Kubernetes Contracts

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 45 33 26
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,935 4,992 6,067
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.31% 6.50% 6.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.09% 40.78% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 3,570 4,509
10th Percentile £425 £480 £450
25th Percentile £500 £535 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £620 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +7.83% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £675
90th Percentile £768 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 12 14
10th Percentile - £46.88 £58.40
25th Percentile £46.18 £55.69 £72.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.25 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -13.23% +93.75%
75th Percentile £76.53 £84.14 £82.19
90th Percentile £78.15 £97.50 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £64.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year -28.12% -13.18% +89.74%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,223 12,241 14,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.87% 15.94% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,411 8,683 10,582
10th Percentile £305 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £475 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -1.29% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 188 197
10th Percentile £17.65 £15.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.97 £18.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £30.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +54.84% +35.77% -7.17%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £78.02 £76.50 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £26.34 £18.50
% change year-on-year +75.36% +42.35% -13.62%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 -16 1,662 £575 -8.00% 1,120
London -15 1,033 £600 -7.69% 628
Work from Home -12 787 £575 -4.17% 799
UK excluding London -16 646 £550 -4.35% 645
North of England -16 190 £525 -12.50% 143
South East +8 173 £570 +2.47% 249
South West -13 111 £550 -8.33% 89
North West -14 101 £525 -8.70% 80
Yorkshire 0 82 £550 -8.33% 46
Scotland -9 74 £558 +6.19% 53
East of England +7 54 £545 -0.91% 52
Midlands +26 47 £550 -4.76% 52
West Midlands +32 31 £500 -13.04% 34
East Midlands +20 19 £700 +17.40% 17
North East -1 10 £513 -20.08% 18
Wales +2 7 £600 -7.69% 11
Northern Ireland -11 1 £575 -11.54% 8

Kubernetes
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
1 117 (6.05%) Confluence
2 51 (2.64%) nginx
3 47 (2.43%) OpenStack
4 46 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 40 (2.07%) Apache
5 40 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
6 33 (1.71%) BizTalk Server
7 10 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.47%) SAS
9 8 (0.41%) Apache Solr
10 7 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
10 7 (0.36%) Tornado
11 6 (0.31%) IIS
11 6 (0.31%) JBoss
11 6 (0.31%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.26%) Camunda
12 5 (0.26%) CMS
12 5 (0.26%) Luigi
12 5 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (0.26%) Trello
2 3 (0.16%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.052%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.052%) InVision
4 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.052%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.31%) Shopify
2 5 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
2 5 (0.26%) Magento
3 4 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.10%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.10%) RMDS
5 1 (0.052%) Endur
5 1 (0.052%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 989 (51.11%) AWS
2 842 (43.51%) Azure
3 334 (17.26%) GCP
4 234 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
5 213 (11.01%) GitHub
6 189 (9.77%) Serverless
7 187 (9.66%) Azure AKS
8 161 (8.32%) OpenShift
9 128 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
10 116 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
11 102 (5.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 83 (4.29%) Amazon S3
13 80 (4.13%) SaaS
14 79 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
15 63 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
16 62 (3.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 62 (3.20%) Azure Logic Apps
17 59 (3.05%) Azure Storage
17 59 (3.05%) PaaS
18 58 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 123 (6.36%) Firewall
2 79 (4.08%) DNS
3 46 (2.38%) Network Security
4 42 (2.17%) SAN
5 40 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.02%) VLAN
7 36 (1.86%) HTTP
8 35 (1.81%) IPv4
9 33 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
10 29 (1.50%) DHCP
10 29 (1.50%) SSL
11 18 (0.93%) Kerberos
11 18 (0.93%) VPN
12 17 (0.88%) NAS
13 15 (0.78%) Internet
14 14 (0.72%) 5G
14 14 (0.72%) WAN
15 12 (0.62%) Fibre Channel
15 12 (0.62%) iSCSI
16 11 (0.57%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (6.56%) MongoDB
2 122 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
3 90 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 90 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 80 (4.13%) MySQL
5 74 (3.82%) SQL Server
6 66 (3.41%) Big Data
7 62 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
8 51 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 38 (1.96%) Redis
11 28 (1.45%) BigQuery
11 28 (1.45%) Data Lake
12 27 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
13 23 (1.19%) Hadoop
14 18 (0.93%) DynamoDB
14 18 (0.93%) RDBMS
15 17 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
16 16 (0.83%) Flink
17 14 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 385 (19.90%) Jenkins
2 342 (17.67%) Git
3 153 (7.91%) JIRA
4 145 (7.49%) GitLab
5 109 (5.63%) Bitbucket
6 60 (3.10%) Maven
7 57 (2.95%) Artifactory
8 46 (2.38%) SonarQube
9 44 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 43 (2.22%) Gradle
11 41 (2.12%) TeamCity
12 38 (1.96%) JUnit
13 33 (1.71%) Cucumber
14 32 (1.65%) Selenium
15 24 (1.24%) Cypress.io
16 23 (1.19%) Subversion
17 21 (1.09%) JMeter
17 21 (1.09%) Liquibase
18 19 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
19 16 (0.83%) CircleCI
General
1 293 (15.14%) Finance
2 273 (14.11%) Social Skills
3 166 (8.58%) Public Sector
4 139 (7.18%) Banking
5 77 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (2.43%) Telecoms
7 38 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 32 (1.65%) Retail
9 31 (1.60%) Marketing
10 24 (1.24%) Law
11 23 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.14%) Front Office
13 14 (0.72%) Back Office
14 11 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.47%) Games
16 9 (0.47%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.47%) Retail Banking
17 8 (0.41%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 516 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 455 (23.51%) Developer
3 226 (11.68%) Senior
4 154 (7.96%) Architect
5 150 (7.75%) Azure Engineer
6 137 (7.08%) AWS Engineer
7 132 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 106 (5.48%) Lead
9 102 (5.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 94 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
11 89 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
12 85 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 84 (4.34%) Java Developer
13 84 (4.34%) Senior Developer
14 81 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 79 (4.08%) Software Engineer
16 72 (3.72%) Python Developer
17 70 (3.62%) Site Engineer
18 67 (3.46%) Full Stack Developer
18 67 (3.46%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (13.70%) Kafka
2 170 (8.79%) .NET
3 154 (7.96%) REST
4 136 (7.03%) Node.js
5 119 (6.15%) React
6 111 (5.74%) Elastic Stack
7 106 (5.48%) RESTful
8 102 (5.27%) Spring
9 95 (4.91%) Spring Boot
10 78 (4.03%) .NET Core
11 68 (3.51%) AngularJS
12 52 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
13 51 (2.64%) ARM Templates
14 50 (2.58%) YAML
15 48 (2.48%) Web Services
16 46 (2.38%) JSON
17 43 (2.22%) TensorFlow
18 42 (2.17%) OAuth
19 40 (2.07%) CSS
20 38 (1.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 158 (8.17%) Cloud Native
2 80 (4.13%) Public Cloud
3 79 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 63 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 47 (2.43%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 37 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
8 34 (1.76%) PKI
9 33 (1.71%) Private Cloud
10 30 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 27 (1.40%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.34%) Algorithms
12 26 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.29%) Clustering
13 25 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.19%) Data Structures
15 19 (0.98%) Management Information System
16 18 (0.93%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 520 (26.87%) Linux
2 256 (13.23%) Windows
3 105 (5.43%) Unix
4 87 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 85 (4.39%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.45%) Solaris
7 24 (1.24%) Ubuntu
8 17 (0.88%) CentOS
9 14 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.62%) AIX
10 12 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
11 10 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.41%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
14 6 (0.31%) Android
14 6 (0.31%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.26%) Debian
15 5 (0.26%) HPUX
16 4 (0.21%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,027 (53.07%) DevOps
2 854 (44.13%) CI/CD
3 553 (28.58%) Agile
4 393 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 387 (20.00%) Microservices
6 342 (17.67%) Containerisation
7 297 (15.35%) Software Engineering
8 225 (11.63%) Test Automation
9 179 (9.25%) Continuous Integration
10 172 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
11 159 (8.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 152 (7.86%) Platform Engineering
13 138 (7.13%) Migration
14 128 (6.61%) SDLC
15 127 (6.56%) Full Stack Development
15 127 (6.56%) TDD
16 117 (6.05%) Computer Science
17 108 (5.58%) Scrum
18 102 (5.27%) Continuous Delivery
19 101 (5.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 889 (45.94%) Python
2 496 (25.63%) Java
3 283 (14.63%) Bash
4 271 (14.01%) Go
5 267 (13.80%) SQL
6 216 (11.16%) JavaScript
7 202 (10.44%) PowerShell
8 198 (10.23%) C#
9 103 (5.32%) TypeScript
10 96 (4.96%) C++
11 95 (4.91%) Ruby
12 77 (3.98%) Perl
13 75 (3.88%) Shell Script
14 57 (2.95%) C
15 52 (2.69%) Scala
16 48 (2.48%) Bicep
16 48 (2.48%) Groovy
17 38 (1.96%) Kotlin
18 36 (1.86%) PL/SQL
18 36 (1.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 414 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 337 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 136 (7.03%) Degree
4 90 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 64 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (3.20%) AWS Certification
7 49 (2.53%) Azure Certification
8 37 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 36 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (1.40%) RHCSA
11 21 (1.09%) RHCE
12 16 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 16 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
13 15 (0.78%) Chartered Engineer
14 14 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.41%) CISSP
16 8 (0.41%) PhD
17 6 (0.31%) RHCT
18 5 (0.26%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (2.79%) QA
2 33 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 21 (1.09%) GDPR
4 19 (0.98%) NIST
5 14 (0.72%) SLA
6 12 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.41%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 4 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.21%) GxP
11 4 (0.21%) NCSC
11 4 (0.21%) WCAG
12 2 (0.10%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.052%) GRC
13 1 (0.052%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.052%) MiFID
System Software
1 1,088 (56.23%) Docker
2 81 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (3.31%) Active Directory
4 36 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (1.81%) vSphere
6 19 (0.98%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 15 (0.78%) NFS
8 13 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.62%) Hyper-V
10 10 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.31%) Firmware
12 5 (0.26%) GPFS
13 4 (0.21%) KVM
14 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 3 (0.16%) Ceph
14 3 (0.16%) HDFS
14 3 (0.16%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.10%) etcd
15 2 (0.10%) LXC
Systems Management
1 741 (38.29%) Terraform
2 377 (19.48%) Ansible
3 180 (9.30%) Prometheus
4 174 (8.99%) Grafana
5 120 (6.20%) Puppet
6 100 (5.17%) Packer
7 66 (3.41%) Progress Chef
8 56 (2.89%) Consul
9 49 (2.53%) Istio
10 38 (1.96%) Argo
11 35 (1.81%) Nagios
12 33 (1.71%) Kibana
13 30 (1.55%) ZABBIX
14 26 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 21 (1.09%) Rancher
16 20 (1.03%) SCCM
16 20 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.78%) Graylog
17 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
18 13 (0.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 218 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 141 (7.29%) VMware
3 130 (6.72%) Google
4 126 (6.51%) Oracle
5 116 (5.99%) Splunk
6 106 (5.48%) Red Hat
7 56 (2.89%) Dynatrace
8 45 (2.33%) MuleSoft
9 42 (2.17%) Databricks
10 38 (1.96%) IBM
11 32 (1.65%) Atlassian
12 30 (1.55%) CyberArk
13 27 (1.40%) Cisco
13 27 (1.40%) SAP
13 27 (1.40%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.34%) SaltStack
15 24 (1.24%) TOWER Software
15 24 (1.24%) Veritas
16 20 (1.03%) HP
17 19 (0.98%) Dell