Kubernetes Contracts in Dorset

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 8 39 22
Rank change year-on-year +31 -17 +3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 11 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 10.19% 0.37% 4.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 55.00% 5.56% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile £563 £475 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £725
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -31.03% +45.00%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £738
90th Percentile - - £758
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +15.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 20 18 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 18.52% 6.59% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 29
10th Percentile - £361 £350
25th Percentile £223 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year -42.21% -5.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £382 £534 £738
90th Percentile £448 £539 £798
South West median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +15.79%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Dorset

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Dorset

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Dorset 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
Bournemouth +9 3 - - 3
Kubernetes
South West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) GitHub
3 5 (45.45%) Azure AKS
3 5 (45.45%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (36.36%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) JSON
1 3 (27.27%) YAML
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
1 3 (27.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Data ONTAP
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) SDLC
3 5 (45.45%) Microservices
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Operational Stability
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
5 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Community of Practice
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Information Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Kanban
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
1 3 (27.27%) Lustre
1 3 (27.27%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Dell
2 3 (27.27%) Isilon
2 3 (27.27%) NetApp
3 2 (18.18%) Atlassian