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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 53 52
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 555 897 1,308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.66% 3.91% 4.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.37% 26.49% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 654 908
10th Percentile £409 £440 £425
25th Percentile £453 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £615 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £730 £731
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £610
% change year-on-year -10.20% +0.41% +10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 27 9
10th Percentile £46.18 £48.28 £41.45
25th Percentile £49.38 £56.78 £41.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +47.37% +0.13%
75th Percentile £74.72 £78.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £77.50 - £52.12
UK median hourly rate £67.25 £72.50 £48.31
% change year-on-year -7.24% +50.06% +1.71%

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 2,375 3,386 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.39% 14.78% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,436 2,983
10th Percentile £213 £281 £250
25th Percentile £378 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 121 119
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.23 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -12.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £26.88
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £50.77
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
North of England -9 163 £525 -14.81% 101
South East -9 159 £575 -2.34% 104
South West -20 100 £550 - 100
Yorkshire +14 81 £514 -21.00% 25
North West -19 71 £550 -6.38% 70
Scotland -10 69 £475 -13.64% 34
Midlands -27 29 £450 -28.00% 44
East of England -28 25 £600 -7.69% 34
West Midlands -32 20 £500 -28.57% 22
North East -9 13 £413 -41.07% 6
Wales +21 10 £500 -16.67% 9
East Midlands -19 9 £363 -48.21% 22
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 12
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 40 (7.21%) Confluence
2 26 (4.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (4.32%) Apache
4 15 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 13 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (2.34%) OpenStack
6 8 (1.44%) nginx
7 6 (1.08%) JBoss
8 4 (0.72%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.54%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.36%) SAS
10 2 (0.36%) Traefik
11 1 (0.18%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.18%) Camunda
11 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Maximo
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 314 (56.58%) AWS
2 215 (38.74%) Azure
3 105 (18.92%) OpenShift
4 81 (14.59%) GCP
5 59 (10.63%) Amazon S3
6 54 (9.73%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (9.19%) Serverless
8 47 (8.47%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (7.39%) GitHub
11 36 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (5.23%) Entra ID
14 24 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 23 (4.14%) Azure AKS
16 22 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (3.96%) Azure Storage
17 21 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (3.42%) PaaS
18 19 (3.42%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (9.01%) Firewall
2 45 (8.11%) DNS
3 28 (5.05%) VPN
4 24 (4.32%) DHCP
5 19 (3.42%) TCP/IP
6 17 (3.06%) Network Security
7 16 (2.88%) HTTP
8 13 (2.34%) SAN
9 9 (1.62%) VSAN
10 8 (1.44%) AMQP
11 6 (1.08%) 5G
11 6 (1.08%) NAS
12 5 (0.90%) LTE
12 5 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (0.90%) SSL
13 4 (0.72%) Diameter Protocol
13 4 (0.72%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.72%) IPsec
14 3 (0.54%) OSPF
14 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (9.37%) Elasticsearch
3 49 (8.83%) Relational Database
4 35 (6.31%) NoSQL
5 29 (5.23%) MySQL
6 25 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (2.34%) InfluxDB
7 13 (2.34%) RDBMS
8 12 (2.16%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.98%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.98%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.80%) Big Data
10 10 (1.80%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.44%) Couchbase
11 8 (1.44%) Flink
12 6 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.08%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.90%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 124 (22.34%) Jenkins
2 118 (21.26%) Git
3 108 (19.46%) GitLab
4 67 (12.07%) JIRA
5 31 (5.59%) SonarQube
6 23 (4.14%) JUnit
7 22 (3.96%) Selenium
8 18 (3.24%) Artifactory
9 17 (3.06%) Bitbucket
9 17 (3.06%) Cucumber
10 13 (2.34%) Travis CI
11 12 (2.16%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.98%) Maven
13 10 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (1.62%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.62%) Gradle
14 9 (1.62%) JMeter
14 9 (1.62%) Mockito
14 9 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (1.62%) webpack
General
1 113 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 54 (9.73%) Public Sector
3 40 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.86%) Finance
5 20 (3.60%) Banking
6 10 (1.80%) Law
7 9 (1.62%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.44%) Police
9 7 (1.26%) Retail
10 6 (1.08%) Legal
11 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.54%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.36%) Automotive
13 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.18%) Advertising
14 1 (0.18%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.18%) Electronics
14 1 (0.18%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 140 (25.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 114 (20.54%) Developer
3 48 (8.65%) Senior
4 46 (8.29%) Java Developer
4 46 (8.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 44 (7.93%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (7.03%) AWS DevOps
7 38 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
8 35 (6.31%) Lead
9 34 (6.13%) Site Engineer
10 33 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
11 32 (5.77%) Architect
11 32 (5.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 24 (4.32%) Linux Engineer
12 24 (4.32%) Software Engineer
13 22 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.60%) Active Directory Support
15 19 (3.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 16 (2.88%) Python Developer
16 16 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.81%) Kafka
2 59 (10.63%) Spring Boot
3 58 (10.45%) REST
4 53 (9.55%) React
5 51 (9.19%) Elastic Stack
6 50 (9.01%) Spring
7 39 (7.03%) Node.js
8 36 (6.49%) ARM Templates
9 34 (6.13%) RESTful
10 22 (3.96%) .NET
10 22 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (3.42%) YAML
12 18 (3.24%) JSON
13 15 (2.70%) AWS CDK
14 13 (2.34%) GraphQL
14 13 (2.34%) Hibernate
14 13 (2.34%) PyTorch
15 12 (2.16%) Java EE
15 12 (2.16%) JPA
15 12 (2.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.75%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.49%) Public Cloud
3 29 (5.23%) PKI
4 28 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.96%) Data Structures
7 17 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.16%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.26%) NHS
9 7 (1.26%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.26%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.26%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.90%) Clustering
11 5 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.90%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.72%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.54%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 171 (30.81%) Linux
2 71 (12.79%) Windows
3 43 (7.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (7.03%) Windows Server
5 38 (6.85%) Unix
6 20 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (3.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (2.52%) CentOS
8 13 (2.34%) VMS
9 12 (2.16%) Ubuntu
10 9 (1.62%) Solaris
11 4 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.36%) Windows 2000
12 2 (0.36%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (60.00%) DevOps
2 258 (46.49%) CI/CD
3 193 (34.77%) Containerisation
4 164 (29.55%) Agile
5 151 (27.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 96 (17.30%) Microservices
7 77 (13.87%) Software Engineering
7 77 (13.87%) Test Automation
8 74 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
10 64 (11.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 58 (10.45%) Scrum
12 56 (10.09%) Configuration Management
13 44 (7.93%) GitOps
14 42 (7.57%) Full Stack Development
15 39 (7.03%) Collaborative Working
16 37 (6.67%) High Availability
16 37 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
17 36 (6.49%) Computer Science
18 35 (6.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 227 (40.90%) Python
2 146 (26.31%) Java
3 82 (14.77%) Bash
4 76 (13.69%) PowerShell
5 59 (10.63%) SQL
6 48 (8.65%) JavaScript
7 43 (7.75%) Go
8 40 (7.21%) C#
9 36 (6.49%) TypeScript
10 34 (6.13%) Scala
11 33 (5.95%) Shell Script
12 28 (5.05%) Ruby
13 26 (4.68%) Bicep
14 20 (3.60%) VB
14 20 (3.60%) VBScript
15 18 (3.24%) C
16 17 (3.06%) Perl
17 16 (2.88%) Groovy
18 10 (1.80%) Kotlin
18 10 (1.80%) PHP
Qualifications
1 212 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 151 (27.21%) SC Cleared
3 85 (15.32%) DV Cleared
4 50 (9.01%) Degree
5 20 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 16 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.36%) SANS
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.18%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.18%) LPIC
10 1 (0.18%) OCP
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.18%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.03%) QA
2 12 (2.16%) GDPR
3 10 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.80%) NIST
4 9 (1.62%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.90%) SLA
6 3 (0.54%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.36%) NCSC
8 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 319 (57.48%) Docker
2 46 (8.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (7.57%) Active Directory
4 34 (6.13%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (3.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (3.96%) VMware NSX
6 14 (2.52%) Hyper-V
7 12 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.62%) vCloud
8 9 (1.62%) vSphere
9 3 (0.54%) NFS
9 3 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.36%) GPFS
10 2 (0.36%) HDFS
10 2 (0.36%) KVM
10 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.18%) Lustre
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 221 (39.82%) Terraform
2 167 (30.09%) Ansible
3 89 (16.04%) Prometheus
4 85 (15.32%) Grafana
5 37 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 36 (6.49%) Kibana
7 35 (6.31%) Docker Swarm
8 32 (5.77%) Istio
8 32 (5.77%) Puppet
9 25 (4.50%) Rancher
9 25 (4.50%) SCOM
10 22 (3.96%) SCCM
11 20 (3.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 20 (3.60%) WSUS
12 18 (3.24%) Argo
13 15 (2.70%) Packer
14 14 (2.52%) Podman
15 13 (2.34%) logstash
16 12 (2.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (11.53%) Microsoft
2 62 (11.17%) VMware
3 45 (8.11%) Splunk
4 30 (5.41%) Google
5 29 (5.23%) Red Hat
6 20 (3.60%) Oracle
7 17 (3.06%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.34%) Databricks
9 10 (1.80%) Veritas
10 8 (1.44%) IBM
11 6 (1.08%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.08%) Cisco
11 6 (1.08%) Dell
11 6 (1.08%) WSO2
12 5 (0.90%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.90%) Arqiva
12 5 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.90%) F5
12 5 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.90%) Veracode