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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 14 November 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Kubernetes (k8s) UK |
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6 months to
14 Nov 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
53 |
80 |
213 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+27 |
+133 |
+197 |
| Contract jobs citing Kubernetes |
3,434 |
3,276 |
1,300 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.08% |
3.14% |
1.26% |
| As % of the Systems Management category |
27.84% |
21.89% |
10.71% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
2,581 |
2,414 |
971 |
| UK median daily rate |
£550 |
£550 |
£525 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+4.76% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£413 |
£413 |
£413 |
| 90th Percentile |
£700 |
£686 |
£656 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£500 |
£500 |
£475 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
17 |
6 |
1 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£44.92 |
£35.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-5.38% |
+28.33% |
- |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£40.00 |
£53.67 |
- |
| % change year-on-year |
-25.46% |
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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.
| All Systems Management Skills UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills |
12,334 |
14,968 |
12,142 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
14.64% |
14.34% |
11.79% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
8,332 |
10,109 |
8,169 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£500 |
£475 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
+8.57% |
| 10th Percentile |
£263 |
£300 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£675 |
£650 |
£620 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£438 |
£413 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.86% |
+6.06% |
+3.13% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
318 |
392 |
294 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£21.00 |
£17.50 |
£17.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+20.00% |
- |
-23.08% |
| 10th Percentile |
£12.68 |
£12.25 |
£11.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£49.13 |
£47.00 |
£47.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£20.00 |
£17.50 |
£16.19 |
| % change year-on-year |
+14.29% |
+8.09% |
-37.43% |
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Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Kubernetes as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Kubernetes.
Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 14 November 2019.
Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes.
Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 14 November 2019.
Kubernetes
Top 16 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 14 November 2019. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 14 November 2019, IT contractor jobs citing Kubernetes also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Kubernetes.
| 1 |
2,462 (71.69%) |
Docker |
| 2 |
2,186 (63.66%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
1,702 (49.56%) |
AWS |
| 4 |
1,334 (38.85%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 5 |
1,207 (35.15%) |
Terraform |
| 6 |
1,200 (34.94%) |
Python |
| 7 |
1,194 (34.77%) |
Azure |
| 8 |
1,082 (31.51%) |
Java |
| 9 |
1,068 (31.10%) |
Microservices |
| 10 |
1,010 (29.41%) |
Ansible |
| 11 |
942 (27.43%) |
Jenkins |
| 12 |
857 (24.96%) |
Linux |
| 13 |
670 (19.51%) |
GCP |
| 14 |
598 (17.41%) |
Git (software) |
| 15 |
515 (15.00%) |
Continuous Integration |
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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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