Kubernetes Engineer Contracts

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 537 646
Rank change year-on-year -34 +109 -139
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 20 172 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.30% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 132 191
10th Percentile £435 £550 £550
25th Percentile £456 £575 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £619 £781 £800
90th Percentile £675 £863 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £645 £550
% change year-on-year -18.60% +17.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,491 57,026 85,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,430 39,779 59,788
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,635 1,621 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK

Kubernetes Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK

Kubernetes Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK

Kubernetes Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England -20 15 £538 -19.05% 10
London -18 8 £563 -22.41% 5
Work from Home +28 7 £525 -27.59% 6
UK excluding London +45 6 £525 -18.60% 5
North of England +28 2 £475 -15.56% 2
Scotland +30 1 £700 +5.11% 1
Yorkshire +19 1 - -
South East +17 1 £525 -4.55%
North West +16 1 £475 -29.63% 2
East of England +13 1 £600 +4.35%
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
Midlands - 1 £450 - 2

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (70.00%) Azure
3 13 (65.00%) Terraform
4 11 (55.00%) Docker
5 9 (45.00%) DevOps
6 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (40.00%) AWS
7 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
8 6 (30.00%) Python
9 5 (25.00%) Agile
9 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
10 4 (20.00%) Ansible
10 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (20.00%) Linux
11 3 (15.00%) Java
11 3 (15.00%) .NET
11 3 (15.00%) Finance
11 3 (15.00%) Migration
11 3 (15.00%) VMware
11 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 3 (15.00%) Bash
11 3 (15.00%) GitOps
11 3 (15.00%) Microservices
11 3 (15.00%) RBAC
11 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
12 2 (10.00%) Auto-Scaling

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
1 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) Route 53
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.00%) Flink
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Front Office
3 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) J2EE
2 2 (10.00%) YAML
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Keycloak
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Clustering
1 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.00%) Replication
1 1 (5.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (15.00%) GitOps
7 3 (15.00%) Microservices
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) RBAC
8 2 (10.00%) Auto-Scaling
8 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.00%) Scrum
8 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 1 (5.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) Elixir
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.00%) vCloud
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (65.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Argo
5 1 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Istio
5 1 (5.00%) linkerd
5 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Citrix
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Juniper
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat