Kubernetes Contracts in London

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 21 19
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 762 2,117 3,139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.30% 7.82% 8.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.31% 47.22% 46.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 1,546 2,395
10th Percentile £417 £481 £475
25th Percentile £484 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £638 £640
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% -0.27% +16.36%
75th Percentile £666 £738 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £550 £620 £613
% change year-on-year -11.29% +1.22% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 6
10th Percentile £55.25 £62.75 £75.00
25th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £75.31
Median hourly rate £57.50 £80.00 £79.38
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +0.79% +16.73%
75th Percentile £62.88 £90.00 £84.38
90th Percentile £65.35 - £85.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £72.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -13.89% -7.10% +45.54%

All Systems Management Skills
London

Kubernetes is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,158 4,483 6,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.19% 16.56% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,553 3,271 5,166
10th Percentile £313 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 41 46
10th Percentile £18.00 £21.67 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £51.25 £22.27
Median hourly rate £25.36 £67.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -62.16% +180.22% -40.23%
75th Percentile £53.81 £83.00 £43.25
90th Percentile £69.70 £90.00 £80.63
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
Central London -20 103 £600 -4.00% 32
South London 0 42 £550 -15.25% 6
West London -6 26 £375 -37.50% 9
East London -5 4 £493 -35.41% 15
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 40 (5.25%) Confluence
2 28 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.89%) OpenStack
4 15 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.57%) Apache
6 9 (1.18%) BizTalk Server
7 8 (1.05%) nginx
8 7 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.79%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.79%) Tornado
10 5 (0.66%) IIS
11 4 (0.52%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.52%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.39%) Camunda
12 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.26%) CMS
13 2 (0.26%) JBoss
13 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.66%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 429 (56.30%) AWS
2 245 (32.15%) Azure
3 147 (19.29%) GCP
4 96 (12.60%) Serverless
5 88 (11.55%) GitHub
6 72 (9.45%) Amazon S3
7 62 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
10 49 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (6.04%) OpenShift
12 42 (5.51%) Azure AKS
13 38 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (4.33%) PaaS
15 31 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.41%) Azure Functions
17 25 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 23 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
19 22 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
19 22 (2.89%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.07%) HTTP
2 30 (3.94%) Firewall
3 26 (3.41%) DNS
4 17 (2.23%) DHCP
5 16 (2.10%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.97%) SAN
7 12 (1.57%) NAS
8 11 (1.44%) Network Security
9 10 (1.31%) Kerberos
10 9 (1.18%) VPN
11 8 (1.05%) VLAN
12 6 (0.79%) WAN
12 6 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.52%) 4G
13 4 (0.52%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.52%) LAN
14 3 (0.39%) DMZ
14 3 (0.39%) IPv4
14 3 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (7.87%) NoSQL
3 55 (7.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 50 (6.56%) MongoDB
5 43 (5.64%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.51%) Relational Database
7 40 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (3.81%) Big Data
9 23 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
10 22 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (2.62%) MySQL
12 18 (2.36%) DynamoDB
13 17 (2.23%) RDBMS
14 16 (2.10%) BigQuery
14 16 (2.10%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (1.31%) Apache Arrow
17 10 (1.31%) Dremio
18 9 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 182 (23.88%) Jenkins
2 132 (17.32%) Git
3 66 (8.66%) GitLab
4 49 (6.43%) JIRA
5 29 (3.81%) TeamCity
6 26 (3.41%) JUnit
7 24 (3.15%) Selenium
8 21 (2.76%) Cypress.io
9 20 (2.62%) JMeter
9 20 (2.62%) Maven
10 17 (2.23%) Bitbucket
10 17 (2.23%) Cucumber
11 16 (2.10%) Mockito
12 13 (1.71%) SonarQube
13 12 (1.57%) CircleCI
14 11 (1.44%) Gradle
15 9 (1.18%) Artifactory
15 9 (1.18%) TestNG
16 7 (0.92%) ScalaTest
17 6 (0.79%) Liquibase
General
1 138 (18.11%) Finance
2 123 (16.14%) Social Skills
3 60 (7.87%) Public Sector
4 49 (6.43%) Banking
5 46 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.10%) Law
6 16 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (2.10%) Telecoms
7 15 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.18%) Tech for Good
10 8 (1.05%) Retail
11 6 (0.79%) Front Office
12 5 (0.66%) Marketing
13 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.39%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 221 (29.00%) Developer
2 153 (20.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 100 (13.12%) Senior
4 69 (9.06%) AWS Engineer
5 55 (7.22%) Architect
5 55 (7.22%) Java Developer
6 53 (6.96%) Software Engineer
7 43 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
8 41 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 41 (5.38%) Lead
8 41 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 36 (4.72%) Full Stack Developer
9 36 (4.72%) Site Engineer
10 35 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
10 35 (4.59%) Scala Developer
11 33 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 33 (4.33%) Python Engineer
12 30 (3.94%) Python Developer
13 28 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (3.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (21.92%) Kafka
2 89 (11.68%) React
3 80 (10.50%) Node.js
4 76 (9.97%) Spring Boot
5 71 (9.32%) RESTful
6 70 (9.19%) Spring
7 67 (8.79%) REST
8 49 (6.43%) .NET
9 40 (5.25%) Elastic Stack
10 36 (4.72%) Akka
11 32 (4.20%) Web Services
12 31 (4.07%) .NET Core
13 30 (3.94%) HTML
14 22 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (2.76%) AngularJS
15 21 (2.76%) CSS
15 21 (2.76%) Django
15 21 (2.76%) SOAP
16 19 (2.49%) Hibernate
16 19 (2.49%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (4.33%) Cloud Native
3 31 (4.07%) Public Cloud
4 28 (3.67%) Clustering
5 27 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 26 (3.41%) Algorithms
7 24 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (3.15%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.62%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.84%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.44%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.44%) Replication
13 10 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.05%) Derivative
14 8 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (0.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 156 (20.47%) Linux
2 52 (6.82%) Windows
3 40 (5.25%) Unix
4 24 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 22 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (1.05%) Android
8 8 (1.05%) Solaris
9 5 (0.66%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (51.97%) DevOps
2 319 (41.86%) CI/CD
3 244 (32.02%) Agile
4 225 (29.53%) Microservices
5 153 (20.08%) Containerisation
6 123 (16.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 119 (15.62%) Software Engineering
8 93 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (11.81%) TDD
10 85 (11.15%) Test Automation
11 72 (9.45%) Continuous Integration
12 66 (8.66%) SDLC
13 65 (8.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 58 (7.61%) Scrum
15 53 (6.96%) Full Stack Development
16 52 (6.82%) High Availability
17 49 (6.43%) Platform Engineering
18 48 (6.30%) Machine Learning
19 41 (5.38%) Computer Science
20 39 (5.12%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 325 (42.65%) Python
2 219 (28.74%) Java
3 127 (16.67%) SQL
4 116 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 98 (12.86%) Go
6 79 (10.37%) Bash
7 56 (7.35%) PowerShell
8 54 (7.09%) TypeScript
9 43 (5.64%) C#
9 43 (5.64%) Scala
10 30 (3.94%) C++
11 29 (3.81%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.71%) Perl
13 12 (1.57%) C
13 12 (1.57%) Ruby
14 10 (1.31%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.18%) Groovy
15 9 (1.18%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.92%) PHP
16 7 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 196 (25.72%) Security Cleared
2 168 (22.05%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.30%) Degree
4 31 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.52%) CISSP
12 3 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.26%) CISA
13 2 (0.26%) CISM
13 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.13%) CEH
14 1 (0.13%) OCP
14 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.97%) QA
2 10 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.05%) GDPR
4 8 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.92%) NIST
6 6 (0.79%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.66%) NCSC
8 3 (0.39%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 442 (58.01%) Docker
2 28 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.71%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 6 (0.79%) Firmware
6 6 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.52%) KVM
7 4 (0.52%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.13%) Ceph
8 1 (0.13%) NFS
8 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 308 (40.42%) Terraform
2 134 (17.59%) Ansible
3 84 (11.02%) Prometheus
4 75 (9.84%) Grafana
5 30 (3.94%) Puppet
6 18 (2.36%) Argo
6 18 (2.36%) Consul
7 15 (1.97%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.71%) Packer
9 11 (1.44%) Netcool
10 10 (1.31%) Kibana
11 8 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
11 8 (1.05%) Tivoli
11 8 (1.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 6 (0.79%) Istio
13 5 (0.66%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.66%) Nagios
14 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.52%) Nessus
Vendors
1 95 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.53%) Oracle
3 46 (6.04%) Google
4 45 (5.91%) VMware
5 34 (4.46%) Splunk
6 20 (2.62%) Databricks
7 18 (2.36%) Typelevel
8 17 (2.23%) Cisco
8 17 (2.23%) Dell
9 16 (2.10%) CyberArk
9 16 (2.10%) IBM
9 16 (2.10%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.71%) MuleSoft
11 11 (1.44%) SaltStack
12 10 (1.31%) HP
13 8 (1.05%) AppDynamics
13 8 (1.05%) EMC
13 8 (1.05%) Isilon
13 8 (1.05%) Qualys
13 8 (1.05%) Serena