Kubernetes Contracts in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 65 55 54
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 147 214 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.70% 3.83% 4.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.56% 28.16% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 164 208
10th Percentile £425 £425 £381
25th Percentile £463 £504 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +1.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £650
90th Percentile £676 £725 £738
England median daily rate £550 £620 £613
% change year-on-year -11.29% +1.22% +15.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £37.70 - -
25th Percentile £39.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% - -
75th Percentile £46.63 - -
90th Percentile £47.90 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year -15.07% -5.81% +52.71%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 715 760 1,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.15% 13.60% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 559 744
10th Percentile £213 £300 £250
25th Percentile £378 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +7.76%
75th Percentile £607 £623 £613
90th Percentile £656 £700 £675
England median daily rate £521 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.91 £48.50 £18.31
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -37.23%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £35.63
90th Percentile £55.25 £75.75 £68.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South East 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
Thames Valley +3 89 £605 +10.00% 53
Berkshire +11 81 £605 +15.24% 36
Hampshire -28 27 £575 +4.55% 22
West Sussex -3 17 £463 -33.74% 1
Surrey -14 7 £650 +10.64% 24
Buckinghamshire +9 5 £575 -17.27% 12
Oxfordshire 0 3 £500 - 5
Sussex -1 3 £550 -8.33%
Middlesex +1 2 - -
East Sussex +1 1 - - 1
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 19 (12.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.84%) Confluence
3 6 (4.08%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.04%) Apache
4 3 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) JBoss
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (51.02%) Azure
2 66 (44.90%) AWS
3 28 (19.05%) OpenShift
4 22 (14.97%) Entra ID
5 18 (12.24%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (12.24%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (11.56%) Azure Storage
7 13 (8.84%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (8.16%) IaaS
9 10 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (6.80%) GCP
10 9 (6.12%) GitHub
10 9 (6.12%) PaaS
11 8 (5.44%) Amazon S3
11 8 (5.44%) Serverless
12 6 (4.08%) SaaS
13 5 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.72%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.29%) DNS
1 21 (14.29%) Firewall
2 18 (12.24%) DHCP
3 9 (6.12%) VSAN
4 4 (2.72%) VPN
5 3 (2.04%) Network Security
6 2 (1.36%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.36%) SSL
7 1 (0.68%) 3G
7 1 (0.68%) 4G
7 1 (0.68%) 5G
7 1 (0.68%) GPRS
7 1 (0.68%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.68%) SAN
7 1 (0.68%) VoLTE
7 1 (0.68%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.44%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.08%) MySQL
6 6 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.08%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.04%) Couchbase
8 3 (2.04%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.36%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.36%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.68%) Big Data
10 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 35 (23.81%) GitLab
2 30 (20.41%) Jenkins
3 24 (16.33%) JIRA
4 22 (14.97%) Git
5 15 (10.20%) Selenium
6 13 (8.84%) SonarQube
7 12 (8.16%) Cucumber
7 12 (8.16%) REST Assured
8 6 (4.08%) JMeter
9 4 (2.72%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.04%) JUnit
10 3 (2.04%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.68%) Maven
11 1 (0.68%) Mockito
11 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.68%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.68%) TestNG
11 1 (0.68%) Travis CI
General
1 54 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.44%) Law
4 8 (5.44%) Police
5 3 (2.04%) Finance
6 2 (1.36%) Automotive
6 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.36%) Legal
7 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (16.33%) Developer
1 24 (16.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (14.29%) Senior
3 17 (11.56%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (9.52%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (9.52%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (9.52%) Support Specialist
5 12 (8.16%) Java Developer
5 12 (8.16%) Linux Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) Site Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) VMware Expert
9 6 (4.08%) Architect
9 6 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.41%) ARM Templates
2 23 (15.65%) REST
3 17 (11.56%) Kafka
4 12 (8.16%) Java EE
5 9 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (6.12%) Web Services
6 8 (5.44%) Spring Boot
7 7 (4.76%) Spring
8 6 (4.08%) .NET
8 6 (4.08%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.08%) Node.js
8 6 (4.08%) React
9 5 (3.40%) OpenID
10 4 (2.72%) Keycloak
10 4 (2.72%) LDAP
10 4 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.04%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.04%) RESTful
11 3 (2.04%) Ruby on Rails
11 3 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.61%) PKI
2 18 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.24%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.80%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.40%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.04%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.36%) Clustering
9 1 (0.68%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.68%) IoT
9 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.68%) Replication
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (38.10%) Linux
2 26 (17.69%) Windows
3 20 (13.61%) Windows Server
4 17 (11.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (11.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (10.20%) Unix
6 14 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (7.48%) VMS
8 5 (3.40%) Solaris
9 3 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (63.27%) DevOps
2 63 (42.86%) Agile
2 63 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (41.50%) Containerisation
4 53 (36.05%) CI/CD
5 34 (23.13%) Technical Leadership
6 28 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 25 (17.01%) Software Engineering
8 23 (15.65%) Collaborative Working
8 23 (15.65%) Microservices
9 22 (14.97%) ITIL
10 21 (14.29%) Analytics
10 21 (14.29%) Configuration Management
10 21 (14.29%) Identity Management
10 21 (14.29%) Release Management
11 20 (13.61%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (13.61%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 19 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (12.24%) Log Analytics
13 18 (12.24%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (25.17%) Python
2 33 (22.45%) Java
3 27 (18.37%) PowerShell
4 25 (17.01%) C#
5 18 (12.24%) Bicep
6 17 (11.56%) VB
6 17 (11.56%) VBScript
7 15 (10.20%) Bash
8 10 (6.80%) Go
9 9 (6.12%) JavaScript
9 9 (6.12%) Ruby
10 6 (4.08%) Shell Script
10 6 (4.08%) SQL
11 5 (3.40%) PHP
12 4 (2.72%) C++
12 4 (2.72%) Perl
12 4 (2.72%) Scala
13 3 (2.04%) C
14 2 (1.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 75 (51.02%) Security Cleared
2 64 (43.54%) SC Cleared
3 32 (21.77%) Degree
4 21 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 17 (11.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.08%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.04%) QA
2 2 (1.36%) SLA
3 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 61 (41.50%) Docker
2 28 (19.05%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (18.37%) Active Directory
4 19 (12.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (11.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (6.80%) VMware NSX
7 9 (6.12%) vCloud
8 8 (5.44%) vSphere
9 6 (4.08%) Hyper-V
10 2 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.68%) NFS
11 1 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (34.69%) Ansible
2 50 (34.01%) Terraform
3 19 (12.93%) SCOM
4 17 (11.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (11.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (11.56%) SCCM
4 17 (11.56%) WSUS
5 16 (10.88%) Istio
6 14 (9.52%) Rancher
7 13 (8.84%) Prometheus
8 12 (8.16%) Docker Swarm
8 12 (8.16%) Grafana
8 12 (8.16%) Podman
9 11 (7.48%) Argo
10 10 (6.80%) Kibana
11 9 (6.12%) Packer
11 9 (6.12%) vCenter Server
12 8 (5.44%) vRealize
13 4 (2.72%) Puppet
13 4 (2.72%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 29 (19.73%) VMware
2 28 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.16%) Red Hat
4 9 (6.12%) Oracle
5 7 (4.76%) Google
6 5 (3.40%) Arqiva
6 5 (3.40%) Veritas
7 4 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.72%) Splunk
8 3 (2.04%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.04%) Dell
8 3 (2.04%) New Relic
8 3 (2.04%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.36%) Foundry
9 2 (1.36%) HP
9 2 (1.36%) IBM
9 2 (1.36%) Palantir
9 2 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.36%) SAP
10 1 (0.68%) Databricks