Kubernetes Contracts in England

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,305 2,981 4,495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.55% 6.08% 6.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.90% 39.13% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 2,219 3,341
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £475 £524 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £700
90th Percentile £725 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 36 10
10th Percentile £46.19 £53.75 £47.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £61.81 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.07% -5.81% +52.71%
75th Percentile £74.44 £80.63 £81.56
90th Percentile £76.89 £90.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £70.50 £52.89
% change year-on-year -8.51% +33.31% +11.41%

All Systems Management Skills
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 England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,364 7,619 11,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.86% 15.53% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,174 5,550 8,172
10th Percentile £257 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £625 £677 £675
90th Percentile £700 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 181 158
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.72
25th Percentile £17.72 £25.00 £15.31
Median hourly rate £25.71 £57.50 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -55.29% +164.37% -9.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £43.36
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.50 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -55.19% +152.75% -42.77%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London -24 808 £567 -10.56% 424
North of England -20 145 £538 -10.42% 97
South East -17 141 £575 - 103
South West -36 83 £550 - 80
North West -28 70 £550 -8.33% 58
Yorkshire +3 65 £525 -17.65% 30
Midlands -9 31 £500 -20.00% 51
East of England -35 21 £575 -11.54% 27
West Midlands -19 18 £500 -28.57% 24
East Midlands -1 13 £450 -35.71% 27
North East -13 12 £413 -41.07% 9
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 77 (5.90%) Confluence
2 36 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.30%) Apache
4 28 (2.15%) OpenStack
5 26 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 25 (1.92%) nginx
7 18 (1.38%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
9 8 (0.61%) JBoss
10 7 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.46%) CMS
11 6 (0.46%) Tornado
12 5 (0.38%) Camunda
12 5 (0.38%) IIS
12 5 (0.38%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.38%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.31%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.31%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.31%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.077%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.077%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.38%) Endur
2 2 (0.15%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.15%) RMDS
3 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.077%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 736 (56.40%) AWS
2 430 (32.95%) Azure
3 226 (17.32%) GCP
4 140 (10.73%) Serverless
5 123 (9.43%) GitHub
6 117 (8.97%) Amazon S3
7 104 (7.97%) OpenShift
8 100 (7.66%) Amazon EC2
9 96 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
10 85 (6.51%) Amazon EKS
11 84 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
12 66 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 59 (4.52%) Azure AKS
14 52 (3.98%) PaaS
15 51 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
16 49 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 41 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (2.84%) Route 53
19 35 (2.68%) Entra ID
20 34 (2.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.36%) Firewall
2 62 (4.75%) DNS
3 44 (3.37%) HTTP
4 36 (2.76%) DHCP
5 32 (2.45%) VPN
6 31 (2.38%) TCP/IP
7 29 (2.22%) Network Security
8 20 (1.53%) SAN
9 12 (0.92%) NAS
10 11 (0.84%) Kerberos
11 9 (0.69%) AMQP
11 9 (0.69%) VLAN
11 9 (0.69%) VSAN
11 9 (0.69%) WAN
12 8 (0.61%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.54%) 5G
13 7 (0.54%) LAN
14 6 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
15 5 (0.38%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (7.66%) NoSQL
3 88 (6.74%) Apache Cassandra
4 84 (6.44%) Relational Database
5 68 (5.21%) MongoDB
6 67 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
7 55 (4.21%) SQL Server
8 54 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
9 48 (3.68%) MySQL
10 37 (2.84%) Big Data
11 33 (2.53%) Data Lake
12 30 (2.30%) RDBMS
13 29 (2.22%) DynamoDB
14 26 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
14 26 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (1.69%) BigQuery
16 16 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (1.07%) Apache Arrow
17 14 (1.07%) Dremio
18 12 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 286 (21.92%) Jenkins
2 237 (18.16%) Git
3 175 (13.41%) GitLab
4 111 (8.51%) JIRA
5 48 (3.68%) Selenium
6 46 (3.52%) JUnit
6 46 (3.52%) SonarQube
7 37 (2.84%) Cucumber
8 35 (2.68%) TeamCity
9 34 (2.61%) Bitbucket
10 28 (2.15%) JMeter
11 26 (1.99%) Cypress.io
12 24 (1.84%) Maven
12 24 (1.84%) Mockito
13 22 (1.69%) CircleCI
14 19 (1.46%) Artifactory
15 17 (1.30%) REST Assured
16 15 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
17 13 (1.00%) Gradle
17 13 (1.00%) Travis CI
General
1 225 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 181 (13.87%) Finance
3 103 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 78 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (4.29%) Banking
6 24 (1.84%) Law
6 24 (1.84%) Telecoms
7 17 (1.30%) Retail
8 15 (1.15%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (0.92%) Tech for Good
10 11 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 9 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.61%) Police
13 7 (0.54%) Front Office
13 7 (0.54%) Marketing
14 6 (0.46%) Legal
14 6 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 326 (24.98%) Developer
2 285 (21.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 169 (12.95%) Senior
4 106 (8.12%) Software Engineer
5 104 (7.97%) AWS Engineer
6 92 (7.05%) Architect
7 81 (6.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 77 (5.90%) Java Developer
8 77 (5.90%) Lead
9 74 (5.67%) Azure Engineer
10 69 (5.29%) Site Engineer
11 68 (5.21%) AWS DevOps
12 63 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 58 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 53 (4.06%) Full Stack Developer
15 51 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
15 51 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
16 46 (3.52%) Python Developer
17 43 (3.30%) Scala Developer
18 39 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (18.39%) Kafka
2 149 (11.42%) React
3 124 (9.50%) Node.js
4 122 (9.35%) Spring Boot
5 116 (8.89%) REST
6 105 (8.05%) Spring
7 93 (7.13%) RESTful
8 81 (6.21%) .NET
9 67 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
10 42 (3.22%) RabbitMQ
11 41 (3.14%) Akka
12 40 (3.07%) YAML
13 39 (2.99%) .NET Core
14 37 (2.84%) ARM Templates
15 35 (2.68%) HTML
15 35 (2.68%) Web Services
16 33 (2.53%) AngularJS
17 30 (2.30%) Hibernate
17 30 (2.30%) JSON
17 30 (2.30%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 67 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 63 (4.83%) Public Cloud
3 60 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (2.91%) Data Structures
5 36 (2.76%) Clustering
6 35 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
7 33 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 33 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (2.45%) Algorithms
9 31 (2.38%) Product Ownership
9 31 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
10 29 (2.22%) PKI
11 23 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.23%) Hedge funds
13 15 (1.15%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.00%) Management Information System
15 13 (1.00%) Replication
16 11 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 296 (22.68%) Linux
2 109 (8.35%) Windows
3 68 (5.21%) Unix
4 59 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 51 (3.91%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.38%) CentOS
7 17 (1.30%) Solaris
7 17 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (1.00%) Oracle Linux
8 13 (1.00%) VMS
9 9 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.61%) Android
11 6 (0.46%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.15%) Windows 2000
13 2 (0.15%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.077%) Debian
14 1 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (54.41%) DevOps
2 549 (42.07%) CI/CD
3 417 (31.95%) Agile
4 327 (25.06%) Microservices
5 314 (24.06%) Containerisation
6 260 (19.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 219 (16.78%) Software Engineering
8 161 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
9 147 (11.26%) Test Automation
10 128 (9.81%) Continuous Integration
11 127 (9.73%) TDD
12 117 (8.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 101 (7.74%) Full Stack Development
14 98 (7.51%) Scrum
15 96 (7.36%) Configuration Management
16 84 (6.44%) High Availability
17 82 (6.28%) Platform Engineering
18 78 (5.98%) SDLC
19 69 (5.29%) Computer Science
20 67 (5.13%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 509 (39.00%) Python
2 336 (25.75%) Java
3 202 (15.48%) SQL
4 175 (13.41%) Go
5 158 (12.11%) JavaScript
6 144 (11.03%) Bash
7 120 (9.20%) PowerShell
8 90 (6.90%) TypeScript
9 87 (6.67%) C#
10 60 (4.60%) Scala
11 54 (4.14%) Shell Script
12 36 (2.76%) C++
13 30 (2.30%) Ruby
14 29 (2.22%) C
15 25 (1.92%) Bicep
16 24 (1.84%) Perl
17 17 (1.30%) PHP
18 16 (1.23%) VB
18 16 (1.23%) VBScript
19 15 (1.15%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 389 (29.81%) Security Cleared
2 308 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 101 (7.74%) DV Cleared
4 96 (7.36%) Degree
5 44 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 13 (1.00%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.38%) CISSP
13 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
15 2 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.15%) CISA
15 2 (0.15%) CISM
16 1 (0.077%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (4.06%) QA
2 21 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.23%) NIST
4 14 (1.07%) GDPR
5 9 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.46%) NCSC
7 6 (0.46%) SLA
8 4 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.23%) WCAG
10 1 (0.077%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.077%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 756 (57.93%) Docker
2 70 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (5.21%) Active Directory
4 48 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (2.15%) Hyper-V
6 20 (1.53%) VMware NSX
7 17 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (1.07%) vSphere
9 12 (0.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 9 (0.69%) vCloud
11 6 (0.46%) Firmware
12 4 (0.31%) KVM
13 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.15%) HDFS
14 2 (0.15%) NFS
14 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.077%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.077%) Xen
Systems Management
1 526 (40.31%) Terraform
2 282 (21.61%) Ansible
3 162 (12.41%) Prometheus
4 136 (10.42%) Grafana
5 59 (4.52%) Puppet
6 52 (3.98%) Progress Chef
7 38 (2.91%) Docker Swarm
8 36 (2.76%) Istio
9 35 (2.68%) Packer
10 31 (2.38%) Kibana
11 30 (2.30%) Argo
12 28 (2.15%) Consul
13 23 (1.76%) Rancher
14 21 (1.61%) SCOM
15 19 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 19 (1.46%) SCCM
16 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
16 16 (1.23%) Podman
16 16 (1.23%) WSUS
17 15 (1.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 152 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 105 (8.05%) VMware
3 87 (6.67%) Oracle
4 72 (5.52%) Splunk
5 71 (5.44%) Google
6 49 (3.75%) Red Hat
7 32 (2.45%) Databricks
8 24 (1.84%) IBM
9 23 (1.76%) CyberArk
9 23 (1.76%) Dell
10 22 (1.69%) Cisco
11 20 (1.53%) Typelevel
12 15 (1.15%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 15 (1.15%) HP
13 13 (1.00%) AppDynamics
13 13 (1.00%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.92%) SaltStack
14 12 (0.92%) ServiceNow
15 11 (0.84%) SAP