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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 31 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 122 117 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.15% 5.39% 7.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.66% 38.87% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 78 144
10th Percentile £435 £425 £500
25th Percentile £498 £490 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £631
Median % change year-on-year - -4.95% -0.20%
75th Percentile £692 £688 £738
90th Percentile £750 £758 £784
Central London median daily rate £585 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -2.50% -5.88% -1.92%

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 286 301 547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.75% 13.88% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 211 358
10th Percentile £275 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £653 £700
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.82% -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - - £33.86
25th Percentile £26.75 £12.75 £55.60
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.25 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% -75.92% +173.46%
75th Percentile £30.25 £32.81 £88.30
90th Percentile - £43.28 -
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £20.25 £84.09
% change year-on-year +35.68% -75.92% +173.46%

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 10 June 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 5 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.28%) Apache
3 3 (2.46%) Confluence
3 3 (2.46%) nginx
4 1 (0.82%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.82%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 68 (55.74%) AWS
2 40 (32.79%) Azure
3 20 (16.39%) GitHub
4 19 (15.57%) GCP
5 13 (10.66%) Serverless
6 12 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (8.20%) Azure AKS
7 10 (8.20%) OpenShift
8 9 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.74%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (2.46%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (2.46%) Entra ID
13 3 (2.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.74%) Firewall
2 6 (4.92%) DNS
2 6 (4.92%) VPN
3 2 (1.64%) DHCP
3 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.82%) HTTP
4 1 (0.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.57%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.30%) MongoDB
3 13 (10.66%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.74%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.92%) Big Data
6 5 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.10%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.10%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.28%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.28%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.28%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (3.28%) Redis
8 3 (2.46%) Apache Hive
8 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.46%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.46%) Tableau
9 2 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (17.21%) Jenkins
2 17 (13.93%) GitLab
3 8 (6.56%) Git
4 7 (5.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (4.92%) Gradle
5 6 (4.92%) JUnit
5 6 (4.92%) Maven
5 6 (4.92%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.10%) JIRA
7 4 (3.28%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.28%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (3.28%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.28%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.64%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.82%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.82%) ESLint
9 1 (0.82%) git-flow
9 1 (0.82%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.82%) JBehave
9 1 (0.82%) Travis CI
General
1 30 (24.59%) Finance
2 28 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.03%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Banking
6 4 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Publishing
8 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.64%) Military
8 2 (1.64%) Retail
8 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.82%) Advertising
9 1 (0.82%) Billing
9 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Front Office
9 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (34.43%) Developer
2 24 (19.67%) Java Developer
3 21 (17.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (17.21%) Senior
4 13 (10.66%) Architect
5 12 (9.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 11 (9.02%) Lead
6 11 (9.02%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.20%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Site Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.28%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.95%) Kafka
2 22 (18.03%) Spring
3 18 (14.75%) React
4 15 (12.30%) Node.js
5 14 (11.48%) Spring Boot
6 12 (9.84%) .NET
7 8 (6.56%) REST
8 6 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (4.92%) GraphQL
9 5 (4.10%) HTML
9 5 (4.10%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (4.10%) RESTful
10 4 (3.28%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.28%) CSS
10 4 (3.28%) JMS
10 4 (3.28%) JPA
10 4 (3.28%) NumPy
10 4 (3.28%) Pandas
11 3 (2.46%) Jest
11 3 (2.46%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.28%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.46%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.46%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.64%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.64%) IVR
5 2 (1.64%) PKI
5 2 (1.64%) Social Media
6 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.21%) Linux
2 7 (5.74%) Unix
3 5 (4.10%) Windows
4 3 (2.46%) Rocky
5 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.82%) SUSE
5 1 (0.82%) VMS
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (60.66%) DevOps
2 65 (53.28%) CI/CD
3 44 (36.07%) Microservices
4 40 (32.79%) Containerisation
5 37 (30.33%) Agile
5 37 (30.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (18.03%) Software Engineering
7 20 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (13.93%) API Development
9 15 (12.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (11.48%) Analytics
10 14 (11.48%) Configuration Management
11 13 (10.66%) SOLID
12 12 (9.84%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (9.84%) Test Automation
13 11 (9.02%) Artificial Intelligence
13 11 (9.02%) Clean Code
13 11 (9.02%) Cloud Security
13 11 (9.02%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (8.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 61 (50.00%) Python
2 35 (28.69%) Java
3 29 (23.77%) SQL
4 27 (22.13%) JavaScript
5 17 (13.93%) C#
6 10 (8.20%) Bash
7 7 (5.74%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.92%) Go
9 5 (4.10%) Bicep
9 5 (4.10%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.28%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.46%) C++
12 2 (1.64%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.64%) Perl
12 2 (1.64%) Rust
12 2 (1.64%) Scala
12 2 (1.64%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.82%) CodeQL
13 1 (0.82%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 34 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 32 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.66%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (4.92%) Degree
5 5 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 4 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.46%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.10%) QA
2 4 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (41.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.82%) Lustre
2 1 (0.82%) Platform Symphony
2 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (40.98%) Terraform
2 20 (16.39%) Ansible
3 11 (9.02%) Grafana
4 10 (8.20%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.92%) Argo
5 6 (4.92%) Istio
5 6 (4.92%) Puppet
6 4 (3.28%) Consul
6 4 (3.28%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.64%) Cilium
7 2 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.64%) Kibana
7 2 (1.64%) Podman
8 1 (0.82%) CASB
8 1 (0.82%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.82%) logstash
8 1 (0.82%) Packer
8 1 (0.82%) Rancher
8 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.82%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 10 (8.20%) Google
2 9 (7.38%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.56%) Splunk
4 5 (4.10%) Databricks
5 2 (1.64%) Foundry
5 2 (1.64%) IBM
5 2 (1.64%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.64%) Oracle
5 2 (1.64%) Palantir
5 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.82%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.82%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.82%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.82%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.82%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.82%) Pega
6 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.82%) Solace
6 1 (0.82%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.82%) TOWER Software