Kubernetes Contracts in the North of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 38 49
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 144 282 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.07% 4.94% 4.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.69% 33.49% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 223 243
10th Percentile £406 £450 £438
25th Percentile £450 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £650
90th Percentile £690 £713 £700
England median daily rate £550 £616 £613
% change year-on-year -10.75% +0.61% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £46.81 £50.43 -
25th Percentile £47.76 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £50.59 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% - -
75th Percentile £54.67 £68.94 -
90th Percentile £56.37 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -15.07% -5.81% +52.71%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 520 842 1,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.08% 14.75% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 621 809
10th Percentile £235 £325 £250
25th Percentile £393 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £579 £638 £615
90th Percentile £644 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 51 19
10th Percentile £16.89 £17.50 £15.58
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.27 £16.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +87.50% -17.36%
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.52 £41.85
90th Percentile £80.38 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £25.71 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.29% +167.44% -10.42%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West -26 70 £550 -8.33% 59
Yorkshire +5 64 £525 -17.65% 39
North East -11 12 £413 -41.07% 10
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (6.25%) Confluence
2 8 (5.56%) Apache
3 4 (2.78%) nginx
3 4 (2.78%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.39%) Traefik
5 1 (0.69%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.69%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 101 (70.14%) AWS
2 38 (26.39%) Azure
3 30 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (17.36%) Amazon S3
5 21 (14.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (13.19%) GCP
7 16 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (11.11%) GitHub
8 15 (10.42%) Route 53
9 14 (9.72%) Serverless
10 13 (9.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (6.94%) Amazon ELB
13 9 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (4.86%) Snowflake
16 6 (4.17%) Apigee
16 6 (4.17%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.64%) DNS
2 8 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.86%) Firewall
3 7 (4.86%) HTTP
3 7 (4.86%) Network Security
4 6 (4.17%) VPN
5 4 (2.78%) 5G
5 4 (2.78%) Diameter Protocol
5 4 (2.78%) LTE
6 2 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.19%) Relational Database
2 18 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (9.03%) MySQL
5 10 (6.94%) NoSQL
6 9 (6.25%) Data Lake
7 7 (4.86%) DynamoDB
8 6 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (4.17%) Flink
8 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.78%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.39%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.39%) Big Data
10 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.39%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.39%) Redis
10 2 (1.39%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (35.42%) Git
2 42 (29.17%) GitLab
3 33 (22.92%) Jenkins
4 14 (9.72%) JUnit
5 11 (7.64%) JIRA
6 10 (6.94%) SonarQube
7 8 (5.56%) webpack
8 7 (4.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (4.86%) CircleCI
8 7 (4.86%) Travis CI
9 4 (2.78%) AppScan
9 4 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.78%) Burp Suite
9 4 (2.78%) Selenium
10 3 (2.08%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.08%) Mocha
11 2 (1.39%) Gradle
11 2 (1.39%) Maven
12 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (0.69%) Postman
General
1 17 (11.81%) Public Sector
2 15 (10.42%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.56%) Finance
5 4 (2.78%) Retail
6 1 (0.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (27.08%) Developer
3 22 (15.28%) AWS DevOps
4 20 (13.89%) Lead
5 16 (11.11%) Java Developer
6 15 (10.42%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (9.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (9.72%) Senior
8 12 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Site Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.86%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.17%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.47%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.47%) Senior Developer
14 4 (2.78%) DevOps Automation Engineer
14 4 (2.78%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.83%) React
2 20 (13.89%) Spring Boot
3 19 (13.19%) Node.js
4 16 (11.11%) Spring
5 15 (10.42%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (9.72%) REST
7 12 (8.33%) Hibernate
7 12 (8.33%) JPA
7 12 (8.33%) Redux
8 11 (7.64%) JSON
9 9 (6.25%) YAML
10 8 (5.56%) Express.js
10 8 (5.56%) FastAPI
11 7 (4.86%) Kafka
11 7 (4.86%) PyTorch
11 7 (4.86%) TensorFlow
12 6 (4.17%) Flask
12 6 (4.17%) XML
13 4 (2.78%) SAML
14 3 (2.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.86%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.39%) Clustering
5 2 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.39%) PKI
5 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.69%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.69%) Genomics
6 1 (0.69%) mHealth
6 1 (0.69%) NHS
6 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Replication
6 1 (0.69%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.28%) Linux
2 9 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.17%) CentOS
4 4 (2.78%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (2.78%) Unix
5 3 (2.08%) Windows
6 2 (1.39%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (68.75%) DevOps
2 83 (57.64%) CI/CD
3 58 (40.28%) Containerisation
4 49 (34.03%) Agile
5 38 (26.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (19.44%) Microservices
7 26 (18.06%) Scrum
8 24 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (14.58%) Front End Development
10 20 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (13.19%) Software Engineering
11 19 (13.19%) Test Automation
12 18 (12.50%) High Availability
12 18 (12.50%) Unit Testing
13 16 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
14 15 (10.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 15 (10.42%) TDD
15 14 (9.72%) API Development
15 14 (9.72%) Configuration Management
15 14 (9.72%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 70 (48.61%) Python
2 37 (25.69%) Bash
3 29 (20.14%) Java
4 21 (14.58%) SQL
5 16 (11.11%) Go
5 16 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 16 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.56%) Scala
8 7 (4.86%) Shell Script
9 6 (4.17%) Ruby
10 2 (1.39%) Bicep
10 2 (1.39%) Groovy
11 1 (0.69%) C
11 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.69%) Perl
11 1 (0.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 56 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 54 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.72%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.97%) QA
2 3 (2.08%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.08%) SLA
3 2 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.39%) NCSC
3 2 (1.39%) NIST
3 2 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 94 (65.28%) Docker
2 4 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.39%) HDFS
3 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 68 (47.22%) Terraform
2 36 (25.00%) Ansible
3 28 (19.44%) Prometheus
4 20 (13.89%) Grafana
5 17 (11.81%) Puppet
6 12 (8.33%) Progress Chef
7 10 (6.94%) HP Fortify
8 8 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (4.17%) Kibana
9 6 (4.17%) logstash
9 6 (4.17%) Packer
10 5 (3.47%) Istio
11 4 (2.78%) Graylog
11 4 (2.78%) Nessus
11 4 (2.78%) Rancher
11 4 (2.78%) WebInspect
11 4 (2.78%) yum
12 2 (1.39%) Consul
12 2 (1.39%) linkerd
12 2 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (14.58%) Splunk
2 13 (9.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.86%) VMware
4 6 (4.17%) Oracle
5 4 (2.78%) Checkmarx
5 4 (2.78%) Veracode
6 3 (2.08%) Google
6 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.39%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.39%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.69%) Confluent
8 1 (0.69%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.69%) New Relic
8 1 (0.69%) Zscaler