Kubernetes Contracts in the North of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 49 41 49
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 175 245 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.61% 4.50% 4.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.98% 30.14% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 189 245
10th Percentile £400 £475 £438
25th Percentile £450 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £614 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% +11.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £622 £700 £650
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £550 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £46.81 £38.68 -
25th Percentile £47.76 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £50.59 £54.34 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -
75th Percentile £54.67 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £56.37 £64.75 -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.33% +25.00% +20.00%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 515 813 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.63% 14.94% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 571 825
10th Percentile £235 £319 £250
25th Percentile £394 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% +13.51%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 46 20
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.25 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.84 £31.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.89% +56.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.94 £45.76 £22.69
90th Percentile £71.88 £50.83 £51.68
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 North of England

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +11 93 £500 -20.00% 22
North West -17 71 £550 -6.38% 62
North East -10 14 £413 -41.07% 5
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (7.43%) Confluence
2 9 (5.14%) Apache
3 4 (2.29%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.29%) nginx
3 4 (2.29%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.57%) Camunda
5 1 (0.57%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 123 (70.29%) AWS
2 55 (31.43%) Azure
3 30 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
3 30 (17.14%) GCP
4 26 (14.86%) Amazon S3
5 20 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (10.29%) GitHub
7 15 (8.57%) Route 53
8 14 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (8.00%) Serverless
9 13 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (6.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
12 10 (5.71%) Kong
13 9 (5.14%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (4.57%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (4.57%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (4.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.43%) DNS
2 12 (6.86%) Firewall
3 10 (5.71%) HTTP
3 10 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 9 (5.14%) VPN
5 5 (2.86%) Network Security
5 5 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (2.29%) 5G
6 4 (2.29%) Diameter Protocol
6 4 (2.29%) LTE
7 3 (1.71%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.57%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (10.86%) Relational Database
3 18 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.86%) MySQL
5 10 (5.71%) Data Lake
6 9 (5.14%) NoSQL
7 7 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.00%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.43%) Flink
8 6 (3.43%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.86%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.29%) Big Data
10 4 (2.29%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.71%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.71%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.14%) Power BI
12 2 (1.14%) Redis
13 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 66 (37.71%) Git
2 50 (28.57%) GitLab
2 50 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.14%) JIRA
4 13 (7.43%) JUnit
5 11 (6.29%) SonarQube
6 10 (5.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (5.14%) CircleCI
7 9 (5.14%) Travis CI
8 8 (4.57%) webpack
9 4 (2.29%) AppScan
9 4 (2.29%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.29%) Burp Suite
9 4 (2.29%) Selenium
10 3 (1.71%) Mocha
11 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.14%) Jaeger
11 2 (1.14%) Maven
12 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (0.57%) Gradle
General
1 25 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (13.14%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.71%) Finance
5 4 (2.29%) Banking
6 3 (1.71%) Retail
7 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.57%) Law
7 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (36.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (21.14%) Developer
3 29 (16.57%) AWS DevOps
4 24 (13.71%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (13.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 21 (12.00%) Lead
7 16 (9.14%) Java Developer
8 13 (7.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 12 (6.86%) Senior
10 10 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Site Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Junior
11 9 (5.14%) Python Developer
12 8 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
13 7 (4.00%) Software Engineer
14 6 (3.43%) Architect
15 5 (2.86%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.14%) React
2 19 (10.86%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (10.86%) Node.js
2 19 (10.86%) Spring Boot
3 16 (9.14%) Spring
4 15 (8.57%) JSON
4 15 (8.57%) REST
5 12 (6.86%) FastAPI
5 12 (6.86%) Hibernate
5 12 (6.86%) JPA
5 12 (6.86%) Kafka
5 12 (6.86%) Redux
5 12 (6.86%) YAML
6 10 (5.71%) OAuth
7 9 (5.14%) PyTorch
7 9 (5.14%) TensorFlow
7 9 (5.14%) XML
8 8 (4.57%) Express.js
8 8 (4.57%) RESTful
9 7 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.14%) Data Structures
2 7 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 6 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.57%) Genomics
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.57%) mHealth
7 1 (0.57%) NHS
7 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Replication
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.43%) Linux
2 9 (5.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.86%) CentOS
3 5 (2.86%) Unix
3 5 (2.86%) Windows
4 4 (2.29%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (70.86%) DevOps
2 107 (61.14%) CI/CD
3 83 (47.43%) Containerisation
4 55 (31.43%) Agile
5 54 (30.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (17.14%) Microservices
7 30 (17.14%) Scrum
8 28 (16.00%) High Availability
9 25 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 25 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 24 (13.71%) API Development
11 23 (13.14%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (12.00%) Front End Development
13 20 (11.43%) Configuration Management
14 17 (9.71%) Mentoring
14 17 (9.71%) Unit Testing
15 16 (9.14%) Data Modelling
16 15 (8.57%) Infrastructure Automation
16 15 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (51.43%) Python
2 42 (24.00%) Bash
3 39 (22.29%) Java
4 25 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 25 (14.29%) SQL
5 17 (9.71%) TypeScript
6 16 (9.14%) Go
7 11 (6.29%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.71%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.71%) Scala
9 5 (2.86%) Ruby
10 3 (1.71%) ActionScript
10 3 (1.71%) Bicep
10 3 (1.71%) Groovy
11 2 (1.14%) C
12 1 (0.57%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 69 (39.43%) Security Cleared
2 65 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.71%) AWS Certification
3 17 (9.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 15 (8.57%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.86%) Degree
6 4 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.86%) QA
2 6 (3.43%) GDPR
2 6 (3.43%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.71%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.71%) SLA
4 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.14%) NIST
4 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 120 (68.57%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) HDFS
2 3 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 83 (47.43%) Terraform
2 47 (26.86%) Ansible
3 34 (19.43%) Prometheus
4 25 (14.29%) Puppet
5 24 (13.71%) Grafana
6 17 (9.71%) Progress Chef
7 10 (5.71%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (5.71%) HP Fortify
7 10 (5.71%) Kibana
8 9 (5.14%) logstash
9 6 (3.43%) Istio
10 5 (2.86%) Packer
11 4 (2.29%) Graylog
11 4 (2.29%) Kiali
11 4 (2.29%) Nessus
11 4 (2.29%) Rancher
11 4 (2.29%) WebInspect
11 4 (2.29%) yum
12 2 (1.14%) Podman
13 1 (0.57%) linkerd
Vendors
1 26 (14.86%) Splunk
2 19 (10.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.14%) Google
4 6 (3.43%) Oracle
4 6 (3.43%) VMware
5 4 (2.29%) Checkmarx
5 4 (2.29%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.29%) Veracode
6 3 (1.71%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.71%) F5
6 3 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.57%) Confluent
8 1 (0.57%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.57%) Foundry
8 1 (0.57%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.57%) Palantir
8 1 (0.57%) Skytap
8 1 (0.57%) Tanium
8 1 (0.57%) Zscaler