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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 16 December 2018 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
16 Dec 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
70 |
199 |
377 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+129 |
+178 |
+448 |
| Contract jobs citing Kubernetes |
3,520 |
1,392 |
655 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
3.38% |
1.36% |
0.64% |
| As % of the Systems Management category |
23.21% |
11.46% |
5.63% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
2,591 |
1,044 |
431 |
| UK median daily rate |
£550 |
£525 |
£525 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+4.76% |
- |
+5.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£413 |
£413 |
£405 |
| 90th Percentile |
£688 |
£667 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£500 |
£484 |
£475 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.31% |
+1.89% |
-5.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
5 |
1 |
0 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£35.00 |
- |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+21.43% |
- |
- |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£47.33 |
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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 |
15,168 |
12,150 |
11,628 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
14.56% |
11.84% |
11.33% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
10,214 |
8,235 |
7,429 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
+9.09% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£263 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£625 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£445 |
£425 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.71% |
+6.25% |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
387 |
281 |
268 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£17.50 |
£20.73 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
-15.58% |
+4.96% |
| 10th Percentile |
£12.25 |
£11.25 |
£12.68 |
| 90th Percentile |
£47.00 |
£47.50 |
£55.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£16.30 |
£20.73 |
| % change year-on-year |
+7.38% |
-21.38% |
+8.93% |
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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 16 December 2018.
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 16 December 2018.
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 16 December 2018. 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 16 December 2018, 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 |
2,949 (83.78%) |
Docker |
| 2 |
2,286 (64.94%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
1,771 (50.31%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 4 |
1,444 (41.02%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 5 |
1,300 (36.93%) |
Ansible |
| 6 |
1,242 (35.28%) |
Java |
| 7 |
1,226 (34.83%) |
Jenkins |
| 8 |
1,182 (33.58%) |
Terraform |
| 9 |
1,139 (32.36%) |
Python |
| 10 |
1,112 (31.59%) |
Linux |
| 11 |
994 (28.24%) |
Microservices |
| 12 |
847 (24.06%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 13 |
800 (22.73%) |
Puppet |
| 14 |
763 (21.68%) |
Git (software) |
| 15 |
620 (17.61%) |
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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