Kubernetes Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 53 67
Rank change year-on-year +19 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 19 9 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 4.76% 1.38% 3.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.89% 19.57% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 26
10th Percentile £406 £515 £398
25th Percentile £463 £600 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £695 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.67% +26.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £705 £638
90th Percentile £735 £715 £681
South East median daily rate £520 £583 £550
% change year-on-year -10.73% +5.91% -

All Systems Management Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 83 46 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 20.80% 7.07% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 31 133
10th Percentile £264 £203 £230
25th Percentile £329 £331 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £570 £507
Median % change year-on-year -24.56% +12.54% +1.30%
75th Percentile £540 £656 £575
90th Percentile £645 £695 £648
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £19.20 £20.70 £11.74
25th Percentile £30.00 - £12.31
Median hourly rate £34.00 £24.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +77.78% -65.82%
75th Percentile £36.75 - £15.88
90th Percentile £37.50 £27.60 £17.15
South East median hourly rate £34.00 £49.07 £34.00
% change year-on-year -30.70% +44.31% -20.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Buckinghamshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Buckinghamshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Buckinghamshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Milton Keynes +24 19 £600 -13.67% 7
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (10.53%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
3 6 (31.58%) Serverless
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
4 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (21.05%) OpenShift
5 3 (15.79%) Azure AKS
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (10.53%) GCP
6 2 (10.53%) PaaS
6 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 2 (10.53%) Slack
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
1 4 (21.05%) FTP
1 4 (21.05%) SMTP
1 4 (21.05%) VPN
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Hive
1 2 (10.53%) Big Data
1 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.53%) Impala
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 6 (31.58%) Git
2 6 (31.58%) Maven
3 4 (21.05%) Bitbucket
3 4 (21.05%) GitLab
3 4 (21.05%) Gradle
3 4 (21.05%) IntelliJ
4 2 (10.53%) JIRA
5 1 (5.26%) CircleCI
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Billing
3 2 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Backend Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Node.js
2 2 (10.53%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) Loki
2 2 (10.53%) Prisma
2 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Virtual Team
1 4 (21.05%) Wiki
2 2 (10.53%) CMDB
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Unix
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
4 1 (5.26%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Containerisation
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Microservices
4 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
4 4 (21.05%) Cost Management
4 4 (21.05%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) Security Hardening
5 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.79%) SDLC
5 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Accounts Receivable
6 2 (10.53%) API Design
6 2 (10.53%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 2 (10.53%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Groovy
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Scala
4 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Ansible
1 7 (36.84%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) SELinux
2 4 (21.05%) yum
3 2 (10.53%) Argo
3 2 (10.53%) Control-M
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Kustomize
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat