Kubernetes Contracts in Lancashire

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 21 18 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 8 25 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.12% 9.80% 2.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 61.54% 55.56% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile - - £680
25th Percentile £488 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -3.57% -2.10%
75th Percentile £578 £697 -
90th Percentile £607 £714 £727
North West median daily rate £545 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +1.40% -6.52% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 21 0
10th Percentile - £45.88 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 -
75th Percentile £57.18 - -
90th Percentile £63.78 - -
North West median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £53.00
% change year-on-year - -12.87% -

All Systems Management Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 13 45 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 6.70% 17.65% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 21
10th Percentile £382 £360 £270
25th Percentile £408 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £480 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -26.15% +18.18%
75th Percentile £563 £688 £700
90th Percentile £582 £795 -
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 27 1
10th Percentile - £44.03 -
25th Percentile - - £37.67
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £40.58
Median % change year-on-year - +13.81% -
75th Percentile £57.18 - £43.48
90th Percentile £63.78 £75.82 -
North West median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £26.67
% change year-on-year - +73.15% +40.37%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Lancashire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Lancashire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Lancashire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Lancashire

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Lancashire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in Lancashire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Lancashire 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
Chorley - 2 £525 -
Blackpool +9 1 £618 -8.52%
Preston +1 1 - - 2
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Change and Release Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Change Manager
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Release Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) PyTorch
1 3 (37.50%) TensorFlow
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) CentOS
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) GitOps
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Digital Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Istio
2 1 (12.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat