Kubernetes Contracts in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 42 47
Rank change year-on-year -32 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 70 146 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.62% 4.76% 4.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.27% 27.50% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 111 154
10th Percentile £408 £440 £439
25th Percentile £448 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £672
90th Percentile £694 £700 £734
England median daily rate £550 £620 £613
% change year-on-year -11.29% +1.22% +15.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £38.12 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.68 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.80% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £54.50 -
90th Percentile - £61.25 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -15.07% -5.81% +52.71%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 277 531 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.39% 17.30% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 373 466
10th Percentile £213 £325 £250
25th Percentile £375 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £626
90th Percentile £650 £679 £681
England median daily rate £521 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 45 10
10th Percentile £16.67 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile - £22.13 £17.19
Median hourly rate £17.72 £30.00 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year -40.93% +43.61% -63.67%
75th Percentile £58.44 £48.00 £49.14
90th Percentile £91.25 £52.13 £54.25
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.89%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester -8 62 £550 -8.33% 43
Cheshire -15 5 £448 -3.24% 5
Lancashire -3 2 - - 7
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.86%) Confluence
1 2 (2.86%) nginx
1 2 (2.86%) Traefik
2 1 (1.43%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.43%) Apache
2 1 (1.43%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 54 (77.14%) AWS
2 26 (37.14%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 17 (24.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 14 (20.00%) Serverless
6 13 (18.57%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (18.57%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (17.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (15.71%) Route 53
9 9 (12.86%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (11.43%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (11.43%) Azure
11 7 (10.00%) Snowflake
12 6 (8.57%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (5.71%) GCP
14 3 (4.29%) AWS CodePipeline
14 3 (4.29%) OpenShift
15 2 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.00%) Network Security
2 5 (7.14%) DNS
3 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (11.43%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.00%) DynamoDB
4 6 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (8.57%) Data Lake
4 6 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.71%) MySQL
6 2 (2.86%) Redis
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.43%) Flink
7 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.43%) Power BI
7 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (41.43%) Git
2 24 (34.29%) GitLab
3 8 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 8 (11.43%) webpack
4 7 (10.00%) JUnit
5 6 (8.57%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.29%) Mocha
6 3 (4.29%) Selenium
7 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.86%) JIRA
8 1 (1.43%) Gradle
8 1 (1.43%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (15.71%) Public Sector
2 6 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Finance
3 3 (4.29%) Retail
4 1 (1.43%) Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (38.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (22.86%) Developer
4 13 (18.57%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (17.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (14.29%) Lead
7 9 (12.86%) Senior
8 7 (10.00%) Java Developer
8 7 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 5 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (5.71%) AWS Consultant
11 4 (5.71%) Consultant
11 4 (5.71%) DevOps Consultant
11 4 (5.71%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Consultant
11 4 (5.71%) Technical Leader
12 3 (4.29%) Operations Engineer
12 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.57%) React
2 14 (20.00%) Node.js
3 13 (18.57%) Spring Boot
4 12 (17.14%) Redux
5 10 (14.29%) Spring
6 8 (11.43%) Express.js
6 8 (11.43%) REST
7 6 (8.57%) Hibernate
7 6 (8.57%) JPA
8 3 (4.29%) Jest
9 2 (2.86%) AWS CDK
9 2 (2.86%) cloud-init
9 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.86%) pytest
9 2 (2.86%) PyTorch
9 2 (2.86%) SAML
9 2 (2.86%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.86%) YAML
10 1 (1.43%) jOOQ
10 1 (1.43%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.86%) Clustering
3 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.86%) PKI
3 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.86%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (2.86%) CentOS
4 1 (1.43%) Unix
4 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (71.43%) DevOps
2 47 (67.14%) CI/CD
3 33 (47.14%) Containerisation
4 21 (30.00%) Agile
5 20 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (24.29%) Microservices
7 14 (20.00%) Front End Development
7 14 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (17.14%) Full Stack Development
10 11 (15.71%) Unit Testing
11 10 (14.29%) High Availability
11 10 (14.29%) Scrum
12 8 (11.43%) API Development
12 8 (11.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 8 (11.43%) Customer Engagement
12 8 (11.43%) ETL
12 8 (11.43%) QA Automation
12 8 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.29%) Python
2 19 (27.14%) Bash
3 17 (24.29%) Java
4 13 (18.57%) Go
5 10 (14.29%) SQL
6 8 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.57%) Ruby
8 4 (5.71%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.86%) C
11 1 (1.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 33 (47.14%) Security Cleared
2 30 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.86%) AWS Certification
3 9 (12.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.57%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) ISO 22301
2 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.29%) SLA
3 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.86%) NCSC
3 2 (2.86%) NIST
3 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (67.14%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (50.00%) Terraform
2 19 (27.14%) Ansible
3 7 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (8.57%) HP Fortify
5 5 (7.14%) Grafana
6 2 (2.86%) Consul
6 2 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (2.86%) Graphite
6 2 (2.86%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.86%) Istio
6 2 (2.86%) linkerd
6 2 (2.86%) Packer
6 2 (2.86%) Podman
6 2 (2.86%) Puppet
6 2 (2.86%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (11.43%) Splunk
2 5 (7.14%) VMware
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.29%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.86%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.86%) PagerDuty