Kubernetes Contracts in Central London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 47 26
Rank change year-on-year +18 -21 -7
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 136 105 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.81% 4.29% 6.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.78% 36.21% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 72 160
10th Percentile £413 £425 £500
25th Percentile £493 £488 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £594 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £739
90th Percentile £741 £773 £789
London median daily rate £600 £573 £638
% change year-on-year +4.80% -10.20% -

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 360 290 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.03% 11.86% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 205 423
10th Percentile £300 £335 £369
25th Percentile £439 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £655 £650 £700
90th Percentile £711 £748 £775
London median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - - £20.69
25th Percentile - £12.75 £23.00
Median hourly rate £26.45 £20.25 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +30.62% -75.92% +140.26%
75th Percentile - £32.81 £88.30
90th Percentile - £43.28 -
London median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
% change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +14 131 £585 -1.47% 51
West End of London -2 1 £425 -5.56% 12
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (2.21%) Apache
1 3 (2.21%) Confluence
2 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.47%) nginx
3 1 (0.74%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.74%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.74%) Camunda
3 1 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 75 (55.15%) AWS
2 43 (31.62%) Azure
3 18 (13.24%) GitHub
4 16 (11.76%) GCP
4 16 (11.76%) Serverless
5 12 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.09%) Azure AKS
6 11 (8.09%) OpenShift
7 9 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.68%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.21%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.41%) DNS
1 6 (4.41%) Firewall
2 5 (3.68%) VPN
3 2 (1.47%) DHCP
3 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.32%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (15.44%) MongoDB
3 18 (13.24%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.15%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.68%) Redis
8 4 (2.94%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (2.21%) Big Data
9 3 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.21%) MySQL
9 3 (2.21%) Tableau
10 2 (1.47%) Airbyte
10 2 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 25 (18.38%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.76%) GitLab
3 10 (7.35%) Git
3 10 (7.35%) SonarQube
4 9 (6.62%) JUnit
5 8 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (5.15%) JIRA
6 7 (5.15%) Maven
7 6 (4.41%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (2.94%) Gradle
8 4 (2.94%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.94%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.47%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.47%) Postman
9 2 (1.47%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.47%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.47%) Subversion
9 2 (1.47%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.47%) Xcode
General
1 35 (25.74%) Finance
2 33 (24.26%) Social Skills
3 26 (19.12%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.82%) Banking
5 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.68%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.21%) Publishing
9 2 (1.47%) Front Office
9 2 (1.47%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Billing
10 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Military
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (35.29%) Developer
2 30 (22.06%) Java Developer
3 27 (19.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (15.44%) Senior
5 17 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 13 (9.56%) Architect
7 12 (8.82%) Lead
8 11 (8.09%) Senior Developer
8 11 (8.09%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.94%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (29.41%) Kafka
2 33 (24.26%) Spring
3 25 (18.38%) React
4 24 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 17 (12.50%) .NET
6 12 (8.82%) Node.js
7 11 (8.09%) REST
8 7 (5.15%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.15%) HTML
9 6 (4.41%) CSS
9 6 (4.41%) JPA
9 6 (4.41%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (4.41%) RESTful
10 5 (3.68%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.68%) GraphQL
10 5 (3.68%) NumPy
10 5 (3.68%) Pandas
11 4 (2.94%) OAuth
11 4 (2.94%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.21%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.21%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.21%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.47%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.47%) DataPower
4 2 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.47%) PKI
4 2 (1.47%) Social Media
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.97%) Linux
2 8 (5.88%) Unix
3 6 (4.41%) Windows
4 3 (2.21%) Rocky
5 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.74%) SUSE
6 1 (0.74%) VMS
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (59.56%) DevOps
2 69 (50.74%) CI/CD
3 50 (36.76%) Microservices
4 43 (31.62%) Agile
5 41 (30.15%) Containerisation
6 36 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (22.79%) Software Engineering
8 24 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (13.97%) API Development
10 18 (13.24%) SOLID
11 17 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (12.50%) Test Automation
12 16 (11.76%) Clean Code
13 14 (10.29%) Configuration Management
14 12 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
15 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure Automation
16 10 (7.35%) Analytics
16 10 (7.35%) Event-Driven
16 10 (7.35%) SDLC
16 10 (7.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (44.12%) Python
2 46 (33.82%) Java
3 37 (27.21%) SQL
4 34 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 19 (13.97%) C#
6 11 (8.09%) Bash
7 8 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.15%) Go
9 5 (3.68%) Bicep
9 5 (3.68%) C++
9 5 (3.68%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.94%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.21%) Groovy
11 3 (2.21%) Rust
11 3 (2.21%) Scala
11 3 (2.21%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.47%) Perl
12 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.47%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 42 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (4.41%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (4.41%) Degree
5 4 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.41%) QA
2 2 (1.47%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (44.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Lustre
3 1 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.74%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (33.82%) Terraform
2 21 (15.44%) Ansible
3 10 (7.35%) Grafana
3 10 (7.35%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.94%) Argo
5 3 (2.21%) Consul
5 3 (2.21%) Istio
5 3 (2.21%) Podman
5 3 (2.21%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.21%) Puppet
6 2 (1.47%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.74%) CASB
7 1 (0.74%) Cilium
7 1 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.74%) Kibana
7 1 (0.74%) Rancher
7 1 (0.74%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 8 (5.88%) Splunk
2 7 (5.15%) Google
2 7 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.68%) Databricks
3 5 (3.68%) Oracle
4 3 (2.21%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.47%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.47%) IBM
5 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.74%) Confluent
6 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.74%) New Relic
6 1 (0.74%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.74%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.74%) Pega
6 1 (0.74%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.74%) TOWER Software