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 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 47 30 29
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,667 3,266 5,655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.87% 5.83% 6.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.94% 36.99% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,224 2,331 4,111
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £463 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £610
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +0.41% +10.91%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £724 £788 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -8.51% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 14
10th Percentile £46.20 £48.28 £41.75
25th Percentile £53.13 £60.98 £43.31
Median hourly rate £67.25 £72.50 £48.31
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +50.06% +1.71%
75th Percentile £74.86 £78.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £77.85 £90.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +47.37% +0.13%

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 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
England -16 1,421 £550 -12.00% 886
London -16 868 £573 -10.20% 503
Work from Home -11 613 £575 -4.17% 476
UK excluding London -18 555 £538 -8.51% 409
North of England -11 163 £525 -14.63% 99
South East -12 159 £575 -2.34% 98
South West -21 100 £550 - 92
Yorkshire +11 81 £514 -21.00% 28
North West -15 71 £550 -6.38% 65
Scotland -14 69 £475 -13.64% 30
Midlands -28 29 £450 -28.00% 44
East of England -32 25 £600 -11.11% 30
West Midlands -33 20 £500 -28.57% 22
North East -9 13 £413 -41.07% 6
Wales +21 10 £500 -16.67% 9
East Midlands -18 9 £363 -48.21% 22
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 12

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 97 (5.82%) Confluence
2 67 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (3.06%) Apache
4 37 (2.22%) Apache Spark
5 33 (1.98%) OpenStack
6 30 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 30 (1.80%) nginx
7 10 (0.60%) CMS
8 9 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
8 9 (0.54%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.48%) JBoss
10 7 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
10 7 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.36%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.36%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Camunda
12 5 (0.30%) IIS
12 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.30%) WildFly
13 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.060%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.30%) Endur
3 1 (0.060%) Maximo
3 1 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.060%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.060%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 939 (56.33%) AWS
2 601 (36.05%) Azure
3 314 (18.84%) GCP
4 177 (10.62%) OpenShift
5 174 (10.44%) Serverless
6 148 (8.88%) Amazon S3
7 144 (8.64%) GitHub
8 133 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
9 126 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
10 125 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (7.08%) Amazon EC2
12 91 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 81 (4.86%) Azure AKS
14 74 (4.44%) PaaS
15 61 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 60 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
17 53 (3.18%) Snowflake
18 51 (3.06%) SaaS
19 50 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 50 (3.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (5.10%) Firewall
2 70 (4.20%) DNS
3 64 (3.84%) HTTP
4 40 (2.40%) VPN
5 39 (2.34%) DHCP
6 36 (2.16%) Network Security
6 36 (2.16%) TCP/IP
7 24 (1.44%) SAN
8 15 (0.90%) NAS
9 11 (0.66%) AMQP
10 9 (0.54%) HTTPS
10 9 (0.54%) Kerberos
10 9 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
10 9 (0.54%) SSL
10 9 (0.54%) VSAN
10 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.42%) 5G
11 7 (0.42%) WAN
12 6 (0.36%) LAN
12 6 (0.36%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (7.44%) NoSQL
3 103 (6.18%) Apache Cassandra
4 97 (5.82%) Relational Database
5 78 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
5 78 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
6 70 (4.20%) MongoDB
7 66 (3.96%) MySQL
8 56 (3.36%) SQL Server
9 46 (2.76%) Big Data
10 42 (2.52%) Data Lake
11 35 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
12 32 (1.92%) RDBMS
13 31 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (1.86%) DynamoDB
14 30 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (1.56%) BigQuery
16 19 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
17 18 (1.08%) Apache Arrow
17 18 (1.08%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 357 (21.42%) Jenkins
2 315 (18.90%) Git
3 214 (12.84%) GitLab
4 141 (8.46%) JIRA
5 57 (3.42%) SonarQube
6 49 (2.94%) Selenium
7 46 (2.76%) JUnit
8 39 (2.34%) Bitbucket
9 36 (2.16%) TeamCity
10 35 (2.10%) Artifactory
10 35 (2.10%) Cucumber
11 31 (1.86%) JMeter
12 29 (1.74%) Cypress.io
13 28 (1.68%) Maven
14 26 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 23 (1.38%) CircleCI
16 22 (1.32%) Gradle
16 22 (1.32%) Mockito
17 18 (1.08%) REST Assured
18 16 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 294 (17.64%) Social Skills
2 215 (12.90%) Finance
3 123 (7.38%) Public Sector
4 97 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (5.52%) Banking
6 31 (1.86%) Telecoms
7 23 (1.38%) Retail
8 22 (1.32%) Investment Banking
8 22 (1.32%) Law
9 14 (0.84%) Tech for Good
10 13 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.54%) Marketing
13 8 (0.48%) Front Office
13 8 (0.48%) Police
14 7 (0.42%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.36%) Legal
15 6 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 390 (23.40%) Developer
2 367 (22.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 213 (12.78%) Senior
4 141 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
5 118 (7.08%) Software Engineer
6 110 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
7 106 (6.36%) Java Developer
8 103 (6.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 101 (6.06%) Architect
10 95 (5.70%) Lead
11 87 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
12 84 (5.04%) AWS DevOps
12 84 (5.04%) Site Engineer
13 76 (4.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 74 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
15 57 (3.42%) Full Stack Developer
15 57 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
16 53 (3.18%) Scala Developer
17 52 (3.12%) Senior Software Engineer
18 51 (3.06%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (18.84%) Kafka
2 159 (9.54%) React
3 142 (8.52%) Node.js
4 141 (8.46%) Spring Boot
5 135 (8.10%) REST
6 123 (7.38%) RESTful
7 121 (7.26%) Spring
8 105 (6.30%) .NET
9 91 (5.46%) Elastic Stack
10 60 (3.60%) ARM Templates
11 59 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
12 51 (3.06%) Akka
13 49 (2.94%) HTML
14 45 (2.70%) .NET Core
15 43 (2.58%) GraphQL
16 40 (2.40%) YAML
17 38 (2.28%) AngularJS
17 38 (2.28%) gRPC
18 37 (2.22%) CSS
18 37 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.46%) Cloud Native
2 84 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 56 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 48 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
6 40 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 40 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 39 (2.34%) Algorithms
7 39 (2.34%) Clustering
8 37 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
9 35 (2.10%) PKI
10 29 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.56%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 22 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.20%) Hedge funds
16 13 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.78%) Private Cloud
17 12 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 382 (22.92%) Linux
2 127 (7.62%) Windows
3 101 (6.06%) Unix
4 67 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (3.30%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (1.20%) CentOS
8 18 (1.08%) VMS
9 14 (0.84%) Solaris
10 12 (0.72%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.72%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.66%) Android
12 10 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.30%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.12%) Windows 2000
14 2 (0.12%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.060%) Debian
15 1 (0.060%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 915 (54.89%) DevOps
2 669 (40.13%) CI/CD
3 512 (30.71%) Agile
4 405 (24.30%) Containerisation
5 381 (22.86%) Microservices
6 340 (20.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 263 (15.78%) Software Engineering
8 215 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
9 188 (11.28%) Test Automation
10 156 (9.36%) Continuous Integration
11 153 (9.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 138 (8.28%) TDD
13 126 (7.56%) Scrum
14 124 (7.44%) Configuration Management
15 110 (6.60%) Platform Engineering
16 109 (6.54%) Full Stack Development
17 105 (6.30%) Computer Science
18 102 (6.12%) GitOps
19 96 (5.76%) SDLC
20 95 (5.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 631 (37.85%) Python
2 434 (26.03%) Java
3 246 (14.76%) SQL
4 216 (12.96%) Go
5 193 (11.58%) JavaScript
6 190 (11.40%) Bash
7 135 (8.10%) PowerShell
8 110 (6.60%) TypeScript
9 105 (6.30%) C#
10 96 (5.76%) Scala
11 85 (5.10%) Shell Script
12 48 (2.88%) Ruby
13 38 (2.28%) Perl
14 37 (2.22%) C++
15 33 (1.98%) C
16 32 (1.92%) Bicep
17 31 (1.86%) Groovy
18 25 (1.50%) Kotlin
19 20 (1.20%) VB
19 20 (1.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 449 (26.93%) Security Cleared
2 352 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 124 (7.44%) Degree
4 118 (7.08%) DV Cleared
5 61 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 37 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 21 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 19 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.24%) CISSP
15 3 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.18%) OCP
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.18%) SANS
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (3.60%) QA
2 19 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (1.08%) GDPR
4 16 (0.96%) NCSC
4 16 (0.96%) NIST
5 11 (0.66%) Accessibility
6 9 (0.54%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.36%) SLA
9 5 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.18%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.060%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.060%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 957 (57.41%) Docker
2 79 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 72 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 23 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 23 (1.38%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.78%) vSphere
9 12 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 10 (0.60%) vCloud
11 6 (0.36%) Firmware
12 5 (0.30%) KVM
13 4 (0.24%) NFS
14 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.12%) GPFS
15 2 (0.12%) HDFS
15 2 (0.12%) Postfix
15 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 666 (39.95%) Terraform
2 354 (21.24%) Ansible
3 218 (13.08%) Prometheus
4 199 (11.94%) Grafana
5 82 (4.92%) Puppet
6 63 (3.78%) Progress Chef
7 44 (2.64%) Docker Swarm
7 44 (2.64%) Kibana
8 43 (2.58%) Istio
9 40 (2.40%) Argo
10 37 (2.22%) Packer
11 28 (1.68%) Consul
12 27 (1.62%) Rancher
13 25 (1.50%) SCOM
14 23 (1.38%) SCCM
15 21 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 20 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
16 20 (1.20%) WSUS
17 16 (0.96%) Podman
18 15 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 182 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.12%) Oracle
3 101 (6.06%) Google
4 100 (6.00%) VMware
5 93 (5.58%) Splunk
6 47 (2.82%) Red Hat
7 42 (2.52%) Databricks
8 23 (1.38%) IBM
9 22 (1.32%) CyberArk
9 22 (1.32%) SAP
9 22 (1.32%) Typelevel
10 20 (1.20%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.20%) Cisco
11 19 (1.14%) Dell
12 18 (1.08%) Dynatrace
13 13 (0.78%) AppDynamics
13 13 (0.78%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.78%) WSO2
14 12 (0.72%) HP
14 12 (0.72%) SaltStack