Kubernetes Contracts in Central London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 116 256 353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.80% 6.76% 7.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.28% 42.24% 41.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 154 298
10th Percentile £425 £500 £475
25th Percentile £488 £545 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £750
90th Percentile £755 £788 £813
London median daily rate £563 £638 £638
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +15.91%

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

Kubernetes is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 303 606 849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.54% 16.00% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 408 704
10th Percentile £325 £361 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% +5.45%
75th Percentile £652 £700 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +13.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - £22.61 £27.20
25th Percentile £12.75 £38.72 £30.13
Median hourly rate £20.25 £84.09 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.92% +140.26% -
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £56.88
90th Percentile £43.28 - £70.00
London median hourly rate £25.00 £64.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year -61.24% +169.76% -40.23%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Central London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
City of London -6 113 £581 -7.00% 33
City of Westminster -1 1 £725 -9.38%
West End of London - 1 £450 -
Camden - 1 £450 -
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 6 (5.17%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (2.59%) nginx
3 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.72%) Confluence
3 2 (1.72%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.72%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.72%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.72%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.86%) Camunda
4 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Endur
1 1 (0.86%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 60 (51.72%) AWS
2 47 (40.52%) Azure
3 21 (18.10%) Serverless
4 19 (16.38%) GitHub
5 15 (12.93%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (11.21%) Amazon S3
6 13 (11.21%) GCP
6 13 (11.21%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (10.34%) Azure Functions
8 11 (9.48%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (8.62%) Azure AKS
10 8 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (6.03%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (5.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (5.17%) Azure Storage
13 5 (4.31%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) Firewall
2 3 (2.59%) WAN
3 2 (1.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.86%) DNS
4 1 (0.86%) FTP
4 1 (0.86%) HTTP
4 1 (0.86%) LAN
4 1 (0.86%) MPLS
4 1 (0.86%) MQTT
4 1 (0.86%) Multicast
4 1 (0.86%) Network Security
4 1 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.38%) MongoDB
2 9 (7.76%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.03%) MySQL
4 7 (6.03%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.31%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.45%) Tableau
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.86%) Big Data
9 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.86%) Scylla
9 1 (0.86%) Sisense
9 1 (0.86%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 20 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.79%) Git
2 16 (13.79%) GitLab
3 8 (6.90%) JMeter
3 8 (6.90%) Selenium
3 8 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 7 (6.03%) Maven
5 6 (5.17%) Bitbucket
5 6 (5.17%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.31%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.45%) JUnit
7 4 (3.45%) TestNG
8 3 (2.59%) Gradle
8 3 (2.59%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (2.59%) Mercurial
8 3 (2.59%) Mockito
8 3 (2.59%) Postman
8 3 (2.59%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.72%) REST Assured
General
1 30 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.38%) Finance
3 14 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.17%) Banking
5 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.59%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.72%) Marketing
7 2 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Front Office
8 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (26.72%) Developer
2 21 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (12.07%) Full Stack Developer
5 13 (11.21%) Site Engineer
6 12 (10.34%) Senior
7 11 (9.48%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (9.48%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Architect
8 8 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (6.03%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Lead
11 4 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Java Engineer
12 3 (2.59%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (2.59%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (34.48%) Kafka
2 17 (14.66%) .NET
2 17 (14.66%) RESTful
3 12 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (9.48%) Spring
5 10 (8.62%) React
5 10 (8.62%) Spring Boot
6 9 (7.76%) Node.js
7 8 (6.90%) .NET Core
7 8 (6.90%) REST
8 7 (6.03%) pytest
8 7 (6.03%) Svelte
9 6 (5.17%) Blazor
9 6 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (5.17%) HTML
9 6 (5.17%) Web Services
10 5 (4.31%) SOAP
11 4 (3.45%) AngularJS
12 3 (2.59%) JAX-RS
12 3 (2.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.62%) Data Structures
3 9 (7.76%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.90%) Algorithms
4 8 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (6.03%) Cloud Native
5 7 (6.03%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.59%) Machine to Machine
8 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.86%) Credit Derivative
9 1 (0.86%) DataPower
9 1 (0.86%) Derivative
9 1 (0.86%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.86%) MPEG
9 1 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 35 (30.17%) Linux
2 12 (10.34%) Windows
3 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.86%) Android
4 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (49.14%) DevOps
2 55 (47.41%) CI/CD
3 30 (25.86%) Microservices
4 23 (19.83%) Agile
5 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (14.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 15 (12.93%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (12.93%) Software Engineering
7 14 (12.07%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (11.21%) Containerisation
8 13 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (10.34%) Test Automation
10 11 (9.48%) Open Source
11 10 (8.62%) SDLC
12 9 (7.76%) Architectural Design
12 9 (7.76%) Task Automation
13 8 (6.90%) Analytical Thinking
13 8 (6.90%) Front End Development
13 8 (6.90%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 67 (57.76%) Python
2 34 (29.31%) Java
2 34 (29.31%) SQL
3 16 (13.79%) Go
3 16 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.21%) C++
5 12 (10.34%) Shell Script
6 10 (8.62%) Bash
6 10 (8.62%) C#
7 6 (5.17%) PL/SQL
7 6 (5.17%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.17%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.59%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.72%) C
10 2 (1.72%) Clojure
10 2 (1.72%) Haskell
10 2 (1.72%) PHP
10 2 (1.72%) Rust
11 1 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (15.52%) SC Cleared
1 18 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.17%) Degree
3 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) QA
2 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.86%) NCSC
3 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (53.45%) Docker
2 11 (9.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.86%) Ceph
5 1 (0.86%) NFS
Systems Management
1 42 (36.21%) Terraform
2 19 (16.38%) Prometheus
3 16 (13.79%) Grafana
4 14 (12.07%) Consul
5 13 (11.21%) Ansible
6 5 (4.31%) Argo
7 4 (3.45%) Puppet
8 3 (2.59%) Nagios
8 3 (2.59%) Packer
8 3 (2.59%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.72%) Graylog
9 2 (1.72%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.86%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.86%) Kibana
10 1 (0.86%) Mesos
10 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.48%) Oracle
2 11 (9.48%) SaltStack
3 8 (6.90%) Databricks
4 6 (5.17%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.45%) Google
5 4 (3.45%) Splunk
6 3 (2.59%) Cisco
6 3 (2.59%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.72%) IBM
7 2 (1.72%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.72%) MKS
7 2 (1.72%) VMware
8 1 (0.86%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.86%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.86%) F5
8 1 (0.86%) Genesys
8 1 (0.86%) Juniper
8 1 (0.86%) New Relic
8 1 (0.86%) Terracotta