Kubernetes Contracts in Manchester

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 63 101 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.37% 5.66% 6.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.28% 32.06% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 77 128
10th Percentile £406 £463 £444
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
North West median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £43.34 -
% change year-on-year +26.90% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 149 315 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.33% 17.66% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 245 360
10th Percentile £313 £363 £298
25th Percentile £386 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £626
90th Percentile £694 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 3
10th Percentile £55.00 £18.19 £17.00
25th Percentile £58.75 £20.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £23.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +242.58% +16.76% -
75th Percentile £100.00 £45.95 -
90th Percentile £102.40 £65.00 -
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £33.75 £21.78
% change year-on-year -47.50% +54.96% -35.94%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Manchester 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
Cheadle - 1 - -
Stockport - 1 - - 3
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (3.17%) Confluence
1 2 (3.17%) nginx
1 2 (3.17%) Traefik
2 1 (1.59%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 49 (77.78%) AWS
2 23 (36.51%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 14 (22.22%) Serverless
4 14 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 13 (20.63%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (20.63%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (12.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (12.70%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (12.70%) Route 53
9 7 (11.11%) Azure
9 7 (11.11%) Snowflake
10 6 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (7.94%) GCP
12 3 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (3.17%) Azure AKS
13 2 (3.17%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) Network Security
2 5 (7.94%) DNS
3 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.70%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (12.70%) Relational Database
3 7 (11.11%) DynamoDB
4 6 (9.52%) Data Lake
4 6 (9.52%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (6.35%) MySQL
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.17%) Redis
8 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.59%) Flink
8 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.59%) Power BI
8 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (39.68%) Git
2 23 (36.51%) GitLab
3 8 (12.70%) webpack
4 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (11.11%) JUnit
5 6 (9.52%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.76%) Mocha
6 3 (4.76%) Selenium
7 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.17%) JIRA
8 1 (1.59%) Gradle
8 1 (1.59%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (17.46%) Public Sector
2 6 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.76%) Retail
4 2 (3.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (34.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (30.16%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (23.81%) Developer
4 13 (20.63%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (19.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (14.29%) Senior
7 8 (12.70%) Lead
8 7 (11.11%) Java Developer
9 6 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (7.94%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 5 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
11 4 (6.35%) Technical Leader
12 3 (4.76%) Architect
12 3 (4.76%) Consultant
12 3 (4.76%) DevOps Consultant
12 3 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
12 3 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
12 3 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (33.33%) React
2 15 (23.81%) Node.js
3 13 (20.63%) Spring Boot
4 12 (19.05%) Redux
5 10 (15.87%) Spring
6 8 (12.70%) Express.js
6 8 (12.70%) REST
7 6 (9.52%) Hibernate
7 6 (9.52%) JPA
8 3 (4.76%) Jest
9 2 (3.17%) AWS CDK
9 2 (3.17%) cloud-init
9 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (3.17%) pytest
9 2 (3.17%) SAML
9 2 (3.17%) YAML
10 1 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
10 1 (1.59%) jOOQ
10 1 (1.59%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.17%) Clustering
3 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.17%) PKI
3 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (3.17%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 42 (66.67%) DevOps
3 30 (47.62%) Containerisation
4 21 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (28.57%) Agile
6 15 (23.81%) Microservices
7 14 (22.22%) Front End Development
7 14 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (19.05%) Full Stack Development
10 11 (17.46%) Unit Testing
11 10 (15.87%) Scrum
12 9 (14.29%) High Availability
13 8 (12.70%) API Development
13 8 (12.70%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 8 (12.70%) Customer Engagement
13 8 (12.70%) End-to-End Testing
13 8 (12.70%) ETL
13 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
13 8 (12.70%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) Python
2 17 (26.98%) Bash
2 17 (26.98%) Java
3 13 (20.63%) Go
4 10 (15.87%) SQL
5 9 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.94%) Ruby
7 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.17%) Bicep
8 2 (3.17%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 25 (39.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 8 (12.70%) AWS Certification
4 8 (12.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.63%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) ISO 22301
2 3 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.76%) SLA
3 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.17%) NCSC
3 2 (3.17%) NIST
3 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (73.02%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (53.97%) Terraform
2 17 (26.98%) Ansible
3 6 (9.52%) HP Fortify
4 4 (6.35%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.17%) Consul
5 2 (3.17%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (3.17%) Grafana
5 2 (3.17%) Graphite
5 2 (3.17%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.17%) Istio
5 2 (3.17%) linkerd
5 2 (3.17%) Packer
5 2 (3.17%) Podman
5 2 (3.17%) Puppet
5 2 (3.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Splunk
2 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
2 3 (4.76%) VMware
3 2 (3.17%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.17%) PagerDuty