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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 18 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 13 29 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 5.78% 7.82% 14.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.14% 39.19% 66.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 69
10th Percentile £400 £81 £550
25th Percentile £402 £305 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -33.33% +10.91%
75th Percentile £417 £500 £650
90th Percentile £449 £610 -
London median daily rate £550 £575 £633
% change year-on-year -4.35% -9.21% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £39.33 £62.00
25th Percentile - £43.94 £69.75
Median hourly rate - £52.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.33% -
75th Percentile - £59.94 £90.00
90th Percentile - £64.18 -
London median hourly rate - £55.00 £81.41
% change year-on-year - -32.44% +3.78%

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 35 74 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 15.56% 19.95% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 57 108
10th Percentile £250 £256 £339
25th Percentile £400 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £450 £538 £650
90th Percentile £559 £650 -
London median daily rate £525 £539 £600
% change year-on-year -2.60% -10.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - £22.90 £62.25
25th Percentile - - £64.88
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.80 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.85% -68.27% +354.55%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - £55.70 -
London median hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% -60.94% +167.67%

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 24 June 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
Hounslow -5 10 £407 +19.64% 6
Hammersmith - 1 - - 2
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 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) BGP
1 1 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (7.69%) MPLS
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Couchbase
2 1 (7.69%) Flink
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Bitbucket
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) C++ Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Backend Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Identity Management Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
1 3 (23.08%) OAuth
1 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
2 2 (15.38%) Hystrix
2 2 (15.38%) JWT
2 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Swagger
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) NETCONF
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) RESTCONF
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
3 1 (7.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
1 8 (61.54%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
2 5 (38.46%) OO
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Data Privacy
4 3 (23.08%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) OOD
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Pair Programming
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Predictive Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) C++
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Go
5 3 (23.08%) Java
6 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
7 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (15.38%) OCA
3 2 (15.38%) OCP
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
1 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco