Kubernetes Contracts in Reading

Kubernetes (k8s)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 32 49 64
Rank change year-on-year +17 +15 -35
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 65 38 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.47% 3.67% 2.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.11% 31.93% 25.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 25 24
10th Percentile £424 £437 £383
25th Percentile £513 £488 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% +13.16% -14.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £552
90th Percentile £688 £695 £605
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +16.35% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 180 119 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 15.15% 11.49% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 87 108
10th Percentile £205 £425 £270
25th Percentile £213 £502 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +7.80% +23.16%
75th Percentile £608 £691 £625
90th Percentile £650 £763 £708
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -1.18% +1.19% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £56.00 -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £9.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +600.00% -83.33%
75th Percentile - £75.69 £10.25
90th Percentile - £79.10 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% +7.44%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Reading

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Reading

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Reading

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 16 (24.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.23%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.54%) JBoss
3 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (64.62%) Azure
2 30 (46.15%) AWS
3 17 (26.15%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (26.15%) Entra ID
4 16 (24.62%) Azure Storage
4 16 (24.62%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (13.85%) OpenShift
6 8 (12.31%) GCP
7 7 (10.77%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (10.77%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (10.77%) Serverless
8 3 (4.62%) SaaS
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.54%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.54%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.15%) DNS
1 17 (26.15%) Firewall
2 16 (24.62%) DHCP
3 9 (13.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.77%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.54%) Big Data
4 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.54%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Jenkins
2 14 (21.54%) GitLab
3 12 (18.46%) Cucumber
3 12 (18.46%) JIRA
3 12 (18.46%) REST Assured
3 12 (18.46%) Selenium
3 12 (18.46%) SonarQube
4 8 (12.31%) Git
5 5 (7.69%) JUnit
6 4 (6.15%) JMeter
7 1 (1.54%) Axure RP
7 1 (1.54%) Mockito
General
1 43 (66.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Law
3 8 (12.31%) Police
4 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (23.08%) Azure Specialist
1 15 (23.08%) Developer
2 14 (21.54%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (21.54%) Support Specialist
3 11 (16.92%) Java Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Senior
4 7 (10.77%) VMware Expert
5 6 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Java Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (43.08%) ARM Templates
2 19 (29.23%) REST
3 12 (18.46%) Java EE
4 8 (12.31%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.77%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (10.77%) Node.js
5 7 (10.77%) Spring
5 7 (10.77%) Web Services
6 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.15%) Kafka
6 4 (6.15%) RESTful
6 4 (6.15%) SOAP
7 3 (4.62%) J2EE
7 3 (4.62%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (3.08%) Apache Camel
8 2 (3.08%) Mustache
8 2 (3.08%) React
8 2 (3.08%) YAML
9 1 (1.54%) Symfony
9 1 (1.54%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.62%) PKI
1 16 (24.62%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.23%) Linux
2 16 (24.62%) Windows
3 15 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 15 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 15 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.08%) Unix
4 2 (3.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (75.38%) DevOps
2 44 (67.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (52.31%) CI/CD
4 28 (43.08%) Agile
5 26 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (36.92%) Containerisation
7 18 (27.69%) Analytics
7 18 (27.69%) Identity Management
8 17 (26.15%) Log Analytics
8 17 (26.15%) Release Management
8 17 (26.15%) Service Management
9 16 (24.62%) ITIL
9 16 (24.62%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 16 (24.62%) Privileged Identity Management
9 16 (24.62%) RBAC
10 15 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (21.54%) Test Automation
11 14 (21.54%) Time Management
11 14 (21.54%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.77%) Java
2 19 (29.23%) C#
3 18 (27.69%) PowerShell
4 16 (24.62%) Bicep
4 16 (24.62%) VB
4 16 (24.62%) VBScript
5 7 (10.77%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.69%) Python
7 3 (4.62%) Bash
7 3 (4.62%) Ruby
7 3 (4.62%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.54%) PHP
8 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (55.38%) SC Cleared
3 16 (24.62%) Degree
3 16 (24.62%) DV Cleared
3 16 (24.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (47.69%) Docker
2 18 (27.69%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (26.15%) Active Directory
4 16 (24.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (16.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (13.85%) vCloud
6 9 (13.85%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (35.38%) Terraform
2 20 (30.77%) Ansible
3 16 (24.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (24.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (24.62%) SCCM
3 16 (24.62%) SCOM
3 16 (24.62%) WSUS
4 12 (18.46%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (18.46%) Podman
5 9 (13.85%) Rancher
5 9 (13.85%) vCenter Server
6 7 (10.77%) Istio
7 2 (3.08%) Packer
7 2 (3.08%) vRealize
8 1 (1.54%) Kibana
8 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.92%) VMware
3 7 (10.77%) Google
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.54%) BMC
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.54%) Remedy
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk