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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 54 56
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 141 231 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.53% 3.96% 4.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.00% 28.27% 27.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 173 212
10th Percentile £413 £426 £362
25th Percentile £474 £500 £450
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 £675 £723 £738
England median daily rate £550 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +16.67%
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 £72.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -13.89% -7.10% +45.54%

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 705 817 1,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.67% 14.00% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 592 786
10th Percentile £209 £301 £250
25th Percentile £356 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.44% +8.50% +6.38%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.27 £13.13
25th Percentile £21.72 £47.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £61.38 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.94% +182.18% -23.01%
75th Percentile £49.06 £74.03 £47.63
90th Percentile £66.25 £76.31 £67.88
England median hourly rate £28.50 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.43% +167.44% -7.37%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -2 90 £605 +10.00% 64
Berkshire +7 82 £605 +16.35% 33
Hampshire -20 24 £584 +6.14% 24
West Sussex -5 14 £475 -31.95% 1
Oxfordshire 0 5 £600 +14.29% 7
Surrey -19 4 £625 +6.38% 11
Buckinghamshire +2 3 £575 -17.27% 24
Sussex -1 3 £550 -8.33%
Middlesex +5 2 - - 1
East Sussex -2 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 16 (11.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (9.93%) Confluence
3 9 (6.38%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.84%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.13%) Apache
6 2 (1.42%) nginx
7 1 (0.71%) JBoss
7 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 68 (48.23%) Azure
2 58 (41.13%) AWS
3 25 (17.73%) OpenShift
4 20 (14.18%) Entra ID
5 16 (11.35%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (11.35%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (10.64%) Azure Storage
7 14 (9.93%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (8.51%) GitHub
9 11 (7.80%) IaaS
10 10 (7.09%) GCP
11 9 (6.38%) Amazon S3
11 9 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (6.38%) Serverless
12 7 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.26%) PaaS
14 5 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (3.55%) SaaS
15 4 (2.84%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.48%) DNS
1 19 (13.48%) Firewall
2 16 (11.35%) DHCP
3 9 (6.38%) VSAN
4 3 (2.13%) VPN
5 2 (1.42%) Network Security
5 2 (1.42%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.42%) SSL
6 1 (0.71%) 3G
6 1 (0.71%) 4G
6 1 (0.71%) 5G
6 1 (0.71%) GPRS
6 1 (0.71%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.71%) SAN
6 1 (0.71%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.71%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.70%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.51%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.67%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (5.67%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.96%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.26%) MySQL
5 6 (4.26%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.84%) Couchbase
7 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.42%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.42%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.71%) Big Data
9 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.71%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (26.24%) GitLab
2 32 (22.70%) Jenkins
3 25 (17.73%) Git
3 25 (17.73%) JIRA
4 15 (10.64%) Selenium
5 13 (9.22%) SonarQube
6 12 (8.51%) Cucumber
6 12 (8.51%) REST Assured
7 6 (4.26%) JMeter
7 6 (4.26%) JUnit
8 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.42%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.71%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.71%) Maven
10 1 (0.71%) Mockito
10 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.71%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.71%) TestNG
10 1 (0.71%) Travis CI
General
1 54 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.67%) Law
4 8 (5.67%) Police
5 3 (2.13%) Finance
5 3 (2.13%) Legal
6 2 (1.42%) Automotive
6 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (17.73%) Developer
2 18 (12.77%) Senior
3 17 (12.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (10.64%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (9.93%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (9.93%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (9.93%) Support Specialist
6 13 (9.22%) Java Developer
7 12 (8.51%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.38%) Site Engineer
8 9 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (5.67%) Architect
10 7 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) Full Stack Developer
10 7 (4.96%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.96%) VMware Expert
11 6 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.15%) ARM Templates
2 26 (18.44%) REST
3 17 (12.06%) Kafka
4 12 (8.51%) Java EE
5 11 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (7.80%) Spring Boot
5 11 (7.80%) Web Services
6 10 (7.09%) Node.js
6 10 (7.09%) Spring
7 9 (6.38%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.96%) RESTful
9 6 (4.26%) React
10 5 (3.55%) .NET
10 5 (3.55%) LDAP
10 5 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.84%) SOAP
12 3 (2.13%) HTML
12 3 (2.13%) J2EE
12 3 (2.13%) OpenID
12 3 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.77%) PKI
3 16 (11.35%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.38%) Public Cloud
5 8 (5.67%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.96%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (3.55%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.13%) Smart Meter
9 2 (1.42%) Clustering
10 1 (0.71%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.71%) IoT
10 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.71%) Replication
10 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (31.91%) Linux
2 21 (14.89%) Windows
3 17 (12.06%) Windows Server
4 14 (9.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (9.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (9.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (7.80%) VMS
6 10 (7.09%) Unix
7 5 (3.55%) Solaris
8 3 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (57.45%) DevOps
2 63 (44.68%) Agile
3 59 (41.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (39.01%) Containerisation
5 49 (34.75%) CI/CD
6 34 (24.11%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (19.15%) Test Automation
8 26 (18.44%) Microservices
9 24 (17.02%) Software Engineering
10 22 (15.60%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (14.89%) Collaborative Working
12 20 (14.18%) Analytics
13 19 (13.48%) Identity Management
13 19 (13.48%) ITIL
13 19 (13.48%) Scrum
14 18 (12.77%) Configuration Management
14 18 (12.77%) Decision-Making
14 18 (12.77%) Release Management
15 17 (12.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 17 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (24.11%) Java
2 31 (21.99%) Python
3 23 (16.31%) PowerShell
4 22 (15.60%) C#
5 15 (10.64%) Bicep
5 15 (10.64%) VB
5 15 (10.64%) VBScript
6 13 (9.22%) Bash
7 12 (8.51%) JavaScript
8 9 (6.38%) Go
9 8 (5.67%) Ruby
10 6 (4.26%) Shell Script
10 6 (4.26%) SQL
11 4 (2.84%) C++
11 4 (2.84%) Perl
11 4 (2.84%) PHP
11 4 (2.84%) Scala
12 3 (2.13%) C
13 1 (0.71%) Groovy
13 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 61 (43.26%) SC Cleared
3 24 (17.02%) Degree
4 17 (12.06%) DV Cleared
5 15 (10.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.13%) QA
2 2 (1.42%) SLA
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 59 (41.84%) Docker
2 25 (17.73%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (17.02%) Active Directory
4 17 (12.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (10.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (7.09%) VMware NSX
7 9 (6.38%) vCloud
8 8 (5.67%) vSphere
9 5 (3.55%) Hyper-V
10 2 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.71%) NFS
11 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (35.46%) Ansible
2 47 (33.33%) Terraform
3 17 (12.06%) SCOM
4 15 (10.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (10.64%) SCCM
4 15 (10.64%) WSUS
5 14 (9.93%) Istio
6 13 (9.22%) Rancher
7 12 (8.51%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (8.51%) Podman
8 11 (7.80%) Prometheus
9 10 (7.09%) Kibana
10 9 (6.38%) Grafana
10 9 (6.38%) Packer
10 9 (6.38%) vCenter Server
11 8 (5.67%) vRealize
12 7 (4.96%) Argo
13 5 (3.55%) Puppet
14 4 (2.84%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 29 (20.57%) VMware
2 23 (16.31%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.51%) Red Hat
4 9 (6.38%) Oracle
5 7 (4.96%) Google
6 5 (3.55%) Arqiva
6 5 (3.55%) Veritas
7 4 (2.84%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.84%) Splunk
8 3 (2.13%) Dell
8 3 (2.13%) Foundry
8 3 (2.13%) New Relic
8 3 (2.13%) Palantir
8 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.13%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.42%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.42%) HP
9 2 (1.42%) IBM
9 2 (1.42%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.42%) SAP