Kubernetes Contracts

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 55 30 28
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,495 3,638 5,802
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.45% 6.08% 6.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.38% 37.82% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 2,632 4,234
10th Percentile £410 £463 £458
25th Percentile £463 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 37 16
10th Percentile £46.19 £53.75 £42.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £70.00 £52.89
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +32.36% +11.34%
75th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £76.89 £90.00 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.75 £64.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +1.17% +34.74% -6.40%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England -28 1,259 £550 -11.29% 810
London -25 762 £573 -10.30% 420
Work from Home -23 556 £575 -4.17% 524
UK excluding London -25 506 £538 -6.52% 434
North of England -24 146 £525 -12.50% 114
South East -18 140 £575 -0.43% 93
South West -39 80 £550 - 80
Scotland -16 74 £507 -7.40% 47
North West -34 70 £550 -7.37% 63
Yorkshire +2 66 £525 -19.23% 35
Midlands -16 34 £500 -18.37% 54
East of England -30 21 £550 -15.38% 28
West Midlands -12 19 £500 -23.08% 25
East Midlands -4 15 £500 -28.57% 29
North East -9 12 £413 -41.07% 16
Wales +18 9 £500 -23.08% 6
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 16

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 75 (5.02%) Confluence
2 49 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.54%) Apache
4 34 (2.27%) OpenStack
5 29 (1.94%) Apache Spark
6 25 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (1.34%) nginx
8 9 (0.60%) BizTalk Server
9 7 (0.47%) JBoss
9 7 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
10 6 (0.40%) IIS
10 6 (0.40%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.40%) Tornado
11 5 (0.33%) Anypoint
11 5 (0.33%) CMS
11 5 (0.33%) SAS
11 5 (0.33%) SharePoint
12 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.067%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.33%) Endur
1 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.13%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.13%) RMDS
3 1 (0.067%) Magento
3 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 850 (56.86%) AWS
2 527 (35.25%) Azure
3 254 (16.99%) GCP
4 160 (10.70%) Serverless
5 152 (10.17%) OpenShift
6 146 (9.77%) Amazon S3
6 146 (9.77%) GitHub
7 125 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
8 118 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
9 116 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (5.08%) Azure AKS
12 75 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 66 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
14 60 (4.01%) PaaS
14 60 (4.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 52 (3.48%) IaaS
17 49 (3.28%) SaaS
18 44 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (5.15%) Firewall
2 68 (4.55%) DNS
3 44 (2.94%) HTTP
4 38 (2.54%) DHCP
5 35 (2.34%) TCP/IP
6 33 (2.21%) Network Security
7 32 (2.14%) VPN
8 31 (2.07%) SAN
9 19 (1.27%) NAS
10 11 (0.74%) Kerberos
11 9 (0.60%) VLAN
11 9 (0.60%) VSAN
11 9 (0.60%) WAN
12 8 (0.54%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.47%) 5G
13 7 (0.47%) AMQP
13 7 (0.47%) LAN
14 5 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
14 5 (0.33%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 94 (6.29%) Apache Cassandra
4 91 (6.09%) Relational Database
5 75 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
6 71 (4.75%) Elasticsearch
7 70 (4.68%) MongoDB
8 61 (4.08%) MySQL
9 58 (3.88%) SQL Server
10 41 (2.74%) Big Data
11 34 (2.27%) Data Lake
12 33 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 33 (2.21%) RDBMS
13 32 (2.14%) DynamoDB
14 25 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
15 21 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
15 21 (1.40%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.14%) Flink
16 17 (1.14%) Redis
17 16 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 345 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 276 (18.46%) Git
3 191 (12.78%) GitLab
4 113 (7.56%) JIRA
5 56 (3.75%) SonarQube
6 51 (3.41%) JUnit
7 50 (3.34%) Selenium
8 40 (2.68%) Cucumber
9 37 (2.47%) TeamCity
10 36 (2.41%) Maven
11 33 (2.21%) Bitbucket
12 30 (2.01%) JMeter
13 28 (1.87%) Artifactory
14 25 (1.67%) Cypress.io
14 25 (1.67%) Gradle
15 24 (1.61%) CircleCI
15 24 (1.61%) Mockito
16 23 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (1.20%) REST Assured
18 16 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 264 (17.66%) Social Skills
2 180 (12.04%) Finance
3 118 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 79 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (4.95%) Banking
6 30 (2.01%) Telecoms
7 27 (1.81%) Law
8 23 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 20 (1.34%) Retail
10 16 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (1.00%) Tech for Good
12 13 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (0.60%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.54%) Police
16 7 (0.47%) Legal
16 7 (0.47%) Marketing
17 6 (0.40%) Front Office
18 4 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 366 (24.48%) Developer
2 328 (21.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 190 (12.71%) Senior
4 125 (8.36%) AWS Engineer
5 110 (7.36%) Software Engineer
6 107 (7.16%) Architect
7 92 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 91 (6.09%) Java Developer
9 86 (5.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 84 (5.62%) Lead
11 82 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
12 74 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
13 73 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 72 (4.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 68 (4.55%) Site Engineer
16 55 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
17 53 (3.55%) Full Stack Developer
18 51 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 50 (3.34%) Python Developer
20 49 (3.28%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (17.53%) Kafka
2 148 (9.90%) React
3 138 (9.23%) REST
4 137 (9.16%) Node.js
5 132 (8.83%) Spring Boot
6 117 (7.83%) Spring
7 99 (6.62%) RESTful
8 83 (5.55%) Elastic Stack
9 68 (4.55%) .NET
10 54 (3.61%) ARM Templates
11 46 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
12 42 (2.81%) YAML
13 40 (2.68%) Akka
14 39 (2.61%) Web Services
15 38 (2.54%) HTML
16 37 (2.47%) .NET Core
17 35 (2.34%) AngularJS
18 31 (2.07%) Hibernate
18 31 (2.07%) JSON
19 29 (1.94%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.55%) Cloud Native
2 74 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 45 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
6 42 (2.81%) Data Structures
7 38 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
8 35 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (2.27%) Clustering
10 32 (2.14%) Algorithms
10 32 (2.14%) Product Ownership
11 29 (1.94%) PKI
12 27 (1.81%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.67%) Management Information System
14 21 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
16 16 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
17 15 (1.00%) Private Cloud
18 14 (0.94%) Replication
19 13 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 336 (22.47%) Linux
2 137 (9.16%) Windows
3 90 (6.02%) Unix
4 68 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 65 (4.35%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.27%) CentOS
7 16 (1.07%) Solaris
7 16 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
8 13 (0.87%) VMS
9 12 (0.80%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.74%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.60%) Android
12 5 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.13%) Windows 2000
14 2 (0.13%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.067%) Debian
15 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (53.85%) DevOps
2 600 (40.13%) CI/CD
3 452 (30.23%) Agile
4 362 (24.21%) Containerisation
5 337 (22.54%) Microservices
6 309 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 244 (16.32%) Software Engineering
8 184 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (11.64%) Test Automation
10 155 (10.37%) Continuous Integration
11 131 (8.76%) TDD
12 130 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 115 (7.69%) Scrum
14 104 (6.96%) Configuration Management
15 100 (6.69%) Full Stack Development
16 95 (6.35%) Platform Engineering
17 92 (6.15%) High Availability
18 90 (6.02%) SDLC
19 82 (5.48%) GitOps
20 81 (5.42%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 601 (40.20%) Python
2 380 (25.42%) Java
3 214 (14.31%) SQL
4 192 (12.84%) Go
5 182 (12.17%) Bash
6 171 (11.44%) JavaScript
7 136 (9.10%) PowerShell
8 98 (6.56%) TypeScript
9 80 (5.35%) C#
10 72 (4.82%) Scala
11 65 (4.35%) Shell Script
12 44 (2.94%) Perl
12 44 (2.94%) Ruby
13 38 (2.54%) C++
14 33 (2.21%) C
15 27 (1.81%) Groovy
16 26 (1.74%) Bicep
17 21 (1.40%) PHP
18 16 (1.07%) VB
18 16 (1.07%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 413 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 329 (22.01%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 95 (6.35%) Degree
5 45 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 14 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.74%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.33%) CISSP
13 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.20%) SANS
15 2 (0.13%) CISA
15 2 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.75%) QA
2 19 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.14%) NCSC
4 16 (1.07%) NIST
5 14 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.94%) GDPR
6 8 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.40%) SLA
8 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.27%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.20%) WCAG
11 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.067%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 865 (57.86%) Docker
2 74 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (4.55%) Active Directory
4 50 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 20 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (1.00%) vSphere
9 12 (0.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 10 (0.67%) vCloud
11 6 (0.40%) Firmware
11 6 (0.40%) KVM
11 6 (0.40%) NFS
12 4 (0.27%) GPFS
12 4 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.20%) HDFS
14 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.067%) Apache Flume
15 1 (0.067%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 602 (40.27%) Terraform
2 328 (21.94%) Ansible
3 190 (12.71%) Prometheus
4 171 (11.44%) Grafana
5 75 (5.02%) Puppet
6 60 (4.01%) Progress Chef
7 41 (2.74%) Docker Swarm
8 37 (2.47%) Kibana
9 36 (2.41%) Istio
10 32 (2.14%) Argo
11 29 (1.94%) Packer
12 23 (1.54%) Rancher
13 21 (1.40%) Consul
14 20 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (1.34%) Nagios
14 20 (1.34%) SCOM
15 19 (1.27%) SCCM
16 16 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
16 16 (1.07%) vCenter Server
16 16 (1.07%) WSUS
Vendors
1 161 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 112 (7.49%) VMware
3 98 (6.56%) Oracle
4 89 (5.95%) Splunk
5 82 (5.48%) Google
6 52 (3.48%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.74%) Databricks
8 25 (1.67%) IBM
9 24 (1.61%) CyberArk
10 22 (1.47%) Dell
10 22 (1.47%) SAP
11 21 (1.40%) Cisco
12 19 (1.27%) Typelevel
13 14 (0.94%) AppDynamics
13 14 (0.94%) HP
13 14 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.94%) Veritas
14 13 (0.87%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.80%) EMC
15 12 (0.80%) WSO2