Kubernetes Contracts in London

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 38 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 868 1,946 3,052
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.96% 7.65% 7.90%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.66% 46.52% 46.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 1,423 2,356
10th Percentile £413 £470 £475
25th Percentile £475 £550 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £638 £640
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -0.39% +16.36%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £726
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £625 £618
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.21% +12.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 3
10th Percentile £56.20 £63.00 £76.50
25th Percentile £58.00 £75.00 £76.88
Median hourly rate £61.00 £80.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +1.59% +18.42%
75th Percentile £64.00 £90.00 £80.63
90th Percentile £65.80 - £81.75
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +23.33% +16.50%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,245 4,183 6,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.82% 16.45% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,637 3,049 5,047
10th Percentile £325 £400 £416
25th Percentile £431 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £572
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.52% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 47 48
10th Percentile £20.00 £23.05 £14.93
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £64.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -62.22% +167.67% -40.23%
75th Percentile £50.25 £82.75 £34.06
90th Percentile £70.40 £90.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £55.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +155.81% -12.07%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London -13 117 £600 -4.00% 42
South London +4 42 £525 -6.25% 3
West London -8 26 £375 -37.50% 11
East London -7 4 £493 -38.44% 3
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 48 (5.53%) Confluence
2 42 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 19 (2.19%) Apache
5 18 (2.07%) nginx
5 18 (2.07%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.92%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.81%) BizTalk Server
7 7 (0.81%) CMS
7 7 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.58%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
8 5 (0.58%) IIS
8 5 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.46%) Camunda
9 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) WildFly
10 3 (0.35%) JBoss
10 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Endur
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 473 (54.49%) AWS
2 284 (32.72%) Azure
3 186 (21.43%) GCP
4 103 (11.87%) Serverless
5 80 (9.22%) GitHub
6 70 (8.06%) Amazon S3
7 65 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
9 54 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (6.11%) OpenShift
11 49 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (5.65%) Azure AKS
12 41 (4.72%) PaaS
13 38 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 34 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.11%) Azure Service Bus
15 27 (3.11%) Snowflake
16 25 (2.88%) Azure Functions
16 25 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 25 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.07%) HTTP
2 31 (3.57%) Firewall
3 24 (2.76%) DNS
4 14 (1.61%) DHCP
4 14 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.50%) Network Security
6 11 (1.27%) SAN
7 9 (1.04%) NAS
8 8 (0.92%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.92%) VPN
9 6 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.58%) VLAN
10 5 (0.58%) WAN
11 4 (0.46%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.46%) LAN
11 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.35%) DMZ
12 3 (0.35%) Internet
12 3 (0.35%) IPv4
12 3 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (9.79%) NoSQL
2 63 (7.26%) Apache Cassandra
3 62 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (5.99%) MongoDB
5 48 (5.53%) Relational Database
6 42 (4.84%) SQL Server
7 39 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
8 35 (4.03%) Big Data
9 30 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
10 26 (3.00%) Data Lake
10 26 (3.00%) MySQL
11 25 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.42%) BigQuery
13 19 (2.19%) DynamoDB
14 18 (2.07%) Apache Arrow
14 18 (2.07%) Dremio
14 18 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
14 18 (2.07%) RDBMS
15 15 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 187 (21.54%) Jenkins
2 148 (17.05%) Git
3 80 (9.22%) GitLab
4 61 (7.03%) JIRA
5 29 (3.34%) TeamCity
6 23 (2.65%) Cypress.io
7 21 (2.42%) JMeter
7 21 (2.42%) JUnit
7 21 (2.42%) Selenium
8 19 (2.19%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.73%) Artifactory
9 15 (1.73%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.61%) Mockito
10 14 (1.61%) SonarQube
11 13 (1.50%) Maven
12 10 (1.15%) CircleCI
13 9 (1.04%) Gradle
14 7 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.81%) ScalaTest
15 6 (0.69%) Mercurial
General
1 175 (20.16%) Finance
2 136 (15.67%) Social Skills
3 65 (7.49%) Banking
4 58 (6.68%) Public Sector
5 54 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.07%) Investment Banking
7 15 (1.73%) Telecoms
8 12 (1.38%) Law
9 10 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.15%) Retail
10 9 (1.04%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.92%) Front Office
11 8 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.81%) Marketing
13 5 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.35%) Billing
14 3 (0.35%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.35%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 238 (27.42%) Developer
2 171 (19.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 120 (13.82%) Senior
4 85 (9.79%) AWS Engineer
5 58 (6.68%) Java Developer
5 58 (6.68%) Software Engineer
6 53 (6.11%) Architect
6 53 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
7 51 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 46 (5.30%) Lead
8 46 (5.30%) Scala Developer
9 45 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 45 (5.18%) Site Engineer
10 39 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
10 39 (4.49%) Full Stack Developer
11 38 (4.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
13 34 (3.92%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.80%) Python Engineer
14 33 (3.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (23.16%) Kafka
2 93 (10.71%) React
3 86 (9.91%) RESTful
4 78 (8.99%) Node.js
5 76 (8.76%) .NET
6 73 (8.41%) Spring Boot
7 66 (7.60%) REST
8 63 (7.26%) Spring
9 47 (5.41%) Akka
10 36 (4.15%) .NET Core
10 36 (4.15%) HTML
11 34 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
11 34 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
12 29 (3.34%) gRPC
13 27 (3.11%) Web Services
14 24 (2.76%) GraphQL
15 23 (2.65%) AngularJS
15 23 (2.65%) CSS
16 18 (2.07%) Protocol Buffers
17 17 (1.96%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (3.80%) Cloud Native
2 33 (3.80%) Clustering
2 33 (3.80%) Data Structures
2 33 (3.80%) Public Cloud
3 32 (3.69%) Algorithms
4 30 (3.46%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.30%) Hedge funds
7 19 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
10 13 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.27%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.04%) Replication
14 8 (0.92%) Derivative
14 8 (0.92%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.81%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 169 (19.47%) Linux
2 52 (5.99%) Unix
3 44 (5.07%) Windows
4 22 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.15%) Android
8 6 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.58%) CentOS
9 5 (0.58%) Solaris
10 4 (0.46%) VMS
11 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Debian
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (52.65%) DevOps
2 338 (38.94%) CI/CD
3 282 (32.49%) Agile
4 260 (29.95%) Microservices
5 166 (19.12%) Containerisation
6 139 (16.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 126 (14.52%) Software Engineering
8 114 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (11.18%) TDD
10 86 (9.91%) Test Automation
11 81 (9.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 74 (8.53%) Continuous Integration
13 67 (7.72%) SDLC
14 60 (6.91%) Platform Engineering
15 59 (6.80%) Scrum
16 57 (6.57%) Machine Learning
17 56 (6.45%) Full Stack Development
18 55 (6.34%) Computer Science
19 52 (5.99%) Configuration Management
20 50 (5.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 339 (39.06%) Python
2 249 (28.69%) Java
3 158 (18.20%) SQL
4 127 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 119 (13.71%) Go
6 80 (9.22%) Bash
7 60 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 59 (6.80%) C#
8 59 (6.80%) Scala
9 46 (5.30%) PowerShell
10 43 (4.95%) Shell Script
11 30 (3.46%) C++
12 15 (1.73%) Groovy
13 14 (1.61%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.50%) Ruby
15 11 (1.27%) C
16 10 (1.15%) Perl
17 8 (0.92%) PHP
17 8 (0.92%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 193 (22.24%) Security Cleared
2 166 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.80%) Degree
4 30 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.19%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.35%) CISSP
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.23%) CISA
13 2 (0.23%) CISM
13 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.23%) OCP
13 2 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.73%) QA
2 9 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.69%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.69%) GDPR
3 6 (0.69%) NIST
4 5 (0.58%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.46%) NCSC
6 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 491 (56.57%) Docker
2 31 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.69%) Firmware
8 5 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.35%) KVM
9 3 (0.35%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 352 (40.55%) Terraform
2 147 (16.94%) Ansible
3 101 (11.64%) Prometheus
4 92 (10.60%) Grafana
5 34 (3.92%) Puppet
6 23 (2.65%) Consul
7 19 (2.19%) Packer
8 18 (2.07%) Argo
9 17 (1.96%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.92%) Istio
10 8 (0.92%) Kibana
10 8 (0.92%) Netcool
11 7 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.58%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.58%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.58%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (0.35%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 102 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.29%) Oracle
3 57 (6.57%) Google
4 35 (4.03%) Splunk
4 35 (4.03%) VMware
5 25 (2.88%) Databricks
6 21 (2.42%) Typelevel
7 15 (1.73%) IBM
8 14 (1.61%) Cisco
8 14 (1.61%) CyberArk
9 13 (1.50%) Dell
10 12 (1.38%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.38%) SaltStack
11 11 (1.27%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.92%) AppDynamics
13 7 (0.81%) Confluent
13 7 (0.81%) HP
13 7 (0.81%) Informatica
14 6 (0.69%) SAP