Kubernetes Contracts in Gloucestershire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 21 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +26
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 43 48 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 9.75% 10.98% 8.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 46.74% 40.00% 42.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 37
10th Percentile £475 £506 £456
25th Percentile £519 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +15.12% -
75th Percentile £600 £731 £680
90th Percentile £630 £805 -
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
South West median hourly rate £74.44 £78.00 £48.27
% change year-on-year -4.56% +61.59% -4.89%

All Systems Management Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 92 120 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.86% 27.46% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 76 69
10th Percentile £391 £275 £184
25th Percentile £475 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £602 £588
90th Percentile £688 £725 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 4
10th Percentile - £70.50 -
25th Percentile - - £11.17
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £11.78
Median % change year-on-year - +562.14% -70.91%
75th Percentile - - £14.29
90th Percentile - £90.00 £17.72
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £77.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -48.39% +287.50% -59.18%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Gloucestershire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Gloucestershire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Gloucestershire

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Gloucestershire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 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
Cheltenham +4 31 £560 -12.16% 19
Gloucester +1 4 £488 -17.72% 1
Filton - 1 £533 -
Kubernetes
South West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (74.42%) AWS
2 17 (39.53%) OpenShift
3 15 (34.88%) Azure
4 9 (20.93%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (20.93%) Amazon S3
4 9 (20.93%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (20.93%) Serverless
5 4 (9.30%) PaaS
6 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) GitHub
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.65%) GCP
7 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.65%) Slack
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.33%) IaaS
8 1 (2.33%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) AMQP
2 7 (16.28%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) HTTP
3 1 (2.33%) IPv4
3 1 (2.33%) OSPF
3 1 (2.33%) VLAN
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (20.93%) InfluxDB
2 7 (16.28%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) Big Data
3 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.33%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 22 (51.16%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.30%) GitLab
3 3 (6.98%) Cypress.io
3 3 (6.98%) Git
4 2 (4.65%) Snyk
4 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.33%) git-flow
5 1 (2.33%) JIRA
5 1 (2.33%) JMeter
5 1 (2.33%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.33%) Selenium
5 1 (2.33%) webpack
General
1 3 (6.98%) Finance
1 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
1 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (37.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Software Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Site Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (16.28%) Node.js
2 7 (16.28%) React
3 6 (13.95%) Spring
3 6 (13.95%) Spring Boot
4 4 (9.30%) RESTful
5 3 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (6.98%) Jest
5 3 (6.98%) Kafka
6 2 (4.65%) .NET
6 2 (4.65%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.65%) CSS
6 2 (4.65%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (4.65%) HTML
6 2 (4.65%) Loki
7 1 (2.33%) ADO
7 1 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.33%) PostGIS
7 1 (2.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (44.19%) Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) CI/CD
2 19 (44.19%) DevOps
3 15 (34.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 10 (23.26%) Configuration Management
4 10 (23.26%) Software Engineering
5 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
6 7 (16.28%) Event-Driven
6 7 (16.28%) Observability
6 7 (16.28%) Service Management
7 4 (9.30%) GitOps
7 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (9.30%) Task Automation
8 3 (6.98%) Agile
8 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (6.98%) Test Automation
8 3 (6.98%) Web Development
9 2 (4.65%) Customer Requirements
9 2 (4.65%) Manual Testing
9 2 (4.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (51.16%) Java
1 22 (51.16%) Python
2 13 (30.23%) Go
3 12 (27.91%) C
4 11 (25.58%) JavaScript
4 11 (25.58%) SQL
5 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
6 6 (13.95%) Bash
6 6 (13.95%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.98%) C#
8 2 (4.65%) Bicep
8 2 (4.65%) Perl
9 1 (2.33%) Rust
9 1 (2.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 37 (86.05%) Security Cleared
2 34 (79.07%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 38 (88.37%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (53.49%) Grafana
1 23 (53.49%) Prometheus
1 23 (53.49%) Terraform
2 21 (48.84%) Ansible
3 11 (25.58%) Docker Swarm
4 10 (23.26%) Progress Chef
5 4 (9.30%) Argo
6 2 (4.65%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.33%) Puppet
7 1 (2.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) VMware
2 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.33%) Splunk