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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 30 29
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,594 3,403 5,712
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.75% 5.94% 6.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.28% 37.32% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 2,442 4,162
10th Percentile £413 £456 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +12.56%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £787 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.30% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 42 13
10th Percentile £46.20 £50.08 £41.87
25th Percentile £53.13 £60.84 £46.25
Median hourly rate £64.50 £70.00 £48.36
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +44.76% +1.86%
75th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.85 £90.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.75 £64.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +1.17% +34.74% +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 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -23 1,342 £550 -12.00% 1,008
London -21 814 £563 -11.76% 591
Work from Home -13 600 £575 -4.17% 581
UK excluding London -21 540 £533 -7.30% 590
North of England -14 157 £525 -12.50% 126
South East -11 151 £575 -2.13% 236
South West -26 93 £550 - 85
Scotland -5 78 £487 -11.45% 39
Yorkshire +6 76 £520 -16.80% 43
North West -28 71 £550 -6.38% 71
Midlands -31 28 £463 -26.00% 55
East of England -30 23 £600 -7.69% 29
West Midlands -22 19 £500 -28.57% 33
North East -12 12 £413 -41.07% 12
Wales +21 10 £500 -16.67% 13
East Midlands -13 9 £363 -48.21% 22
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 11

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 86 (5.40%) Confluence
2 62 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (2.89%) Apache
4 32 (2.01%) OpenStack
5 31 (1.94%) Apache Spark
6 29 (1.82%) nginx
7 27 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
8 9 (0.56%) CMS
9 8 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
9 8 (0.50%) JBoss
10 7 (0.44%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.38%) SAS
12 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.31%) Camunda
12 5 (0.31%) IIS
12 5 (0.31%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.063%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.31%) Endur
3 1 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.063%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.063%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.063%) RMDS
3 1 (0.063%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 910 (57.09%) AWS
2 567 (35.57%) Azure
3 292 (18.32%) GCP
4 169 (10.60%) OpenShift
4 169 (10.60%) Serverless
5 150 (9.41%) Amazon S3
6 144 (9.03%) GitHub
7 128 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
8 123 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
9 120 (7.53%) Amazon EC2
10 114 (7.15%) Azure DevOps
11 90 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 74 (4.64%) Azure AKS
13 70 (4.39%) PaaS
14 61 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 58 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
16 51 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 50 (3.14%) IaaS
17 50 (3.14%) SaaS
17 50 (3.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.08%) Firewall
2 69 (4.33%) DNS
3 59 (3.70%) HTTP
4 38 (2.38%) DHCP
5 37 (2.32%) TCP/IP
5 37 (2.32%) VPN
6 36 (2.26%) Network Security
7 28 (1.76%) SAN
8 17 (1.07%) NAS
9 9 (0.56%) AMQP
9 9 (0.56%) HTTPS
9 9 (0.56%) Kerberos
9 9 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
9 9 (0.56%) VSAN
9 9 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.50%) SSL
10 8 (0.50%) WAN
11 7 (0.44%) 5G
11 7 (0.44%) VLAN
12 6 (0.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (6.84%) NoSQL
3 95 (5.96%) Apache Cassandra
4 94 (5.90%) Relational Database
5 79 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
6 75 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
7 72 (4.52%) MongoDB
8 60 (3.76%) MySQL
9 55 (3.45%) SQL Server
10 42 (2.63%) Big Data
11 40 (2.51%) Data Lake
12 33 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
13 32 (2.01%) RDBMS
14 29 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
15 28 (1.76%) DynamoDB
16 24 (1.51%) BigQuery
17 22 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
18 18 (1.13%) Apache Arrow
18 18 (1.13%) Dremio
19 17 (1.07%) Flink
Development Applications
1 359 (22.52%) Jenkins
2 307 (19.26%) Git
3 206 (12.92%) GitLab
4 132 (8.28%) JIRA
5 58 (3.64%) SonarQube
6 52 (3.26%) Selenium
7 46 (2.89%) JUnit
8 40 (2.51%) Cucumber
9 37 (2.32%) Bitbucket
10 35 (2.20%) TeamCity
11 33 (2.07%) Artifactory
11 33 (2.07%) Maven
12 31 (1.94%) JMeter
13 28 (1.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 28 (1.76%) Cypress.io
14 25 (1.57%) CircleCI
15 24 (1.51%) Mockito
16 21 (1.32%) Gradle
17 19 (1.19%) REST Assured
18 16 (1.00%) Travis CI
General
1 283 (17.75%) Social Skills
2 201 (12.61%) Finance
3 118 (7.40%) Public Sector
4 91 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (5.02%) Banking
6 30 (1.88%) Telecoms
7 23 (1.44%) Investment Banking
8 22 (1.38%) Law
8 22 (1.38%) Retail
9 15 (0.94%) Tech for Good
10 13 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 9 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.50%) Front Office
13 8 (0.50%) Marketing
13 8 (0.50%) Police
14 6 (0.38%) Legal
15 4 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 379 (23.78%) Developer
2 359 (22.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 195 (12.23%) Senior
4 138 (8.66%) AWS Engineer
5 113 (7.09%) Software Engineer
6 102 (6.40%) Architect
7 101 (6.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 99 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
9 94 (5.90%) Java Developer
10 92 (5.77%) Lead
11 83 (5.21%) AWS DevOps
12 82 (5.14%) Site Engineer
13 80 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
14 74 (4.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 68 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
16 58 (3.64%) Full Stack Developer
17 54 (3.39%) Senior Software Engineer
18 52 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
19 51 (3.20%) Python Engineer
20 49 (3.07%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (18.01%) Kafka
2 156 (9.79%) React
3 140 (8.78%) Node.js
3 140 (8.78%) Spring Boot
4 138 (8.66%) REST
5 119 (7.47%) Spring
6 113 (7.09%) RESTful
7 91 (5.71%) .NET
8 86 (5.40%) Elastic Stack
9 52 (3.26%) ARM Templates
10 48 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
11 46 (2.89%) Akka
12 45 (2.82%) HTML
13 43 (2.70%) YAML
14 40 (2.51%) .NET Core
15 36 (2.26%) GraphQL
16 35 (2.20%) AngularJS
16 35 (2.20%) Web Services
17 33 (2.07%) CSS
18 32 (2.01%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 88 (5.52%) Cloud Native
2 81 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (4.58%) Public Cloud
4 56 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 48 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
6 40 (2.51%) Clustering
7 37 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 37 (2.32%) Data Centre
7 37 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
9 35 (2.20%) Product Ownership
10 30 (1.88%) PKI
11 28 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.69%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.44%) Management Information System
14 21 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.25%) Hedge funds
16 15 (0.94%) Private Cloud
17 14 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
18 12 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 370 (23.21%) Linux
2 132 (8.28%) Windows
3 99 (6.21%) Unix
4 67 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 60 (3.76%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.19%) CentOS
7 18 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (1.00%) VMS
9 15 (0.94%) Solaris
10 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.69%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.63%) Android
13 5 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.13%) Windows 2000
15 2 (0.13%) Windows XP
16 1 (0.063%) Debian
16 1 (0.063%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 873 (54.77%) DevOps
2 642 (40.28%) CI/CD
3 478 (29.99%) Agile
4 388 (24.34%) Containerisation
5 361 (22.65%) Microservices
6 318 (19.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 251 (15.75%) Software Engineering
8 202 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
9 184 (11.54%) Test Automation
10 157 (9.85%) Continuous Integration
11 147 (9.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 128 (8.03%) TDD
13 124 (7.78%) Scrum
14 116 (7.28%) Configuration Management
15 109 (6.84%) Full Stack Development
16 105 (6.59%) Platform Engineering
17 98 (6.15%) Computer Science
17 98 (6.15%) SDLC
18 92 (5.77%) High Availability
18 92 (5.77%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 628 (39.40%) Python
2 407 (25.53%) Java
3 230 (14.43%) SQL
4 204 (12.80%) Go
5 185 (11.61%) Bash
6 184 (11.54%) JavaScript
7 136 (8.53%) PowerShell
8 107 (6.71%) TypeScript
9 94 (5.90%) C#
10 84 (5.27%) Scala
11 77 (4.83%) Shell Script
12 45 (2.82%) Ruby
13 42 (2.63%) Perl
14 35 (2.20%) C++
15 33 (2.07%) C
16 28 (1.76%) Bicep
16 28 (1.76%) Groovy
17 20 (1.25%) Kotlin
17 20 (1.25%) PHP
18 17 (1.07%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 431 (27.04%) Security Cleared
2 340 (21.33%) SC Cleared
3 112 (7.03%) Degree
4 108 (6.78%) DV Cleared
5 58 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.51%) AWS Certification
7 30 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.31%) CISSP
14 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.19%) SANS
16 2 (0.13%) CISA
16 2 (0.13%) CISM
17 1 (0.063%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.64%) QA
2 20 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.00%) GDPR
3 16 (1.00%) NCSC
3 16 (1.00%) NIST
4 12 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.38%) SLA
7 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.19%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.063%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.063%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 926 (58.09%) Docker
2 73 (4.58%) Active Directory
2 73 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 21 (1.32%) VMware NSX
6 20 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.88%) vSphere
9 12 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 10 (0.63%) vCloud
11 6 (0.38%) Firmware
11 6 (0.38%) NFS
12 5 (0.31%) KVM
13 4 (0.25%) GPFS
13 4 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.13%) HDFS
14 2 (0.13%) Postfix
14 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 639 (40.09%) Terraform
2 346 (21.71%) Ansible
3 216 (13.55%) Prometheus
4 194 (12.17%) Grafana
5 83 (5.21%) Puppet
6 63 (3.95%) Progress Chef
7 44 (2.76%) Kibana
8 43 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
9 41 (2.57%) Istio
10 38 (2.38%) Argo
10 38 (2.38%) Packer
11 31 (1.94%) Consul
12 23 (1.44%) Rancher
13 22 (1.38%) SCOM
14 20 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (1.25%) SCCM
15 18 (1.13%) Nagios
16 17 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (1.07%) Podman
16 17 (1.07%) WSUS
Vendors
1 167 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 106 (6.65%) VMware
3 98 (6.15%) Splunk
4 97 (6.09%) Oracle
5 90 (5.65%) Google
6 51 (3.20%) Red Hat
7 40 (2.51%) Databricks
8 25 (1.57%) IBM
9 23 (1.44%) CyberArk
10 22 (1.38%) SAP
11 21 (1.32%) Typelevel
12 20 (1.25%) Dell
13 18 (1.13%) Cisco
14 17 (1.07%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.88%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.88%) Veritas
16 13 (0.82%) AppDynamics
16 13 (0.82%) HP
16 13 (0.82%) MuleSoft
17 12 (0.75%) SaltStack