Kubernetes Contracts in Oxfordshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 22 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -26
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 5 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.19% 4.86% 2.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.63% 30.00% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £440 £459 -
25th Percentile £500 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £584 £494
90th Percentile £620 £601 £553
South East median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -38.57% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 32 40 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 14.04% 16.19% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 19
10th Percentile £250 £295 £148
25th Percentile £400 £313 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £539
90th Percentile £625 £600 £575
South East median daily rate £475 £543 £500
% change year-on-year -12.44% +8.50% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £31.13 £48.50 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £61.38 £21.50
% change year-on-year -29.94% +185.47% -23.89%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Oxfordshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Oxfordshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Oxfordshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Oxford +11 2 £513 +6.22% 3
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (20.00%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Django
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
2 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam