 4 (0.79%) Sybase