Kubernetes Contracts in the City of London

Kubernetes (k8s)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 26 40 30
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 131 103 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.46% 4.69% 6.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.81% 37.18% 42.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 70 154
10th Percentile £425 £425 £500
25th Percentile £503 £488 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £594 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -2.42%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £745 £753 £784
Central London median daily rate £585 £594 £625
% change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -3.85%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 321 277 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.28% 12.61% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 194 396
10th Percentile £304 £350 £398
25th Percentile £452 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £655 £700
90th Percentile £725 £749 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - £44.09
25th Percentile - £12.75 £79.89
Median hourly rate - £20.25 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year - -75.92% +140.26%
75th Percentile - £32.81 £88.30
90th Percentile - £43.28 -
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £20.25 £84.09
% change year-on-year +30.62% -75.92% +140.26%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 3 (2.29%) Apache
1 3 (2.29%) Confluence
2 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.53%) nginx
3 1 (0.76%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.76%) Camunda
3 1 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 73 (55.73%) AWS
2 41 (31.30%) Azure
3 17 (12.98%) GitHub
4 16 (12.21%) Serverless
5 15 (11.45%) GCP
6 11 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.40%) Azure AKS
6 11 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (8.40%) OpenShift
7 9 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.11%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.05%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.29%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.58%) DNS
1 6 (4.58%) Firewall
2 5 (3.82%) VPN
3 2 (1.53%) DHCP
3 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.61%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (16.03%) MongoDB
3 18 (13.74%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.11%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.34%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.05%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (2.29%) Big Data
9 3 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.29%) MySQL
9 3 (2.29%) Redis
9 3 (2.29%) Tableau
10 2 (1.53%) Airbyte
10 2 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.76%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 23 (17.56%) Jenkins
2 15 (11.45%) GitLab
3 8 (6.11%) SonarQube
4 7 (5.34%) Git
4 7 (5.34%) JUnit
5 6 (4.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (4.58%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.82%) JIRA
7 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (3.05%) Gradle
7 4 (3.05%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.05%) Maven
7 4 (3.05%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.53%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.76%) ESLint
9 1 (0.76%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.76%) JBehave
9 1 (0.76%) Mocha
General
1 32 (24.43%) Finance
2 28 (21.37%) Social Skills
3 26 (19.85%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.63%) Banking
5 9 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.05%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.05%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Publishing
8 2 (1.53%) Front Office
8 2 (1.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Billing
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (35.88%) Developer
2 29 (22.14%) Java Developer
3 25 (19.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (16.03%) Senior
5 17 (12.98%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 13 (9.92%) Architect
7 11 (8.40%) Lead
7 11 (8.40%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.63%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Python Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Python Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.05%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.05%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (28.24%) Kafka
2 30 (22.90%) Spring
3 25 (19.08%) React
4 21 (16.03%) Spring Boot
5 17 (12.98%) .NET
6 12 (9.16%) Node.js
7 9 (6.87%) REST
8 6 (4.58%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (4.58%) RESTful
9 5 (3.82%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.82%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.82%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.82%) HTML
9 5 (3.82%) NumPy
9 5 (3.82%) Pandas
10 4 (3.05%) CSS
10 4 (3.05%) JMS
10 4 (3.05%) OAuth
10 4 (3.05%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.69%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.29%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.29%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.53%) DataPower
4 2 (1.53%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.53%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.53%) PKI
4 2 (1.53%) Social Media
5 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.76%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.50%) Linux
2 6 (4.58%) Unix
2 6 (4.58%) Windows
3 3 (2.29%) Rocky
4 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) SUSE
5 1 (0.76%) VMS
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (60.31%) DevOps
2 66 (50.38%) CI/CD
3 48 (36.64%) Microservices
4 39 (29.77%) Agile
4 39 (29.77%) Containerisation
5 33 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (22.90%) Software Engineering
7 19 (14.50%) API Development
7 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.74%) SOLID
9 17 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (12.98%) Test Automation
10 16 (12.21%) Clean Code
11 14 (10.69%) Configuration Management
12 11 (8.40%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (7.63%) Analytics
13 10 (7.63%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (7.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (6.87%) Cloud Security
14 9 (6.87%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.04%) Python
2 43 (32.82%) Java
3 35 (26.72%) SQL
4 32 (24.43%) JavaScript
5 19 (14.50%) C#
6 10 (7.63%) Bash
7 7 (5.34%) Go
8 6 (4.58%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.82%) Bicep
9 5 (3.82%) C++
9 5 (3.82%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.29%) Rust
11 3 (2.29%) Scala
11 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.53%) Perl
12 2 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.53%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 42 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 38 (29.01%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.98%) AWS Certified Developer
4 5 (3.82%) Degree
5 4 (3.05%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.05%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.82%) QA
2 2 (1.53%) Government Security Classifications
2 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (42.75%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Lustre
3 1 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.76%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (32.82%) Terraform
2 21 (16.03%) Ansible
3 9 (6.87%) Grafana
4 8 (6.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.29%) Argo
5 3 (2.29%) Consul
5 3 (2.29%) Podman
5 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.29%) Puppet
6 2 (1.53%) Istio
6 2 (1.53%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.76%) CASB
7 1 (0.76%) Cilium
7 1 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.76%) Kibana
7 1 (0.76%) Rancher
7 1 (0.76%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 7 (5.34%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.58%) Google
2 6 (4.58%) Splunk
3 5 (3.82%) Databricks
4 3 (2.29%) Oracle
4 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.53%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (1.53%) IBM
5 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.76%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.76%) Confluent
6 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.76%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.76%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.76%) Pega
6 1 (0.76%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.76%) TOWER Software