Kubernetes Contracts in the North of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 39 52
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 157 276 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.38% 4.93% 4.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.51% 32.06% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 213 240
10th Percentile £406 £451 £438
25th Percentile £453 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £624 £700 £650
90th Percentile £690 £713 £701
England median daily rate £550 £620 £615
% change year-on-year -11.29% +0.81% +14.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £46.81 £38.86 -
25th Percentile £47.76 £50.43 -
Median hourly rate £50.59 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.06% - -
75th Percentile £54.67 £67.88 -
90th Percentile £56.37 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +21.67% +18.23%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 532 861 1,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.45% 15.39% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 622 819
10th Percentile £237 £325 £250
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £549 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.44% +4.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £576 £636 £619
90th Percentile £645 £700 £675
England median daily rate £520 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.57% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 51 19
10th Percentile £16.89 £16.25 £15.58
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.27 £16.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +87.50% -19.03%
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.52 £41.85
90th Percentile £80.38 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -10.42%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Yorkshire +2 76 £520 -16.80% 32
North West -25 71 £550 -7.37% 55
North East -10 12 £413 -41.07% 9
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (7.64%) Confluence
2 9 (5.73%) Apache
3 4 (2.55%) nginx
3 4 (2.55%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.27%) Traefik
5 1 (0.64%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.64%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 110 (70.06%) AWS
2 44 (28.03%) Azure
3 31 (19.75%) Amazon EC2
4 26 (16.56%) Amazon S3
4 26 (16.56%) GCP
5 21 (13.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (11.46%) GitHub
7 16 (10.19%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (9.55%) Route 53
9 14 (8.92%) Serverless
10 13 (8.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (8.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (6.37%) Amazon ELB
12 9 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (5.73%) Kong
13 8 (5.10%) Amazon ECR
13 8 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (4.46%) Snowflake
15 6 (3.82%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.92%) DNS
2 11 (7.01%) TCP/IP
3 10 (6.37%) Firewall
3 10 (6.37%) HTTP
4 9 (5.73%) VPN
5 7 (4.46%) Network Security
6 5 (3.18%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (2.55%) 5G
7 4 (2.55%) Diameter Protocol
7 4 (2.55%) LTE
8 3 (1.91%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 3 (1.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.38%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (12.10%) Relational Database
3 16 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.28%) MySQL
5 9 (5.73%) Data Lake
5 9 (5.73%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.46%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.46%) Flink
7 6 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.82%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.55%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.27%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.27%) Big Data
9 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.27%) Redis
9 2 (1.27%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 63 (40.13%) Git
2 45 (28.66%) GitLab
3 43 (27.39%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.92%) JIRA
5 13 (8.28%) JUnit
6 10 (6.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (6.37%) CircleCI
6 10 (6.37%) SonarQube
6 10 (6.37%) Travis CI
7 8 (5.10%) webpack
8 4 (2.55%) AppScan
8 4 (2.55%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.55%) Burp Suite
8 4 (2.55%) Selenium
9 3 (1.91%) Mocha
10 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.64%) Gradle
11 1 (0.64%) JMeter
11 1 (0.64%) Maven
11 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (11.46%) Public Sector
2 18 (11.46%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.10%) Finance
4 3 (1.91%) Banking
4 3 (1.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (33.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (24.84%) Developer
3 22 (14.01%) AWS DevOps
4 20 (12.74%) Lead
5 16 (10.19%) Java Developer
6 15 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (8.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 14 (8.92%) Senior
8 12 (7.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Python Developer
9 9 (5.73%) Site Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) DevOps Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (4.46%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 4 (2.55%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.75%) React
2 20 (12.74%) Node.js
3 19 (12.10%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (12.10%) Spring Boot
4 16 (10.19%) Spring
5 14 (8.92%) JSON
5 14 (8.92%) REST
6 12 (7.64%) FastAPI
6 12 (7.64%) Hibernate
6 12 (7.64%) JPA
6 12 (7.64%) Redux
6 12 (7.64%) YAML
7 9 (5.73%) XML
8 8 (5.10%) Express.js
9 7 (4.46%) OAuth
9 7 (4.46%) PyTorch
9 7 (4.46%) TensorFlow
10 6 (3.82%) Flask
10 6 (3.82%) Kafka
10 6 (3.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.73%) Data Structures
2 7 (4.46%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.91%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.27%) Clustering
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.27%) PKI
6 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.64%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.64%) mHealth
7 1 (0.64%) NHS
7 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Replication
7 1 (0.64%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.65%) Linux
2 9 (5.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.82%) CentOS
4 4 (2.55%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (2.55%) Unix
5 3 (1.91%) Windows
6 2 (1.27%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (68.79%) DevOps
2 95 (60.51%) CI/CD
3 70 (44.59%) Containerisation
4 53 (33.76%) Agile
5 42 (26.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (18.47%) Scrum
8 27 (17.20%) Microservices
9 23 (14.65%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (14.65%) Test Automation
10 22 (14.01%) API Development
11 21 (13.38%) Front End Development
11 21 (13.38%) Software Engineering
12 18 (11.46%) High Availability
12 18 (11.46%) Unit Testing
13 16 (10.19%) Full Stack Development
14 15 (9.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (8.92%) Collaborative Working
15 14 (8.92%) Mentoring
15 14 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (51.59%) Python
2 40 (25.48%) Bash
3 34 (21.66%) Java
4 23 (14.65%) PowerShell
5 21 (13.38%) SQL
6 17 (10.83%) TypeScript
7 16 (10.19%) Go
8 11 (7.01%) Shell Script
9 10 (6.37%) JavaScript
10 8 (5.10%) Scala
11 6 (3.82%) Ruby
12 3 (1.91%) ActionScript
13 2 (1.27%) Bicep
13 2 (1.27%) C
13 2 (1.27%) Groovy
14 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.64%) Perl
14 1 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (36.94%) Security Cleared
2 55 (35.03%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.55%) DV Cleared
4 9 (5.73%) AWS Certification
4 9 (5.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.91%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.56%) QA
2 4 (2.55%) GDPR
2 4 (2.55%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.91%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.91%) SLA
4 2 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.27%) NCSC
4 2 (1.27%) NIST
4 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 107 (68.15%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.27%) HDFS
3 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 75 (47.77%) Terraform
2 44 (28.03%) Ansible
3 31 (19.75%) Prometheus
4 24 (15.29%) Puppet
5 23 (14.65%) Grafana
6 15 (9.55%) Progress Chef
7 11 (7.01%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (6.37%) HP Fortify
9 9 (5.73%) Kibana
9 9 (5.73%) logstash
10 6 (3.82%) Packer
11 5 (3.18%) Istio
12 4 (2.55%) Graylog
12 4 (2.55%) Nessus
12 4 (2.55%) Rancher
12 4 (2.55%) WebInspect
12 4 (2.55%) yum
13 2 (1.27%) Graphite
13 2 (1.27%) HAProxy
13 2 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (15.29%) Splunk
2 13 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.46%) Google
3 7 (4.46%) VMware
4 6 (3.82%) Oracle
5 4 (2.55%) Checkmarx
5 4 (2.55%) Veracode
6 3 (1.91%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.91%) F5
6 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.27%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.64%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.64%) Zscaler