Kubernetes Engineer Contracts in England

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > England

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in England is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 517 594
Rank change year-on-year -18 +77 -118
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 13 151 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.31% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 116 166
10th Percentile £445 £550 £550
25th Percentile £516 £563 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £657 £700
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% -6.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £628 £863 £800
90th Percentile £649 - £888
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
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 Kubernetes Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 -15 7 £575 -20.69% 6
North of England +29 1 - - 3
Yorkshire +25 1 - -
South East +10 1 £525 -4.55%
East of England +8 1 £600 +4.35%
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
Midlands - 1 £450 - 2
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) Terraform
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (53.85%) Docker
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
6 3 (23.08%) AWS
6 3 (23.08%) Microservices
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (23.08%) Finance
6 3 (23.08%) .NET
6 3 (23.08%) Python
6 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (23.08%) Ansible
6 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) RBAC
7 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (15.38%) J2EE
7 2 (15.38%) Linux
7 2 (15.38%) C#
7 2 (15.38%) Java
7 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
7 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (15.38%) Scrum

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.69%) nginx
1 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Route 53
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Front Office
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) J2EE
2 2 (15.38%) YAML
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.69%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) RBAC
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 1 (7.69%) A/B Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
6 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (76.92%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Argo
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Istio
4 1 (7.69%) linkerd
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco
1 1 (7.69%) Juniper
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
1 1 (7.69%) VMware