Kubernetes Contracts in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 53 53
Rank change year-on-year -19 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 143 228 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.59% 3.95% 4.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.81% 28.61% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 173 214
10th Percentile £416 £426 £381
25th Percentile £477 £500 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £684 £725 £738
England median daily rate £550 £625 £610
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.46% +15.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £37.70 - -
25th Percentile £39.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% - -
75th Percentile £46.63 - -
90th Percentile £47.90 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -15.07% -5.81% +40.91%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 722 797 1,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.08% 13.80% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 584 774
10th Percentile £213 £302 £250
25th Percentile £370 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +7.53%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £618
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £13.05
25th Percentile £21.72 £52.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +173.26% -33.85%
75th Percentile £51.88 £73.71 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.75 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +167.44% -10.42%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Thames Valley +6 88 £605 +11.26% 47
Berkshire +15 82 £605 +16.35% 31
Hampshire -18 26 £584 +6.14% 29
West Sussex -6 14 £475 -31.95% 2
Surrey -14 6 £650 +10.64% 19
Buckinghamshire +5 3 £575 -17.27% 14
Sussex -1 3 £550 -8.33% 1
Oxfordshire -2 3 £500 - 2
Middlesex +3 2 - - 1
East Sussex -1 2 £650 -17.72% 3
Kent - 1 £525 - 3
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (12.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (10.49%) Confluence
3 9 (6.29%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.80%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.10%) Apache
6 1 (0.70%) JBoss
6 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 69 (48.25%) Azure
2 62 (43.36%) AWS
3 24 (16.78%) OpenShift
4 23 (16.08%) Entra ID
5 18 (12.59%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (12.59%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (11.89%) Azure Storage
7 15 (10.49%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (8.39%) GitHub
8 12 (8.39%) IaaS
9 10 (6.99%) GCP
9 10 (6.99%) Serverless
10 9 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (5.59%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.90%) PaaS
13 6 (4.20%) SaaS
14 5 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (3.50%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.69%) DNS
1 21 (14.69%) Firewall
2 18 (12.59%) DHCP
3 9 (6.29%) VSAN
4 4 (2.80%) VPN
5 3 (2.10%) Network Security
6 2 (1.40%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.40%) SSL
7 1 (0.70%) 3G
7 1 (0.70%) 4G
7 1 (0.70%) 5G
7 1 (0.70%) GPRS
7 1 (0.70%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.70%) SAN
7 1 (0.70%) VoLTE
7 1 (0.70%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.98%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.39%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.59%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (5.59%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.90%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.20%) MySQL
5 6 (4.20%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.80%) Couchbase
7 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.40%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.70%) Big Data
9 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 37 (25.87%) GitLab
2 33 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 25 (17.48%) JIRA
4 24 (16.78%) Git
5 15 (10.49%) Selenium
6 13 (9.09%) SonarQube
7 12 (8.39%) Cucumber
7 12 (8.39%) REST Assured
8 6 (4.20%) JMeter
8 6 (4.20%) JUnit
9 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.10%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.70%) Axure RP
11 1 (0.70%) Maven
11 1 (0.70%) Mockito
11 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.70%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.70%) TestNG
11 1 (0.70%) Travis CI
General
1 55 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.59%) Law
4 8 (5.59%) Police
5 3 (2.10%) Finance
5 3 (2.10%) Legal
6 2 (1.40%) Automotive
6 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (17.48%) Developer
2 19 (13.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (12.59%) Senior
4 16 (11.19%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (10.49%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (9.79%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (9.79%) Java Developer
6 14 (9.79%) Support Specialist
7 12 (8.39%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Site Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Architect
9 7 (4.90%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (4.90%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) VMware Expert
10 6 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.50%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.28%) ARM Templates
2 26 (18.18%) REST
3 16 (11.19%) Kafka
4 12 (8.39%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (8.39%) Java EE
4 12 (8.39%) Web Services
5 11 (7.69%) Spring Boot
6 10 (6.99%) Spring
7 9 (6.29%) AngularJS
7 9 (6.29%) Node.js
8 7 (4.90%) RESTful
9 6 (4.20%) .NET
9 6 (4.20%) React
10 5 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.80%) LDAP
11 4 (2.80%) SOAP
12 3 (2.10%) HTML
12 3 (2.10%) J2EE
12 3 (2.10%) OpenID
12 3 (2.10%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.99%) PKI
2 18 (12.59%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (11.89%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.99%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (4.90%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.90%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (3.50%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.10%) Smart Meter
9 2 (1.40%) Clustering
10 1 (0.70%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.70%) IoT
10 1 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.70%) Replication
10 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (32.17%) Linux
2 24 (16.78%) Windows
3 19 (13.29%) Windows Server
4 16 (11.19%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (11.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (9.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (7.69%) VMS
7 10 (6.99%) Unix
8 5 (3.50%) Solaris
9 3 (2.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (60.14%) DevOps
2 65 (45.45%) Agile
3 61 (42.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (37.76%) Containerisation
5 52 (36.36%) CI/CD
6 34 (23.78%) Technical Leadership
7 28 (19.58%) Test Automation
8 25 (17.48%) Microservices
9 24 (16.78%) Software Engineering
10 23 (16.08%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (15.38%) Analytics
11 22 (15.38%) ITIL
12 21 (14.69%) Collaborative Working
12 21 (14.69%) Identity Management
12 21 (14.69%) Release Management
13 20 (13.99%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 19 (13.29%) Configuration Management
14 19 (13.29%) Scrum
15 18 (12.59%) Decision-Making
15 18 (12.59%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (24.48%) Java
2 32 (22.38%) Python
3 25 (17.48%) C#
3 25 (17.48%) PowerShell
4 17 (11.89%) Bicep
4 17 (11.89%) VB
4 17 (11.89%) VBScript
5 13 (9.09%) Bash
6 12 (8.39%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.99%) Go
8 9 (6.29%) Ruby
9 6 (4.20%) Shell Script
9 6 (4.20%) SQL
10 5 (3.50%) PHP
11 4 (2.80%) C++
11 4 (2.80%) Perl
11 4 (2.80%) Scala
12 3 (2.10%) C
13 2 (1.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 73 (51.05%) Security Cleared
2 64 (44.76%) SC Cleared
3 26 (18.18%) Degree
4 19 (13.29%) DV Cleared
5 17 (11.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.10%) QA
2 2 (1.40%) SLA
3 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (41.26%) Docker
2 28 (19.58%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (18.88%) Active Directory
4 19 (13.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (11.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (6.99%) VMware NSX
7 9 (6.29%) vCloud
8 8 (5.59%) vSphere
9 6 (4.20%) Hyper-V
10 2 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.70%) NFS
11 1 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (34.97%) Ansible
2 49 (34.27%) Terraform
3 19 (13.29%) SCOM
4 17 (11.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (11.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (11.89%) SCCM
4 17 (11.89%) WSUS
5 14 (9.79%) Istio
5 14 (9.79%) Rancher
6 12 (8.39%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (8.39%) Podman
7 9 (6.29%) Packer
7 9 (6.29%) Prometheus
7 9 (6.29%) vCenter Server
8 8 (5.59%) Grafana
8 8 (5.59%) Kibana
8 8 (5.59%) vRealize
9 7 (4.90%) Argo
10 4 (2.80%) Puppet
10 4 (2.80%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 29 (20.28%) VMware
2 26 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.39%) Red Hat
4 9 (6.29%) Oracle
5 7 (4.90%) Google
6 5 (3.50%) Arqiva
6 5 (3.50%) Veritas
7 4 (2.80%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.80%) Splunk
8 3 (2.10%) Dell
8 3 (2.10%) Foundry
8 3 (2.10%) New Relic
8 3 (2.10%) Palantir
8 3 (2.10%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.40%) HP
9 2 (1.40%) IBM
9 2 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.40%) SAP
10 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace