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 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 83 52 55
Rank change year-on-year -31 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 507 989 1,246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.44% 4.09% 4.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.64% 27.26% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 738 889
10th Percentile £405 £426 £419
25th Percentile £453 £491 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £686 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.83% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 8
10th Percentile £45.24 £53.34 £41.75
25th Percentile £47.81 £58.29 £42.18
Median hourly rate £64.75 £64.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +34.74% -6.40%
75th Percentile £74.44 £75.50 £49.83
90th Percentile £77.55 £78.00 £52.79
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £70.00 £52.89
% change year-on-year -11.43% +32.36% +11.34%

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 2,343 3,628 4,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.27% 15.01% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 2,655 3,001
10th Percentile £210 £274 £231
25th Percentile £375 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £594
90th Percentile £656 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £566 £564
% change year-on-year -9.01% +0.40% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 142 122
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.44
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £36.94
90th Percentile £70.50 £75.50 £51.45
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -45.22% +158.08% -23.17%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 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
North of England -23 145 £525 -12.50% 112
South East -22 141 £575 -0.86% 92
South West -39 77 £550 - 84
Scotland -22 73 £508 -7.21% 46
North West -32 69 £550 -7.37% 65
Yorkshire +7 66 £525 -19.23% 32
Midlands -13 37 £500 -20.00% 50
East of England -28 23 £550 -15.38% 28
West Midlands -14 21 £488 -25.00% 23
East Midlands -3 16 £563 -19.64% 27
North East -9 12 £413 -41.07% 15
Wales +20 9 £500 -23.08% 6
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 17
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 29 (5.72%) Confluence
2 20 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.75%) Apache
4 14 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.76%) OpenStack
5 11 (2.17%) nginx
6 10 (1.97%) Apache Spark
7 6 (1.18%) JBoss
8 4 (0.79%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.79%) SAS
8 4 (0.79%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.39%) Traefik
10 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.20%) IIS
10 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.20%) Luigi
10 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (0.39%) RMDS
2 1 (0.20%) Magento
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 277 (54.64%) AWS
2 192 (37.87%) Azure
3 86 (16.96%) OpenShift
4 67 (13.21%) GCP
5 55 (10.85%) Amazon S3
6 51 (10.06%) Amazon EC2
7 48 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
8 47 (9.27%) Serverless
9 37 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (7.30%) GitHub
10 34 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (4.73%) Azure AKS
12 24 (4.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 22 (4.34%) Entra ID
14 19 (3.75%) Route 53
15 18 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (3.55%) Snowflake
16 17 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (3.35%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 41 (8.09%) Firewall
2 37 (7.30%) DNS
3 19 (3.75%) DHCP
3 19 (3.75%) VPN
4 16 (3.16%) Network Security
4 16 (3.16%) SAN
4 16 (3.16%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.78%) VSAN
6 8 (1.58%) HTTP
7 7 (1.38%) AMQP
7 7 (1.38%) NAS
8 5 (0.99%) 5G
8 5 (0.99%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (0.99%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.79%) Diameter Protocol
9 4 (0.79%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.79%) IPsec
9 4 (0.79%) LTE
10 3 (0.59%) LAN
10 3 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.62%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (10.06%) Relational Database
3 38 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
4 36 (7.10%) NoSQL
5 32 (6.31%) MySQL
6 24 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (2.96%) RDBMS
8 13 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (2.56%) MongoDB
8 13 (2.56%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.37%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.17%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.17%) InfluxDB
11 10 (1.97%) Big Data
12 8 (1.58%) Couchbase
12 8 (1.58%) Flink
13 6 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.99%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 116 (22.88%) Jenkins
2 108 (21.30%) Git
3 97 (19.13%) GitLab
4 52 (10.26%) JIRA
5 32 (6.31%) SonarQube
6 28 (5.52%) JUnit
7 23 (4.54%) Selenium
8 18 (3.55%) Cucumber
9 17 (3.35%) Artifactory
10 13 (2.56%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.56%) Maven
11 12 (2.37%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.17%) Gradle
13 10 (1.97%) Travis CI
14 9 (1.78%) Mockito
14 9 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (1.78%) webpack
15 8 (1.58%) CircleCI
15 8 (1.58%) JMeter
16 7 (1.38%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 102 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 46 (9.07%) Public Sector
3 33 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.31%) Finance
5 17 (3.35%) Banking
6 11 (2.17%) Law
7 8 (1.58%) Investment Banking
7 8 (1.58%) Police
7 8 (1.58%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.38%) Legal
9 6 (1.18%) Retail
10 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.59%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.39%) Automotive
11 2 (0.39%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.20%) Advertising
12 1 (0.20%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.20%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.20%) Marketing
12 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (24.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 110 (21.70%) Developer
3 45 (8.88%) Senior
4 41 (8.09%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 38 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
6 38 (7.50%) Java Developer
7 34 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
8 33 (6.51%) Architect
9 32 (6.31%) Lead
10 30 (5.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 28 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (5.52%) Site Engineer
12 24 (4.73%) Linux Engineer
13 23 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (3.75%) Software Engineer
15 18 (3.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 18 (3.55%) Python Developer
16 15 (2.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 15 (2.96%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.83%) REST
2 50 (9.86%) Spring Boot
3 46 (9.07%) React
4 42 (8.28%) Spring
5 40 (7.89%) Kafka
6 38 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
7 36 (7.10%) Node.js
8 34 (6.71%) ARM Templates
9 29 (5.72%) RESTful
10 22 (4.34%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (3.75%) .NET
12 17 (3.35%) YAML
13 16 (3.16%) JSON
14 13 (2.56%) AngularJS
14 13 (2.56%) Hibernate
14 13 (2.56%) Web Services
15 12 (2.37%) Java EE
15 12 (2.37%) JPA
16 11 (2.17%) AWS CDK
17 10 (1.97%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.50%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.31%) Public Cloud
3 28 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (4.14%) PKI
5 18 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
7 15 (2.96%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.37%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.38%) NHS
11 6 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.99%) Client/Server
12 5 (0.99%) Clustering
12 5 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.99%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.79%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 143 (28.21%) Linux
2 65 (12.82%) Windows
3 45 (8.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (7.30%) Windows Server
5 35 (6.90%) Unix
6 14 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (2.56%) CentOS
7 13 (2.56%) VMS
8 12 (2.37%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.58%) Solaris
10 4 (0.79%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.39%) Windows 2000
11 2 (0.39%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (58.78%) DevOps
2 214 (42.21%) CI/CD
3 159 (31.36%) Containerisation
4 146 (28.80%) Agile
5 137 (27.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 90 (17.75%) Microservices
7 69 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (13.02%) Test Automation
9 65 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
9 65 (12.82%) Software Engineering
10 59 (11.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 54 (10.65%) Scrum
12 50 (9.86%) Configuration Management
13 41 (8.09%) TDD
14 38 (7.50%) Full Stack Development
15 36 (7.10%) GitOps
15 36 (7.10%) Technical Leadership
16 34 (6.71%) High Availability
17 33 (6.51%) Collaborative Working
18 32 (6.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 208 (41.03%) Python
2 125 (24.65%) Java
3 72 (14.20%) Bash
4 63 (12.43%) SQL
5 62 (12.23%) PowerShell
6 43 (8.48%) Go
7 40 (7.89%) JavaScript
8 31 (6.11%) C#
9 30 (5.92%) TypeScript
10 29 (5.72%) Shell Script
11 26 (5.13%) Ruby
11 26 (5.13%) Scala
12 22 (4.34%) Bicep
13 20 (3.94%) Perl
14 19 (3.75%) Groovy
15 16 (3.16%) C
16 15 (2.96%) VB
16 15 (2.96%) VBScript
17 12 (2.37%) PHP
18 6 (1.18%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 172 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 125 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 66 (13.02%) DV Cleared
4 35 (6.90%) Degree
5 16 (3.16%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.39%) RHCE
11 2 (0.39%) SANS
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.20%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.20%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.20%) LPIC
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.71%) QA
2 9 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.78%) NIST
3 6 (1.18%) GDPR
4 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.79%) SLA
5 3 (0.59%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 278 (54.83%) Docker
2 45 (8.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (6.90%) Active Directory
4 27 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (3.75%) VMware NSX
6 16 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (2.37%) Hyper-V
8 11 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.97%) vSphere
10 9 (1.78%) vCloud
11 5 (0.99%) NFS
12 4 (0.79%) GPFS
12 4 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.59%) HDFS
14 2 (0.39%) KVM
14 2 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.20%) Lustre
15 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 210 (41.42%) Terraform
2 153 (30.18%) Ansible
3 74 (14.60%) Prometheus
4 70 (13.81%) Grafana
5 36 (7.10%) Progress Chef
6 31 (6.11%) Docker Swarm
7 27 (5.33%) Istio
7 27 (5.33%) Kibana
8 26 (5.13%) Puppet
9 19 (3.75%) Rancher
9 19 (3.75%) SCOM
10 17 (3.35%) SCCM
11 15 (2.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (2.96%) Packer
11 15 (2.96%) WSUS
12 14 (2.76%) Podman
13 12 (2.37%) vCenter Server
14 11 (2.17%) Argo
14 11 (2.17%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 64 (12.62%) VMware
2 52 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 39 (7.69%) Splunk
4 31 (6.11%) Red Hat
5 26 (5.13%) Google
6 23 (4.54%) Oracle
7 16 (3.16%) Databricks
8 13 (2.56%) Veritas
9 11 (2.17%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.78%) IBM
11 7 (1.38%) Checkmarx
12 6 (1.18%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.18%) WSO2
13 5 (0.99%) Arqiva
13 5 (0.99%) Dell
13 5 (0.99%) Veracode
14 4 (0.79%) EMC
14 4 (0.79%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.79%) SAP
14 4 (0.79%) Sybase