Kubernetes Contracts in the City of London

Kubernetes (k8s)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 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 40 28 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 101 249 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.59% 6.85% 7.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.46% 43.01% 42.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 155 271
10th Percentile £425 £500 £475
25th Percentile £488 £532 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £741 £750
90th Percentile £755 £783 £813
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 277 579 768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.58% 15.92% 18.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 397 632
10th Percentile £335 £398 £425
25th Percentile £422 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £748 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £589
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.91% +7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile - £44.09 £27.20
25th Percentile £12.75 £79.89 £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
Central London median hourly rate £20.25 £84.09 £35.00
% change year-on-year -75.92% +140.26% +52.17%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.94%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.98%) nginx
2 2 (1.98%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.98%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.98%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.99%) Camunda
3 1 (0.99%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.99%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 53 (52.48%) AWS
2 41 (40.59%) Azure
3 22 (21.78%) Serverless
4 17 (16.83%) GitHub
5 16 (15.84%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (12.87%) Amazon S3
7 12 (11.88%) Azure Functions
8 11 (10.89%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (10.89%) GCP
8 11 (10.89%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (9.90%) Azure AKS
10 7 (6.93%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (5.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (5.94%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (5.94%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (5.94%) Azure Storage
12 5 (4.95%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (2.97%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) Firewall
2 3 (2.97%) WAN
3 2 (1.98%) DNS
3 2 (1.98%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.99%) LAN
4 1 (0.99%) MPLS
4 1 (0.99%) MQTT
4 1 (0.99%) Multicast
4 1 (0.99%) Network Security
4 1 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.82%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.92%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.92%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.94%) MySQL
5 5 (4.95%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.95%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.97%) Tableau
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.99%) Big Data
9 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.99%) Scylla
9 1 (0.99%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 18 (17.82%) Jenkins
2 13 (12.87%) Git
3 12 (11.88%) GitLab
4 8 (7.92%) Selenium
5 7 (6.93%) JMeter
5 7 (6.93%) Maven
5 7 (6.93%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.94%) Bitbucket
6 6 (5.94%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.95%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.96%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.96%) JUnit
8 4 (3.96%) TestNG
9 3 (2.97%) Gradle
9 3 (2.97%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (2.97%) Mercurial
9 3 (2.97%) Mockito
9 3 (2.97%) Postman
9 3 (2.97%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.98%) REST Assured
General
1 26 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.84%) Finance
3 13 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.94%) Banking
4 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.97%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Law
7 1 (0.99%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (25.74%) Developer
2 14 (13.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (11.88%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (11.88%) Site Engineer
3 12 (11.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (10.89%) Senior
5 10 (9.90%) Python Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (6.93%) Architect
7 7 (6.93%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Lead
10 4 (3.96%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Python Developer
11 3 (2.97%) AWS Architect
11 3 (2.97%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) GCP Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (37.62%) Kafka
2 16 (15.84%) RESTful
3 11 (10.89%) .NET
3 11 (10.89%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (10.89%) React
4 10 (9.90%) Node.js
4 10 (9.90%) Spring
5 9 (8.91%) Spring Boot
6 8 (7.92%) .NET Core
7 7 (6.93%) pytest
7 7 (6.93%) REST
8 6 (5.94%) Blazor
8 6 (5.94%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.94%) Web Services
9 5 (4.95%) HTML
9 5 (4.95%) SOAP
10 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.96%) Django
10 4 (3.96%) WebSockets
11 3 (2.97%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.83%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.91%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.92%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.92%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.93%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.93%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.97%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) PKI
7 2 (1.98%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (31.68%) Linux
2 11 (10.89%) Windows
3 3 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.99%) Android
4 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.50%) DevOps
2 49 (48.51%) CI/CD
3 29 (28.71%) Microservices
4 22 (21.78%) Agile
5 17 (16.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (16.83%) Software Engineering
6 15 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (12.87%) Containerisation
7 13 (12.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (10.89%) Open Source
8 11 (10.89%) Test Automation
9 10 (9.90%) SDLC
10 9 (8.91%) Architectural Design
10 9 (8.91%) Front End Development
10 9 (8.91%) Full Stack Development
11 8 (7.92%) Multithreading
11 8 (7.92%) Task Automation
12 7 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 65 (64.36%) Python
2 31 (30.69%) Java
3 28 (27.72%) SQL
4 16 (15.84%) Go
4 16 (15.84%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.88%) C++
6 10 (9.90%) Shell Script
7 9 (8.91%) Bash
8 6 (5.94%) C#
8 6 (5.94%) PL/SQL
8 6 (5.94%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.94%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.95%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.98%) Clojure
10 2 (1.98%) Haskell
10 2 (1.98%) Perl
10 2 (1.98%) PHP
10 2 (1.98%) Rust
11 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (17.82%) SC Cleared
1 18 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.94%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.95%) Degree
4 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.99%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) NCSC
3 1 (0.99%) NIST
System Software
1 52 (51.49%) Docker
2 10 (9.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.99%) Ceph
5 1 (0.99%) KVM
5 1 (0.99%) NFS
Systems Management
1 41 (40.59%) Terraform
2 15 (14.85%) Ansible
3 14 (13.86%) Prometheus
4 12 (11.88%) Consul
4 12 (11.88%) Grafana
5 6 (5.94%) Argo
6 4 (3.96%) Puppet
7 3 (2.97%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.98%) Graylog
8 2 (1.98%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.98%) Nagios
8 2 (1.98%) Packer
9 1 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.99%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.99%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.99%) Nessus
9 1 (0.99%) SCCM
9 1 (0.99%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 19 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.90%) Oracle
2 10 (9.90%) SaltStack
3 6 (5.94%) MuleSoft
4 5 (4.95%) Google
5 3 (2.97%) Cisco
5 3 (2.97%) Databricks
5 3 (2.97%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.98%) IBM
6 2 (1.98%) Micro Focus
6 2 (1.98%) MKS
6 2 (1.98%) Splunk
6 2 (1.98%) VMware
7 1 (0.99%) Confluent
7 1 (0.99%) F5
7 1 (0.99%) Genesys
7 1 (0.99%) Juniper
7 1 (0.99%) New Relic
7 1 (0.99%) Terracotta
7 1 (0.99%) Veracode