Kubernetes Contracts in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 13 29
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 38 50 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.84% 10.04% 7.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.95% 52.63% 29.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 42 30
10th Percentile £453 £550 £503
25th Percentile £478 £575 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £700 £596
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +17.40% -13.27%
75th Percentile £638 - £675
90th Percentile £650 - £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £625 £538
% change year-on-year -20.00% +16.28% +2.38%

All Systems Management Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 141 95 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.07% 19.08% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 73 109
10th Percentile £366 £268 £350
25th Percentile £420 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £510
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £564 £700 £595
90th Percentile £638 - £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.50 £20.04
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year - -6.32% -
75th Percentile - £22.50 £22.67
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +115.00% -17.36%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Sheffield -13 37 £560 -20.00% 7
Kubernetes
Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 10 (26.32%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) AWS
1 20 (52.63%) GCP
2 17 (44.74%) Azure
3 11 (28.95%) GitHub
4 10 (26.32%) Kong
5 6 (15.79%) Apigee
6 2 (5.26%) Anthos
6 2 (5.26%) CloudBees
6 2 (5.26%) Datadog
6 2 (5.26%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) Firewall
2 9 (23.68%) DNS
2 9 (23.68%) HTTP
2 9 (23.68%) TCP/IP
2 9 (23.68%) VPN
3 5 (13.16%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (7.89%) BIG-IP
4 3 (7.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (7.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 28 (73.68%) Git
2 21 (55.26%) Jenkins
3 13 (34.21%) JIRA
4 10 (26.32%) GitLab
5 9 (23.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (23.68%) CircleCI
5 9 (23.68%) Travis CI
6 6 (15.79%) JUnit
7 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.26%) Jaeger
8 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.63%) JMeter
8 1 (2.63%) Maven
8 1 (2.63%) Postman
8 1 (2.63%) Selenium
8 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.53%) Finance
5 3 (7.89%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Developer
3 7 (18.42%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Lead
5 3 (7.89%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Junior
6 2 (5.26%) Junior Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Junior Java Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Site Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Senior
7 1 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) JSON
2 10 (26.32%) YAML
3 9 (23.68%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (23.68%) XML
4 8 (21.05%) OAuth
5 7 (18.42%) JWT
5 7 (18.42%) OpenAPI
5 7 (18.42%) REST
5 7 (18.42%) Swagger
6 6 (15.79%) GraphQL
6 6 (15.79%) gRPC
6 6 (15.79%) Hibernate
6 6 (15.79%) JPA
6 6 (15.79%) React
6 6 (15.79%) RESTful
6 6 (15.79%) Spring
6 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
7 5 (13.16%) FastAPI
8 2 (5.26%) OpenID
8 2 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.63%) Blockchain
2 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.63%) Replication
2 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (78.95%) DevOps
2 27 (71.05%) CI/CD
3 24 (63.16%) Containerisation
4 23 (60.53%) Agile
5 20 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (47.37%) Scrum
7 16 (42.11%) API Development
8 13 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (28.95%) DevSecOps
9 11 (28.95%) Task Automation
10 10 (26.32%) API Integration
10 10 (26.32%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (26.32%) Mentoring
11 9 (23.68%) Continuous Deployment
11 9 (23.68%) Microservices
11 9 (23.68%) Project Management
11 9 (23.68%) Secure Coding
11 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (23.68%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 25 (65.79%) Python
2 15 (39.47%) Java
3 13 (34.21%) PowerShell
4 12 (31.58%) Bash
5 7 (18.42%) Shell Script
6 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 4 (10.53%) SQL
8 3 (7.89%) ActionScript
8 3 (7.89%) Groovy
9 2 (5.26%) Go
10 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
10 1 (2.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.68%) QA
2 6 (15.79%) GDPR
2 6 (15.79%) HIPAA
System Software
1 34 (89.47%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (50.00%) Ansible
2 15 (39.47%) Puppet
3 14 (36.84%) Terraform
4 13 (34.21%) Prometheus
5 11 (28.95%) Progress Chef
6 9 (23.68%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (23.68%) Grafana
6 9 (23.68%) Kibana
6 9 (23.68%) logstash
7 4 (10.53%) Kiali
8 3 (7.89%) Istio
9 1 (2.63%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Splunk
2 9 (23.68%) Google
3 3 (7.89%) AppDynamics
3 3 (7.89%) F5
4 2 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle