Kubernetes Contracts in Manchester

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 43 29 37
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 61 111 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.98% 5.85% 5.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.31% 35.13% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 89 125
10th Percentile £406 £456 £447
25th Percentile £450 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £650
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
North West median daily rate £550 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -7.37% -1.04% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £52.55 -
% change year-on-year +4.66% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 168 316 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.96% 16.66% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 247 346
10th Percentile £313 £375 £318
25th Percentile £406 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £694 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 4
10th Percentile £55.00 £20.00 £17.38
25th Percentile £58.75 £20.17 £19.06
Median hourly rate £80.00 £32.80 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +143.90% +64.00% -
75th Percentile £100.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £102.40 - -
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -40.93% +50.00% -56.28%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Manchester 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
Cheadle - 1 - - 1
Stockport - 1 - - 2
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (3.28%) Confluence
1 2 (3.28%) nginx
1 2 (3.28%) Traefik
2 1 (1.64%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 49 (80.33%) AWS
2 23 (37.70%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (29.51%) Amazon S3
4 14 (22.95%) Serverless
4 14 (22.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 13 (21.31%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (21.31%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (19.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (14.75%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (13.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (13.11%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (13.11%) Azure
8 8 (13.11%) Route 53
9 7 (11.48%) Snowflake
10 6 (9.84%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (9.84%) GCP
11 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (4.92%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (4.92%) GitHub
13 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) Network Security
2 5 (8.20%) DNS
3 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.11%) DynamoDB
2 8 (13.11%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (13.11%) NoSQL
2 8 (13.11%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.84%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (6.56%) MySQL
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.28%) Redis
7 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.64%) Power BI
7 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (42.62%) Git
2 23 (37.70%) GitLab
3 8 (13.11%) JUnit
3 8 (13.11%) webpack
4 6 (9.84%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.84%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.92%) Mocha
6 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.28%) Gradle
6 2 (3.28%) JIRA
6 2 (3.28%) Selenium
7 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.64%) Maven
7 1 (1.64%) Mockito
7 1 (1.64%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.56%) Retail
2 4 (6.56%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (37.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (32.79%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (24.59%) Developer
4 13 (21.31%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (19.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (14.75%) Senior
7 8 (13.11%) Lead
8 7 (11.48%) Java Developer
8 7 (11.48%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (9.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (8.20%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 5 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (6.56%) AWS Consultant
11 4 (6.56%) Consultant
11 4 (6.56%) DevOps Consultant
11 4 (6.56%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Consultant
11 4 (6.56%) Technical Leader
12 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.51%) React
2 12 (19.67%) Node.js
3 11 (18.03%) Redux
3 11 (18.03%) Spring Boot
4 9 (14.75%) REST
5 8 (13.11%) Express.js
5 8 (13.11%) Spring
6 6 (9.84%) Hibernate
6 6 (9.84%) JPA
7 3 (4.92%) Jest
8 2 (3.28%) cloud-init
8 2 (3.28%) Kafka
8 2 (3.28%) pytest
8 2 (3.28%) SAML
8 2 (3.28%) YAML
9 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.64%) jOOQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Clustering
3 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.28%) PKI
3 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
1 4 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.28%) Alpine Linux
2 2 (3.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (73.77%) CI/CD
2 44 (72.13%) DevOps
3 32 (52.46%) Containerisation
4 18 (29.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (27.87%) Agile
6 14 (22.95%) Front End Development
6 14 (22.95%) Microservices
7 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (21.31%) Test Automation
8 12 (19.67%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (18.03%) Unit Testing
10 10 (16.39%) Scrum
11 9 (14.75%) API Development
11 9 (14.75%) High Availability
12 8 (13.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 8 (13.11%) Customer Engagement
12 8 (13.11%) End-to-End Testing
12 8 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (13.11%) QA Automation
12 8 (13.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (44.26%) Python
2 18 (29.51%) Bash
3 14 (22.95%) Java
4 13 (21.31%) Go
5 10 (16.39%) SQL
6 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.20%) Ruby
8 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.64%) Bicep
9 1 (1.64%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (42.62%) Security Cleared
2 24 (39.34%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) AWS Certification
3 9 (14.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) ISO 22301
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.92%) SLA
3 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.28%) NCSC
3 2 (3.28%) NIST
3 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (73.77%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (54.10%) Terraform
2 17 (27.87%) Ansible
3 6 (9.84%) HP Fortify
4 5 (8.20%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.28%) Consul
5 2 (3.28%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (3.28%) Grafana
5 2 (3.28%) Graphite
5 2 (3.28%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.28%) Istio
5 2 (3.28%) linkerd
5 2 (3.28%) Packer
5 2 (3.28%) Podman
5 2 (3.28%) Puppet
5 2 (3.28%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Splunk
2 4 (6.56%) VMware
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.28%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.64%) Confluent
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.64%) New Relic