Kubernetes Contracts in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 48 59 59
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 +22
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 54 88 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.57% 3.28% 3.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.51% 27.41% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 56 61
10th Percentile £372 £413 £425
25th Percentile £412 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +10.00% +7.32%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £695
90th Percentile £663 £688 £738
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.14% -
South East median hourly rate - £43.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -38.57% -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 183 321 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.11% 11.95% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 243 273
10th Percentile £318 £205 £303
25th Percentile £413 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £623
90th Percentile £663 £650 £725
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 11
10th Percentile - £21.34 £48.50
25th Percentile - £28.41 £54.69
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.29% +5.60%
75th Percentile - £52.81 £75.38
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +2 51 £501 -17.27% 74
Buckinghamshire +15 2 £311 -46.00% 55
Oxfordshire +3 1 £550 +10.00% 40
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (3.70%) Apache
1 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.70%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 39 (72.22%) Azure
2 25 (46.30%) AWS
3 18 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 11 (20.37%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (16.67%) Serverless
6 7 (12.96%) GCP
7 6 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (11.11%) Azure Storage
8 5 (9.26%) OpenShift
9 4 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.41%) Azure Functions
10 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (5.56%) IaaS
10 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (5.56%) PaaS
11 2 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
11 2 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) BGP
1 6 (11.11%) MPLS
2 5 (9.26%) 3GPP
2 5 (9.26%) TCP/IP
2 5 (9.26%) VLAN
3 4 (7.41%) 3G
3 4 (7.41%) 4G
3 4 (7.41%) LTE
4 2 (3.70%) 5G
4 2 (3.70%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (3.70%) HTTP
4 2 (3.70%) MVNO
5 1 (1.85%) DHCP
5 1 (1.85%) DNS
5 1 (1.85%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.85%) Firewall
5 1 (1.85%) Network Security
5 1 (1.85%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (7.41%) Big Data
3 4 (7.41%) Redis
4 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.70%) DocumentDB
4 2 (3.70%) Power BI
4 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.85%) GIS
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Jenkins
2 12 (22.22%) GitLab
3 10 (18.52%) JIRA
4 9 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 9 (16.67%) REST Assured
4 9 (16.67%) Selenium
4 9 (16.67%) SonarQube
5 5 (9.26%) Robot Framework
6 3 (5.56%) Git
7 2 (3.70%) JMeter
7 2 (3.70%) JUnit
7 2 (3.70%) Mockito
8 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 23 (42.59%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.19%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (25.93%) Telecoms
4 8 (14.81%) Law
5 4 (7.41%) Police
5 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.56%) Finance
7 2 (3.70%) Electronics
7 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.70%) Marketing
8 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Automation Tester
5 5 (9.26%) Java Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Site Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Telecoms Tester
5 5 (9.26%) Tester
6 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Technical Design Authority
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.78%) REST
2 12 (22.22%) ARM Templates
3 9 (16.67%) Java EE
4 5 (9.26%) .NET
4 5 (9.26%) .NET Core
4 5 (9.26%) ADO
4 5 (9.26%) Node.js
5 4 (7.41%) GraphQL
5 4 (7.41%) Prisma
5 4 (7.41%) React
5 4 (7.41%) RESTful
6 3 (5.56%) HTML
6 3 (5.56%) JSON
6 3 (5.56%) XML
6 3 (5.56%) YAML
7 2 (3.70%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.70%) NHibernate
7 2 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.70%) SCADA
5 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) IoT
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Unix
3 2 (3.70%) AIX
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.85%) CentOS
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) Containerisation
2 28 (51.85%) DevOps
3 21 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 16 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (27.78%) Test Automation
6 14 (25.93%) Configuration Management
6 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
9 10 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (16.67%) Agile
10 9 (16.67%) Microservices
10 9 (16.67%) Software Architecture
10 9 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (14.81%) Decision-Making
12 6 (11.11%) Cost Management
12 6 (11.11%) Test Strategy
13 5 (9.26%) DevSecOps
13 5 (9.26%) Front End Development
13 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) Python
2 11 (20.37%) Java
2 11 (20.37%) SQL
3 8 (14.81%) Bicep
4 6 (11.11%) C#
4 6 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 5 (9.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.70%) Bash
7 2 (3.70%) R
8 1 (1.85%) VB
8 1 (1.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.85%) CCSP
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.85%) CISSP
4 1 (1.85%) Degree
4 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.85%) OSCP
4 1 (1.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (64.81%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (37.04%) Ansible
2 18 (33.33%) Terraform
3 9 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (16.67%) Podman
4 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.56%) Grafana
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.56%) SCCM
6 2 (3.70%) Kibana
6 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.70%) Puppet
7 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.85%) Argo
7 1 (1.85%) Istio
7 1 (1.85%) SCOM
7 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) VMware
3 3 (5.56%) Splunk
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco
4 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.70%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) SAP
4 2 (3.70%) Spotify
5 1 (1.85%) Amdocs
5 1 (1.85%) Dell
5 1 (1.85%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.85%) New Relic
5 1 (1.85%) Rakuten
5 1 (1.85%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.85%) Samsung