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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -16 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,421 2,806 4,470
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.85% 5.88% 6.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.54% 38.25% 40.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 2,071 3,323
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £475 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £620
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% +12.73%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £700
90th Percentile £725 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £610
% change year-on-year -10.20% +0.41% +10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 42 7
10th Percentile £46.19 £53.75 £47.19
25th Percentile £52.50 £61.44 £49.90
Median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +23.33% +16.50%
75th Percentile £74.44 £79.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £90.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £67.25 £72.50 £48.31
% change year-on-year -7.24% +50.06% +1.71%

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 4,506 7,335 11,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.20% 15.36% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 5,306 8,188
10th Percentile £270 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +10.58%
75th Percentile £625 £683 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 159
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.52 £12.98
25th Percentile £20.00 £25.53 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £52.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.04% +146.16% -11.89%
75th Percentile £50.25 £73.94 £27.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -16 868 £573 -10.20% 551
North of England -9 163 £525 -14.81% 100
South East -9 159 £575 -2.34% 104
South West -20 100 £550 - 100
Yorkshire +14 81 £514 -21.00% 25
North West -19 71 £550 -6.38% 70
Midlands -27 29 £450 -28.00% 43
East of England -28 25 £600 -7.69% 34
West Midlands -32 20 £500 -28.57% 22
North East -9 13 £413 -41.07% 5
East Midlands -19 9 £363 -48.21% 21
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 87 (6.12%) Confluence
2 45 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (3.03%) Apache
4 30 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.97%) OpenStack
6 26 (1.83%) Apache Spark
6 26 (1.83%) nginx
7 8 (0.56%) CMS
7 8 (0.56%) JBoss
7 8 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
8 7 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.35%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.35%) Camunda
9 5 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
9 5 (0.35%) IIS
9 5 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.28%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.070%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (0.35%) Endur
2 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.070%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.070%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 785 (55.24%) AWS
2 484 (34.06%) Azure
3 264 (18.58%) GCP
4 147 (10.34%) Serverless
5 128 (9.01%) OpenShift
6 123 (8.66%) GitHub
7 116 (8.16%) Amazon S3
8 99 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
9 98 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
10 96 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
11 88 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
12 65 (4.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 65 (4.57%) Azure AKS
13 60 (4.22%) PaaS
14 49 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 46 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (3.10%) Entra ID
17 40 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 37 (2.60%) Route 53
19 35 (2.46%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.49%) Firewall
2 69 (4.86%) DNS
3 62 (4.36%) HTTP
4 39 (2.74%) VPN
5 38 (2.67%) DHCP
6 33 (2.32%) TCP/IP
7 29 (2.04%) Network Security
8 16 (1.13%) SAN
9 11 (0.77%) AMQP
10 9 (0.63%) Kerberos
10 9 (0.63%) NAS
10 9 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
10 9 (0.63%) VSAN
10 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.56%) HTTPS
11 8 (0.56%) SSL
12 7 (0.49%) 5G
12 7 (0.49%) WAN
13 6 (0.42%) LAN
13 6 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (8.59%) NoSQL
2 114 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (6.97%) Apache Cassandra
4 86 (6.05%) Relational Database
5 67 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
5 67 (4.71%) MongoDB
6 62 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
7 54 (3.80%) MySQL
7 54 (3.80%) SQL Server
8 44 (3.10%) Big Data
9 40 (2.81%) Data Lake
10 31 (2.18%) DynamoDB
11 30 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
12 29 (2.04%) RDBMS
13 28 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
14 26 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.76%) BigQuery
16 18 (1.27%) Apache Arrow
16 18 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
16 18 (1.27%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 303 (21.32%) Jenkins
2 262 (18.44%) Git
3 194 (13.65%) GitLab
4 122 (8.59%) JIRA
5 44 (3.10%) SonarQube
6 43 (3.03%) Selenium
7 42 (2.96%) JUnit
8 37 (2.60%) Bitbucket
9 35 (2.46%) TeamCity
10 31 (2.18%) Cucumber
11 28 (1.97%) JMeter
12 27 (1.90%) Cypress.io
13 23 (1.62%) Artifactory
14 22 (1.55%) CircleCI
15 21 (1.48%) Mockito
16 17 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 16 (1.13%) Maven
17 16 (1.13%) REST Assured
17 16 (1.13%) Travis CI
18 15 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 247 (17.38%) Social Skills
2 203 (14.29%) Finance
3 110 (7.74%) Public Sector
4 94 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (5.14%) Banking
6 24 (1.69%) Telecoms
7 22 (1.55%) Law
8 18 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.27%) Retail
9 12 (0.84%) Tech for Good
10 10 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.63%) Marketing
12 8 (0.56%) Front Office
12 8 (0.56%) Police
13 7 (0.49%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.42%) Legal
14 6 (0.42%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 338 (23.79%) Developer
2 307 (21.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 190 (13.37%) Senior
4 114 (8.02%) Software Engineer
5 113 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
6 91 (6.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 89 (6.26%) Architect
8 88 (6.19%) Java Developer
9 85 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
10 82 (5.77%) Lead
11 78 (5.49%) Site Engineer
12 68 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
13 66 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
14 62 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
15 60 (4.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 52 (3.66%) Full Stack Developer
17 51 (3.59%) Scala Developer
18 50 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
19 47 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
20 43 (3.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (19.42%) Kafka
2 147 (10.34%) React
3 122 (8.59%) Node.js
4 121 (8.52%) Spring Boot
5 118 (8.30%) REST
6 108 (7.60%) RESTful
7 105 (7.39%) Spring
8 99 (6.97%) .NET
9 74 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
10 54 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
11 49 (3.45%) Akka
12 46 (3.24%) HTML
13 45 (3.17%) ARM Templates
14 44 (3.10%) .NET Core
15 38 (2.67%) GraphQL
15 38 (2.67%) gRPC
15 38 (2.67%) YAML
16 34 (2.39%) AngularJS
16 34 (2.39%) Web Services
17 33 (2.32%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 72 (5.07%) Cloud Native
2 65 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
2 65 (4.57%) Public Cloud
3 43 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 37 (2.60%) Clustering
5 36 (2.53%) Algorithms
5 36 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 35 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
6 35 (2.46%) PKI
6 35 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.32%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 25 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.41%) Hedge funds
10 18 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (0.91%) Management Information System
12 12 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (0.84%) Onboarding
12 12 (0.84%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 325 (22.87%) Linux
2 106 (7.46%) Windows
3 80 (5.63%) Unix
4 58 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (3.24%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (1.34%) CentOS
8 18 (1.27%) VMS
9 14 (0.99%) Solaris
10 11 (0.77%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.70%) Android
11 10 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.14%) Windows 2000
14 2 (0.14%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.070%) Debian
15 1 (0.070%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (55.17%) DevOps
2 596 (41.94%) CI/CD
3 456 (32.09%) Agile
4 358 (25.19%) Containerisation
5 349 (24.56%) Microservices
6 288 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 231 (16.26%) Software Engineering
8 185 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
9 157 (11.05%) Test Automation
10 131 (9.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 131 (9.22%) TDD
11 130 (9.15%) Continuous Integration
12 111 (7.81%) Configuration Management
13 105 (7.39%) Scrum
14 103 (7.25%) Full Stack Development
15 89 (6.26%) Platform Engineering
16 85 (5.98%) High Availability
17 83 (5.84%) Computer Science
17 83 (5.84%) SDLC
18 82 (5.77%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 534 (37.58%) Python
2 374 (26.32%) Java
3 221 (15.55%) SQL
4 193 (13.58%) Go
5 172 (12.10%) JavaScript
6 153 (10.77%) Bash
7 129 (9.08%) PowerShell
8 102 (7.18%) C#
9 92 (6.47%) TypeScript
10 74 (5.21%) Scala
11 70 (4.93%) Shell Script
12 37 (2.60%) C++
13 33 (2.32%) Ruby
14 31 (2.18%) C
15 30 (2.11%) Bicep
16 23 (1.62%) Perl
17 20 (1.41%) VB
17 20 (1.41%) VBScript
18 19 (1.34%) Groovy
19 17 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 413 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 321 (22.59%) SC Cleared
3 114 (8.02%) DV Cleared
4 113 (7.95%) Degree
5 52 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.46%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.39%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 19 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.28%) CISSP
14 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
14 3 (0.21%) OCP
14 3 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.14%) CISA
15 2 (0.14%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.01%) QA
2 19 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (1.27%) GDPR
4 16 (1.13%) NIST
5 9 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.42%) NCSC
7 6 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.42%) SLA
8 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.070%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.070%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 821 (57.78%) Docker
2 75 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 68 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.97%) Hyper-V
6 22 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 22 (1.55%) VMware NSX
7 16 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 12 (0.84%) vSphere
9 9 (0.63%) vCloud
10 6 (0.42%) Firmware
11 4 (0.28%) KVM
12 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.14%) HDFS
13 2 (0.14%) NFS
13 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.070%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.070%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.070%) Xen
Systems Management
1 565 (39.76%) Terraform
2 305 (21.46%) Ansible
3 178 (12.53%) Prometheus
4 156 (10.98%) Grafana
5 69 (4.86%) Puppet
6 56 (3.94%) Progress Chef
7 42 (2.96%) Docker Swarm
8 40 (2.81%) Istio
9 37 (2.60%) Kibana
10 36 (2.53%) Argo
11 34 (2.39%) Packer
12 27 (1.90%) Rancher
13 25 (1.76%) Consul
13 25 (1.76%) SCOM
14 23 (1.62%) SCCM
15 21 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 20 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
16 20 (1.41%) WSUS
17 16 (1.13%) Podman
18 14 (0.99%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 167 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 96 (6.76%) VMware
3 92 (6.47%) Oracle
4 88 (6.19%) Google
5 75 (5.28%) Splunk
6 42 (2.96%) Red Hat
7 30 (2.11%) Databricks
8 22 (1.55%) Typelevel
9 21 (1.48%) IBM
10 20 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.41%) Cisco
10 20 (1.41%) CyberArk
11 19 (1.34%) Dell
12 16 (1.13%) Dynatrace
13 13 (0.91%) AppDynamics
14 12 (0.84%) HP
14 12 (0.84%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.84%) SaltStack
15 11 (0.77%) SAP
16 10 (0.70%) ServiceNow