Kubernetes Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 423 494
Rank change year-on-year +26 +71 -100
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 2 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.066% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.070% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 13
10th Percentile £465 £493 £513
25th Percentile £488 £534 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £658 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.15% +9.58% +14.29%
75th Percentile £563 £675 £625
90th Percentile £585 £679 £640
UK median daily rate £550 £667 £675
% change year-on-year -17.54% -1.19% +17.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,202 21,479 29,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.24% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 14,946 20,475
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,077 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.02
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Midlands +22 1 £450 -
East of England +6 1 £600 -7.69%
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (50.00%) linkerd
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Canary Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) SELinux
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Canary Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) linkerd
2 1 (50.00%) SELinux
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat