Kubernetes Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 73 53 54
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 537 940 1,255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.65% 4.09% 4.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.10% 27.10% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 701 884
10th Percentile £409 £425 £425
25th Percentile £453 £490 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £622 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 22 8
10th Percentile £45.24 £50.08 £41.75
25th Percentile £47.81 £55.26 £42.18
Median hourly rate £64.75 £64.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +34.74% +0.13%
75th Percentile £74.44 £75.50 £49.83
90th Percentile £77.55 £78.00 £52.79
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £70.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -7.86% +37.88% +6.95%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,325 3,468 4,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.46% 15.07% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 2,529 2,955
10th Percentile £213 £286 £248
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 129 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -11.62%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £70.93 £75.10 £51.25
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
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 within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -17 156 £525 -12.50% 95
South East -10 147 £575 -1.37% 107
South West -33 89 £550 - 79
Scotland -8 82 £480 -12.73% 35
Yorkshire +3 76 £520 -16.80% 32
North West -32 70 £550 -8.33% 53
Midlands -19 30 £500 -20.00% 42
East of England -32 23 £600 -7.69% 20
West Midlands -16 18 £500 -28.57% 19
East Midlands -14 12 £450 -35.71% 23
North East -15 12 £413 -41.07% 10
Wales +20 10 £500 -16.67% 9
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 13
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 34 (6.33%) Confluence
2 24 (4.47%) Apache
3 23 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.05%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.49%) nginx
7 6 (1.12%) JBoss
8 4 (0.74%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.74%) SAS
9 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.37%) Traefik
11 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.19%) Camunda
11 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (0.37%) RMDS
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 310 (57.73%) AWS
2 211 (39.29%) Azure
3 99 (18.44%) OpenShift
4 78 (14.53%) GCP
5 60 (11.17%) Amazon S3
6 53 (9.87%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (9.50%) Serverless
8 48 (8.94%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (8.01%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (7.82%) GitHub
11 38 (7.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (4.47%) Entra ID
13 24 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (3.91%) Azure AKS
15 19 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
15 19 (3.54%) Azure Storage
15 19 (3.54%) Route 53
16 18 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (3.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 46 (8.57%) Firewall
2 42 (7.82%) DNS
3 25 (4.66%) VPN
4 21 (3.91%) DHCP
5 19 (3.54%) TCP/IP
6 17 (3.17%) Network Security
7 16 (2.98%) HTTP
7 16 (2.98%) SAN
8 9 (1.68%) VSAN
9 7 (1.30%) AMQP
9 7 (1.30%) NAS
10 5 (0.93%) 5G
10 5 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.93%) SSL
11 4 (0.74%) Diameter Protocol
11 4 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (0.74%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.74%) IPsec
11 4 (0.74%) iSCSI
11 4 (0.74%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (8.94%) Relational Database
3 44 (8.19%) Elasticsearch
4 34 (6.33%) NoSQL
5 32 (5.96%) MySQL
6 24 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (2.42%) MongoDB
7 13 (2.42%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.05%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.05%) InfluxDB
8 11 (2.05%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.86%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.68%) Flink
11 8 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.49%) Couchbase
12 7 (1.30%) Big Data
13 5 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.93%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 125 (23.28%) Jenkins
2 112 (20.86%) Git
3 105 (19.55%) GitLab
4 61 (11.36%) JIRA
5 32 (5.96%) SonarQube
6 24 (4.47%) JUnit
7 22 (4.10%) Selenium
8 18 (3.35%) Cucumber
9 17 (3.17%) Artifactory
10 14 (2.61%) Travis CI
11 13 (2.42%) Bitbucket
12 12 (2.23%) Maven
12 12 (2.23%) REST Assured
13 11 (2.05%) CircleCI
14 10 (1.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (1.86%) Gradle
15 9 (1.68%) JMeter
15 9 (1.68%) Mockito
15 9 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (1.68%) webpack
General
1 110 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 53 (9.87%) Public Sector
3 42 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.77%) Finance
5 22 (4.10%) Banking
6 9 (1.68%) Law
7 8 (1.49%) Police
7 8 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.12%) Legal
9 6 (1.12%) Retail
10 3 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.56%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.37%) Automotive
11 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.19%) Advertising
12 1 (0.19%) Electronics
12 1 (0.19%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.19%) Marketing
12 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (25.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 117 (21.79%) Developer
3 48 (8.94%) Senior
4 45 (8.38%) Java Developer
5 43 (8.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 42 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
7 38 (7.08%) AWS DevOps
8 34 (6.33%) Lead
8 34 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (5.77%) Site Engineer
10 30 (5.59%) Architect
10 30 (5.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 29 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (4.47%) Linux Engineer
13 21 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.72%) Software Engineer
15 18 (3.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.17%) Active Directory Support
16 17 (3.17%) Python Developer
16 17 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.17%) REST
2 58 (10.80%) Spring Boot
3 53 (9.87%) Kafka
4 50 (9.31%) React
5 49 (9.12%) Spring
6 44 (8.19%) Elastic Stack
7 35 (6.52%) Node.js
8 34 (6.33%) ARM Templates
9 33 (6.15%) RESTful
10 20 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (3.54%) .NET
11 19 (3.54%) YAML
12 18 (3.35%) JSON
13 17 (3.17%) AWS CDK
14 13 (2.42%) Hibernate
15 12 (2.23%) FastAPI
15 12 (2.23%) Java EE
15 12 (2.23%) JPA
15 12 (2.23%) Redux
15 12 (2.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.89%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.33%) Public Cloud
3 28 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.47%) PKI
5 22 (4.10%) Data Structures
6 21 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.98%) Linux Command Line
8 14 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.49%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.30%) NHS
11 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.93%) Clustering
12 5 (0.93%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.93%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.74%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.74%) NVMe
13 4 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 160 (29.80%) Linux
2 70 (13.04%) Windows
3 44 (8.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 40 (7.45%) Unix
5 39 (7.26%) Windows Server
6 17 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (2.42%) CentOS
7 13 (2.42%) VMS
8 12 (2.23%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.68%) Solaris
10 4 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
10 4 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.37%) Windows 2000
11 2 (0.37%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (59.40%) DevOps
2 240 (44.69%) CI/CD
3 183 (34.08%) Containerisation
4 157 (29.24%) Agile
5 147 (27.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 90 (16.76%) Microservices
7 75 (13.97%) Test Automation
8 73 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 66 (12.29%) Continuous Integration
11 61 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 60 (11.17%) Scrum
13 54 (10.06%) Configuration Management
14 39 (7.26%) GitOps
15 38 (7.08%) Technical Leadership
16 37 (6.89%) Collaborative Working
16 37 (6.89%) Full Stack Development
17 36 (6.70%) Computer Science
17 36 (6.70%) High Availability
17 36 (6.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 222 (41.34%) Python
2 142 (26.44%) Java
3 78 (14.53%) Bash
4 70 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 59 (10.99%) SQL
6 45 (8.38%) JavaScript
7 43 (8.01%) Go
8 37 (6.89%) C#
9 36 (6.70%) TypeScript
10 32 (5.96%) Scala
10 32 (5.96%) Shell Script
11 27 (5.03%) Ruby
12 22 (4.10%) Bicep
13 19 (3.54%) Perl
14 17 (3.17%) Groovy
14 17 (3.17%) VB
14 17 (3.17%) VBScript
15 16 (2.98%) C
16 12 (2.23%) PHP
17 10 (1.86%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 191 (35.57%) Security Cleared
2 139 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 74 (13.78%) DV Cleared
4 44 (8.19%) Degree
5 20 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 15 (2.79%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.86%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.37%) SANS
12 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.19%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.19%) LPIC
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.08%) QA
2 10 (1.86%) GDPR
3 9 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.68%) NIST
4 8 (1.49%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.93%) SLA
7 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.56%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.37%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 313 (58.29%) Docker
2 48 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (7.08%) Active Directory
4 30 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (3.72%) VMware NSX
6 18 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (2.61%) Hyper-V
8 12 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (1.86%) vSphere
10 9 (1.68%) vCloud
11 5 (0.93%) NFS
12 4 (0.74%) GPFS
12 4 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.37%) HDFS
13 2 (0.37%) KVM
13 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.19%) Lustre
14 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 218 (40.60%) Terraform
2 166 (30.91%) Ansible
3 87 (16.20%) Prometheus
4 86 (16.01%) Grafana
5 38 (7.08%) Progress Chef
6 34 (6.33%) Docker Swarm
7 33 (6.15%) Puppet
8 30 (5.59%) Kibana
9 29 (5.40%) Istio
10 22 (4.10%) SCOM
11 21 (3.91%) Rancher
12 19 (3.54%) SCCM
13 17 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (3.17%) WSUS
14 15 (2.79%) Argo
14 15 (2.79%) Packer
15 14 (2.61%) Podman
16 12 (2.23%) vCenter Server
17 11 (2.05%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 65 (12.10%) VMware
2 55 (10.24%) Microsoft
3 45 (8.38%) Splunk
4 30 (5.59%) Google
4 30 (5.59%) Red Hat
5 22 (4.10%) Oracle
6 15 (2.79%) Databricks
7 13 (2.42%) Veritas
8 12 (2.23%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.86%) IBM
10 7 (1.30%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.12%) Dell
11 6 (1.12%) WSO2
12 5 (0.93%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.93%) Arqiva
12 5 (0.93%) Cisco
12 5 (0.93%) F5
12 5 (0.93%) HP
12 5 (0.93%) Veracode
13 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace