Kubernetes Contracts in London

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 45 21 19
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 808 2,036 3,081
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.57% 7.75% 8.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.96% 47.13% 46.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 1,486 2,363
10th Percentile £417 £475 £475
25th Percentile £481 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £634 £638
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% -0.56% +15.91%
75th Percentile £659 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £550 £613 £613
% change year-on-year -10.20% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 6
10th Percentile £55.25 £63.00 £75.00
25th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £75.31
Median hourly rate £57.50 £80.00 £79.38
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +0.79% +16.73%
75th Percentile £62.88 £90.00 £84.38
90th Percentile £65.35 - £85.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -15.07% -5.81% +52.71%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,186 4,320 6,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.36% 16.45% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,578 3,150 5,066
10th Percentile £325 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £798 £794
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 42 49
10th Percentile £15.47 £22.80 £15.55
25th Percentile £20.50 £47.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £23.99 £66.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -63.65% +176.04% -51.70%
75th Percentile £51.44 £86.97 £41.75
90th Percentile £69.13 £90.00 £79.50
England median hourly rate £25.71 £57.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year -55.29% +164.37% -9.38%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
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 within the London 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
Central London -11 111 £600 -4.00% 30
South London +3 45 £525 -16.00% 4
West London -6 26 £375 -37.50% 8
East London -4 4 £493 -35.41% 14
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
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 47 (5.82%) Confluence
2 32 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.48%) OpenStack
4 17 (2.10%) nginx
5 15 (1.86%) Apache Spark
6 12 (1.49%) Apache
7 9 (1.11%) BizTalk Server
8 7 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.74%) Tornado
10 5 (0.62%) CMS
10 5 (0.62%) IIS
10 5 (0.62%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.62%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.50%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.50%) Camunda
11 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.37%) JBoss
12 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Endur
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 455 (56.31%) AWS
2 259 (32.05%) Azure
3 161 (19.93%) GCP
4 98 (12.13%) Serverless
5 88 (10.89%) GitHub
6 72 (8.91%) Amazon S3
7 63 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
9 52 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
10 49 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
11 48 (5.94%) OpenShift
12 45 (5.57%) Azure AKS
13 39 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (4.70%) PaaS
15 26 (3.22%) Azure Functions
16 25 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
18 23 (2.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 22 (2.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.21%) HTTP
2 32 (3.96%) Firewall
3 25 (3.09%) DNS
4 17 (2.10%) DHCP
5 16 (1.98%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.86%) SAN
7 13 (1.61%) Network Security
8 12 (1.49%) NAS
9 10 (1.24%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.99%) VLAN
10 8 (0.99%) VPN
11 6 (0.74%) WAN
11 6 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.50%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.50%) LAN
12 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.37%) 4G
13 3 (0.37%) DMZ
13 3 (0.37%) IPv4
13 3 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (7.80%) NoSQL
3 55 (6.81%) Apache Cassandra
4 52 (6.44%) MongoDB
5 44 (5.45%) Relational Database
6 43 (5.32%) SQL Server
7 40 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (3.96%) Big Data
9 26 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (2.48%) Data Lake
12 19 (2.35%) MySQL
13 18 (2.23%) BigQuery
14 17 (2.10%) DynamoDB
14 17 (2.10%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.73%) Apache Arrow
15 14 (1.73%) Dremio
16 13 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
17 12 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
18 9 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 185 (22.90%) Jenkins
2 145 (17.95%) Git
3 72 (8.91%) GitLab
4 59 (7.30%) JIRA
5 29 (3.59%) TeamCity
6 26 (3.22%) Selenium
7 24 (2.97%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.97%) JUnit
8 21 (2.60%) JMeter
9 20 (2.48%) Bitbucket
9 20 (2.48%) Maven
10 19 (2.35%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.98%) Mockito
12 15 (1.86%) SonarQube
13 12 (1.49%) Artifactory
13 12 (1.49%) CircleCI
14 10 (1.24%) Gradle
15 9 (1.11%) TestNG
16 7 (0.87%) ScalaTest
17 6 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 151 (18.69%) Finance
2 131 (16.21%) Social Skills
3 60 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 51 (6.31%) Banking
5 49 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (1.98%) Telecoms
7 15 (1.86%) Investment Banking
7 15 (1.86%) Law
7 15 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.24%) Retail
10 9 (1.11%) Tech for Good
11 7 (0.87%) Front Office
11 7 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.62%) Marketing
13 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.37%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 230 (28.47%) Developer
2 168 (20.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 103 (12.75%) Senior
4 78 (9.65%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (7.18%) Architect
6 53 (6.56%) Software Engineer
7 51 (6.31%) Java Developer
8 45 (5.57%) Azure Engineer
8 45 (5.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 44 (5.45%) Lead
10 42 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 41 (5.07%) Full Stack Developer
12 40 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
12 40 (4.95%) Site Engineer
13 38 (4.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 37 (4.58%) Scala Developer
15 34 (4.21%) Python Engineer
16 32 (3.96%) Python Developer
17 28 (3.47%) Senior Developer
18 27 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (22.03%) Kafka
2 97 (12.00%) React
3 83 (10.27%) Node.js
4 76 (9.41%) RESTful
5 75 (9.28%) Spring Boot
6 68 (8.42%) REST
7 66 (8.17%) Spring
8 63 (7.80%) .NET
9 39 (4.83%) Akka
10 38 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
11 34 (4.21%) .NET Core
12 29 (3.59%) HTML
13 28 (3.47%) Web Services
14 24 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (2.72%) AngularJS
15 22 (2.72%) gRPC
15 22 (2.72%) OAuth
16 21 (2.60%) Django
17 20 (2.48%) CSS
18 19 (2.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (4.33%) Cloud Native
3 33 (4.08%) Public Cloud
4 32 (3.96%) Clustering
5 31 (3.84%) Data Structures
6 30 (3.71%) Algorithms
7 28 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (3.22%) Product Ownership
9 19 (2.35%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.98%) Hedge funds
12 15 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.86%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.36%) Replication
14 11 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.99%) Derivative
16 7 (0.87%) Management Information System
16 7 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 169 (20.92%) Linux
2 54 (6.68%) Windows
3 46 (5.69%) Unix
4 24 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (2.72%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.11%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (0.99%) Android
7 8 (0.99%) Solaris
8 5 (0.62%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (52.35%) DevOps
2 329 (40.72%) CI/CD
3 258 (31.93%) Agile
4 242 (29.95%) Microservices
5 157 (19.43%) Containerisation
6 126 (15.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 122 (15.10%) Software Engineering
8 104 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (11.14%) TDD
10 86 (10.64%) Test Automation
11 75 (9.28%) Continuous Integration
12 71 (8.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 68 (8.42%) SDLC
14 60 (7.43%) Full Stack Development
15 57 (7.05%) Scrum
16 54 (6.68%) Platform Engineering
17 53 (6.56%) High Availability
18 48 (5.94%) Computer Science
18 48 (5.94%) Machine Learning
19 43 (5.32%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 340 (42.08%) Python
2 226 (27.97%) Java
3 140 (17.33%) SQL
4 122 (15.10%) JavaScript
5 104 (12.87%) Go
6 82 (10.15%) Bash
7 60 (7.43%) TypeScript
8 54 (6.68%) PowerShell
9 50 (6.19%) C#
10 46 (5.69%) Scala
11 33 (4.08%) Shell Script
12 30 (3.71%) C++
13 13 (1.61%) Perl
13 13 (1.61%) Ruby
14 12 (1.49%) C
15 11 (1.36%) Groovy
16 10 (1.24%) PL/SQL
16 10 (1.24%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.87%) PHP
17 7 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 198 (24.50%) Security Cleared
2 171 (21.16%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.68%) Degree
4 31 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.10%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.50%) CISSP
13 3 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.25%) CISA
14 2 (0.25%) CISM
14 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
15 1 (0.12%) CEH
15 1 (0.12%) OCP
15 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.86%) QA
2 12 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 8 (0.99%) GDPR
3 8 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (0.87%) NIST
5 5 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.50%) NCSC
7 3 (0.37%) WCAG
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 463 (57.30%) Docker
2 29 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.73%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.74%) Firmware
7 6 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.50%) vSphere
9 3 (0.37%) KVM
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 330 (40.84%) Terraform
2 140 (17.33%) Ansible
3 92 (11.39%) Prometheus
4 79 (9.78%) Grafana
5 32 (3.96%) Puppet
6 26 (3.22%) Consul
7 20 (2.48%) Packer
8 18 (2.23%) Argo
9 17 (2.10%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.36%) Netcool
11 10 (1.24%) Kibana
12 8 (0.99%) EMC NetWorker
12 8 (0.99%) Tivoli
12 8 (0.99%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 7 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.74%) Istio
15 5 (0.62%) Dell DRAC
15 5 (0.62%) Nagios
16 4 (0.50%) Nessus
16 4 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 98 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.04%) Oracle
3 48 (5.94%) Google
4 44 (5.45%) VMware
5 35 (4.33%) Splunk
6 24 (2.97%) Databricks
7 19 (2.35%) Typelevel
8 18 (2.23%) IBM
8 18 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 17 (2.10%) Cisco
9 17 (2.10%) CyberArk
9 17 (2.10%) Dell
10 13 (1.61%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.49%) SaltStack
12 11 (1.36%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.24%) HP
14 8 (0.99%) EMC
14 8 (0.99%) Isilon
14 8 (0.99%) Qualys
14 8 (0.99%) Serena