Cilium Contract Job Trends

Cilium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cilium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 554 571
Rank change year-on-year -109 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Cilium 17 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.015% 0.005%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.29% 0.11% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £450 £385 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £390 £600
Median % change year-on-year +31.41% -35.00% -
75th Percentile £663 £395 £625
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Cilium 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,875 4,552 4,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.95% 13.91% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,916 2,957 3,171
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -2.82% -6.36%
75th Percentile £604 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 80 71
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.50 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £82.20 £78.83 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.79% +37.50% -13.38%

Cilium
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cilium relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cilium job vacancy trend in the UK

Cilium
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cilium.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cilium

Cilium
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cilium over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cilium in the UK

Cilium
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cilium within the UK over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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
England -104 12 £513 +31.41% 13
London -69 9 £500 +28.21% 9
Work from Home -59 6 - - 2
UK excluding London -86 3 £625 - 6
South West - 2 £625 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 2

Cilium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) GCP
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (17.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.88%) n8n
6 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) BGP
2 4 (23.53%) MPLS
2 4 (23.53%) VPN
3 3 (17.65%) WAN
4 2 (11.76%) Calico
5 1 (5.88%) NaaS
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 5 (29.41%) Git
3 4 (23.53%) JIRA
4 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Network Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
4 4 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Network Operations Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) WAN Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) eBPF
3 3 (17.65%) Keycloak
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) Loki
4 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 13 (76.47%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Observability
3 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Secrets Management
5 3 (17.65%) Zero Trust
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.76%) Low Latency
6 2 (11.76%) Open Source
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Bash
3 5 (29.41%) Go
4 2 (11.76%) C++
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (35.29%) Argo
2 6 (35.29%) Grafana
3 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (23.53%) Istio
5 2 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Arista
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Juniper
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk