Kubernetes Contracts in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 56 47
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 +11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 159 214 351
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.82% 3.77% 4.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.81% 28.08% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 164 210
10th Percentile £424 £451 £387
25th Percentile £463 £506 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £589 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £624 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £729 £738
England median daily rate £550 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £37.70 - -
25th Percentile £39.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% - -
75th Percentile £46.63 - -
90th Percentile £47.90 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +23.33% +16.50%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 764 762 1,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.53% 13.44% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 557 741
10th Percentile £213 £307 £250
25th Percentile £400 £432 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £613
90th Percentile £674 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 29
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.50 £48.50 £16.11
Median hourly rate £34.25 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.70% +173.26% -37.23%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £45.00
90th Percentile £49.88 £75.75 £67.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.04% +146.16% -11.89%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +22 100 £605 +7.08% 49
Berkshire +22 89 £605 +11.26% 33
Hampshire -17 28 £563 +2.27% 19
West Sussex -4 17 £463 -33.74% 4
Buckinghamshire +13 8 £563 -19.35% 11
Surrey -16 7 £650 +8.33% 12
Sussex -2 3 £550 -8.33%
Oxfordshire -3 3 £500 - 5
Middlesex -4 2 - -
East Sussex +2 1 - - 3
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 22 (13.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (8.81%) Confluence
3 6 (3.77%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.89%) Apache
4 3 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) JBoss
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (49.06%) Azure
2 70 (44.03%) AWS
3 31 (19.50%) OpenShift
4 26 (16.35%) Entra ID
5 21 (13.21%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (13.21%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (12.58%) Azure Storage
7 14 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (7.55%) IaaS
9 10 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (6.29%) GCP
9 10 (6.29%) Serverless
10 9 (5.66%) GitHub
11 8 (5.03%) Amazon S3
11 8 (5.03%) PaaS
12 6 (3.77%) SaaS
13 5 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.35%) Firewall
2 24 (15.09%) DNS
3 21 (13.21%) DHCP
4 9 (5.66%) VSAN
5 4 (2.52%) VPN
6 3 (1.89%) Network Security
7 2 (1.26%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.26%) SSL
8 1 (0.63%) 3G
8 1 (0.63%) 4G
8 1 (0.63%) 5G
8 1 (0.63%) GPRS
8 1 (0.63%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.63%) SAN
8 1 (0.63%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.63%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.13%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.18%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (5.66%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.03%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (4.40%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.77%) MySQL
6 6 (3.77%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.89%) Couchbase
8 3 (1.89%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.26%) Big Data
9 2 (1.26%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.26%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.26%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.63%) Impala
10 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (22.64%) GitLab
2 30 (18.87%) Jenkins
3 25 (15.72%) Git
3 25 (15.72%) JIRA
4 15 (9.43%) Selenium
5 12 (7.55%) Cucumber
5 12 (7.55%) REST Assured
5 12 (7.55%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.77%) JMeter
7 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.89%) JUnit
7 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) Mockito
8 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.63%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.63%) TestNG
8 1 (0.63%) Travis CI
General
1 59 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.81%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.03%) Law
4 8 (5.03%) Police
5 4 (2.52%) Finance
6 2 (1.26%) Automotive
6 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.26%) Legal
7 1 (0.63%) Banking
7 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.63%) Retail
7 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (17.61%) Developer
2 24 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (13.21%) Senior
4 20 (12.58%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (9.43%) Java Developer
6 14 (8.81%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (8.81%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (8.81%) Linux Engineer
6 14 (8.81%) Site Engineer
6 14 (8.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 14 (8.81%) Support Specialist
7 12 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.40%) Architect
9 7 (4.40%) Support Engineer
9 7 (4.40%) VMware Expert
10 6 (3.77%) Active Directory Engineer
10 6 (3.77%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 6 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (3.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (20.75%) ARM Templates
2 23 (14.47%) REST
3 22 (13.84%) Kafka
4 12 (7.55%) Java EE
5 10 (6.29%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (5.66%) Spring
6 9 (5.66%) Web Services
7 8 (5.03%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.40%) Node.js
9 6 (3.77%) .NET
9 6 (3.77%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.77%) React
10 5 (3.14%) OpenID
10 5 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.52%) Keycloak
11 4 (2.52%) LDAP
12 3 (1.89%) .NET Core
12 3 (1.89%) HTML
12 3 (1.89%) RESTful
12 3 (1.89%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.47%) PKI
2 22 (13.84%) Cloud Native
3 21 (13.21%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (6.29%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.40%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.14%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.89%) Smart Meter
9 2 (1.26%) Clustering
9 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.63%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.63%) IoT
10 1 (0.63%) Replication
10 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (39.62%) Linux
2 29 (18.24%) Windows
3 23 (14.47%) Windows Server
4 20 (12.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (12.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (10.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (10.06%) Unix
6 11 (6.92%) VMS
7 5 (3.14%) Solaris
8 3 (1.89%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.63%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (63.52%) DevOps
2 67 (42.14%) Agile
3 66 (41.51%) Containerisation
3 66 (41.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (36.48%) CI/CD
5 33 (20.75%) Technical Leadership
6 30 (18.87%) Test Automation
7 27 (16.98%) Microservices
7 27 (16.98%) Software Engineering
8 26 (16.35%) ITIL
9 25 (15.72%) Collaborative Working
9 25 (15.72%) Release Management
10 24 (15.09%) Analytics
10 24 (15.09%) Identity Management
11 23 (14.47%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 22 (13.84%) Configuration Management
13 21 (13.21%) Log Analytics
13 21 (13.21%) RBAC
13 21 (13.21%) Service Management
14 20 (12.58%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.90%) Python
2 37 (23.27%) Java
3 30 (18.87%) PowerShell
4 28 (17.61%) C#
5 21 (13.21%) Bicep
6 20 (12.58%) VB
6 20 (12.58%) VBScript
7 15 (9.43%) Bash
8 11 (6.92%) Go
9 9 (5.66%) JavaScript
9 9 (5.66%) Ruby
10 8 (5.03%) SQL
11 6 (3.77%) Shell Script
12 5 (3.14%) C++
12 5 (3.14%) PHP
12 5 (3.14%) Scala
13 4 (2.52%) C
13 4 (2.52%) Perl
14 2 (1.26%) Groovy
15 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (52.20%) Security Cleared
2 71 (44.65%) SC Cleared
3 35 (22.01%) Degree
4 24 (15.09%) DV Cleared
5 20 (12.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.77%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.63%) OCP
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.89%) QA
2 2 (1.26%) NIST
2 2 (1.26%) SLA
3 1 (0.63%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 60 (37.74%) Docker
2 31 (19.50%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (18.87%) Active Directory
4 20 (12.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (12.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (6.29%) VMware NSX
6 9 (5.66%) vCloud
7 7 (4.40%) vSphere
8 6 (3.77%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.63%) NFS
10 1 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (32.08%) Ansible
1 51 (32.08%) Terraform
2 22 (13.84%) SCOM
3 20 (12.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (12.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (12.58%) SCCM
3 20 (12.58%) WSUS
4 19 (11.95%) Istio
5 16 (10.06%) Prometheus
6 15 (9.43%) Grafana
6 15 (9.43%) Rancher
7 14 (8.81%) Argo
8 13 (8.18%) Kibana
9 12 (7.55%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (7.55%) Podman
10 9 (5.66%) Packer
10 9 (5.66%) vCenter Server
11 8 (5.03%) vRealize
12 4 (2.52%) Puppet
12 4 (2.52%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 32 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.24%) VMware
3 11 (6.92%) Red Hat
4 9 (5.66%) Oracle
5 7 (4.40%) Google
6 5 (3.14%) Arqiva
6 5 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.14%) Veritas
7 4 (2.52%) Splunk
8 3 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.89%) Dell
8 3 (1.89%) New Relic
8 3 (1.89%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.26%) Foundry
9 2 (1.26%) HP
9 2 (1.26%) IBM
9 2 (1.26%) Palantir
9 2 (1.26%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.26%) SAP
10 1 (0.63%) Guidewire