Kubernetes Contracts in Croydon

Kubernetes (k8s)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 22 42 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 24.18% 28.97% 32.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 84.62% 76.36% 72.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 47
10th Percentile £454 £362 £496
25th Percentile £463 £463 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £649
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -16.80% +8.17%
75th Percentile £704 £628 £725
90th Percentile £742 £630 -
South London median daily rate £488 £550 £649
% change year-on-year -11.36% -15.25% +8.17%

All Systems Management Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 26 55 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 28.57% 37.93% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 43 67
10th Percentile £449 £363 £473
25th Percentile £463 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £583
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -9.87% -2.92%
75th Percentile £600 £567 £678
90th Percentile £741 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £485 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -5.37% -6.82% -4.35%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Croydon

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Croydon

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Croydon

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (22.73%) Confluence
2 3 (13.64%) Apache
3 2 (9.09%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (27.27%) Serverless
4 5 (22.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
5 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (18.18%) IaaS
5 4 (18.18%) PaaS
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (13.64%) Azure
6 3 (13.64%) GCP
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.55%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.64%) MySQL
3 2 (9.09%) GIS
3 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.09%) Redis
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) GitLab
1 5 (22.73%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) Git
3 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.09%) JMeter
4 2 (9.09%) JUnit
4 2 (9.09%) Mockito
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Java Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Kafka
1 7 (31.82%) Spring
2 4 (18.18%) HTML
2 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 4 (18.18%) XML
3 3 (13.64%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (13.64%) Keycloak
4 2 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.09%) Apache Camel
4 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 2 (9.09%) jQuery
4 2 (9.09%) JSON
4 2 (9.09%) REST
4 2 (9.09%) Web Services
4 2 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
1 3 (13.64%) PKI
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Microservices
2 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 12 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 10 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (45.45%) TDD
4 8 (36.36%) Code Quality
4 8 (36.36%) DevOps
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
6 4 (18.18%) Refactoring
6 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (18.18%) Task Automation
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.64%) CQRS
7 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
7 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
7 3 (13.64%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) Bash
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (86.36%) Security Cleared
2 17 (77.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 4 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Ansible
2 5 (22.73%) Grafana
2 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.09%) Istio
3 2 (9.09%) Kibana
4 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.55%) Puppet
4 1 (4.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Dynatrace
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Confluent