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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 29 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 108 245 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.98% 6.90% 7.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.85% 43.52% 41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 148 265
10th Percentile £433 £500 £475
25th Percentile £490 £531 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £641
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.42% +11.39%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £750
90th Percentile £749 £775 £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 278 563 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.83% 15.85% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 382 624
10th Percentile £333 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £510 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £755 £775 £784
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +8.80%
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% -
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% -

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 7 May 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 (5.56%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (2.78%) nginx
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.85%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.85%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.85%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) Camunda
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.93%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Endur
1 1 (0.93%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 56 (51.85%) AWS
2 46 (42.59%) Azure
3 22 (20.37%) Serverless
4 17 (15.74%) GitHub
5 16 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (12.96%) Amazon S3
7 12 (11.11%) Azure Functions
8 11 (10.19%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (10.19%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (10.19%) GCP
8 11 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (9.26%) Azure AKS
10 8 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (6.48%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (5.56%) Azure Storage
13 5 (4.63%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.70%) Firewall
2 3 (2.78%) WAN
3 2 (1.85%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.93%) DNS
4 1 (0.93%) LAN
4 1 (0.93%) MPLS
4 1 (0.93%) MQTT
4 1 (0.93%) Multicast
4 1 (0.93%) Network Security
4 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.59%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.41%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.48%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.56%) MySQL
5 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.63%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.78%) Tableau
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.93%) Big Data
9 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.93%) Scylla
9 1 (0.93%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 18 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.96%) Git
3 12 (11.11%) GitLab
4 8 (7.41%) Selenium
4 8 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 7 (6.48%) JMeter
5 7 (6.48%) Maven
6 6 (5.56%) Bitbucket
6 6 (5.56%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.63%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.70%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.70%) JUnit
8 4 (3.70%) TestNG
9 3 (2.78%) Gradle
9 3 (2.78%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (2.78%) Mercurial
9 3 (2.78%) Mockito
9 3 (2.78%) Postman
9 3 (2.78%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.85%) REST Assured
General
1 27 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.81%) Finance
3 14 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.56%) Banking
5 5 (4.63%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (27.78%) Developer
2 17 (15.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (12.04%) Full Stack Developer
3 13 (12.04%) Site Engineer
3 13 (12.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Python Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Senior
5 8 (7.41%) Architect
6 7 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (6.48%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Java Developer
7 5 (4.63%) Lead
8 4 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (3.70%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Python Developer
9 3 (2.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (36.11%) Kafka
2 17 (15.74%) RESTful
3 15 (13.89%) .NET
4 12 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 11 (10.19%) React
6 10 (9.26%) Node.js
6 10 (9.26%) Spring
7 9 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 8 (7.41%) .NET Core
9 7 (6.48%) pytest
9 7 (6.48%) REST
10 6 (5.56%) Blazor
10 6 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (5.56%) Svelte
10 6 (5.56%) Web Services
11 5 (4.63%) HTML
11 5 (4.63%) SOAP
12 4 (3.70%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.70%) Django
12 4 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (9.26%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.48%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.48%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.48%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.78%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) PKI
7 2 (1.85%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (30.56%) Linux
2 11 (10.19%) Windows
3 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.93%) Android
4 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (49.07%) DevOps
2 50 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 30 (27.78%) Microservices
4 23 (21.30%) Agile
5 17 (15.74%) Software Engineering
6 16 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (12.04%) Full Stack Development
9 12 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 12 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (10.19%) Open Source
10 11 (10.19%) Test Automation
11 10 (9.26%) SDLC
12 9 (8.33%) Architectural Design
12 9 (8.33%) Front End Development
12 9 (8.33%) Task Automation
13 8 (7.41%) Analytical Thinking
13 8 (7.41%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 66 (61.11%) Python
2 33 (30.56%) Java
3 32 (29.63%) SQL
4 16 (14.81%) Go
4 16 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.11%) C++
6 11 (10.19%) Shell Script
7 10 (9.26%) C#
8 9 (8.33%) Bash
9 6 (5.56%) PL/SQL
9 6 (5.56%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.56%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.63%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.85%) Clojure
11 2 (1.85%) Haskell
11 2 (1.85%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.85%) PHP
11 2 (1.85%) Rust
12 1 (0.93%) C
12 1 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 18 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 6 (5.56%) Degree
3 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) NCSC
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (51.85%) Docker
2 11 (10.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.93%) Ceph
5 1 (0.93%) NFS
Systems Management
1 41 (37.96%) Terraform
2 16 (14.81%) Prometheus
3 14 (12.96%) Ansible
3 14 (12.96%) Consul
4 13 (12.04%) Grafana
5 6 (5.56%) Argo
6 4 (3.70%) Puppet
7 3 (2.78%) Packer
7 3 (2.78%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.85%) Graylog
8 2 (1.85%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.85%) Nagios
9 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.93%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.93%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.93%) Mesos
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.93%) Nessus
9 1 (0.93%) SCCM
9 1 (0.93%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 20 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.19%) SaltStack
3 10 (9.26%) Oracle
4 7 (6.48%) Databricks
5 6 (5.56%) MuleSoft
6 5 (4.63%) Google
7 3 (2.78%) Cisco
7 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.85%) IBM
8 2 (1.85%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.85%) MKS
8 2 (1.85%) Splunk
8 2 (1.85%) VMware
9 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.93%) F5
9 1 (0.93%) Genesys
9 1 (0.93%) Juniper
9 1 (0.93%) New Relic
9 1 (0.93%) Terracotta
9 1 (0.93%) Veracode