Kubernetes Contracts in South London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 12 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 24 43 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 12.97% 17.77% 16.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 60.00% 64.18% 65.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 54
10th Percentile £456 £363 £496
25th Percentile £463 £464 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £649
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -15.25% +8.17%
75th Percentile £738 £629 £722
90th Percentile £741 £630 £725
London median daily rate £600 £573 £638
% change year-on-year +4.80% -10.20% -

All Systems Management Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 40 67 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 21.62% 27.69% 26.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 52 83
10th Percentile £410 £306 £464
25th Percentile £459 £409 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £622 £567 £676
90th Percentile £740 £630 £725
London median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.65 -
London median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
% change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in South London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in South London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in South London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Croydon -3 22 £475 -12.04% 4
Bromley -6 1 £725 +11.54% 4
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 5 (20.83%) Confluence
2 3 (12.50%) Apache
3 2 (8.33%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 23 (95.83%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (25.00%) Serverless
4 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (16.67%) IaaS
5 4 (16.67%) PaaS
6 3 (12.50%) Azure
6 3 (12.50%) GCP
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
8 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.17%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (8.33%) GIS
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.33%) Redis
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.83%) Git
2 5 (20.83%) GitLab
3 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.33%) JMeter
4 2 (8.33%) JUnit
4 2 (8.33%) Mockito
5 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
1 7 (29.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.83%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Java Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Kafka
1 7 (29.17%) Spring
2 4 (16.67%) HTML
2 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (16.67%) XML
3 3 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (12.50%) Keycloak
4 2 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.33%) Apache Camel
4 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.33%) jQuery
4 2 (8.33%) JSON
4 2 (8.33%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) Web Services
4 2 (8.33%) WireMock
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 3 (12.50%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Microservices
2 14 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 13 (54.17%) Containerisation
4 10 (41.67%) DevOps
4 10 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (41.67%) TDD
5 8 (33.33%) Code Quality
6 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
7 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.67%) Refactoring
7 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
8 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
8 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
8 3 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
8 3 (12.50%) High Availability
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Bash
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.17%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
2 6 (25.00%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) Grafana
3 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.33%) Istio
4 2 (8.33%) Kibana
5 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.17%) Puppet
5 1 (4.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) Confluent
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle