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

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 32 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 115 120 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.66% 5.53% 7.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.35% 39.60% 44.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 82 146
10th Percentile £426 £428 £500
25th Percentile £500 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £631
Median % change year-on-year - -4.95% +0.20%
75th Percentile £688 £699 £738
90th Percentile £736 £798 £781
Central London median daily rate £585 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -2.50% -5.88% +0.20%

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 285 303 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.51% 13.97% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 213 357
10th Percentile £275 £350 £400
25th Percentile £418 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £657 £700
90th Percentile £750 £756 £775
Central London median daily rate £543 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.36% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £30.26 - £33.86
25th Percentile £35.53 £12.75 £55.60
Median hourly rate £46.11 £20.25 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +127.69% -75.92% +173.46%
75th Percentile £56.74 £32.81 £88.30
90th Percentile £62.04 £43.28 -
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £20.25 £84.09
% change year-on-year +40.74% -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 17 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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.48%) Apache
3 3 (2.61%) nginx
4 2 (1.74%) Confluence
5 1 (0.87%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.87%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 67 (58.26%) AWS
2 38 (33.04%) Azure
3 20 (17.39%) GitHub
4 19 (16.52%) GCP
5 12 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (10.43%) Serverless
6 10 (8.70%) OpenShift
7 9 (7.83%) Azure AKS
7 9 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.09%) Firewall
2 6 (5.22%) DNS
2 6 (5.22%) VPN
3 2 (1.74%) DHCP
3 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.87%) HTTP
4 1 (0.87%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 12 (10.43%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.22%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.35%) Big Data
5 5 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.48%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.61%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.61%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.61%) Redis
8 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.74%) MySQL
8 2 (1.74%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (18.26%) Jenkins
2 17 (14.78%) GitLab
3 7 (6.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 7 (6.09%) Git
4 6 (5.22%) Gradle
4 6 (5.22%) JUnit
4 6 (5.22%) Maven
4 6 (5.22%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.48%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (3.48%) IntelliJ
5 4 (3.48%) JIRA
5 4 (3.48%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.74%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.87%) ESLint
8 1 (0.87%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.87%) JBehave
8 1 (0.87%) Mocha
General
1 28 (24.35%) Finance
1 28 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.96%) Banking
5 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.74%) Military
6 2 (1.74%) Publishing
6 2 (1.74%) Retail
6 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.87%) Advertising
7 1 (0.87%) Billing
Job Titles
1 41 (35.65%) Developer
2 24 (20.87%) Java Developer
3 21 (18.26%) Senior
4 20 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (10.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 11 (9.57%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.70%) Architect
7 10 (8.70%) Lead
8 9 (7.83%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Site Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.48%) GCP Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.48%) Kafka
2 22 (19.13%) Spring
3 16 (13.91%) React
4 14 (12.17%) Spring Boot
5 12 (10.43%) Node.js
6 11 (9.57%) .NET
7 7 (6.09%) REST
8 5 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (4.35%) GraphQL
8 5 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (3.48%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.48%) HTML
9 4 (3.48%) JMS
9 4 (3.48%) JPA
9 4 (3.48%) RESTful
10 3 (2.61%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.61%) CSS
10 3 (2.61%) NumPy
10 3 (2.61%) OAuth
10 3 (2.61%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.17%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.48%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.61%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (2.61%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.61%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.74%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.74%) IVR
5 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.74%) PKI
5 2 (1.74%) Social Media
6 1 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.26%) Linux
2 7 (6.09%) Unix
3 5 (4.35%) Windows
4 3 (2.61%) Rocky
5 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.87%) VMS
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (63.48%) DevOps
2 61 (53.04%) CI/CD
3 42 (36.52%) Microservices
4 36 (31.30%) Agile
4 36 (31.30%) Containerisation
5 35 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 17 (14.78%) API Development
8 14 (12.17%) Configuration Management
9 13 (11.30%) Analytics
9 13 (11.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (11.30%) SOLID
10 12 (10.43%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (9.57%) Clean Code
11 11 (9.57%) Cloud Security
12 10 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (8.70%) Observability
12 10 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 56 (48.70%) Python
2 35 (30.43%) Java
3 26 (22.61%) SQL
4 25 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.17%) C#
6 10 (8.70%) Bash
7 6 (5.22%) Go
7 6 (5.22%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.35%) Bicep
8 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.61%) C++
11 2 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.74%) Perl
11 2 (1.74%) Rust
11 2 (1.74%) Scala
11 2 (1.74%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.87%) CodeQL
12 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 29 (25.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.30%) AWS Certified Developer
4 6 (5.22%) Degree
5 5 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (3.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 4 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.87%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) QA
2 4 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (40.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.87%) Lustre
2 1 (0.87%) Platform Symphony
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (42.61%) Terraform
2 20 (17.39%) Ansible
3 12 (10.43%) Grafana
3 12 (10.43%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.22%) Argo
4 6 (5.22%) Istio
4 6 (5.22%) Puppet
5 4 (3.48%) Consul
5 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.74%) Cilium
6 2 (1.74%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.74%) Kibana
6 2 (1.74%) Podman
7 1 (0.87%) CASB
7 1 (0.87%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.87%) logstash
7 1 (0.87%) Packer
7 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (8.70%) Google
2 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.96%) Splunk
4 4 (3.48%) Databricks
5 2 (1.74%) Foundry
5 2 (1.74%) IBM
5 2 (1.74%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle
5 2 (1.74%) Palantir
5 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.87%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.87%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.87%) OpenLink
6 1 (0.87%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.87%) Pega
6 1 (0.87%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.87%) Solace
6 1 (0.87%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.87%) TOWER Software