Kubernetes Contracts in the South West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 70 37 40
Rank change year-on-year -33 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 89 185 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.82% 5.33% 4.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.25% 32.80% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 159 129
10th Percentile £468 £425 £425
25th Percentile £508 £451 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% +11.58%
75th Percentile £578 £681 £625
90th Percentile £638 £738 £680
England median daily rate £550 £620 £613
% change year-on-year -11.29% +1.22% +15.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 1
10th Percentile £59.88 - -
25th Percentile £65.94 £53.75 £47.02
Median hourly rate £74.44 £73.00 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +51.23% -4.89%
75th Percentile £76.74 £78.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £77.75 - -
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 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 South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 400 564 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.69% 16.25% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 467 375
10th Percentile £205 £350 £250
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £592
90th Percentile £699 £722 £675
England median daily rate £521 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 17
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £60.25 £15.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £73.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.21% +265.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £76.28 £88.00 £51.57
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Gloucestershire -1 39 £550 -7.76% 26
Bristol -15 27 £520 +10.64% 41
Wiltshire -23 11 £550 -4.35% 3
Devon -11 5 £550 - 1
Dorset +6 4 - -
Somerset -2 2 £475 -34.48% 2
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 9 (10.11%) Apache
2 5 (5.62%) Confluence
3 4 (4.49%) Apache Solr
3 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.49%) nginx
4 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 49 (55.06%) AWS
2 32 (35.96%) Azure
3 26 (29.21%) OpenShift
4 19 (21.35%) GCP
5 10 (11.24%) GitHub
6 9 (10.11%) Serverless
7 8 (8.99%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (8.99%) Amazon S3
7 8 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (7.87%) PaaS
9 6 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (5.62%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (4.49%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (2.25%) Apigee
13 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (2.25%) Slack
14 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.24%) VPN
2 7 (7.87%) AMQP
3 6 (6.74%) DNS
3 6 (6.74%) Firewall
3 6 (6.74%) Network Security
3 6 (6.74%) TCP/IP
4 5 (5.62%) HTTP
5 4 (4.49%) HTTPS
5 4 (4.49%) IPsec
5 4 (4.49%) SAN
6 2 (2.25%) DHCP
7 1 (1.12%) IPv4
7 1 (1.12%) OSPF
7 1 (1.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (8.99%) InfluxDB
1 8 (8.99%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.74%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.62%) Triplestore
4 4 (4.49%) Couchbase
4 4 (4.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (26.97%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.61%) GitLab
3 7 (7.87%) JIRA
4 5 (5.62%) Artifactory
4 5 (5.62%) Spinnaker
5 4 (4.49%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.37%) Git
7 2 (2.25%) Snyk
7 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.12%) git-flow
8 1 (1.12%) JMeter
8 1 (1.12%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.12%) Selenium
8 1 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.87%) Finance
2 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.49%) Legal
5 3 (3.37%) Tech for Good
6 2 (2.25%) Retail
7 1 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Electronics
7 1 (1.12%) Law
7 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.12%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (44.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (11.24%) Developer
2 10 (11.24%) Senior
3 9 (10.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (7.87%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Architect
6 5 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Lead
6 5 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (5.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Site Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (3.37%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.37%) Web Developer
9 2 (2.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.73%) REST
2 11 (12.36%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (11.24%) React
4 9 (10.11%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (10.11%) Node.js
5 8 (8.99%) CSS
5 8 (8.99%) HTML
6 7 (7.87%) .NET
7 6 (6.74%) GraphQL
7 6 (6.74%) Kafka
8 5 (5.62%) Apache Jena
8 5 (5.62%) PostGIS
8 5 (5.62%) Spring
8 5 (5.62%) Spring Boot
9 4 (4.49%) JSON
9 4 (4.49%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (4.49%) ModSecurity
9 4 (4.49%) RESTful
9 4 (4.49%) YAML
10 3 (3.37%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Public Cloud
2 9 (10.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.74%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.49%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.25%) PKI
5 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (38.20%) Linux
2 19 (21.35%) Windows
3 7 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.49%) CentOS
4 4 (4.49%) Unix
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.25%) VMS
5 2 (2.25%) Windows 2000
5 2 (2.25%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (67.42%) DevOps
2 49 (55.06%) CI/CD
3 23 (25.84%) Containerisation
4 15 (16.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (15.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 13 (14.61%) Configuration Management
7 12 (13.48%) Microservices
7 12 (13.48%) Software Engineering
8 10 (11.24%) Agile
9 9 (10.11%) Migration
10 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (8.99%) Observability
11 7 (7.87%) Event-Driven
11 7 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (6.74%) Full Stack Development
12 6 (6.74%) GitOps
12 6 (6.74%) Project Delivery
12 6 (6.74%) SDLC
12 6 (6.74%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.96%) Python
2 23 (25.84%) Java
3 18 (20.22%) PowerShell
4 16 (17.98%) JavaScript
5 15 (16.85%) Go
5 15 (16.85%) SQL
6 11 (12.36%) C
7 10 (11.24%) TypeScript
8 7 (7.87%) Shell Script
9 6 (6.74%) C#
10 5 (5.62%) Bash
10 5 (5.62%) SPARQL
11 4 (4.49%) PHP
12 2 (2.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 51 (57.30%) Security Cleared
2 37 (41.57%) DV Cleared
3 16 (17.98%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.37%) Degree
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) QA
2 6 (6.74%) NIST
3 4 (4.49%) GDPR
3 4 (4.49%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 56 (62.92%) Docker
2 12 (13.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.24%) VMware NSX
4 6 (6.74%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.25%) vSphere
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (47.19%) Terraform
2 41 (46.07%) Ansible
3 24 (26.97%) Grafana
3 24 (26.97%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.36%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (10.11%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.74%) Istio
7 4 (4.49%) Argo
7 4 (4.49%) OPNET
8 2 (2.25%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.25%) PowerCLI
8 2 (2.25%) SCCM
8 2 (2.25%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.12%) Puppet
9 1 (1.12%) rkt
9 1 (1.12%) SELinux
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) VMware
2 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.99%) Google
4 7 (7.87%) Atlassian
5 5 (5.62%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.49%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.25%) Cisco
7 2 (2.25%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.25%) Juniper
7 2 (2.25%) Veeam
8 1 (1.12%) IBM
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle
8 1 (1.12%) SAP
8 1 (1.12%) Splunk