Kubernetes Contracts

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 30 28
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,531 3,589 5,786
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.53% 6.08% 6.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.72% 37.91% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 2,597 4,221
10th Percentile £412 £463 £463
25th Percentile £467 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 40 16
10th Percentile £46.19 £53.75 £42.04
25th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.00 £70.50 £52.89
Median % change year-on-year -12.06% +33.31% +11.34%
75th Percentile £74.44 £78.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £76.89 £90.00 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.75 £65.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -1.15% +37.89% -2.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,152 9,468 14,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 16.03% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,681 6,830 10,263
10th Percentile £259 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.92
25th Percentile £17.73 £24.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.25 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.68% +124.38% -9.09%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England -26 1,291 £550 -11.29% 863
London -23 794 £565 -11.37% 456
Work from Home -18 577 £575 -4.17% 534
UK excluding London -24 507 £540 -6.09% 433
South East -16 144 £575 -0.86% 105
North of England -23 142 £550 -8.33% 103
South West -33 82 £550 - 85
Scotland -21 74 £506 -5.42% 38
North West -31 67 £550 -8.33% 60
Yorkshire 0 65 £525 -16.00% 33
Midlands -10 32 £500 -20.00% 55
East of England -33 21 £600 -7.69% 30
West Midlands -21 19 £500 -28.57% 28
East Midlands -5 13 £450 -35.71% 27
North East -12 12 £413 -41.07% 10
Wales +19 10 £500 -23.08% 8
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 14

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 84 (5.49%) Confluence
2 54 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (2.48%) Apache
4 34 (2.22%) OpenStack
5 29 (1.89%) Apache Spark
6 27 (1.76%) nginx
7 26 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
9 8 (0.52%) CMS
9 8 (0.52%) JBoss
10 7 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
10 7 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.39%) Tornado
12 5 (0.33%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.33%) Camunda
12 5 (0.33%) IIS
12 5 (0.33%) SAS
12 5 (0.33%) SharePoint
12 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.065%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.065%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.33%) Endur
1 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.13%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.13%) RMDS
3 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 876 (57.22%) AWS
2 538 (35.14%) Azure
3 267 (17.44%) GCP
4 166 (10.84%) Serverless
5 153 (9.99%) OpenShift
6 146 (9.54%) Amazon S3
6 146 (9.54%) GitHub
7 131 (8.56%) Amazon EKS
8 119 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
9 116 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
10 108 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
11 81 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
12 74 (4.83%) Azure AKS
13 67 (4.38%) PaaS
14 66 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
15 60 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 56 (3.66%) IaaS
17 51 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 50 (3.27%) SaaS
19 48 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (5.16%) Firewall
2 67 (4.38%) DNS
3 44 (2.87%) HTTP
4 39 (2.55%) DHCP
5 36 (2.35%) Network Security
6 35 (2.29%) TCP/IP
7 32 (2.09%) VPN
8 31 (2.02%) SAN
9 19 (1.24%) NAS
10 11 (0.72%) Kerberos
11 9 (0.59%) AMQP
11 9 (0.59%) VLAN
11 9 (0.59%) VSAN
11 9 (0.59%) WAN
12 8 (0.52%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.46%) 5G
13 7 (0.46%) LAN
14 5 (0.33%) Diameter Protocol
14 5 (0.33%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (6.73%) NoSQL
3 95 (6.21%) Relational Database
4 94 (6.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 75 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
6 72 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
7 71 (4.64%) MongoDB
8 60 (3.92%) MySQL
9 57 (3.72%) SQL Server
10 44 (2.87%) Big Data
11 38 (2.48%) Data Lake
12 33 (2.16%) RDBMS
13 31 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 31 (2.02%) DynamoDB
14 30 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
15 23 (1.50%) BigQuery
16 19 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (1.11%) Flink
18 16 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
19 14 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 345 (22.53%) Jenkins
2 284 (18.55%) Git
3 193 (12.61%) GitLab
4 123 (8.03%) JIRA
5 58 (3.79%) SonarQube
6 52 (3.40%) Selenium
7 51 (3.33%) JUnit
8 41 (2.68%) Cucumber
9 38 (2.48%) TeamCity
10 37 (2.42%) Maven
11 36 (2.35%) Bitbucket
12 31 (2.02%) JMeter
13 30 (1.96%) Artifactory
14 27 (1.76%) Cypress.io
15 25 (1.63%) Gradle
16 24 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 24 (1.57%) CircleCI
16 24 (1.57%) Mockito
17 18 (1.18%) REST Assured
18 17 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 269 (17.57%) Social Skills
2 190 (12.41%) Finance
3 116 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 80 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (5.03%) Banking
6 30 (1.96%) Telecoms
7 26 (1.70%) Law
8 24 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 20 (1.31%) Retail
10 15 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (0.98%) Tech for Good
11 13 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.59%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.52%) Police
15 7 (0.46%) Legal
15 7 (0.46%) Marketing
16 6 (0.39%) Front Office
17 4 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 372 (24.30%) Developer
2 346 (22.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 192 (12.54%) Senior
4 133 (8.69%) AWS Engineer
5 112 (7.32%) Software Engineer
6 109 (7.12%) Architect
7 94 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
8 90 (5.88%) Java Developer
9 89 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 87 (5.68%) Lead
11 85 (5.55%) AWS DevOps
12 75 (4.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 73 (4.77%) Platform Engineer
14 72 (4.70%) Site Engineer
15 70 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
16 59 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
17 55 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
18 51 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.33%) Python Developer
19 48 (3.14%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (17.70%) Kafka
2 153 (9.99%) React
3 140 (9.14%) Node.js
4 138 (9.01%) REST
5 135 (8.82%) Spring Boot
6 116 (7.58%) Spring
7 104 (6.79%) RESTful
8 85 (5.55%) Elastic Stack
9 82 (5.36%) .NET
10 54 (3.53%) ARM Templates
11 46 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
12 41 (2.68%) .NET Core
12 41 (2.68%) Akka
12 41 (2.68%) YAML
13 37 (2.42%) AngularJS
13 37 (2.42%) HTML
13 37 (2.42%) Web Services
14 30 (1.96%) Hibernate
14 30 (1.96%) JSON
14 30 (1.96%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 78 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (4.64%) Public Cloud
4 49 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
5 47 (3.07%) Data Structures
6 42 (2.74%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
8 38 (2.48%) Clustering
9 36 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
10 35 (2.29%) Product Ownership
11 33 (2.16%) Algorithms
12 29 (1.89%) PKI
13 28 (1.83%) Onboarding
14 25 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
15 23 (1.50%) Management Information System
16 22 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
17 16 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
18 15 (0.98%) Hedge funds
19 14 (0.91%) Private Cloud
19 14 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 343 (22.40%) Linux
2 135 (8.82%) Windows
3 93 (6.07%) Unix
4 69 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (4.18%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.24%) CentOS
7 17 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (1.05%) Solaris
9 13 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
9 13 (0.85%) VMS
10 12 (0.78%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.72%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.65%) Android
13 5 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.13%) Windows 2000
15 2 (0.13%) Windows XP
16 1 (0.065%) Debian
16 1 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (54.21%) DevOps
2 606 (39.58%) CI/CD
3 465 (30.37%) Agile
4 360 (23.51%) Containerisation
5 352 (22.99%) Microservices
6 305 (19.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 250 (16.33%) Software Engineering
8 184 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
9 174 (11.37%) Test Automation
10 156 (10.19%) Continuous Integration
11 133 (8.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 131 (8.56%) TDD
13 115 (7.51%) Scrum
14 108 (7.05%) Configuration Management
15 107 (6.99%) Full Stack Development
16 97 (6.34%) Platform Engineering
17 93 (6.07%) High Availability
18 92 (6.01%) SDLC
19 84 (5.49%) Computer Science
20 81 (5.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 605 (39.52%) Python
2 386 (25.21%) Java
3 219 (14.30%) SQL
4 200 (13.06%) Go
5 183 (11.95%) Bash
6 178 (11.63%) JavaScript
7 133 (8.69%) PowerShell
8 103 (6.73%) TypeScript
9 89 (5.81%) C#
10 77 (5.03%) Scala
11 66 (4.31%) Shell Script
12 44 (2.87%) Ruby
13 43 (2.81%) Perl
14 36 (2.35%) C++
15 31 (2.02%) C
16 29 (1.89%) Groovy
17 27 (1.76%) Bicep
18 21 (1.37%) PHP
19 17 (1.11%) VB
19 17 (1.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 421 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 336 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 103 (6.73%) DV Cleared
4 99 (6.47%) Degree
5 46 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.74%) AWS Certification
7 30 (1.96%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 14 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.33%) CISSP
14 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.20%) SANS
16 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
16 2 (0.13%) CISA
16 2 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.66%) QA
2 21 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.05%) NCSC
3 16 (1.05%) NIST
4 14 (0.91%) GDPR
5 13 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.39%) SLA
8 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.20%) WCAG
11 1 (0.065%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 885 (57.81%) Docker
2 75 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (4.57%) Active Directory
4 52 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.83%) Hyper-V
6 20 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.98%) vSphere
10 12 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 10 (0.65%) vCloud
12 6 (0.39%) Firmware
12 6 (0.39%) NFS
13 5 (0.33%) KVM
14 4 (0.26%) GPFS
14 4 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.20%) HDFS
16 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
17 1 (0.065%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 622 (40.63%) Terraform
2 330 (21.55%) Ansible
3 198 (12.93%) Prometheus
4 172 (11.23%) Grafana
5 74 (4.83%) Puppet
6 59 (3.85%) Progress Chef
7 40 (2.61%) Docker Swarm
8 37 (2.42%) Istio
8 37 (2.42%) Packer
9 35 (2.29%) Kibana
10 33 (2.16%) Argo
11 29 (1.89%) Consul
12 23 (1.50%) Rancher
13 21 (1.37%) SCOM
14 20 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (1.31%) SCCM
15 18 (1.18%) Nagios
16 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (1.11%) WSUS
17 16 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 164 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 110 (7.18%) VMware
3 98 (6.40%) Oracle
4 87 (5.68%) Splunk
5 85 (5.55%) Google
6 53 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 45 (2.94%) Databricks
8 25 (1.63%) IBM
9 24 (1.57%) CyberArk
10 22 (1.44%) Dell
11 21 (1.37%) Cisco
11 21 (1.37%) SAP
12 19 (1.24%) Typelevel
13 14 (0.91%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.91%) HP
13 14 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.91%) Veritas
14 13 (0.85%) AppDynamics
14 13 (0.85%) ServiceNow