Kubernetes Contracts in West London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 17 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 8 26 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 3.81% 7.32% 10.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.67% 41.94% 58.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 42
10th Percentile - £80 £550
25th Percentile £409 £303 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.87% -37.50% +10.91%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £650
90th Percentile - £608 -
London median daily rate £600 £573 £638
% change year-on-year +4.80% -10.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £62.00
25th Percentile - - £69.75
Median hourly rate - £67.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.67% -
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - £57.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -28.13% +0.79%

All Systems Management Skills
West London

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 30 62 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 14.29% 17.46% 18.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 45 77
10th Percentile £358 £220 £392
25th Percentile £397 £350 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.11% -23.40% +11.90%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £650
90th Percentile £594 £538 -
London median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 12
10th Percentile £24.13 £22.90 £62.25
25th Percentile £24.94 £23.80 £64.88
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% -56.67% +255.24%
75th Percentile £27.65 £36.84 £90.00
90th Percentile £28.46 £54.94 -
London median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
% change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in West London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in West London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in West London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the West London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Hammersmith - 3 £409 - 3
Hillingdon - 2 £475 - 1
Hounslow -10 1 - - 6
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (12.50%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Management Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
1 3 (37.50%) YAML
2 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (25.00%) Hystrix
2 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (25.00%) Prisma
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Swagger
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) NETCONF
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) RESTCONF
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) CentOS
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) API Design
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco