Cilium Contract Job Trends in London

Cilium
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London 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 432 363 395
Rank change year-on-year -69 +32 -
Contract jobs citing Cilium 9 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.045% 0.015% 0.006%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.41% 0.11% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £441 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% - -
75th Percentile £534 £395 -
90th Percentile £544 - -
England median daily rate £513 £390 -
% change year-on-year +31.41% - -

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,212 1,788 1,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.02% 13.37% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 1,175 1,377
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £437 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 27
10th Percentile £25.35 £23.60 £20.30
25th Percentile £35.00 £26.23 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +95.00% +24.07% -61.31%
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.13 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.85 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.00 £51.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +31.37% +36.00% -24.80%

Cilium
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Cilium job vacancy trend in London

Cilium
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cilium

Cilium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (11.11%) n8n
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) BGP
1 4 (44.44%) MPLS
1 4 (44.44%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Calico
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) WAN Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) eBPF
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
3 1 (11.11%) Loki
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Observability
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (11.11%) GitOps
5 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
5 1 (11.11%) RBAC
5 1 (11.11%) Secrets Management
5 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
3 4 (44.44%) Go
4 2 (22.22%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Istio
3 3 (33.33%) Grafana
4 2 (22.22%) Argo
4 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google