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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 44 22
Rank change year-on-year +17 -22 -3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 865 805 2,049
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.99% 4.56% 7.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.27% 36.94% 47.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 581 1,497
10th Percentile £409 £416 £475
25th Percentile £485 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £638
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £725 £656 £738
90th Percentile £838 £775 £807
England median daily rate £575 £550 £620
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 15
10th Percentile - £55.25 £63.00
25th Percentile - £55.63 £75.00
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.13% -
75th Percentile - £62.88 £90.00
90th Percentile - £65.35 -
England median hourly rate £69.35 £62.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +11.85% -15.07% -5.81%

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 1,954 2,179 4,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.80% 12.35% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,342 1,569 3,162
10th Percentile £363 £325 £400
25th Percentile £438 £448 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £667 £650 £713
90th Percentile £788 £750 £798
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 35 44
10th Percentile £26.45 £18.67 £22.90
25th Percentile £27.73 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.18 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.43% -62.51% +169.76%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.63 £84.32
90th Percentile £63.25 £69.55 £90.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £25.74 £54.18
% change year-on-year +8.79% -52.49% +151.98%

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 13 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 13 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 +13 132 £585 -2.50% 87
South London -5 26 £498 -5.24% 12
West London -6 6 £512 +36.53% 22
East London +13 2 £250 -49.24% 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 62 (7.17%) Apache Spark
2 54 (6.24%) Apache
3 38 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (3.47%) Confluence
5 21 (2.43%) nginx
6 13 (1.50%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.58%) Camunda
8 5 (0.58%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.23%) Traefik
9 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) DataSynapse
10 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.12%) InVision
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.12%) Sketch
1 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Endur
2 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.23%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 506 (58.50%) AWS
2 294 (33.99%) Azure
3 133 (15.38%) Serverless
4 131 (15.14%) GCP
5 94 (10.87%) GitHub
6 90 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
7 84 (9.71%) OpenShift
8 80 (9.25%) Azure AKS
9 77 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (7.75%) Amazon EKS
10 67 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 64 (7.40%) Amazon S3
12 56 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
13 55 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
14 48 (5.55%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
15 34 (3.93%) dbt
16 29 (3.35%) PaaS
17 28 (3.24%) IaaS
18 25 (2.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.66%) Firewall
2 37 (4.28%) DNS
3 29 (3.35%) HTTP
4 24 (2.77%) TCP/IP
4 24 (2.77%) VPN
5 9 (1.04%) Internet
6 7 (0.81%) DHCP
7 6 (0.69%) Network Security
8 5 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.58%) SSL
9 4 (0.46%) SMTP
10 3 (0.35%) FTP
10 3 (0.35%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.35%) VSAN
11 2 (0.23%) BGP
11 2 (0.23%) DSL
11 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.23%) MPLS
11 2 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (10.52%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (7.05%) MongoDB
3 56 (6.47%) NoSQL
4 54 (6.24%) Amazon RDS
5 41 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
5 41 (4.74%) SQL Server
6 33 (3.82%) Apache Iceberg
6 33 (3.82%) Relational Database
7 29 (3.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 26 (3.01%) Apache Arrow
8 26 (3.01%) Apache Ignite
8 26 (3.01%) Dremio
8 26 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (2.54%) Big Data
9 22 (2.54%) MySQL
10 20 (2.31%) Data Lake
11 19 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (2.20%) Redis
12 17 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (1.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 189 (21.85%) Jenkins
2 98 (11.33%) GitLab
3 93 (10.75%) Git
4 46 (5.32%) JIRA
5 38 (4.39%) Artifactory
6 30 (3.47%) SonarQube
7 28 (3.24%) JUnit
8 23 (2.66%) Maven
9 17 (1.97%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.85%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.62%) Gradle
12 11 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (1.27%) CircleCI
12 11 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (0.92%) IntelliJ
13 8 (0.92%) Jasmine
13 8 (0.92%) MLflow
14 7 (0.81%) Mockito
14 7 (0.81%) Postman
14 7 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 214 (24.74%) Finance
2 175 (20.23%) Social Skills
3 101 (11.68%) Banking
4 92 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 59 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (5.55%) Front Office
7 43 (4.97%) Investment Banking
8 20 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 18 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.97%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.50%) Retail
13 10 (1.16%) Marketing
14 9 (1.04%) Law
15 7 (0.81%) Billing
15 7 (0.81%) Military
15 7 (0.81%) Publishing
16 3 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.35%) Legal
16 3 (0.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 230 (26.59%) Developer
2 215 (24.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 136 (15.72%) Senior
4 105 (12.14%) AWS Engineer
5 91 (10.52%) Architect
6 90 (10.40%) AWS DevOps
7 86 (9.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 70 (8.09%) Java Developer
9 65 (7.51%) Lead
9 65 (7.51%) Python Engineer
10 58 (6.71%) Data Engineer
11 57 (6.59%) Python Developer
12 48 (5.55%) Senior Developer
13 45 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
14 39 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
15 38 (4.39%) Software Engineer
16 36 (4.16%) Senior DevOps
16 36 (4.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 32 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
18 30 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (18.96%) Kafka
2 100 (11.56%) Spring
3 96 (11.10%) React
4 91 (10.52%) .NET
5 71 (8.21%) Spring Boot
6 53 (6.13%) Node.js
7 51 (5.90%) RESTful
8 50 (5.78%) REST
9 45 (5.20%) FastAPI
10 37 (4.28%) AngularJS
10 37 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
11 35 (4.05%) J2EE
12 32 (3.70%) HTML
13 30 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
14 29 (3.35%) PySpark
15 28 (3.24%) Django
16 27 (3.12%) NumPy
16 27 (3.12%) Pandas
17 24 (2.77%) OAuth
18 23 (2.66%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (4.16%) Public Cloud
4 23 (2.66%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (1.97%) Hedge funds
7 16 (1.85%) PKI
8 13 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.27%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.81%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.69%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 183 (21.16%) Linux
2 47 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 40 (4.62%) Windows
4 32 (3.70%) Unix
5 16 (1.85%) CentOS
5 16 (1.85%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.69%) Rocky
7 5 (0.58%) SUSE
8 4 (0.46%) Android
8 4 (0.46%) VMS
9 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) AIX
10 2 (0.23%) Debian
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.23%) Solaris
11 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (54.80%) DevOps
2 455 (52.60%) CI/CD
3 263 (30.40%) Containerisation
4 244 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 230 (26.59%) Microservices
6 224 (25.90%) Agile
7 167 (19.31%) Software Engineering
8 149 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (9.60%) Artificial Intelligence
10 82 (9.48%) Full-Stack Development
11 81 (9.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 80 (9.25%) Test Automation
13 78 (9.02%) Continuous Integration
14 77 (8.90%) Open Source
15 75 (8.67%) High Availability
16 73 (8.44%) Configuration Management
17 67 (7.75%) Machine Learning
17 67 (7.75%) Mentoring
18 65 (7.51%) Data Engineering
19 62 (7.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 414 (47.86%) Python
2 248 (28.67%) Java
3 162 (18.73%) SQL
4 109 (12.60%) JavaScript
5 108 (12.49%) Go
6 102 (11.79%) C#
7 99 (11.45%) Bash
8 66 (7.63%) TypeScript
9 53 (6.13%) PowerShell
10 35 (4.05%) Bicep
11 31 (3.58%) C++
12 28 (3.24%) Shell Script
13 21 (2.43%) PL/SQL
14 19 (2.20%) Rust
15 15 (1.73%) Scala
16 13 (1.50%) Groovy
17 11 (1.27%) RPG
17 11 (1.27%) RPG IV
18 10 (1.16%) Perl
18 10 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 211 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 187 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.78%) Degree
4 38 (4.39%) AWS Certification
5 26 (3.01%) Azure Certification
6 22 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 15 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (0.58%) CISSP
12 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.58%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.46%) CISM
13 4 (0.46%) OCP
13 4 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.35%) CISA
14 3 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.66%) QA
2 11 (1.27%) GDPR
3 10 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.16%) PCI DSS
3 10 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.46%) NCSC
8 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.23%) NIST
10 1 (0.12%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 474 (54.80%) Docker
2 22 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.20%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.69%) vSphere
6 4 (0.46%) Lustre
7 3 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.35%) Platform Symphony
7 3 (0.35%) vCloud
7 3 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.12%) Ceph
9 1 (0.12%) HDFS
9 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 374 (43.24%) Terraform
2 178 (20.58%) Ansible
3 84 (9.71%) Grafana
4 77 (8.90%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.09%) Puppet
6 26 (3.01%) Progress Chef
7 22 (2.54%) Argo
8 17 (1.97%) Kibana
9 15 (1.73%) Rancher
10 14 (1.62%) Istio
11 9 (1.04%) Packer
12 7 (0.81%) Nagios
12 7 (0.81%) Podman
12 7 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.69%) Salt
14 5 (0.58%) Consul
14 5 (0.58%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.58%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.46%) Data Guard
15 4 (0.46%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 63 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.24%) Google
3 44 (5.09%) Red Hat
4 38 (4.39%) Oracle
5 34 (3.93%) Splunk
6 30 (3.47%) VMware
7 21 (2.43%) Databricks
8 17 (1.97%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.27%) IBM
9 11 (1.27%) TIBCO
10 9 (1.04%) AppDynamics
11 8 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.69%) Cisco
12 6 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.58%) SAP
13 5 (0.58%) Solace
13 5 (0.58%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.46%) BiZZdesign
14 4 (0.46%) Dataiku
14 4 (0.46%) Salesforce