Kubernetes Contracts with Work from Home Options

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -18 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 579 1,594 3,125
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.84% 6.35% 7.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.48% 38.42% 43.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 1,175 2,322
10th Percentile £406 £456 £450
25th Percentile £475 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 2
10th Percentile £55.13 £44.64 £55.13
25th Percentile £55.31 £59.38 £59.06
Median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £66.88
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -2.80% +48.61%
75th Percentile £57.81 £70.38 £73.44
90th Percentile £58.38 £86.25 £76.63
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £70.50 £52.89
% change year-on-year -8.51% +33.31% +11.41%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,632 4,149 7,115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.83% 16.54% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 3,067 5,309
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -0.89% +9.76%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £660
90th Percentile £700 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 76 49
10th Percentile £19.98 £25.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +65.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £87.50 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -55.19% +152.75% -42.77%

Kubernetes
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kubernetes trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kubernetes.

Kubernetes daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Kubernetes daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kubernetes.

Kubernetes hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 35 (6.04%) Confluence
2 29 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (2.25%) nginx
5 12 (2.07%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.55%) Apache Spark
7 8 (1.38%) Apache
8 7 (1.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 6 (1.04%) CMS
10 4 (0.69%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.52%) JBoss
11 3 (0.52%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.52%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.52%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.17%) SAS
13 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.35%) Endur
3 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 359 (62.00%) AWS
2 217 (37.48%) Azure
3 102 (17.62%) GCP
4 52 (8.98%) Amazon EKS
4 52 (8.98%) Serverless
5 47 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (7.77%) GitHub
6 45 (7.77%) OpenShift
7 44 (7.60%) Amazon S3
8 42 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
10 34 (5.87%) IaaS
11 33 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (5.53%) PaaS
13 30 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (4.49%) SaaS
15 24 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (4.15%) Snowflake
16 23 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 50 (8.64%) Firewall
2 37 (6.39%) DNS
3 25 (4.32%) DHCP
4 18 (3.11%) TCP/IP
5 17 (2.94%) Network Security
6 12 (2.07%) SAN
7 10 (1.73%) HTTP
7 10 (1.73%) VPN
8 8 (1.38%) Kerberos
8 8 (1.38%) NAS
9 7 (1.21%) VLAN
10 5 (0.86%) LAN
10 5 (0.86%) WAN
11 4 (0.69%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.69%) IPsec
11 4 (0.69%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.52%) 4G
12 3 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (7.08%) Apache Cassandra
3 30 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (5.18%) NoSQL
4 27 (4.66%) MongoDB
5 26 (4.49%) Relational Database
6 24 (4.15%) MySQL
7 23 (3.97%) Big Data
7 23 (3.97%) Data Lake
8 22 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (2.94%) SQL Server
11 14 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (2.42%) Apache Arrow
11 14 (2.42%) Dremio
12 11 (1.90%) RDBMS
13 8 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.21%) Couchbase
14 7 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 125 (21.59%) Jenkins
2 88 (15.20%) Git
3 85 (14.68%) GitLab
4 55 (9.50%) JIRA
5 27 (4.66%) SonarQube
6 21 (3.63%) Selenium
7 19 (3.28%) TeamCity
8 18 (3.11%) Cucumber
9 16 (2.76%) Bitbucket
10 15 (2.59%) Artifactory
11 11 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (1.90%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.90%) Maven
11 11 (1.90%) REST Assured
12 10 (1.73%) Gradle
13 9 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (1.38%) JMeter
15 7 (1.21%) CircleCI
15 7 (1.21%) Snyk
16 6 (1.04%) Travis CI
General
1 130 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 69 (11.92%) Finance
3 36 (6.22%) Public Sector
4 35 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.45%) Law
6 19 (3.28%) Banking
7 16 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.73%) Tech for Good
9 7 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.21%) Police
10 5 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.69%) Legal
12 3 (0.52%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.52%) Front Office
12 3 (0.52%) Marketing
12 3 (0.52%) Retail
12 3 (0.52%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 134 (23.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 130 (22.45%) Developer
3 86 (14.85%) Senior
4 71 (12.26%) AWS Engineer
5 52 (8.98%) Software Engineer
6 40 (6.91%) AWS DevOps
7 37 (6.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 37 (6.39%) Lead
7 37 (6.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 35 (6.04%) Architect
9 34 (5.87%) Site Engineer
10 30 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
11 27 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
12 26 (4.49%) Python Engineer
13 25 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (4.15%) Full Stack Developer
14 24 (4.15%) Java Developer
15 23 (3.97%) Senior DevOps
16 18 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (16.93%) Kafka
2 52 (8.98%) Node.js
3 50 (8.64%) React
4 48 (8.29%) REST
5 42 (7.25%) ARM Templates
6 31 (5.35%) Spring Boot
7 30 (5.18%) RESTful
8 27 (4.66%) .NET
9 25 (4.32%) Elastic Stack
9 25 (4.32%) Spring
10 23 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (3.63%) YAML
12 18 (3.11%) AngularJS
13 17 (2.94%) HTML
14 16 (2.76%) CSS
14 16 (2.76%) gRPC
15 14 (2.42%) LDAP
15 14 (2.42%) Protocol Buffers
16 13 (2.25%) JSON
17 12 (2.07%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (4.66%) Clustering
2 27 (4.66%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.15%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.63%) Algorithms
6 19 (3.28%) Public Cloud
7 18 (3.11%) Data Centre
7 18 (3.11%) PKI
8 16 (2.76%) Hedge funds
9 15 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.59%) Management Information System
9 15 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.55%) Replication
11 8 (1.38%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 136 (23.49%) Linux
2 56 (9.67%) Windows
3 38 (6.56%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (4.15%) Unix
5 16 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (1.73%) Solaris
7 8 (1.38%) Oracle Linux
8 7 (1.21%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.21%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.04%) Android
9 6 (1.04%) CentOS
10 2 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.17%) VMS
11 1 (0.17%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.17%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (56.30%) DevOps
2 221 (38.17%) CI/CD
3 180 (31.09%) Agile
4 120 (20.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 116 (20.03%) Containerisation
6 99 (17.10%) Microservices
6 99 (17.10%) Software Engineering
7 85 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (14.68%) Test Automation
8 53 (9.15%) Continuous Integration
9 52 (8.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 45 (7.77%) Full Stack Development
11 40 (6.91%) Configuration Management
12 39 (6.74%) Fintech
12 39 (6.74%) User Experience
13 36 (6.22%) Migration
13 36 (6.22%) SDLC
14 35 (6.04%) Computer Science
14 35 (6.04%) DevSecOps
15 34 (5.87%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 229 (39.55%) Python
2 142 (24.53%) Java
3 105 (18.13%) Go
4 86 (14.85%) JavaScript
5 66 (11.40%) Bash
6 59 (10.19%) SQL
7 55 (9.50%) PowerShell
8 44 (7.60%) TypeScript
9 35 (6.04%) C#
10 29 (5.01%) Shell Script
11 22 (3.80%) Bicep
12 20 (3.45%) Perl
12 20 (3.45%) Scala
13 17 (2.94%) PHP
14 16 (2.76%) VB
14 16 (2.76%) VBScript
15 13 (2.25%) C++
15 13 (2.25%) Ruby
16 11 (1.90%) C
17 8 (1.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 136 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 118 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.64%) Degree
4 32 (5.53%) DV Cleared
5 21 (3.63%) AWS Certification
5 21 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 13 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.35%) CISSP
13 1 (0.17%) CEH
13 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.94%) QA
2 13 (2.25%) GDPR
3 12 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.07%) NCSC
4 8 (1.38%) NIST
5 7 (1.21%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 331 (57.17%) Docker
2 41 (7.08%) Active Directory
3 27 (4.66%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (2.25%) Hyper-V
7 12 (2.07%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 6 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.86%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.52%) Firmware
11 2 (0.35%) vSphere
12 1 (0.17%) Postfix
12 1 (0.17%) vCloud
12 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 243 (41.97%) Terraform
2 126 (21.76%) Ansible
3 80 (13.82%) Prometheus
4 63 (10.88%) Grafana
5 23 (3.97%) Progress Chef
6 21 (3.63%) Puppet
7 18 (3.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (2.94%) Consul
8 17 (2.94%) Kibana
9 16 (2.76%) Docker Swarm
9 16 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (2.76%) SCCM
9 16 (2.76%) SCOM
9 16 (2.76%) WSUS
10 8 (1.38%) Istio
10 8 (1.38%) Nagios
10 8 (1.38%) Podman
11 7 (1.21%) Argo
11 7 (1.21%) Packer
11 7 (1.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 78 (13.47%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.60%) VMware
3 36 (6.22%) Splunk
4 35 (6.04%) Oracle
5 30 (5.18%) Google
6 20 (3.45%) Databricks
6 20 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.42%) CyberArk
8 12 (2.07%) SaltStack
9 11 (1.90%) Cisco
9 11 (1.90%) IBM
10 10 (1.73%) Dell
11 9 (1.55%) SAP
11 9 (1.55%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.38%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.38%) HP
13 7 (1.21%) EMC
13 7 (1.21%) Isilon
13 7 (1.21%) Qualys
13 7 (1.21%) Serena