Kubernetes Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > Work from Home

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in Work from Home is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 372 480
Rank change year-on-year +33 +108 -101
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 9 104 142
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.41% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.43% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 92 126
10th Percentile £420 - £563
25th Percentile £450 £563 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £775
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% -6.45% +37.78%
75th Percentile £538 £863 £847
90th Percentile £560 - £900
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +27.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Kubernetes Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kubernetes Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kubernetes Engineer.

Kubernetes Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kubernetes Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Kubernetes Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Terraform
4 3 (33.33%) Docker
4 3 (33.33%) Linux
4 3 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 2 (22.22%) Ansible
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) GitOps
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (11.11%) Observability
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
6 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 1 (11.11%) RBAC
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Route 53
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Flink
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Dutch Language
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Agile
1 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) GitOps
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (11.11%) Observability
2 1 (11.11%) RBAC
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) vCloud
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Argo
4 1 (11.11%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix
1 1 (11.11%) VMware