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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 24 April 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.
| Google Kubernetes (K8s) UK |
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6 months to
24 Apr 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
52 |
148 |
337 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+96 |
+189 |
+288 |
| Contract jobs citing Kubernetes |
3,970 |
1,863 |
650 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.18% |
1.84% |
0.71% |
| As % of the Systems Management category |
28.63% |
14.28% |
6.66% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
2,939 |
1,328 |
491 |
| UK median daily rate |
£550 |
£550 |
£550 |
| 10th Percentile |
£425 |
£416 |
£425 |
| 90th Percentile |
£688 |
£675 |
£656 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£525 |
£500 |
£475 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+5.26% |
-13.64% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
6 |
4 |
2 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.07 |
£40.00 |
£52.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+5.16% |
-23.81% |
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| 10th Percentile |
£35.00 |
£35.75 |
£41.13 |
| 90th Percentile |
£60.00 |
£64.38 |
£64.88 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£40.00 |
- |
| % change year-on-year |
-12.50% |
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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 |
13,867 |
13,046 |
9,759 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
14.58% |
12.91% |
10.70% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
9,232 |
8,686 |
6,455 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£485 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+3.09% |
+7.78% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£313 |
£275 |
£275 |
| 90th Percentile |
£674 |
£625 |
£606 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£401 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
+6.12% |
+5.39% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
344 |
297 |
226 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£20.00 |
£17.50 |
£21.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+14.29% |
-18.60% |
+2.38% |
| 10th Percentile |
£12.00 |
£11.75 |
£12.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.00 |
£47.83 |
£48.97 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£16.00 |
£20.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+9.38% |
-20.00% |
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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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 |
3,112 (78.39%) |
Docker |
| 2 |
2,404 (60.55%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
2,026 (51.03%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 4 |
1,484 (37.38%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 5 |
1,345 (33.88%) |
Terraform |
| 6 |
1,320 (33.25%) |
Java |
| 7 |
1,272 (32.04%) |
Jenkins |
| 8 |
1,269 (31.96%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 9 |
1,267 (31.91%) |
Ansible |
| 10 |
1,239 (31.21%) |
Microservices |
| 11 |
1,222 (30.78%) |
Python |
| 12 |
1,189 (29.95%) |
Linux |
| 13 |
791 (19.92%) |
Git (software) |
| 14 |
688 (17.33%) |
Puppet |
| 15 |
677 (17.05%) |
Finance |
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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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