Kubernetes Contracts in London

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 28 46 21
Rank change year-on-year +18 -25 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 896 772 2,113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 7.14% 4.33% 7.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.07% 35.48% 47.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 556 1,543
10th Percentile £409 £417 £481
25th Percentile £486 £488 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £573 £638
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -10.20% -
75th Percentile £738 £670 £738
90th Percentile £838 £775 £800
England median daily rate £575 £550 £620
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 14
10th Percentile - £55.25 £62.75
25th Percentile - £55.63 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.13% +0.79%
75th Percentile - £62.88 £90.00
90th Percentile - £65.35 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% -13.89% -7.10%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,988 2,176 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.84% 12.20% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,567 3,266
10th Percentile £363 £323 £400
25th Percentile £447 £437 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £788 £750 £789
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 42 41
10th Percentile £23.78 £18.00 £21.67
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.81 £83.00
90th Percentile £66.43 £69.70 £90.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in London.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
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 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 +18 136 £585 -1.47% 78
South London -3 24 £488 -11.36% 7
West London -6 8 £442 +17.87% 23
East London +15 4 £373 -24.37% 13
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
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 65 (7.25%) Apache Spark
2 55 (6.14%) Apache
3 40 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (3.57%) Confluence
5 23 (2.57%) nginx
6 11 (1.23%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.67%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.56%) Camunda
8 5 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.56%) Traefik
9 4 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.33%) JBoss
11 2 (0.22%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.22%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.11%) DataSynapse
12 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.11%) InVision
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.11%) Sketch
1 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Endur
2 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 522 (58.26%) AWS
2 299 (33.37%) Azure
3 139 (15.51%) Serverless
4 136 (15.18%) GCP
5 96 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
5 96 (10.71%) GitHub
6 90 (10.04%) OpenShift
7 82 (9.15%) Azure AKS
8 80 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (7.92%) Amazon S3
9 71 (7.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 66 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
11 64 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
13 54 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (3.91%) dbt
15 33 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
16 26 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
16 26 (2.90%) Entra ID
16 26 (2.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.25%) Firewall
2 39 (4.35%) DNS
3 27 (3.01%) TCP/IP
4 26 (2.90%) HTTP
5 24 (2.68%) VPN
6 7 (0.78%) DHCP
6 7 (0.78%) Internet
7 5 (0.56%) Network Security
7 5 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.45%) SMTP
8 4 (0.45%) SSL
9 3 (0.33%) FTP
9 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.33%) VSAN
10 2 (0.22%) BGP
10 2 (0.22%) DSL
10 2 (0.22%) MPLS
10 2 (0.22%) SAN
10 2 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (7.70%) MongoDB
3 60 (6.70%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (6.58%) NoSQL
5 43 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (4.46%) SQL Server
7 35 (3.91%) Apache Iceberg
8 32 (3.57%) Relational Database
9 31 (3.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 28 (3.13%) Apache Arrow
10 28 (3.13%) Apache Ignite
10 28 (3.13%) Dremio
10 28 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
11 23 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 23 (2.57%) MySQL
11 23 (2.57%) Redis
12 22 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (2.34%) Data Lake
14 20 (2.23%) Big Data
15 17 (1.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 201 (22.43%) Jenkins
2 110 (12.28%) GitLab
3 94 (10.49%) Git
4 47 (5.25%) JIRA
5 41 (4.58%) Artifactory
6 29 (3.24%) JUnit
7 28 (3.13%) SonarQube
8 26 (2.90%) Maven
9 17 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.79%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.45%) Gradle
12 11 (1.23%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (1.00%) Jasmine
15 8 (0.89%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.89%) MLflow
16 7 (0.78%) Mockito
16 7 (0.78%) Postman
16 7 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 221 (24.67%) Finance
2 167 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 112 (12.50%) Banking
4 96 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (6.36%) Front Office
7 48 (5.36%) Investment Banking
8 20 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.01%) Financial Institution
10 17 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.45%) Retail
13 10 (1.12%) Marketing
14 9 (1.00%) Law
15 8 (0.89%) Military
15 8 (0.89%) Publishing
16 7 (0.78%) Billing
17 3 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.33%) Legal
17 3 (0.33%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 238 (26.56%) Developer
2 230 (25.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 140 (15.63%) Senior
4 115 (12.83%) AWS Engineer
5 97 (10.83%) AWS DevOps
6 94 (10.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 84 (9.38%) Architect
8 74 (8.26%) Java Developer
8 74 (8.26%) Python Engineer
9 64 (7.14%) Lead
10 62 (6.92%) Data Engineer
11 60 (6.70%) Python Developer
12 47 (5.25%) Azure Engineer
12 47 (5.25%) Senior Developer
13 41 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
13 41 (4.58%) Software Engineer
14 40 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 37 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
16 33 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
16 33 (3.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (20.76%) Kafka
2 111 (12.39%) Spring
3 104 (11.61%) React
4 95 (10.60%) .NET
5 83 (9.26%) Spring Boot
6 52 (5.80%) Node.js
6 52 (5.80%) RESTful
7 49 (5.47%) FastAPI
8 47 (5.25%) REST
9 40 (4.46%) J2EE
10 37 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
11 36 (4.02%) AngularJS
12 33 (3.68%) Django
13 31 (3.46%) PySpark
14 30 (3.35%) HTML
14 30 (3.35%) OpenTelemetry
15 26 (2.90%) NumPy
15 26 (2.90%) Pandas
16 23 (2.57%) GraphQL
17 22 (2.46%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.24%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.46%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (2.12%) PKI
6 16 (1.79%) Hedge funds
7 13 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.34%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.34%) Private Cloud
8 12 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 7 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 177 (19.75%) Linux
2 52 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 37 (4.13%) Windows
4 32 (3.57%) Unix
5 19 (2.12%) CentOS
6 17 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.67%) Rocky
8 5 (0.56%) SUSE
9 4 (0.45%) Android
9 4 (0.45%) VMS
10 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.22%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (55.25%) DevOps
2 476 (53.13%) CI/CD
3 268 (29.91%) Containerisation
4 244 (27.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 240 (26.79%) Agile
6 239 (26.67%) Microservices
7 178 (19.87%) Software Engineering
8 147 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (9.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 88 (9.82%) Artificial Intelligence
11 86 (9.60%) Full-Stack Development
12 82 (9.15%) Test Automation
13 79 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
13 79 (8.82%) Open Source
14 73 (8.15%) Configuration Management
14 73 (8.15%) High Availability
15 71 (7.92%) Data Engineering
16 69 (7.70%) Machine Learning
17 64 (7.14%) Mentoring
18 63 (7.03%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 429 (47.88%) Python
2 269 (30.02%) Java
3 176 (19.64%) SQL
4 115 (12.83%) Go
5 114 (12.72%) JavaScript
6 106 (11.83%) C#
7 102 (11.38%) Bash
8 76 (8.48%) TypeScript
9 54 (6.03%) PowerShell
10 34 (3.79%) Bicep
11 28 (3.13%) C++
12 26 (2.90%) Shell Script
13 22 (2.46%) Scala
14 21 (2.34%) PL/SQL
15 20 (2.23%) Rust
16 13 (1.45%) Groovy
17 11 (1.23%) RPG
17 11 (1.23%) RPG IV
18 10 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
18 10 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 217 (24.22%) Security Cleared
2 193 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.69%) Degree
4 40 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 25 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.01%) AWS Certified Developer
8 17 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.56%) CISSP
11 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.56%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.45%) CISM
12 4 (0.45%) OCP
12 4 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.33%) CISA
13 3 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.57%) QA
2 11 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (1.00%) GDPR
5 8 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.78%) NCSC
7 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.56%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.22%) NIST
11 1 (0.11%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 501 (55.92%) Docker
2 25 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 15 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.67%) vSphere
6 4 (0.45%) Lustre
7 3 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.33%) Platform Symphony
7 3 (0.33%) vCloud
7 3 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.11%) Ceph
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
9 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 386 (43.08%) Terraform
2 183 (20.42%) Ansible
3 85 (9.49%) Grafana
4 78 (8.71%) Prometheus
5 42 (4.69%) Puppet
6 24 (2.68%) Argo
6 24 (2.68%) Progress Chef
7 21 (2.34%) Istio
8 16 (1.79%) Rancher
9 13 (1.45%) Kibana
9 13 (1.45%) Packer
10 9 (1.00%) Consul
11 8 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.89%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.78%) Nagios
12 7 (0.78%) Podman
13 6 (0.67%) HAProxy
13 6 (0.67%) Salt
14 5 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.56%) linkerd
Vendors
1 57 (6.36%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.14%) Google
3 47 (5.25%) Red Hat
4 38 (4.24%) Oracle
5 36 (4.02%) Splunk
6 33 (3.68%) VMware
7 25 (2.79%) Databricks
8 17 (1.90%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.23%) TIBCO
10 10 (1.12%) IBM
11 9 (1.00%) AppDynamics
11 9 (1.00%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.78%) Cisco
13 6 (0.67%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.56%) Apple
14 5 (0.56%) Dataiku
14 5 (0.56%) ESET
14 5 (0.56%) Okta
14 5 (0.56%) SAP
14 5 (0.56%) Virgin Media