Kubernetes Contracts in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 64 82
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 -41
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 100 89 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.79% 3.11% 2.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% 26.73% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 55 61
10th Percentile £423 £425 £413
25th Percentile £482 £489 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% +13.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £715 £613
90th Percentile £658 £750 £688
South East median daily rate £575 £589 £575
% change year-on-year -2.34% +2.39% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -38.57% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 300 333 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.36% 11.63% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 245 264
10th Percentile £213 £303 £236
25th Percentile £368 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £733 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 8
10th Percentile £20.20 £45.50 £10.88
25th Percentile £26.50 £58.91 £12.78
Median hourly rate £30.00 £68.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +62.87% +5.70%
75th Percentile £34.69 £75.56 £68.75
90th Percentile £43.13 £81.98 £72.88
South East median hourly rate £34.25 £58.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.70% +173.26% -43.05%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire +23 89 £605 +11.26% 35
Buckinghamshire +13 8 £563 -19.35% 12
Oxfordshire -3 3 £500 - 5
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 21 (21.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) Apache
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.00%) JBoss
4 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (54.00%) Azure
2 39 (39.00%) AWS
3 27 (27.00%) OpenShift
4 25 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 21 (21.00%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (21.00%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (20.00%) Azure Storage
7 10 (10.00%) GCP
8 7 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (6.00%) SaaS
10 5 (5.00%) PaaS
10 5 (5.00%) Serverless
11 4 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.00%) Azure API Management
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.00%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (3.00%) IaaS
13 2 (2.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 23 (23.00%) DNS
1 23 (23.00%) Firewall
2 21 (21.00%) DHCP
3 9 (9.00%) VSAN
4 3 (3.00%) Network Security
4 3 (3.00%) VPN
5 1 (1.00%) 3G
5 1 (1.00%) 4G
5 1 (1.00%) 5G
5 1 (1.00%) GPRS
5 1 (1.00%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.00%) VoLTE
5 1 (1.00%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.00%) Big Data
5 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.00%) Impala
6 1 (1.00%) MySQL
6 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (21.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (17.00%) GitLab
3 15 (15.00%) JIRA
4 12 (12.00%) Cucumber
4 12 (12.00%) REST Assured
4 12 (12.00%) Selenium
4 12 (12.00%) SonarQube
5 9 (9.00%) Git
6 4 (4.00%) JMeter
7 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.00%) JUnit
9 1 (1.00%) Maven
9 1 (1.00%) Mockito
9 1 (1.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 53 (53.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.00%) Law
4 8 (8.00%) Police
5 1 (1.00%) Banking
5 1 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.00%) Finance
5 1 (1.00%) Retail
5 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Active Directory Support
2 18 (18.00%) Developer
3 15 (15.00%) Senior
4 14 (14.00%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (14.00%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (14.00%) Support Specialist
5 13 (13.00%) Site Engineer
5 13 (13.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Java Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) VMware Expert
9 6 (6.00%) Active Directory Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (33.00%) ARM Templates
2 18 (18.00%) Kafka
3 16 (16.00%) REST
4 12 (12.00%) Java EE
5 7 (7.00%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (7.00%) Spring
5 7 (7.00%) Spring Boot
5 7 (7.00%) Web Services
6 5 (5.00%) Node.js
7 4 (4.00%) .NET
7 4 (4.00%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.00%) React
8 3 (3.00%) HTML
8 3 (3.00%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (2.00%) Apache Camel
9 2 (2.00%) CSS
9 2 (2.00%) jQuery
9 2 (2.00%) Loki
9 2 (2.00%) Mustache
9 2 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.00%) Cloud Native
1 21 (21.00%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (20.00%) PKI
3 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.00%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.00%) IoT
6 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.00%) Linux
2 22 (22.00%) Windows
3 20 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 20 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.00%) Unix
5 2 (2.00%) VMS
6 1 (1.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (75.00%) DevOps
2 53 (53.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 44 (44.00%) Containerisation
5 41 (41.00%) Agile
6 26 (26.00%) Microservices
6 26 (26.00%) Technical Leadership
7 25 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
8 24 (24.00%) Software Engineering
9 23 (23.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 23 (23.00%) Release Management
10 22 (22.00%) Analytics
10 22 (22.00%) Identity Management
10 22 (22.00%) ITIL
11 21 (21.00%) Log Analytics
11 21 (21.00%) Service Management
12 20 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
12 20 (20.00%) RBAC
13 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (18.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.00%) C#
2 27 (27.00%) Java
3 24 (24.00%) PowerShell
4 21 (21.00%) Bicep
5 20 (20.00%) VB
5 20 (20.00%) VBScript
6 15 (15.00%) Python
7 7 (7.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.00%) Ruby
9 5 (5.00%) Bash
9 5 (5.00%) PHP
10 4 (4.00%) SQL
11 3 (3.00%) Scala
11 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.00%) Go
13 1 (1.00%) C
13 1 (1.00%) C++
13 1 (1.00%) Perl
13 1 (1.00%) R
Qualifications
1 61 (61.00%) Security Cleared
2 53 (53.00%) SC Cleared
3 24 (24.00%) Degree
4 22 (22.00%) DV Cleared
5 20 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) QA
1 2 (2.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.00%) GDPR
2 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (39.00%) Docker
2 27 (27.00%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (24.00%) Active Directory
4 20 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (9.00%) vCloud
6 9 (9.00%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
8 2 (2.00%) vSphere
9 1 (1.00%) NFS
9 1 (1.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 31 (31.00%) Terraform
2 24 (24.00%) Ansible
3 20 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (20.00%) SCCM
3 20 (20.00%) SCOM
3 20 (20.00%) WSUS
4 18 (18.00%) Istio
5 15 (15.00%) Prometheus
6 14 (14.00%) Grafana
7 13 (13.00%) Argo
8 12 (12.00%) Docker Swarm
8 12 (12.00%) Kibana
8 12 (12.00%) Podman
9 11 (11.00%) Rancher
10 9 (9.00%) vCenter Server
11 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (2.00%) Kustomize
12 2 (2.00%) SELinux
12 2 (2.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.00%) VMware
3 7 (7.00%) Google
4 4 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.00%) Oracle
7 1 (1.00%) BMC
7 1 (1.00%) Databricks
7 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.00%) Remedy
7 1 (1.00%) Splunk