Kubernetes Engineer Contracts in London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
England > London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in London is £694, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 384 368
Rank change year-on-year +61 -16 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 30 7 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.039% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.042% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 102
10th Percentile £475 £475 £550
25th Percentile £575 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £694 £575 £725
Median % change year-on-year +20.65% -20.69% +3.57%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £863
90th Percentile £838 £683 -
England median daily rate £600 £563 £670
% change year-on-year +6.67% -15.98% -4.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 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
Central London +4 1 £414 -28.00% 2
Kubernetes Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (80.00%) Terraform
3 18 (60.00%) Python
4 17 (56.67%) Linux
4 17 (56.67%) Ansible
4 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
5 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (53.33%) DevOps
6 13 (43.33%) Jenkins
6 13 (43.33%) AWS
7 12 (40.00%) Finance
8 11 (36.67%) Cloud Native
9 10 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (30.00%) GitOps
10 9 (30.00%) Docker
10 9 (30.00%) Java
10 9 (30.00%) Amazon S3
10 9 (30.00%) Agile
11 8 (26.67%) Rancher
11 8 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (23.33%) OpenShift
12 7 (23.33%) High Availability
12 7 (23.33%) Open Source
13 6 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
13 6 (20.00%) Banking
13 6 (20.00%) Go
13 6 (20.00%) Artifactory
13 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
13 6 (20.00%) Grafana

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (23.33%) OpenShift
4 6 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (16.67%) Serverless
6 4 (13.33%) GCP
6 4 (13.33%) GitHub
7 3 (10.00%) Azure
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (3.33%) SAN
1 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (13.33%) Hadoop
2 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (10.00%) GitLab
4 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 2 (6.67%) Liquibase
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.33%) Git
5 1 (3.33%) Jaeger
General
1 12 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Banking
3 5 (16.67%) Front Office
4 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) J2EE
1 5 (16.67%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.33%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.33%) LDAP
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.33%) OpenID
3 1 (3.33%) SAML
3 1 (3.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Tandem
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 16 (53.33%) DevOps
2 16 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (30.00%) Agile
4 9 (30.00%) GitOps
5 8 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (23.33%) High Availability
6 7 (23.33%) Open Source
7 6 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) Asset Management
8 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 5 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 5 (16.67%) Financial Modelling
8 5 (16.67%) Observability
9 4 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (13.33%) Microservices
9 4 (13.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) Go
4 3 (10.00%) Bash
5 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.67%) SQL
6 1 (3.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.33%) OCP
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 30 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (80.00%) Terraform
3 17 (56.67%) Ansible
4 8 (26.67%) Rancher
5 6 (20.00%) Grafana
6 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (6.67%) Argo
7 2 (6.67%) Puppet
8 1 (3.33%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (3.33%) Karpenter
8 1 (3.33%) Podman
8 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Splunk
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) Dell
3 1 (3.33%) EMC
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) HP
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle