Kubernetes Contracts in the East of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 58 68
Rank change year-on-year -32 +10 -35
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 23 68 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.22% 3.46% 3.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.23% 25.37% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 54 64
10th Percentile £463 £436 £463
25th Percentile £525 £513 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £660 - £704
England median daily rate £550 £620 £613
% change year-on-year -11.29% +1.22% +15.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -15.07% -5.81% +52.71%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 99 268 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 5.24% 13.65% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 185 261
10th Percentile £187 £273 £231
25th Percentile £258 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +7.68% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £631 £700 £669
England median daily rate £521 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 £17.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +13.33% -18.37%
75th Percentile £19.00 £42.71 £16.31
90th Percentile £22.80 £65.75 £45.35
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.89%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Cambridgeshire -8 8 £525 - 10
Hertfordshire -2 7 £575 -25.81% 9
Essex -3 3 £375 -29.25% 1
Bedfordshire -6 3 £600 +9.09%
Suffolk -7 2 £625 -10.71%
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
3 3 (13.04%) GitHub
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.70%) CloudFront
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Route 53
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) BGP
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) LAN
1 2 (8.70%) OSPF
1 2 (8.70%) SD-WAN
1 2 (8.70%) VPN
1 2 (8.70%) WAN
1 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
1 7 (30.43%) JUnit
1 7 (30.43%) Mockito
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Advertising
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Unix Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Network Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Network Technical Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Architect
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Scala Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) RESTful
1 8 (34.78%) Spring
1 8 (34.78%) Spring Boot
2 7 (30.43%) Drools
2 7 (30.43%) Quarkus
3 2 (8.70%) .NET
3 2 (8.70%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) Akka
4 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.35%) J2EE
4 1 (4.35%) Micronaut
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) FMCG
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) CentOS
2 3 (13.04%) Solaris
2 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
2 3 (13.04%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Containerisation
2 9 (39.13%) TDD
3 8 (34.78%) Microservices
4 7 (30.43%) Decision Table
4 7 (30.43%) DevOps
5 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
6 3 (13.04%) Change Management
6 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
6 3 (13.04%) ITIL
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (8.70%) Clean Code
7 2 (8.70%) Computer Science
7 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (8.70%) Planning and Forecasting
7 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
7 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.70%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (8.70%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Python
4 3 (13.04%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) Scala
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (4.35%) LPIC
4 1 (4.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.35%) KVM
4 1 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Rancher
2 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (13.04%) SCOM
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
1 4 (17.39%) Splunk
1 4 (17.39%) VMware
2 3 (13.04%) Dell
2 3 (13.04%) HP
2 3 (13.04%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) F5
3 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.70%) Zscaler
4 1 (4.35%) Typelevel