Kubernetes Contracts in the East Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 40 77
Rank change year-on-year -21 +37 -20
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 9 39 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.04% 3.93% 1.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.83% 32.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 33 16
10th Percentile - £480 £456
25th Percentile £356 £575 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -48.21% +33.33% -4.33%
75th Percentile £475 - £585
90th Percentile £495 - £706
England median daily rate £550 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% +12.73%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 115 120 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.23% 12.10% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 92 103
10th Percentile £163 £223 £215
25th Percentile £356 £308 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +3.38% +13.64%
75th Percentile £565 £663 £518
90th Percentile £624 £700 £548
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile - £20.16 £17.65
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.99 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.38 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.13% +9.17% -29.31%
75th Percentile £26.15 £29.92 £22.75
90th Percentile - £40.25 £23.35
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Northamptonshire +3 7 £356 -35.27% 1
Nottinghamshire -18 2 £450 -35.71% 9
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (55.56%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) InfiniBand
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (55.56%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (55.56%) Git
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
1 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
1 5 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (55.56%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) gRPC
2 1 (11.11%) JMS
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) OpenMP
2 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) RAML
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Build Automation
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Code Quality
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (55.56%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) API Design
4 1 (11.11%) ArchiMate
4 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Perl
1 5 (55.56%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Lustre
3 1 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kibana
1 5 (55.56%) Progress Chef
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) AppDynamics
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle