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 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 40 52 59
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -30
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 62 36 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.29% 3.55% 3.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.05% 31.58% 28.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 24 27
10th Percentile £425 £435 £385
25th Percentile £544 £487 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £531 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.88% +8.97% -13.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £554
90th Percentile £688 £696 £658
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +17.48% +3.00% -1.96%
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 172 114 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.68% 11.24% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 85 106
10th Percentile £205 £427 £270
25th Percentile £238 £504 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +9.81% +21.59%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £625
90th Percentile £650 £750 £694
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% +10.00%
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% -83.87%
75th Percentile - £75.69 £10.25
90th Percentile - £79.10 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +4.94%

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 8 May 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 17 (27.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.61%) JBoss
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (66.13%) Azure
2 28 (45.16%) AWS
3 17 (27.42%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (27.42%) Entra ID
3 17 (27.42%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (25.81%) Azure Storage
5 9 (14.52%) OpenShift
6 8 (12.90%) GCP
7 5 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.06%) Serverless
8 3 (4.84%) SaaS
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.61%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.42%) DNS
1 17 (27.42%) Firewall
2 16 (25.81%) DHCP
3 9 (14.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.61%) Big Data
4 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (27.42%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.58%) GitLab
3 12 (19.35%) Cucumber
3 12 (19.35%) JIRA
3 12 (19.35%) REST Assured
3 12 (19.35%) Selenium
3 12 (19.35%) SonarQube
4 6 (9.68%) Git
5 4 (6.45%) JMeter
6 3 (4.84%) JUnit
7 1 (1.61%) Mockito
General
1 43 (69.35%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Law
3 8 (12.90%) Police
4 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (22.58%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (22.58%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (22.58%) Support Specialist
3 12 (19.35%) Developer
4 11 (17.74%) Senior
5 9 (14.52%) Java Developer
6 7 (11.29%) VMware Expert
7 6 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Software Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Java Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Java Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Java Architect
9 3 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (46.77%) ARM Templates
2 17 (27.42%) REST
3 12 (19.35%) Java EE
4 6 (9.68%) Spring Boot
5 5 (8.06%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (8.06%) Spring
5 5 (8.06%) Web Services
6 4 (6.45%) Kafka
6 4 (6.45%) Node.js
7 3 (4.84%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.23%) Apache Camel
8 2 (3.23%) Mustache
8 2 (3.23%) React
8 2 (3.23%) RESTful
8 2 (3.23%) SOAP
8 2 (3.23%) YAML
9 1 (1.61%) jQuery
9 1 (1.61%) Symfony
9 1 (1.61%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.81%) PKI
1 16 (25.81%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (14.52%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (32.26%) Linux
2 16 (25.81%) Windows
2 16 (25.81%) Windows Server
2 16 (25.81%) Windows Server 2016
2 16 (25.81%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.23%) Unix
3 2 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (77.42%) DevOps
2 45 (72.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (56.45%) CI/CD
4 26 (41.94%) Agile
4 26 (41.94%) Technical Leadership
5 23 (37.10%) Containerisation
6 18 (29.03%) Analytics
6 18 (29.03%) Identity Management
7 17 (27.42%) Log Analytics
7 17 (27.42%) Release Management
7 17 (27.42%) Service Management
8 16 (25.81%) ITIL
8 16 (25.81%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 16 (25.81%) Privileged Identity Management
8 16 (25.81%) RBAC
9 15 (24.19%) Collaborative Working
10 14 (22.58%) Performance Optimisation
10 14 (22.58%) Test Automation
10 14 (22.58%) Time Management
10 14 (22.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) C#
2 18 (29.03%) Java
2 18 (29.03%) PowerShell
3 17 (27.42%) Bicep
4 16 (25.81%) VB
4 16 (25.81%) VBScript
5 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.06%) Python
6 3 (4.84%) Bash
6 3 (4.84%) Ruby
6 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (59.68%) Security Cleared
2 34 (54.84%) SC Cleared
3 17 (27.42%) Degree
4 16 (25.81%) DV Cleared
4 16 (25.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (46.77%) Docker
2 18 (29.03%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (27.42%) Active Directory
4 16 (25.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (17.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (14.52%) vCloud
6 9 (14.52%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (37.10%) Terraform
2 18 (29.03%) Ansible
3 16 (25.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (25.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (25.81%) SCCM
3 16 (25.81%) SCOM
3 16 (25.81%) WSUS
4 12 (19.35%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (19.35%) Podman
5 9 (14.52%) Rancher
5 9 (14.52%) vCenter Server
6 7 (11.29%) Istio
7 2 (3.23%) Packer
7 2 (3.23%) vRealize
8 1 (1.61%) Kibana
8 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.74%) VMware
3 7 (11.29%) Google
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.61%) BMC
5 1 (1.61%) Databricks
5 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.61%) Remedy
5 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.61%) Splunk