Kubernetes Contracts in East London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 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 16 31 28
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 3.81% 1.73% 2.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.67% 15.38% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile - £423 £708
25th Percentile £250 £431 £719
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £493 £763
Median % change year-on-year -24.37% -35.41% +9.71%
75th Percentile £518 £608 £800
90th Percentile £560 £731 -
London median daily rate £600 £573 £638
% change year-on-year +4.80% -10.20% -

All Systems Management Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 15 26 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 14.29% 11.26% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 17
10th Percentile £243 £212 £195
25th Percentile £250 £380 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £440 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.59% -20.00% +0.46%
75th Percentile £585 £520 £700
90th Percentile £592 £544 £770
London median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in East London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in East London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in East London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the East London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets +9 3 £250 -49.24% 1
Docklands, London - 1 £575 -
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 1 (25.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Gen AI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow