Kubernetes Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 53 52
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 517 957 1,271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.54% 4.07% 4.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.56% 26.91% 29.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 721 895
10th Percentile £408 £429 £425
25th Percentile £453 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £622 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 22 8
10th Percentile £45.24 £50.08 £41.75
25th Percentile £47.81 £55.26 £42.18
Median hourly rate £64.75 £64.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +34.74% +0.13%
75th Percentile £74.44 £75.50 £49.83
90th Percentile £77.55 £78.00 £52.79
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £70.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -7.86% +37.88% +6.95%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,292 3,556 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.25% 15.13% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 2,594 2,981
10th Percentile £213 £281 £240
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £698 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -8.21% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 134 116
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.72
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.06 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -11.62%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £30.81
90th Percentile £70.93 £75.35 £51.45
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
North of England -22 146 £550 -9.28% 104
South East -16 145 £575 -0.86% 113
South West -33 86 £550 - 84
Scotland -6 77 £480 -12.73% 33
North West -28 69 £550 -8.33% 61
Yorkshire +4 67 £538 -14.00% 33
Midlands -14 30 £500 -20.00% 46
East of England -36 21 £575 -11.54% 24
West Midlands -20 18 £500 -28.57% 23
East Midlands -2 12 £450 -35.71% 23
North East -12 12 £413 -41.07% 10
Wales +23 10 £500 -20.00% 8
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 12
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 33 (6.38%) Confluence
2 22 (4.26%) Apache
2 22 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.32%) OpenStack
5 8 (1.55%) nginx
6 6 (1.16%) JBoss
7 4 (0.77%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.77%) SAS
8 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.39%) Traefik
10 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (0.39%) RMDS
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 295 (57.06%) AWS
2 200 (38.68%) Azure
3 92 (17.79%) OpenShift
4 72 (13.93%) GCP
5 54 (10.44%) Amazon S3
6 51 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
7 48 (9.28%) Serverless
8 46 (8.90%) Amazon EKS
9 39 (7.54%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (7.54%) GitHub
10 33 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (4.45%) Entra ID
14 21 (4.06%) Azure AKS
15 19 (3.68%) Route 53
16 18 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (3.48%) Azure Storage
17 17 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
17 17 (3.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.51%) Firewall
2 40 (7.74%) DNS
3 24 (4.64%) VPN
4 20 (3.87%) DHCP
5 18 (3.48%) TCP/IP
6 17 (3.29%) Network Security
7 16 (3.09%) SAN
8 14 (2.71%) HTTP
9 9 (1.74%) VSAN
10 7 (1.35%) AMQP
10 7 (1.35%) NAS
11 5 (0.97%) 5G
12 4 (0.77%) Diameter Protocol
12 4 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (0.77%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.77%) IPsec
12 4 (0.77%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.77%) LTE
12 4 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (9.67%) Relational Database
3 43 (8.32%) Elasticsearch
4 33 (6.38%) NoSQL
5 32 (6.19%) MySQL
6 23 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (2.51%) MongoDB
7 13 (2.51%) RDBMS
8 12 (2.32%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.13%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.13%) InfluxDB
10 10 (1.93%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.55%) Big Data
11 8 (1.55%) Flink
12 7 (1.35%) Couchbase
13 5 (0.97%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.97%) DB2
14 4 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (0.77%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 118 (22.82%) Jenkins
2 103 (19.92%) GitLab
3 102 (19.73%) Git
4 59 (11.41%) JIRA
5 32 (6.19%) SonarQube
6 25 (4.84%) JUnit
7 22 (4.26%) Selenium
8 18 (3.48%) Cucumber
9 17 (3.29%) Artifactory
10 14 (2.71%) Bitbucket
11 13 (2.51%) Travis CI
12 12 (2.32%) Maven
12 12 (2.32%) REST Assured
13 10 (1.93%) CircleCI
13 10 (1.93%) Gradle
14 9 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (1.74%) JMeter
14 9 (1.74%) Mockito
14 9 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (1.74%) webpack
General
1 106 (20.50%) Social Skills
2 48 (9.28%) Public Sector
3 34 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (5.80%) Finance
5 20 (3.87%) Banking
6 9 (1.74%) Law
7 8 (1.55%) Police
7 8 (1.55%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.16%) Legal
10 5 (0.97%) Retail
11 3 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.58%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.39%) Automotive
12 2 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.19%) Advertising
13 1 (0.19%) Electronics
13 1 (0.19%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.19%) Marketing
13 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (25.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 112 (21.66%) Developer
3 46 (8.90%) Senior
4 44 (8.51%) Java Developer
4 44 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 42 (8.12%) AWS Engineer
6 38 (7.35%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (6.58%) Lead
7 34 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
8 32 (6.19%) Site Engineer
9 30 (5.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 29 (5.61%) Architect
11 28 (5.42%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (4.64%) Linux Engineer
13 20 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (3.87%) Software Engineer
14 18 (3.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.09%) Active Directory Support
15 16 (3.09%) Python Developer
16 15 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.41%) REST
2 58 (11.22%) Spring Boot
3 51 (9.86%) Kafka
4 49 (9.48%) React
5 48 (9.28%) Spring
6 44 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
7 36 (6.96%) Node.js
8 33 (6.38%) ARM Templates
9 30 (5.80%) RESTful
10 20 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (3.68%) .NET
12 18 (3.48%) YAML
13 17 (3.29%) JSON
14 13 (2.51%) AWS CDK
14 13 (2.51%) Hibernate
14 13 (2.51%) Web Services
15 12 (2.32%) Java EE
15 12 (2.32%) JPA
15 12 (2.32%) Redux
16 10 (1.93%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.96%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.58%) Public Cloud
3 30 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (4.45%) PKI
5 21 (4.06%) Data Structures
6 20 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (2.71%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.55%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.35%) NHS
11 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.97%) Clustering
12 5 (0.97%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.97%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.77%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.77%) NVMe
13 4 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 156 (30.17%) Linux
2 66 (12.77%) Windows
3 44 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (7.74%) Unix
5 38 (7.35%) Windows Server
6 16 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (2.51%) CentOS
7 13 (2.51%) VMS
8 12 (2.32%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.74%) Solaris
10 4 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.39%) Windows 2000
11 2 (0.39%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (59.77%) DevOps
2 226 (43.71%) CI/CD
3 170 (32.88%) Containerisation
4 151 (29.21%) Agile
5 138 (26.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 92 (17.79%) Microservices
7 72 (13.93%) Test Automation
8 67 (12.96%) Software Engineering
9 66 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
10 62 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (11.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 56 (10.83%) Scrum
12 52 (10.06%) Configuration Management
13 38 (7.35%) Full Stack Development
14 37 (7.16%) GitOps
14 37 (7.16%) TDD
15 36 (6.96%) Collaborative Working
15 36 (6.96%) Computer Science
15 36 (6.96%) High Availability
15 36 (6.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 208 (40.23%) Python
2 137 (26.50%) Java
3 75 (14.51%) Bash
4 63 (12.19%) PowerShell
5 59 (11.41%) SQL
6 45 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 43 (8.32%) Go
8 35 (6.77%) C#
9 33 (6.38%) Scala
10 32 (6.19%) TypeScript
11 29 (5.61%) Shell Script
12 27 (5.22%) Ruby
13 21 (4.06%) Bicep
14 19 (3.68%) Perl
15 18 (3.48%) Groovy
16 16 (3.09%) VB
16 16 (3.09%) VBScript
17 15 (2.90%) C
18 12 (2.32%) PHP
19 10 (1.93%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 187 (36.17%) Security Cleared
2 138 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 70 (13.54%) DV Cleared
4 43 (8.32%) Degree
5 20 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 15 (2.90%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.93%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.39%) SANS
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.19%) LPIC
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.16%) QA
2 9 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.74%) NIST
3 6 (1.16%) GDPR
4 5 (0.97%) SLA
5 4 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.77%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.58%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.39%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 297 (57.45%) Docker
2 48 (9.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (7.16%) Active Directory
4 29 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (3.87%) VMware NSX
6 17 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (2.71%) Hyper-V
8 12 (2.32%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.93%) vSphere
10 9 (1.74%) vCloud
11 5 (0.97%) NFS
12 4 (0.77%) GPFS
12 4 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.58%) HDFS
14 2 (0.39%) KVM
14 2 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.19%) Lustre
15 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 213 (41.20%) Terraform
2 159 (30.75%) Ansible
3 84 (16.25%) Prometheus
4 79 (15.28%) Grafana
5 37 (7.16%) Progress Chef
6 33 (6.38%) Docker Swarm
7 29 (5.61%) Istio
7 29 (5.61%) Kibana
8 28 (5.42%) Puppet
9 21 (4.06%) Rancher
9 21 (4.06%) SCOM
10 18 (3.48%) SCCM
11 16 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (3.09%) WSUS
12 15 (2.90%) Packer
13 14 (2.71%) Podman
14 13 (2.51%) Argo
15 12 (2.32%) vCenter Server
16 11 (2.13%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 65 (12.57%) VMware
2 54 (10.44%) Microsoft
3 45 (8.70%) Splunk
4 30 (5.80%) Red Hat
5 26 (5.03%) Google
6 23 (4.45%) Oracle
7 15 (2.90%) Databricks
8 13 (2.51%) Veritas
9 12 (2.32%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.93%) IBM
11 7 (1.35%) Checkmarx
12 6 (1.16%) Dell
12 6 (1.16%) WSO2
13 5 (0.97%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.97%) Arqiva
13 5 (0.97%) Cisco
13 5 (0.97%) HP
13 5 (0.97%) Veracode
14 4 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.77%) Palo Alto