Cilium Contract Job Trends in England

Cilium
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Cilium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 617 513 517
Rank change year-on-year -104 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Cilium 12 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.026% 0.018% 0.003%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.24% 0.13% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £450 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.41% - -
75th Percentile £663 £395 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 £390 £600
% change year-on-year +31.41% -35.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
England

Cilium 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,009 3,818 3,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.97% 13.86% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 2,535 2,773
10th Percentile £309 £281 £300
25th Percentile £417 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £609 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £710
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £515
% change year-on-year +3.70% -2.82% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 60 65
10th Percentile £20.95 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £44.86 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £51.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.37% +36.00% -24.80%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £64.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.96 £74.26
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -33.33%

Cilium
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cilium relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Cilium job vacancy trend in England

Cilium
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cilium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cilium

Cilium
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cilium in England over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cilium in England

Cilium
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cilium within the England region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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
London -69 9 £500 +28.21% 9
South West - 2 £625 - 2
North of England - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Cilium
UK

Cilium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (8.33%) n8n
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) BGP
2 4 (33.33%) MPLS
2 4 (33.33%) VPN
3 3 (25.00%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) Calico
5 1 (8.33%) NaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Operations Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) WAN Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Design Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Design Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) eBPF
3 3 (25.00%) Keycloak
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) Loki
4 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Observability
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Secrets Management
4 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
5 2 (16.67%) Open Source
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (41.67%) Go
4 2 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Grafana
2 5 (41.67%) Prometheus
3 4 (33.33%) Istio
4 2 (16.67%) Ansible
4 2 (16.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Arista
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk