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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 30 19
Rank change year-on-year -12 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 104 239 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.67% 6.46% 7.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.24% 41.57% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 154 281
10th Percentile £425 £500 £475
25th Percentile £488 £532 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £750
90th Percentile £751 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 287 575 782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.89% 15.54% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 400 640
10th Percentile £350 £395 £425
25th Percentile £425 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £655 £700 £700
90th Percentile £756 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% +7.27%
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% +52.17%
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% +52.17%

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 18 April 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 (5.77%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.92%) nginx
2 2 (1.92%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.92%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.92%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.96%) Camunda
3 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.96%) Tornado
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 55 (52.88%) AWS
2 40 (38.46%) Azure
3 23 (22.12%) Serverless
4 17 (16.35%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (16.35%) GitHub
5 13 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 12 (11.54%) Azure Functions
6 12 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (10.58%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (10.58%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (10.58%) GCP
8 10 (9.62%) Azure AKS
9 7 (6.73%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (6.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (5.77%) Azure Storage
11 5 (4.81%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (2.88%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) DNS
1 2 (1.92%) Firewall
1 2 (1.92%) WAN
2 1 (0.96%) Internet
2 1 (0.96%) LAN
2 1 (0.96%) MPLS
2 1 (0.96%) MQTT
2 1 (0.96%) Multicast
2 1 (0.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.31%) MongoDB
2 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
2 9 (8.65%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.73%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.73%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.77%) MySQL
5 5 (4.81%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.81%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.88%) Tableau
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.96%) Big Data
9 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.96%) Scylla
9 1 (0.96%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 17 (16.35%) Jenkins
2 12 (11.54%) Git
3 10 (9.62%) GitLab
4 8 (7.69%) Selenium
4 8 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 7 (6.73%) JMeter
5 7 (6.73%) Maven
6 6 (5.77%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.81%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.85%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.85%) JUnit
8 4 (3.85%) TestNG
9 3 (2.88%) Gradle
9 3 (2.88%) Mercurial
9 3 (2.88%) Mockito
9 3 (2.88%) Postman
10 2 (1.92%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.92%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (22.12%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.54%) Finance
4 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.77%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Law
8 1 (0.96%) Marketing
8 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (26.92%) Developer
2 13 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (11.54%) Site Engineer
3 12 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (10.58%) Senior
5 10 (9.62%) Python Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.65%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (6.73%) Architect
8 6 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Lead
9 5 (4.81%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.85%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Python Developer
11 3 (2.88%) AWS Architect
11 3 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (2.88%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (2.88%) GCP Engineer
11 3 (2.88%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (37.50%) Kafka
2 16 (15.38%) RESTful
3 14 (13.46%) .NET
4 11 (10.58%) .NET Core
4 11 (10.58%) Node.js
4 11 (10.58%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (10.58%) React
5 10 (9.62%) Spring
6 9 (8.65%) REST
6 9 (8.65%) Spring Boot
7 7 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.73%) pytest
7 7 (6.73%) Web Services
8 6 (5.77%) Blazor
9 5 (4.81%) Django
9 5 (4.81%) HTML
9 5 (4.81%) SOAP
10 4 (3.85%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.85%) WebSockets
11 3 (2.88%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.65%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.88%) Machine to Machine
6 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.92%) PKI
6 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.92%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.96%) Clustering
7 1 (0.96%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.96%) DataPower
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.96%) MPEG
7 1 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.77%) Linux
2 9 (8.65%) Windows
3 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (45.19%) CI/CD
1 47 (45.19%) DevOps
2 30 (28.85%) Microservices
3 22 (21.15%) Software Engineering
4 21 (20.19%) Agile
5 17 (16.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 13 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (10.58%) Open Source
10 10 (9.62%) SDLC
10 10 (9.62%) Test Automation
11 9 (8.65%) Architectural Design
11 9 (8.65%) Front End Development
11 9 (8.65%) Full Stack Development
12 8 (7.69%) Multithreading
12 8 (7.69%) Task Automation
13 7 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 63 (60.58%) Python
2 33 (31.73%) Java
3 27 (25.96%) SQL
4 17 (16.35%) Go
4 17 (16.35%) JavaScript
5 11 (10.58%) C++
6 10 (9.62%) Shell Script
7 9 (8.65%) C#
8 7 (6.73%) Bash
9 6 (5.77%) PL/SQL
9 6 (5.77%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.81%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.81%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.88%) Perl
12 2 (1.92%) Clojure
12 2 (1.92%) Haskell
12 2 (1.92%) PHP
12 2 (1.92%) Rust
13 1 (0.96%) R
13 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 20 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.85%) Degree
4 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.96%) NCSC
3 1 (0.96%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (53.85%) Docker
2 10 (9.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.96%) Ceph
4 1 (0.96%) KVM
4 1 (0.96%) NFS
Systems Management
1 38 (36.54%) Terraform
2 14 (13.46%) Ansible
2 14 (13.46%) Prometheus
3 12 (11.54%) Consul
3 12 (11.54%) Grafana
4 6 (5.77%) Argo
5 4 (3.85%) Puppet
6 3 (2.88%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.92%) Check_MK
7 2 (1.92%) Graylog
7 2 (1.92%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.92%) Nagios
7 2 (1.92%) Packer
7 2 (1.92%) Salt
7 2 (1.92%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.96%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.96%) Nessus
8 1 (0.96%) SCCM
8 1 (0.96%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 18 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.62%) Oracle
2 10 (9.62%) SaltStack
3 6 (5.77%) MuleSoft
4 5 (4.81%) Google
5 3 (2.88%) Cisco
5 3 (2.88%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.92%) Databricks
6 2 (1.92%) IBM
6 2 (1.92%) Micro Focus
6 2 (1.92%) MKS
6 2 (1.92%) Splunk
6 2 (1.92%) VMware
7 1 (0.96%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.96%) Confluent
7 1 (0.96%) F5
7 1 (0.96%) Genesys
7 1 (0.96%) Juniper
7 1 (0.96%) New Relic
7 1 (0.96%) Terracotta