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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 36 24
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 876 910 1,864
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.79% 5.21% 7.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.39% 39.07% 45.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 667 1,366
10th Percentile £402 £413 £463
25th Percentile £463 £488 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £738
90th Percentile £800 £800 £825
England median daily rate £550 £557 £620
% change year-on-year -1.17% -10.24% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 17
10th Percentile - £40.00 £63.50
25th Percentile - £45.63 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -31.25% +1.99%
75th Percentile - £61.00 £90.00
90th Percentile - £64.60 -
England median hourly rate £79.50 £67.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +18.22% -7.88% +5.70%

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 2,019 2,329 4,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.66% 13.33% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,682 2,994
10th Percentile £350 £335 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £713
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 36 48
10th Percentile £26.45 £20.00 £22.43
25th Percentile £26.75 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -60.94% +167.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £41.63 £82.63
90th Percentile £63.10 £69.13 £90.00
England median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%

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 July 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 July 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 +4 115 £600 -2.04% 364
South London 0 35 £563 +7.14% 12
West London -8 13 £407 +1.69% 65
East London +15 5 £250 -43.82% 135
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 47 (5.37%) Apache Spark
2 39 (4.45%) Apache
3 36 (4.11%) Confluence
4 27 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (2.51%) nginx
6 6 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.57%) Camunda
8 4 (0.46%) JBoss
8 4 (0.46%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.23%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.11%) DataSynapse
11 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Mule
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
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
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Endur
2 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.23%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 518 (59.13%) AWS
2 295 (33.68%) Azure
3 151 (17.24%) GCP
4 125 (14.27%) GitHub
5 99 (11.30%) Serverless
6 80 (9.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (8.90%) GitHub Actions
8 76 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (8.56%) OpenShift
10 74 (8.45%) Azure AKS
11 63 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
12 62 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
13 45 (5.14%) Amazon S3
14 38 (4.34%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
15 33 (3.77%) PaaS
16 32 (3.65%) IaaS
17 30 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
18 27 (3.08%) SaaS
19 26 (2.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.37%) Firewall
2 36 (4.11%) DNS
3 24 (2.74%) VPN
4 18 (2.05%) HTTP
5 17 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.14%) Internet
7 9 (1.03%) Network Security
8 8 (0.91%) DHCP
8 8 (0.91%) SSL
9 4 (0.46%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.46%) SMTP
9 4 (0.46%) VSAN
10 3 (0.34%) DSL
10 3 (0.34%) FTP
10 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.34%) SMS
10 3 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.23%) LAN
11 2 (0.23%) SAN
11 2 (0.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (5.59%) MongoDB
3 47 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (5.37%) NoSQL
4 35 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.31%) Apache Cassandra
5 29 (3.31%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (2.51%) Data Lake
8 22 (2.51%) Redis
9 21 (2.40%) Big Data
10 17 (1.94%) Apache Iceberg
11 15 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (1.71%) Apache Arrow
11 15 (1.71%) Apache Ignite
11 15 (1.71%) Dremio
11 15 (1.71%) MySQL
12 14 (1.60%) Hadoop
13 12 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 200 (22.83%) Jenkins
2 127 (14.50%) Git
3 97 (11.07%) GitLab
4 54 (6.16%) JIRA
5 34 (3.88%) Artifactory
6 30 (3.42%) SonarQube
7 28 (3.20%) Maven
8 23 (2.63%) JUnit
9 19 (2.17%) Gradle
10 16 (1.83%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.83%) CircleCI
11 14 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (1.48%) Cucumber
13 12 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (1.03%) MLflow
14 9 (1.03%) Mockito
15 8 (0.91%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.91%) Liquibase
16 7 (0.80%) Cypress.io
16 7 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 193 (22.03%) Finance
2 191 (21.80%) Social Skills
3 99 (11.30%) Banking
4 84 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (5.14%) Investment Banking
7 24 (2.74%) Front Office
8 20 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.94%) Retail
10 16 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.37%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.37%) Marketing
11 12 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.80%) Law
13 6 (0.68%) Billing
13 6 (0.68%) Military
14 5 (0.57%) Publishing
15 3 (0.34%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Legal
15 3 (0.34%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 242 (27.63%) Developer
2 182 (20.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 124 (14.16%) Senior
4 98 (11.19%) Architect
5 81 (9.25%) AWS Engineer
6 74 (8.45%) Java Developer
7 66 (7.53%) AWS DevOps
8 59 (6.74%) Lead
9 56 (6.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 50 (5.71%) Python Developer
11 49 (5.59%) Senior Developer
12 45 (5.14%) Python Engineer
13 44 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
14 42 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
15 41 (4.68%) Data Engineer
16 40 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
17 33 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 30 (3.42%) Site Engineer
19 27 (3.08%) Kubernetes Engineer
19 27 (3.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (18.95%) Kafka
2 99 (11.30%) Spring
3 82 (9.36%) React
4 70 (7.99%) .NET
5 64 (7.31%) Spring Boot
6 57 (6.51%) Node.js
7 49 (5.59%) REST
8 44 (5.02%) RESTful
9 41 (4.68%) FastAPI
10 40 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
11 38 (4.34%) AngularJS
12 31 (3.54%) Pandas
13 30 (3.42%) NumPy
13 30 (3.42%) OpenTelemetry
14 28 (3.20%) HTML
15 27 (3.08%) gRPC
16 26 (2.97%) OAuth
17 23 (2.63%) GraphQL
18 21 (2.40%) Flask
18 21 (2.40%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.30%) Cloud Native
2 80 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.79%) Public Cloud
4 25 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 21 (2.40%) Hedge funds
6 21 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.94%) PKI
9 16 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.26%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 187 (21.35%) Linux
2 38 (4.34%) Windows
3 34 (3.88%) Unix
4 31 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.26%) CentOS
7 6 (0.68%) Rocky
8 5 (0.57%) Android
9 4 (0.46%) Solaris
9 4 (0.46%) SUSE
9 4 (0.46%) VMS
10 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.23%) AIX
11 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.23%) Debian
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (50.68%) CI/CD
2 437 (49.89%) DevOps
3 269 (30.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 266 (30.37%) Containerisation
5 235 (26.83%) Microservices
6 220 (25.11%) Agile
7 161 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (16.55%) Software Engineering
9 79 (9.02%) Open Source
10 77 (8.79%) Observability
11 75 (8.56%) Artificial Intelligence
11 75 (8.56%) Configuration Management
11 75 (8.56%) TDD
12 74 (8.45%) Mentoring
13 72 (8.22%) Test Automation
14 70 (7.99%) Continuous Integration
15 68 (7.76%) High Availability
16 67 (7.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 66 (7.53%) Analytics
17 66 (7.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 403 (46.00%) Python
2 249 (28.42%) Java
3 128 (14.61%) SQL
4 117 (13.36%) Bash
5 116 (13.24%) Go
6 108 (12.33%) JavaScript
7 97 (11.07%) C#
8 66 (7.53%) PowerShell
9 65 (7.42%) TypeScript
10 51 (5.82%) C++
11 36 (4.11%) Bicep
12 27 (3.08%) Shell Script
13 24 (2.74%) Rust
14 18 (2.05%) PL/SQL
15 16 (1.83%) Perl
16 15 (1.71%) Groovy
17 14 (1.60%) Scala
18 13 (1.48%) Kotlin
19 11 (1.26%) RPG
19 11 (1.26%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 217 (24.77%) Security Cleared
2 193 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.16%) Degree
4 39 (4.45%) AWS Certification
5 28 (3.20%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 11 (1.26%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.68%) OCP
13 6 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.57%) CISSP
15 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 4 (0.46%) CISM
16 3 (0.34%) CISA
16 3 (0.34%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.77%) QA
2 15 (1.71%) GDPR
3 12 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.37%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.80%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.57%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.34%) SLA
9 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.11%) NCSC
10 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 483 (55.14%) Docker
2 19 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.80%) vSphere
6 6 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.34%) Lustre
7 3 (0.34%) Platform Symphony
7 3 (0.34%) vCloud
7 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.11%) HDFS
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) KVM
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.11%) Snort
8 1 (0.11%) Squid
8 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 388 (44.29%) Terraform
2 176 (20.09%) Ansible
3 100 (11.42%) Grafana
4 96 (10.96%) Prometheus
5 51 (5.82%) Puppet
6 29 (3.31%) Argo
6 29 (3.31%) Progress Chef
7 21 (2.40%) Packer
8 20 (2.28%) Kibana
9 17 (1.94%) Consul
10 13 (1.48%) Istio
11 12 (1.37%) Rancher
12 11 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (0.91%) Podman
14 6 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.68%) logstash
14 6 (0.68%) Nagios
14 6 (0.68%) Salt
15 4 (0.46%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.46%) Nessus
Vendors
1 66 (7.53%) Google
2 64 (7.31%) Microsoft
3 49 (5.59%) Splunk
4 39 (4.45%) Red Hat
5 35 (4.00%) Oracle
6 23 (2.63%) VMware
7 16 (1.83%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.71%) Databricks
9 12 (1.37%) IBM
9 12 (1.37%) TIBCO
10 8 (0.91%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.80%) Solace
12 6 (0.68%) Confluent
12 6 (0.68%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.68%) Qualys
13 5 (0.57%) Cisco
13 5 (0.57%) Salesforce
13 5 (0.57%) SAP
14 4 (0.46%) AppDynamics
14 4 (0.46%) Virgin Media