Kubernetes Contracts in Reading

Kubernetes (k8s)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 32 49
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 +9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 34 65 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.70% 5.45% 3.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 53.97% 36.31% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 40 25
10th Percentile £395 £424 £437
25th Percentile £409 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £605 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +12.56% +8.86%
75th Percentile £658 £650 £675
90th Percentile £663 £688 £695
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £605 £520
% change year-on-year -17.27% +16.35% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 63 179 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 10.55% 15.02% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 134 89
10th Percentile £409 £205 £425
25th Percentile £450 £213 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.95% +8.72%
75th Percentile £663 £608 £700
90th Percentile £686 £650 £763
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £56.00
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +600.00%
75th Percentile - - £75.69
90th Percentile - - £79.10
Berkshire median hourly rate - £65.00 £68.00
% change year-on-year - -4.41% -6.21%

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 1 May 2025.

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 2 (5.88%) Apache
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) Azure
2 17 (50.00%) AWS
3 11 (32.35%) Azure AKS
4 9 (26.47%) Serverless
5 6 (17.65%) GCP
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (11.76%) Azure Functions
6 4 (11.76%) OpenShift
7 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.94%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.94%) npm
9 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) BGP
1 6 (17.65%) MPLS
2 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
2 5 (14.71%) VLAN
3 4 (11.76%) 3G
3 4 (11.76%) 3GPP
3 4 (11.76%) 4G
3 4 (11.76%) LTE
4 2 (5.88%) 5G
4 2 (5.88%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (5.88%) HTTP
4 2 (5.88%) MVNO
5 1 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.94%) Network Security
5 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.76%) Redis
3 2 (5.88%) Big Data
3 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 8 (23.53%) GitLab
3 7 (20.59%) JIRA
4 6 (17.65%) Cucumber
4 6 (17.65%) REST Assured
4 6 (17.65%) Selenium
4 6 (17.65%) SonarQube
5 5 (14.71%) Robot Framework
6 2 (5.88%) JMeter
6 2 (5.88%) JUnit
6 2 (5.88%) Mockito
7 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (44.12%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (38.24%) Telecoms
4 5 (14.71%) Law
5 4 (11.76%) Police
5 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.88%) Electronics
6 2 (5.88%) Finance
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Automation Tester
2 5 (14.71%) Java Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Telecoms Tester
2 5 (14.71%) Tester
3 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Technical Design Authority
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Backend Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.82%) React Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) REST
2 6 (17.65%) ARM Templates
2 6 (17.65%) Java EE
3 5 (14.71%) Node.js
4 4 (11.76%) GraphQL
4 4 (11.76%) Prisma
4 4 (11.76%) React
4 4 (11.76%) RESTful
5 3 (8.82%) HTML
5 3 (8.82%) JSON
5 3 (8.82%) XML
5 3 (8.82%) YAML
6 2 (5.88%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.88%) jQuery
6 2 (5.88%) scikit-learn
6 2 (5.88%) Spring
6 2 (5.88%) TensorFlow
6 2 (5.88%) Web Services
6 2 (5.88%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 5 (14.71%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) IoT
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Unix
3 2 (5.88%) AIX
4 1 (2.94%) CentOS
4 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) Containerisation
2 14 (41.18%) DevOps
3 12 (35.29%) Test Automation
4 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
5 9 (26.47%) Configuration Management
5 9 (26.47%) Microservices
6 8 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) Software Architecture
8 6 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (17.65%) Test Strategy
9 5 (14.71%) Agile
9 5 (14.71%) Cost Management
9 5 (14.71%) Front End Development
10 4 (11.76%) API Design
10 4 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (11.76%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.82%) Bicep
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.82%) SQL
5 2 (5.88%) R
6 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.94%) CCSP
2 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.94%) CISSP
2 1 (2.94%) OSCP
2 1 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (76.47%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (44.12%) Ansible
2 8 (23.53%) Terraform
3 6 (17.65%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (17.65%) Podman
4 2 (5.88%) Kibana
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.88%) Puppet
4 2 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) VMware
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
3 2 (5.88%) Spotify
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco
4 1 (2.94%) New Relic
4 1 (2.94%) Rapid7