Kubernetes Contracts in Berkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 65 72
Rank change year-on-year +27 +7 -25
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 101 48 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.16% 2.70% 2.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.16% 24.74% 25.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 30 39
10th Percentile £423 £425 £411
25th Percentile £482 £483 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £571 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +14.25% -3.85%
75th Percentile £608 £719 £600
90th Percentile £658 £800 £703
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -38.57% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 234 194 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.95% 10.91% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 133 160
10th Percentile £213 £350 £275
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £516
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +6.54% +8.68%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £600
90th Percentile £649 £750 £662
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
10th Percentile - £62.56 £20.30
25th Percentile - £65.19 £36.13
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +39.04%
75th Percentile - £77.16 £75.00
90th Percentile - £83.21 £79.50
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -43.05%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Reading +31 76 £605 -6.92% 16
Wokingham +9 18 £488 -2.43% 3
Slough +11 1 £372 -7.13% 2
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 22 (21.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.96%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.98%) Confluence
4 1 (0.99%) Apache
4 1 (0.99%) JBoss
4 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (53.47%) Azure
2 32 (31.68%) AWS
3 27 (26.73%) OpenShift
4 26 (25.74%) Azure Monitor
4 26 (25.74%) Entra ID
5 25 (24.75%) Azure Storage
6 22 (21.78%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (9.90%) GCP
8 6 (5.94%) SaaS
9 5 (4.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (4.95%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (4.95%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.95%) Serverless
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.96%) Azure API Management
10 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (2.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (22.77%) DNS
2 22 (21.78%) Firewall
3 21 (20.79%) DHCP
4 9 (8.91%) VSAN
5 3 (2.97%) Network Security
5 3 (2.97%) VPN
6 1 (0.99%) 3G
6 1 (0.99%) 4G
6 1 (0.99%) 5G
6 1 (0.99%) GPRS
6 1 (0.99%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.99%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.79%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (11.88%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.98%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.99%) Big Data
6 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.99%) MySQL
6 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (15.84%) GitLab
1 16 (15.84%) Jenkins
2 14 (13.86%) JIRA
3 12 (11.88%) Cucumber
3 12 (11.88%) REST Assured
3 12 (11.88%) Selenium
3 12 (11.88%) SonarQube
4 10 (9.90%) Git
5 4 (3.96%) JMeter
6 3 (2.97%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.98%) JUnit
8 1 (0.99%) Mockito
General
1 53 (52.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.92%) Law
3 8 (7.92%) Police
4 5 (4.95%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (20.79%) Active Directory Support
2 18 (17.82%) Developer
3 16 (15.84%) Site Engineer
3 16 (15.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (13.86%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (13.86%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (13.86%) Senior
4 14 (13.86%) Support Specialist
5 8 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (7.92%) Java Developer
6 7 (6.93%) Active Directory Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) VMware Expert
7 6 (5.94%) Architect
7 6 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (4.95%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (33.66%) ARM Templates
2 18 (17.82%) Kafka
3 16 (15.84%) REST
4 12 (11.88%) Java EE
5 7 (6.93%) .NET
5 7 (6.93%) Web Services
6 6 (5.94%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (4.95%) Node.js
7 5 (4.95%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.96%) React
8 4 (3.96%) Spring
9 3 (2.97%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.97%) Google JAX
9 3 (2.97%) PyTorch
9 3 (2.97%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (2.97%) scikit-learn
9 3 (2.97%) TensorFlow
10 2 (1.98%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.98%) Apache Camel
10 2 (1.98%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.76%) Cloud Native
2 21 (20.79%) PKI
2 21 (20.79%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.97%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.99%) IoT
6 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (26.73%) Linux
2 21 (20.79%) Windows
2 21 (20.79%) Windows Server
2 21 (20.79%) Windows Server 2016
2 21 (20.79%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.98%) Unix
3 2 (1.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (78.22%) DevOps
2 52 (51.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (46.53%) CI/CD
4 46 (45.54%) Agile
5 43 (42.57%) Containerisation
6 30 (29.70%) Microservices
7 28 (27.72%) Software Engineering
8 26 (25.74%) Collaborative Working
8 26 (25.74%) Technical Leadership
9 24 (23.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 24 (23.76%) Release Management
10 23 (22.77%) Analytics
10 23 (22.77%) Identity Management
10 23 (22.77%) ITIL
11 22 (21.78%) Log Analytics
11 22 (21.78%) Service Management
12 21 (20.79%) Privileged Identity Management
12 21 (20.79%) RBAC
13 20 (19.80%) Test Automation
14 19 (18.81%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 32 (31.68%) C#
2 28 (27.72%) Java
3 25 (24.75%) PowerShell
4 22 (21.78%) Bicep
5 21 (20.79%) VB
5 21 (20.79%) VBScript
6 16 (15.84%) Python
7 8 (7.92%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.94%) Ruby
9 5 (4.95%) Bash
9 5 (4.95%) C++
9 5 (4.95%) PHP
10 4 (3.96%) Go
10 4 (3.96%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (3.96%) SQL
11 3 (2.97%) C
11 3 (2.97%) R
11 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.98%) Groovy
12 2 (1.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (62.38%) Security Cleared
2 57 (56.44%) SC Cleared
3 23 (22.77%) Degree
4 21 (20.79%) DV Cleared
4 21 (20.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) GDPR
1 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.97%) NIST
2 2 (1.98%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (30.69%) Docker
2 27 (26.73%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (24.75%) Active Directory
4 21 (20.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (15.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (8.91%) vCloud
6 9 (8.91%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.97%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (26.73%) Terraform
2 21 (20.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 21 (20.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (20.79%) SCCM
2 21 (20.79%) SCOM
2 21 (20.79%) WSUS
3 19 (18.81%) Ansible
3 19 (18.81%) Istio
4 13 (12.87%) Kibana
4 13 (12.87%) Prometheus
5 12 (11.88%) Argo
5 12 (11.88%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (11.88%) Grafana
5 12 (11.88%) Podman
6 11 (10.89%) Rancher
7 9 (8.91%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.98%) Packer
9 2 (1.98%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (29.70%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.84%) VMware
3 9 (8.91%) Google
4 4 (3.96%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.97%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.98%) Oracle
7 1 (0.99%) BMC
7 1 (0.99%) Databricks
7 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.99%) Remedy
7 1 (0.99%) Splunk