Kubernetes Contracts in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 22 29
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 22 37 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.93% 7.20% 4.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.42% 44.05% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 22
10th Percentile £390 £609 £386
25th Percentile £510 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +21.74% -16.36%
75th Percentile £645 - £684
90th Percentile £650 - £699
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £650 £531
% change year-on-year -19.23% +22.35% +6.25%

All Systems Management Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 134 84 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.04% 16.34% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 68 76
10th Percentile £250 £380 £363
25th Percentile £407 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £610 £522
Median % change year-on-year -22.95% +16.91% +15.94%
75th Percentile £556 £700 £595
90th Percentile £625 - £681
Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -14.55% +10.00% +10.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.50 £20.04
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.50 £22.67
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.50 £62.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -64.00% +212.50% -16.67%

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 24 April 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 24 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
Sheffield -15 21 £591 -15.57% 3
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 7 (31.82%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
1 10 (45.45%) GCP
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) GitHub
3 6 (27.27%) Apigee
3 6 (27.27%) Kong
4 2 (9.09%) Anthos
4 2 (9.09%) CloudBees
4 2 (9.09%) Datadog
4 2 (9.09%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
1 6 (27.27%) Firewall
1 6 (27.27%) HTTP
1 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
1 6 (27.27%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 15 (68.18%) Git
2 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (40.91%) JIRA
4 7 (31.82%) CircleCI
4 7 (31.82%) GitLab
5 6 (27.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (27.27%) JUnit
5 6 (27.27%) Travis CI
6 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
7 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (4.55%) JMeter
7 1 (4.55%) Postman
7 1 (4.55%) Selenium
7 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Junior
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Junior Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) JSON
1 7 (31.82%) YAML
2 6 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (27.27%) Hibernate
2 6 (27.27%) JPA
2 6 (27.27%) React
2 6 (27.27%) REST
2 6 (27.27%) Spring
2 6 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 6 (27.27%) XML
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) OpenID
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (4.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) DevOps
2 19 (86.36%) Agile
3 14 (63.64%) Scrum
4 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 8 (36.36%) Task Automation
7 7 (31.82%) API Integration
7 7 (31.82%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (31.82%) High Availability
7 7 (31.82%) Microservices
7 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (27.27%) Front End Development
8 6 (27.27%) Project Management
8 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
8 6 (27.27%) Use Case
8 6 (27.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) Bash
3 8 (36.36%) Java
4 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
6 2 (9.09%) Go
6 2 (9.09%) Groovy
6 2 (9.09%) SQL
7 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 18 (81.82%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Terraform
2 9 (40.91%) Ansible
3 8 (36.36%) Prometheus
4 6 (27.27%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (27.27%) Grafana
4 6 (27.27%) Kibana
4 6 (27.27%) logstash
4 6 (27.27%) Progress Chef
4 6 (27.27%) Puppet
5 3 (13.64%) Istio
6 2 (9.09%) Kiali
7 1 (4.55%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Splunk
2 3 (13.64%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle