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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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
48 |
105 |
232 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+57 |
+127 |
+226 |
| Contract jobs citing Kubernetes |
4,066 |
2,534 |
1,098 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
4.46% |
2.46% |
1.15% |
| As % of the Systems Management category |
30.17% |
18.01% |
10.03% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
3,043 |
1,793 |
804 |
| UK median daily rate |
£550 |
£550 |
£538 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+2.33% |
+2.38% |
| 10th Percentile |
£425 |
£406 |
£418 |
| 90th Percentile |
£700 |
£688 |
£663 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£525 |
£500 |
£500 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
- |
-9.09% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
13 |
5 |
2 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£60.00 |
£52.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-25.00% |
+14.29% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£35.00 |
£42.00 |
£41.13 |
| 90th Percentile |
£66.46 |
£73.75 |
£64.88 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£57.50 |
- |
| % change year-on-year |
-39.13% |
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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 |
13,476 |
14,072 |
10,952 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
14.79% |
13.65% |
11.44% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
9,051 |
9,420 |
7,250 |
| UK median daily rate |
£500 |
£475 |
£460 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.26% |
+3.26% |
+8.24% |
| 10th Percentile |
£281 |
£275 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£673 |
£638 |
£613 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£413 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
+3.03% |
+5.77% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
320 |
386 |
243 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£20.95 |
£19.25 |
£17.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+8.82% |
+10.00% |
-22.22% |
| 10th Percentile |
£12.00 |
£12.13 |
£10.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£49.22 |
£47.83 |
£47.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£18.00 |
£17.50 |
£16.94 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.86% |
+3.32% |
-32.25% |
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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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 |
3,030 (74.52%) |
Docker |
| 2 |
2,547 (62.64%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
2,149 (52.85%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 4 |
1,633 (40.16%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 5 |
1,370 (33.69%) |
Java |
| 6 |
1,362 (33.50%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 7 |
1,340 (32.96%) |
Terraform |
| 8 |
1,274 (31.33%) |
Python |
| 9 |
1,260 (30.99%) |
Ansible |
| 10 |
1,233 (30.32%) |
Microservices |
| 11 |
1,220 (30.00%) |
Jenkins |
| 12 |
1,202 (29.56%) |
Linux |
| 13 |
803 (19.75%) |
Git (software) |
| 14 |
664 (16.33%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 15 |
661 (16.26%) |
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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