Kubernetes Contracts in the Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 88 89
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 30 76 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.12% 2.31% 2.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.11% 18.05% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 58 92
10th Percentile £275 £480 £413
25th Percentile £356 £500 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £595
90th Percentile £775 - £675
England median daily rate £550 £614 £613
% change year-on-year -10.35% +0.16% +14.49%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 270 421 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.06% 12.77% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 284 355
10th Percentile £190 £265 £200
25th Percentile £315 £363 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +11.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £625
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 16
10th Percentile £20.52 £17.72 £10.68
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.56 £12.88
Median hourly rate £25.77 £21.97 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% +33.12% -8.33%
75th Percentile £26.15 £40.25 £20.56
90th Percentile £40.57 £53.13 £23.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.16%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
West Midlands -21 18 £500 -28.57% 20
East Midlands -11 12 £450 -35.71% 22
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (6.67%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 7 (23.33%) OpenShift
4 4 (13.33%) GCP
5 3 (10.00%) Serverless
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) InfiniBand
1 1 (3.33%) LAN
1 1 (3.33%) Multicast
1 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.00%) MySQL
2 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.67%) Big Data
3 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) Flink
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 5 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (16.67%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (16.67%) JIRA
3 5 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 5 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (10.00%) GitLab
5 2 (6.67%) Travis CI
6 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
General
1 4 (13.33%) Finance
1 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Developer
3 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Angular Developer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Architect
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Market Data Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Migration Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Server Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.33%) Flask
4 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.33%) gRPC
4 1 (3.33%) JMS
4 1 (3.33%) OpenMP
4 1 (3.33%) RAML
4 1 (3.33%) REST
4 1 (3.33%) RESTful
4 1 (3.33%) SOAP
4 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Linux
2 7 (23.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (23.33%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) DevOps
2 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (26.67%) Microservices
4 7 (23.33%) Code Quality
4 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (23.33%) Migration
5 5 (16.67%) Analytics
5 5 (16.67%) Build Automation
5 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) Edge Computing
7 3 (10.00%) IT Strategy
7 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
8 2 (6.67%) Agile
8 2 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) Perl
3 3 (10.00%) Java
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.67%) SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (70.00%) Docker
2 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.33%) Lustre
4 1 (3.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 5 (16.67%) Kibana
4 2 (6.67%) Ansible
5 1 (3.33%) Argo
5 1 (3.33%) Istio
5 1 (3.33%) linkerd
5 1 (3.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 5 (16.67%) Splunk
2 5 (16.67%) VMware
3 4 (13.33%) Databricks
4 2 (6.67%) Bloomberg
4 2 (6.67%) Confluent
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) Juniper
5 1 (3.33%) SAP