Kubernetes Contracts in the City of London

Kubernetes (k8s)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 121 245 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.55% 7.15% 7.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.41% 44.38% 40.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 146 244
10th Percentile £425 £500 £475
25th Percentile £493 £550 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £641
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -0.58% +11.52%
75th Percentile £695 £738 £750
90th Percentile £775 £794 £822
Central London median daily rate £600 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +10.64%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 307 552 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.07% 16.11% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 361 596
10th Percentile £350 £401 £408
25th Percentile £425 £510 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +5.45%
75th Percentile £657 £700 £725
90th Percentile £756 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £587
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.26% +6.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile - £33.86 £26.23
25th Percentile £12.75 £55.60 £27.69
Median hourly rate £20.25 £84.09 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -75.92% +173.46% +33.70%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £33.19
90th Percentile £43.28 - £34.28
Central London median hourly rate £20.25 £84.09 £30.75
% change year-on-year -75.92% +173.46% +56.95%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (4.13%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.48%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.65%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.65%) Confluence
3 2 (1.65%) nginx
3 2 (1.65%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.65%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) Camunda
4 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.83%) Endur
1 1 (0.83%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 62 (51.24%) AWS
2 51 (42.15%) Azure
3 21 (17.36%) GitHub
4 18 (14.88%) Serverless
5 17 (14.05%) GCP
6 15 (12.40%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (9.92%) Azure AKS
8 11 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (8.26%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.44%) Azure Functions
11 8 (6.61%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (3.31%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (3.31%) Snowflake
15 3 (2.48%) Azure App Service
15 3 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (2.48%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) Firewall
2 2 (1.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) AMQP
3 1 (0.83%) FTP
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) MQTT
3 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.88%) MongoDB
2 13 (10.74%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.61%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.13%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.13%) MySQL
5 5 (4.13%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.31%) Tableau
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.83%) Big Data
7 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.83%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.83%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 19 (15.70%) Git
2 17 (14.05%) Jenkins
3 16 (13.22%) GitLab
4 7 (5.79%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.96%) CircleCI
5 6 (4.96%) JMeter
5 6 (4.96%) Selenium
6 5 (4.13%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.31%) Maven
8 3 (2.48%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.48%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.48%) Gradle
8 3 (2.48%) JUnit
8 3 (2.48%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (2.48%) Mercurial
8 3 (2.48%) Mockito
8 3 (2.48%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.65%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.65%) HP UFT
9 2 (1.65%) Postman
General
1 36 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.70%) Finance
3 17 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.26%) Banking
5 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.13%) Marketing
7 3 (2.48%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (21.49%) Developer
2 20 (16.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (14.05%) Senior
4 14 (11.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (10.74%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (10.74%) Site Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
7 10 (8.26%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Lead
9 7 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Architect
10 6 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.31%) Data Scientist
12 4 (3.31%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.31%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (33.06%) Kafka
2 21 (17.36%) RESTful
3 16 (13.22%) .NET
4 12 (9.92%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (9.92%) React
5 10 (8.26%) pytest
6 9 (7.44%) Node.js
7 8 (6.61%) .NET Core
7 8 (6.61%) Spring
7 8 (6.61%) Spring Boot
8 7 (5.79%) HTML
8 7 (5.79%) REST
8 7 (5.79%) Svelte
9 6 (4.96%) Web Services
10 4 (3.31%) CSS
10 4 (3.31%) Matplotlib
10 4 (3.31%) Plotly
10 4 (3.31%) PyTorch
10 4 (3.31%) scikit-learn
10 4 (3.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.57%) Data Structures
3 12 (9.92%) Algorithms
4 9 (7.44%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.61%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.31%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.48%) Machine to Machine
8 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.65%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (29.75%) Linux
2 10 (8.26%) Windows
3 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.83%) Android
4 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (48.76%) DevOps
2 55 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 30 (24.79%) Microservices
4 23 (19.01%) Agile
5 20 (16.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 17 (14.05%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.22%) Containerisation
7 16 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (12.40%) Software Engineering
9 13 (10.74%) Full Stack Development
10 12 (9.92%) Task Automation
11 11 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
11 11 (9.09%) Architectural Design
11 11 (9.09%) Open Source
12 10 (8.26%) Computer Science
12 10 (8.26%) Test Automation
13 9 (7.44%) Machine Learning
13 9 (7.44%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 70 (57.85%) Python
2 36 (29.75%) SQL
3 34 (28.10%) Java
4 18 (14.88%) Go
5 15 (12.40%) Bash
6 14 (11.57%) JavaScript
7 13 (10.74%) C#
8 12 (9.92%) C++
8 12 (9.92%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.79%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.48%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.48%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.65%) Clojure
11 2 (1.65%) Haskell
11 2 (1.65%) PHP
11 2 (1.65%) Rust
12 1 (0.83%) R
12 1 (0.83%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 17 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.13%) Degree
4 4 (3.31%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.31%) Actionable Recommendations
1 4 (3.31%) QA
2 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (53.72%) Docker
2 11 (9.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.83%) Ceph
5 1 (0.83%) NFS
Systems Management
1 43 (35.54%) Terraform
2 18 (14.88%) Prometheus
3 16 (13.22%) Grafana
4 14 (11.57%) Ansible
5 12 (9.92%) Consul
6 5 (4.13%) Argo
6 5 (4.13%) Puppet
7 4 (3.31%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.65%) Graylog
8 2 (1.65%) Nagios
8 2 (1.65%) Packer
9 1 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.83%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.83%) Mesos
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.83%) Nessus
9 1 (0.83%) SCCM
9 1 (0.83%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 23 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.92%) Databricks
3 11 (9.09%) SaltStack
4 7 (5.79%) Oracle
5 5 (4.13%) Google
5 5 (4.13%) Splunk
6 3 (2.48%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.48%) VMware
7 2 (1.65%) IBM
7 2 (1.65%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.65%) New Relic
7 2 (1.65%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.83%) Brio
8 1 (0.83%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco
8 1 (0.83%) Confluent
8 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.83%) Juniper
8 1 (0.83%) Veracode