Kubernetes Contracts in Central London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 28 19
Rank change year-on-year -19 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 105 256 367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.27% 6.63% 8.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.08% 41.22% 42.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 160 312
10th Percentile £425 £500 £475
25th Percentile £486 £534 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £739 £750
90th Percentile £773 £789 £813
London median daily rate £573 £638 £638
% change year-on-year -10.20% - +15.91%

All Systems Management Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 291 621 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.83% 16.09% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 425 713
10th Percentile £325 £369 £420
25th Percentile £425 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £748 £775 £788
London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile - £20.69 £27.20
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.00 £30.13
Median hourly rate £20.25 £84.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.92% +140.26% +52.17%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £56.88
90th Percentile £43.28 - £70.00
London median hourly rate £25.36 £67.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -62.16% +180.22% -40.23%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 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
City of London -11 103 £594 -5.00% 27
West End of London - 1 £450 -
Camden - 1 £450 -
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 6 (5.71%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.90%) nginx
2 2 (1.90%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.90%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.90%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.95%) Camunda
3 1 (0.95%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.95%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 54 (51.43%) AWS
2 43 (40.95%) Azure
3 22 (20.95%) Serverless
4 17 (16.19%) GitHub
5 16 (15.24%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (12.38%) Amazon S3
7 12 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (11.43%) Azure Functions
8 11 (10.48%) GCP
8 11 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (9.52%) Azure AKS
10 7 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (5.71%) Azure Storage
12 5 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (2.86%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) Firewall
2 3 (2.86%) WAN
3 2 (1.90%) DNS
3 2 (1.90%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.95%) LAN
4 1 (0.95%) MPLS
4 1 (0.95%) MQTT
4 1 (0.95%) Multicast
4 1 (0.95%) Network Security
4 1 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.14%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.62%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.62%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.67%) MySQL
3 7 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.71%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.76%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.86%) Tableau
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.95%) Big Data
9 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.95%) Scylla
9 1 (0.95%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 18 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 13 (12.38%) Git
3 12 (11.43%) GitLab
4 8 (7.62%) JMeter
4 8 (7.62%) Selenium
5 7 (6.67%) Maven
5 7 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.71%) Bitbucket
6 6 (5.71%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.76%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.81%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.81%) JUnit
8 4 (3.81%) TestNG
9 3 (2.86%) Gradle
9 3 (2.86%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (2.86%) Mercurial
9 3 (2.86%) Mockito
9 3 (2.86%) Postman
9 3 (2.86%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.90%) Artifactory
General
1 26 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.19%) Finance
3 13 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.71%) Banking
4 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.95%) Law
7 1 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (26.67%) Developer
2 14 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (11.43%) Site Engineer
3 12 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (10.48%) Senior
5 10 (9.52%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) Architect
7 7 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Lead
10 4 (3.81%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Python Developer
11 3 (2.86%) AWS Architect
11 3 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Java Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (36.19%) Kafka
2 16 (15.24%) RESTful
3 12 (11.43%) .NET
4 11 (10.48%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (10.48%) React
4 11 (10.48%) Spring
5 10 (9.52%) Node.js
5 10 (9.52%) Spring Boot
6 8 (7.62%) .NET Core
7 7 (6.67%) pytest
7 7 (6.67%) REST
8 6 (5.71%) Blazor
8 6 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.71%) Web Services
9 5 (4.76%) HTML
9 5 (4.76%) SOAP
10 4 (3.81%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.81%) Django
10 4 (3.81%) WebSockets
11 3 (2.86%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.19%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.57%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.62%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.62%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.86%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) PKI
7 2 (1.90%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.48%) Linux
2 11 (10.48%) Windows
3 3 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.95%) Android
4 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (48.57%) DevOps
2 50 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 29 (27.62%) Microservices
4 22 (20.95%) Agile
5 17 (16.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (16.19%) Software Engineering
6 15 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (12.38%) Containerisation
7 13 (12.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (10.48%) Open Source
8 11 (10.48%) Test Automation
9 10 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
9 10 (9.52%) SDLC
10 9 (8.57%) Architectural Design
10 9 (8.57%) Front End Development
11 8 (7.62%) Multithreading
11 8 (7.62%) Task Automation
12 7 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 65 (61.90%) Python
2 33 (31.43%) Java
3 29 (27.62%) SQL
4 16 (15.24%) Go
4 16 (15.24%) JavaScript
5 13 (12.38%) C++
6 10 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 9 (8.57%) Bash
8 7 (6.67%) C#
9 6 (5.71%) PL/SQL
9 6 (5.71%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.71%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.76%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.90%) C
11 2 (1.90%) Clojure
11 2 (1.90%) Haskell
11 2 (1.90%) Perl
11 2 (1.90%) PHP
11 2 (1.90%) Rust
12 1 (0.95%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (17.14%) SC Cleared
1 18 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.76%) Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.95%) NCSC
3 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 54 (51.43%) Docker
2 10 (9.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.95%) Ceph
5 1 (0.95%) KVM
5 1 (0.95%) NFS
Systems Management
1 41 (39.05%) Terraform
2 15 (14.29%) Ansible
3 14 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 12 (11.43%) Consul
4 12 (11.43%) Grafana
5 6 (5.71%) Argo
6 4 (3.81%) Puppet
7 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.90%) Graylog
8 2 (1.90%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.90%) Nagios
8 2 (1.90%) Packer
9 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.95%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.95%) Kibana
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.95%) Nessus
9 1 (0.95%) Salt
9 1 (0.95%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 19 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.48%) Oracle
3 10 (9.52%) SaltStack
4 6 (5.71%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.76%) Google
6 4 (3.81%) Databricks
7 3 (2.86%) Cisco
7 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.86%) Splunk
8 2 (1.90%) IBM
8 2 (1.90%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.90%) MKS
8 2 (1.90%) VMware
9 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.95%) Confluent
9 1 (0.95%) F5
9 1 (0.95%) Genesys
9 1 (0.95%) Juniper
9 1 (0.95%) New Relic
9 1 (0.95%) Terracotta