Kubernetes Contracts in Cheltenham

Kubernetes (k8s)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 25 22 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 13.09% 14.47% 12.00%
As % of the Systems Management category 60.98% 56.41% 53.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 13
10th Percentile £520 £508 -
25th Percentile £525 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +17.39% +13.58%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £658
90th Percentile £638 £800 £778
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £596 £525
% change year-on-year -7.76% +13.57% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 41 39 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 21.47% 25.66% 22.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 20
10th Percentile £515 £506 £446
25th Percentile £525 £516 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £650 £531
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +22.35% +16.44%
75th Percentile £631 £747 £629
90th Percentile £760 £800 £778
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £550 £513
% change year-on-year - +7.32% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - £78.00 £11.78
% change year-on-year - +562.14% -43.90%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Cheltenham

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Cheltenham

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Cheltenham

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) OpenShift
3 8 (32.00%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (32.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (32.00%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (32.00%) Serverless
4 6 (24.00%) Azure
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) AMQP
2 6 (24.00%) Network Security
3 1 (4.00%) IPv4
3 1 (4.00%) OSPF
3 1 (4.00%) VLAN
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (32.00%) InfluxDB
2 6 (24.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) JMeter
2 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (4.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (20.00%) Spring
2 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (16.00%) Node.js
3 4 (16.00%) React
3 4 (16.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) ADO
5 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 9 (36.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) Configuration Management
4 7 (28.00%) Observability
4 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) Event-Driven
5 6 (24.00%) Service Management
6 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
8 1 (4.00%) Agile
8 1 (4.00%) Code Quality
8 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (4.00%) Mentoring
8 1 (4.00%) Scenario Testing
8 1 (4.00%) Software Testing
8 1 (4.00%) TDD
8 1 (4.00%) Test Automation
8 1 (4.00%) TestOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Java
1 12 (48.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) C
3 10 (40.00%) SQL
4 7 (28.00%) Go
5 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (8.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (88.00%) DV Cleared
1 22 (88.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 25 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Grafana
1 16 (64.00%) Prometheus
2 13 (52.00%) Terraform
3 12 (48.00%) Ansible
4 10 (40.00%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (36.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.00%) Splunk
1 1 (4.00%) VMware