Kubernetes Engineer Contracts in London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
England > London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in London is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 344 400
Rank change year-on-year -35 +56 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 11 134 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.063% 0.53% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.55% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 119 169
10th Percentile £513 £551 £556
25th Percentile £525 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £863 £800
90th Percentile £653 - £888
England median daily rate £588 £725 £675
% change year-on-year -18.97% +7.41% +18.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,359 24,202 36,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.18% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,819 17,639 27,124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 276 418
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.60 £22.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Central London +39 2 £650 +4.00% 1
South London - 1 £525 -
Kubernetes Engineer
England

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) Terraform
3 6 (54.55%) Docker
4 5 (45.45%) Microservices
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (45.45%) .NET
5 4 (36.36%) Linux
5 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) C#
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Finance
7 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
7 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
7 2 (18.18%) AWS
7 2 (18.18%) Python
7 2 (18.18%) Grafana
8 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
8 1 (9.09%) Cisco
8 1 (9.09%) Juniper
8 1 (9.09%) Nagios
8 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 1 (9.09%) Front Office
8 1 (9.09%) Windows
8 1 (9.09%) Degree
8 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
8 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Route 53
3 1 (9.09%) Sentry
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Front Office
2 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) eBPF
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (45.45%) Microservices
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Fintech
4 1 (9.09%) GitOps
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (63.64%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Cilium
4 1 (9.09%) Nagios
4 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco
1 1 (9.09%) Juniper
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk
1 1 (9.09%) VMware