Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Kubernetes (k8s)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 27 35
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 81 134 137
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.44% 6.49% 5.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.79% 38.29% 36.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 88 103
10th Percentile £410 £455 £450
25th Percentile £513 £517 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -2.44% -5.38%
75th Percentile £669 £701 £720
90th Percentile £783 £775 £847
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.44% -5.38%

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 247 350 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.54% 16.94% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 229 287
10th Percentile £363 £350 £370
25th Percentile £448 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £673
90th Percentile £755 £726 £754
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £529
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.75% -11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £20.24 - -
25th Percentile £20.34 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% +397.78% +15.38%
75th Percentile £22.91 - £23.75
90th Percentile £23.39 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.87 £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -78.69% +397.78% +12.50%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the City of London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the City of London

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kubernetes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.23%) Confluence
1 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 35 (43.21%) AWS
2 27 (33.33%) GCP
3 24 (29.63%) Azure
4 21 (25.93%) GitHub
5 15 (18.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 12 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.17%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.94%) Azure AKS
9 4 (4.94%) SaaS
9 4 (4.94%) Serverless
9 4 (4.94%) Slack
10 3 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.70%) Apigee
10 3 (3.70%) Cloud Run
11 2 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) NAS
2 1 (1.23%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.23%) SAN
2 1 (1.23%) SNMP
2 1 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.35%) Relational Database
3 8 (9.88%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.70%) DB2
6 3 (3.70%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.70%) MemSQL
6 3 (3.70%) MySQL
6 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.70%) Sybase IQ
7 2 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.23%) Big Data
8 1 (1.23%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.23%) Kdb+
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.23%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 16 (19.75%) Jenkins
2 14 (17.28%) Git
2 14 (17.28%) GitLab
3 7 (8.64%) Gradle
3 7 (8.64%) SonarQube
4 5 (6.17%) Maven
5 4 (4.94%) Selenium
6 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.47%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.47%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.47%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.23%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.23%) JIRA
7 1 (1.23%) JUnit
7 1 (1.23%) Mockito
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.23%) Snyk
7 1 (1.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (29.63%) Finance
1 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.22%) Banking
3 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.64%) Investment Banking
5 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.94%) Front Office
7 3 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Billing
9 1 (1.23%) Games
9 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Retail
9 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Developer
2 17 (20.99%) Senior
3 14 (17.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (12.35%) GCP Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.64%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Lead
9 3 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.70%) GCP DevOps
9 3 (3.70%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Site Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) REST
1 8 (9.88%) RESTful
2 6 (7.41%) .NET
2 6 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (7.41%) Spring
3 5 (6.17%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (6.17%) Kafka
4 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
4 4 (4.94%) Node.js
4 4 (4.94%) React
5 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.70%) LangChain
5 3 (3.70%) Loki
5 3 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.47%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.47%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.47%) SOAP
7 1 (1.23%) LDAP
7 1 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.41%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.17%) Fixed Income
5 4 (4.94%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.94%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.47%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Replication
8 1 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (64.20%) CI/CD
2 47 (58.02%) DevOps
3 34 (41.98%) Containerisation
4 29 (35.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (25.93%) Microservices
6 19 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (19.75%) Observability
7 16 (19.75%) Software Engineering
7 16 (19.75%) Test Automation
8 13 (16.05%) Code Quality
9 11 (13.58%) Agile
9 11 (13.58%) Migration
9 11 (13.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (12.35%) AI
11 9 (11.11%) API Development
11 9 (11.11%) Design Patterns
11 9 (11.11%) Machine Learning
12 8 (9.88%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (9.88%) RBAC
13 7 (8.64%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 45 (55.56%) Python
2 32 (39.51%) Java
3 12 (14.81%) SQL
4 8 (9.88%) Go
5 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.17%) Bash
7 3 (3.70%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.47%) Bicep
8 2 (2.47%) C#
8 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.47%) PromQL
8 2 (2.47%) Ruby
8 2 (2.47%) Rust
8 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) C++
9 1 (1.23%) ProC
9 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.23%) CCSP
5 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.23%) CISSP
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) Degree
5 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.23%) MCP
5 1 (1.23%) OSCP
5 1 (1.23%) SANS
5 1 (1.23%) VCAP
5 1 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) GDPR
2 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.94%) QA
3 3 (3.70%) NIST
4 2 (2.47%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.47%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.23%) GRC
5 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.23%) NCSC
5 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (59.26%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (43.21%) Terraform
2 10 (12.35%) Argo
2 10 (12.35%) Grafana
3 9 (11.11%) Ansible
3 9 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 6 (7.41%) Kibana
5 5 (6.17%) Istio
5 5 (6.17%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (6.17%) logstash
6 2 (2.47%) Karpenter
6 2 (2.47%) Kustomize
6 2 (2.47%) Puppet
7 1 (1.23%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (22.22%) Google
2 8 (9.88%) Oracle
3 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.64%) Splunk
4 5 (6.17%) Solace
5 3 (3.70%) Databricks
5 3 (3.70%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.47%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.23%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.23%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.23%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.23%) Foundry
7 1 (1.23%) IBM
7 1 (1.23%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.23%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.23%) VMware