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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -23 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 800 2,030 3,106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.57% 7.76% 7.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.99% 47.17% 46.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 1,485 2,387
10th Percentile £416 £475 £475
25th Percentile £477 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £635 £638
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -0.39% +15.91%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £807 £800
England median daily rate £550 £615 £613
% change year-on-year -10.57% +0.41% +15.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 5
10th Percentile £55.25 £63.00 -
25th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £75.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £80.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £62.88 £90.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £65.35 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -15.07% -5.81% +52.71%

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 2,163 4,304 6,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.36% 16.46% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,564 3,131 5,128
10th Percentile £325 £400 £425
25th Percentile £449 £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 £798 £788
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 43 49
10th Percentile £18.45 £22.85 £15.55
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £23.00
Median hourly rate £24.59 £65.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -62.17% +171.85% -51.70%
75th Percentile £53.81 £85.65 £41.52
90th Percentile £69.98 £90.00 £79.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -51.32% +146.16% -11.16%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -10 113 £600 -4.00% 43
South London +2 44 £525 -16.00% 3
West London -4 26 £375 -37.50% 10
East London -7 4 £493 -38.44% 16
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 45 (5.63%) Confluence
2 35 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.38%) OpenStack
4 17 (2.13%) nginx
5 16 (2.00%) Apache Spark
6 14 (1.75%) Apache
7 9 (1.13%) BizTalk Server
8 7 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.75%) Tornado
10 5 (0.63%) CMS
10 5 (0.63%) IIS
10 5 (0.63%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.63%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.50%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.50%) Camunda
11 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.38%) JBoss
12 3 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Endur
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 446 (55.75%) AWS
2 260 (32.50%) Azure
3 161 (20.13%) GCP
4 94 (11.75%) Serverless
5 85 (10.63%) GitHub
6 69 (8.63%) Amazon S3
7 61 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
8 51 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (6.13%) OpenShift
10 44 (5.50%) Azure AKS
11 37 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (4.63%) PaaS
12 33 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (3.25%) Azure Functions
14 25 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 23 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 22 (2.75%) dbt
16 22 (2.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.63%) HTTP
2 31 (3.88%) Firewall
3 23 (2.88%) DNS
4 15 (1.88%) DHCP
5 14 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.63%) Network Security
6 13 (1.63%) SAN
7 10 (1.25%) NAS
8 8 (1.00%) Kerberos
8 8 (1.00%) VPN
9 6 (0.75%) VLAN
9 6 (0.75%) WAN
9 6 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.50%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.50%) LAN
10 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.38%) 4G
11 3 (0.38%) DMZ
11 3 (0.38%) IPv4
11 3 (0.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 61 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (7.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 51 (6.38%) MongoDB
5 44 (5.50%) SQL Server
6 43 (5.38%) Relational Database
7 39 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (4.25%) Big Data
9 28 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
10 22 (2.75%) Data Lake
10 22 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (2.38%) BigQuery
11 19 (2.38%) MySQL
12 17 (2.13%) DynamoDB
12 17 (2.13%) RDBMS
13 16 (2.00%) Apache Arrow
13 16 (2.00%) Dremio
14 13 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 12 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 178 (22.25%) Jenkins
2 142 (17.75%) Git
3 73 (9.13%) GitLab
4 58 (7.25%) JIRA
5 28 (3.50%) TeamCity
6 26 (3.25%) Selenium
7 24 (3.00%) Cypress.io
8 23 (2.88%) JUnit
9 21 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 21 (2.63%) JMeter
10 20 (2.50%) Maven
11 19 (2.38%) Cucumber
12 16 (2.00%) Mockito
13 15 (1.88%) SonarQube
14 13 (1.63%) Artifactory
15 11 (1.38%) CircleCI
16 10 (1.25%) Gradle
17 9 (1.13%) TestNG
18 7 (0.88%) ScalaTest
19 6 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 154 (19.25%) Finance
2 132 (16.50%) Social Skills
3 54 (6.75%) Public Sector
4 51 (6.38%) Banking
5 48 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.00%) Telecoms
7 15 (1.88%) Investment Banking
7 15 (1.88%) Law
7 15 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.13%) Retail
9 9 (1.13%) Tech for Good
10 7 (0.88%) Front Office
10 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.63%) Marketing
12 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.38%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 223 (27.88%) Developer
2 166 (20.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 103 (12.88%) Senior
4 78 (9.75%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (7.13%) Architect
6 53 (6.63%) Software Engineer
7 49 (6.13%) Java Developer
8 47 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 46 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (5.50%) Lead
11 42 (5.25%) Site Engineer
12 41 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
13 39 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (4.75%) AWS DevOps
14 38 (4.75%) Scala Developer
15 36 (4.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 34 (4.25%) Python Engineer
17 30 (3.75%) Python Developer
18 28 (3.50%) Data Engineer
19 27 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (22.63%) Kafka
2 94 (11.75%) React
3 82 (10.25%) Node.js
4 75 (9.38%) RESTful
5 72 (9.00%) Spring Boot
6 68 (8.50%) REST
7 66 (8.25%) .NET
8 62 (7.75%) Spring
9 40 (5.00%) Akka
10 37 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
11 34 (4.25%) .NET Core
12 29 (3.63%) HTML
13 26 (3.25%) Web Services
14 24 (3.00%) gRPC
14 24 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (2.75%) OAuth
16 21 (2.63%) AngularJS
17 19 (2.38%) Django
18 18 (2.25%) CSS
18 18 (2.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (4.38%) Cloud Native
3 32 (4.00%) Clustering
3 32 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 31 (3.88%) Data Structures
5 30 (3.75%) Algorithms
6 27 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
6 27 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.25%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.25%) Hedge funds
8 17 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 15 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.75%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.13%) Replication
14 8 (1.00%) Derivative
15 7 (0.88%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 167 (20.88%) Linux
2 52 (6.50%) Windows
3 46 (5.75%) Unix
4 22 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.13%) Android
8 7 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.75%) Solaris
10 5 (0.63%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (52.63%) DevOps
2 327 (40.88%) CI/CD
3 254 (31.75%) Agile
4 238 (29.75%) Microservices
5 150 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 122 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 121 (15.13%) Software Engineering
8 102 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (10.88%) Test Automation
10 86 (10.75%) TDD
11 72 (9.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 71 (8.88%) Continuous Integration
13 67 (8.38%) SDLC
14 60 (7.50%) Full Stack Development
15 56 (7.00%) Scrum
16 55 (6.88%) Platform Engineering
17 51 (6.38%) High Availability
18 50 (6.25%) Machine Learning
19 48 (6.00%) Computer Science
20 43 (5.38%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 333 (41.63%) Python
2 226 (28.25%) Java
3 141 (17.63%) SQL
4 121 (15.13%) JavaScript
5 107 (13.38%) Go
6 79 (9.88%) Bash
7 60 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 51 (6.38%) C#
9 50 (6.25%) PowerShell
10 47 (5.88%) Scala
11 33 (4.13%) Shell Script
12 30 (3.75%) C++
13 13 (1.63%) Perl
14 12 (1.50%) C
14 12 (1.50%) Groovy
14 12 (1.50%) Ruby
15 10 (1.25%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.25%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.88%) PHP
16 7 (0.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 193 (24.13%) Security Cleared
2 167 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.75%) Degree
4 30 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.50%) CISSP
12 3 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.25%) CISA
13 2 (0.25%) CISM
13 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.13%) MCSA
14 1 (0.13%) OCP
14 1 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.75%) QA
2 12 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.88%) NIST
4 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.75%) GDPR
4 6 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.50%) NCSC
7 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 455 (56.88%) Docker
2 27 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.75%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.75%) Firmware
7 6 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.50%) vSphere
9 3 (0.38%) KVM
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.13%) Ceph
10 1 (0.13%) NFS
10 1 (0.13%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 328 (41.00%) Terraform
2 137 (17.13%) Ansible
3 94 (11.75%) Prometheus
4 80 (10.00%) Grafana
5 32 (4.00%) Puppet
6 26 (3.25%) Consul
7 20 (2.50%) Packer
8 18 (2.25%) Argo
9 17 (2.13%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.25%) Kibana
11 9 (1.13%) Netcool
12 7 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.75%) Istio
13 6 (0.75%) Tivoli
13 6 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 5 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
14 5 (0.63%) Nagios
15 4 (0.50%) Nessus
15 4 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 97 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.88%) Oracle
3 47 (5.88%) Google
4 41 (5.13%) VMware
5 34 (4.25%) Splunk
6 25 (3.13%) Databricks
7 19 (2.38%) Typelevel
8 17 (2.13%) Red Hat
9 16 (2.00%) IBM
10 15 (1.88%) Cisco
10 15 (1.88%) CyberArk
10 15 (1.88%) Dell
11 13 (1.63%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.50%) SaltStack
13 11 (1.38%) Dynatrace
14 8 (1.00%) AppDynamics
14 8 (1.00%) Confluent
14 8 (1.00%) HP
15 6 (0.75%) EMC
15 6 (0.75%) SAP