Kubernetes Contracts in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 54 52
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 584 884 1,325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.74% 3.90% 4.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.19% 26.62% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 644 921
10th Percentile £400 £427 £428
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £589 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +7.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £729 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £610 £613
% change year-on-year -9.84% -0.41% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 27 9
10th Percentile £46.19 £48.28 £41.45
25th Percentile £50.94 £56.78 £41.75
Median hourly rate £68.75 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +47.37% +0.13%
75th Percentile £74.58 £78.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £77.25 - £52.12
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £72.75 £48.31
% change year-on-year -7.22% +50.58% +1.77%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,414 3,321 4,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.32% 14.63% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,779 2,384 2,997
10th Percentile £213 £279 £250
25th Percentile £390 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 115 115
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.24 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%
75th Percentile £52.25 £63.75 £27.75
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £51.18
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England -8 175 £523 -14.83% 89
South East -8 174 £550 -8.33% 91
South West -15 107 £550 +4.76% 94
Yorkshire +11 93 £500 -20.00% 22
North West -17 71 £550 -6.38% 62
Scotland -9 64 £475 -13.64% 36
Midlands -35 27 £450 -28.85% 49
East of England -40 27 £600 - 27
West Midlands -31 18 £500 -28.57% 23
North East -10 14 £413 -41.07% 5
Wales +24 10 £500 -16.67% 12
East Midlands -21 9 £363 -48.21% 26
Northern Ireland -5 2 - - 11
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 41 (7.02%) Confluence
2 27 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (4.28%) Apache
4 18 (3.08%) Apache Spark
5 14 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (2.23%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.37%) nginx
8 6 (1.03%) JBoss
9 4 (0.68%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.17%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.17%) Camunda
11 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Maximo
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 326 (55.82%) AWS
2 225 (38.53%) Azure
3 107 (18.32%) OpenShift
4 84 (14.38%) GCP
5 60 (10.27%) Amazon S3
6 54 (9.25%) Amazon EC2
7 53 (9.08%) Serverless
8 47 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (7.02%) GitHub
11 34 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (5.14%) Entra ID
14 27 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
14 27 (4.62%) Azure Storage
15 25 (4.28%) Azure AKS
16 23 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 19 (3.25%) PaaS
17 19 (3.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 56 (9.59%) Firewall
2 46 (7.88%) DNS
3 28 (4.79%) VPN
4 26 (4.45%) DHCP
5 18 (3.08%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.74%) HTTP
6 16 (2.74%) Network Security
7 10 (1.71%) VSAN
8 9 (1.54%) SAN
9 8 (1.37%) AMQP
10 6 (1.03%) 5G
11 5 (0.86%) LTE
11 5 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.86%) SSL
12 4 (0.68%) Diameter Protocol
12 4 (0.68%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.68%) IPsec
12 4 (0.68%) NAS
13 3 (0.51%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 3 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (9.42%) Elasticsearch
3 48 (8.22%) Relational Database
4 34 (5.82%) NoSQL
5 27 (4.62%) MySQL
6 25 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (2.40%) Big Data
8 13 (2.23%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.23%) InfluxDB
9 12 (2.05%) RDBMS
10 11 (1.88%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.71%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.71%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.54%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.20%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.20%) Couchbase
13 7 (1.20%) Flink
14 6 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
15 5 (0.86%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 130 (22.26%) Jenkins
2 123 (21.06%) Git
3 111 (19.01%) GitLab
4 70 (11.99%) JIRA
5 32 (5.48%) SonarQube
6 24 (4.11%) JUnit
7 22 (3.77%) Selenium
8 18 (3.08%) Bitbucket
9 17 (2.91%) Cucumber
10 15 (2.57%) Artifactory
11 13 (2.23%) Maven
12 12 (2.05%) REST Assured
12 12 (2.05%) Travis CI
13 10 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 10 (1.71%) Gradle
14 9 (1.54%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.54%) JMeter
14 9 (1.54%) Mockito
14 9 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (1.54%) webpack
General
1 116 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 56 (9.59%) Public Sector
3 46 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.62%) Finance
5 19 (3.25%) Banking
6 10 (1.71%) Law
7 9 (1.54%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.37%) Police
8 8 (1.37%) Retail
9 6 (1.03%) Legal
10 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.51%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.34%) Automotive
11 2 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.17%) Advertising
12 1 (0.17%) Marketing
12 1 (0.17%) Publishing
12 1 (0.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (26.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 120 (20.55%) Developer
3 53 (9.08%) AWS Engineer
4 50 (8.56%) Senior
5 49 (8.39%) Java Developer
6 47 (8.05%) AWS DevOps
7 46 (7.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 41 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 39 (6.68%) Platform Engineer
10 36 (6.16%) Site Engineer
11 35 (5.99%) Architect
11 35 (5.99%) Lead
12 33 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
13 24 (4.11%) Linux Engineer
13 24 (4.11%) Software Engineer
14 23 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
15 21 (3.60%) Active Directory Support
16 20 (3.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 16 (2.74%) Python Developer
17 16 (2.74%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.99%) Kafka
2 60 (10.27%) Spring Boot
3 57 (9.76%) REST
4 54 (9.25%) React
5 52 (8.90%) Elastic Stack
5 52 (8.90%) Spring
6 40 (6.85%) Node.js
7 37 (6.34%) ARM Templates
8 35 (5.99%) RESTful
9 26 (4.45%) .NET
10 22 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (3.25%) JSON
12 18 (3.08%) YAML
13 16 (2.74%) GraphQL
13 16 (2.74%) PyTorch
14 15 (2.57%) AWS CDK
15 14 (2.40%) OAuth
16 13 (2.23%) Apache NiFi
16 13 (2.23%) Hibernate
17 12 (2.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.16%) Public Cloud
3 29 (4.97%) PKI
4 28 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.77%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.05%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.54%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.37%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.20%) NHS
11 7 (1.20%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.03%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.68%) Clustering
15 3 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
15 3 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 177 (30.31%) Linux
2 72 (12.33%) Windows
3 45 (7.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 38 (6.51%) Unix
4 38 (6.51%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (3.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (2.57%) CentOS
8 14 (2.40%) Solaris
9 13 (2.23%) Ubuntu
10 12 (2.05%) VMS
11 4 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.34%) Windows 2000
12 2 (0.34%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (60.79%) DevOps
2 269 (46.06%) CI/CD
3 208 (35.62%) Containerisation
4 169 (28.94%) Agile
5 160 (27.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 106 (18.15%) Microservices
7 84 (14.38%) Software Engineering
8 80 (13.70%) Test Automation
9 78 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (10.79%) Continuous Integration
11 62 (10.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 60 (10.27%) Configuration Management
12 60 (10.27%) Scrum
13 47 (8.05%) GitOps
14 43 (7.36%) High Availability
15 42 (7.19%) Full Stack Development
16 40 (6.85%) Collaborative Working
16 40 (6.85%) Technical Leadership
17 36 (6.16%) TDD
18 35 (5.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 235 (40.24%) Python
2 154 (26.37%) Java
3 85 (14.55%) Bash
4 82 (14.04%) PowerShell
5 64 (10.96%) SQL
6 51 (8.73%) JavaScript
7 45 (7.71%) C#
8 44 (7.53%) Go
9 39 (6.68%) Scala
10 37 (6.34%) TypeScript
11 33 (5.65%) Shell Script
12 28 (4.79%) Ruby
13 27 (4.62%) Bicep
14 21 (3.60%) VB
14 21 (3.60%) VBScript
15 20 (3.42%) Groovy
16 19 (3.25%) C
17 14 (2.40%) Perl
18 10 (1.71%) C++
18 10 (1.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 238 (40.75%) Security Cleared
2 169 (28.94%) SC Cleared
3 91 (15.58%) DV Cleared
4 53 (9.08%) Degree
5 23 (3.94%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 20 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (2.05%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.34%) SANS
13 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.17%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.17%) LPIC
13 1 (0.17%) OCP
13 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.85%) QA
2 15 (2.57%) GDPR
3 12 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.05%) NIST
4 10 (1.71%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.86%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.86%) SLA
6 3 (0.51%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 328 (56.16%) Docker
2 48 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (7.53%) Active Directory
4 34 (5.82%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (3.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 23 (3.94%) VMware NSX
6 16 (2.74%) Hyper-V
7 14 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.54%) vCloud
8 9 (1.54%) vSphere
9 3 (0.51%) HDFS
9 3 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.34%) KVM
10 2 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.17%) Lustre
11 1 (0.17%) NFS
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 226 (38.70%) Terraform
2 173 (29.62%) Ansible
3 88 (15.07%) Prometheus
4 83 (14.21%) Grafana
5 39 (6.68%) Kibana
5 39 (6.68%) Progress Chef
6 34 (5.82%) Docker Swarm
6 34 (5.82%) Istio
7 33 (5.65%) Puppet
8 28 (4.79%) Rancher
8 28 (4.79%) SCOM
9 23 (3.94%) SCCM
10 21 (3.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (3.60%) WSUS
11 20 (3.42%) Argo
12 14 (2.40%) logstash
12 14 (2.40%) Packer
12 14 (2.40%) Podman
13 13 (2.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 66 (11.30%) VMware
3 46 (7.88%) Splunk
4 36 (6.16%) Red Hat
5 30 (5.14%) Google
6 19 (3.25%) Oracle
7 17 (2.91%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.23%) Databricks
9 8 (1.37%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.37%) Dell
9 8 (1.37%) IBM
10 7 (1.20%) HP
11 6 (1.03%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.03%) Cisco
11 6 (1.03%) Veritas
11 6 (1.03%) WSO2
12 5 (0.86%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.86%) F5
12 5 (0.86%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.86%) Veracode