Kubernetes Contracts in London

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 879 1,929 3,058
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.98% 7.63% 7.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.54% 46.34% 45.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 1,413 2,356
10th Percentile £413 £463 £475
25th Percentile £475 £550 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -1.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £734
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £625 £622
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.56% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 4
10th Percentile £56.20 £63.00 £76.34
25th Percentile £58.00 £75.00 £76.48
Median hourly rate £61.00 £80.00 £78.44
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +1.99% +17.95%
75th Percentile £64.00 £90.00 £80.39
90th Percentile £65.80 - £81.66
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year -9.46% +7.64% +33.50%

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,281 4,163 6,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.92% 16.47% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 3,037 5,060
10th Percentile £325 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £575 £572
% change year-on-year -9.57% +0.48% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 46 50
10th Percentile £20.00 £23.00 £14.98
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £21.50
Median hourly rate £24.18 £63.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -61.92% +165.58% -40.23%
75th Percentile £50.25 £81.88 £34.69
90th Percentile £70.40 £90.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +144.19% -12.07%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London -11 121 £600 -4.95% 42
South London +4 42 £525 -6.25% 5
West London -8 27 £388 -35.42% 17
East London -6 3 £445 -44.38% 4
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 48 (5.46%) Confluence
2 44 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.16%) Apache
3 19 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.05%) nginx
5 17 (1.93%) OpenStack
6 9 (1.02%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
7 7 (0.80%) CMS
7 7 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.68%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.57%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.57%) IIS
10 4 (0.46%) Camunda
10 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.46%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.46%) WildFly
11 3 (0.34%) JBoss
11 3 (0.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Endur
2 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 473 (53.81%) AWS
2 286 (32.54%) Azure
3 189 (21.50%) GCP
4 99 (11.26%) Serverless
5 82 (9.33%) GitHub
6 71 (8.08%) Amazon S3
7 61 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
9 55 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
10 52 (5.92%) OpenShift
11 50 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
11 50 (5.69%) Azure AKS
12 41 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (4.66%) PaaS
13 35 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
14 28 (3.19%) Snowflake
15 26 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 25 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
17 24 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.23%) HTTP
2 29 (3.30%) Firewall
3 26 (2.96%) DNS
4 14 (1.59%) DHCP
4 14 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.37%) Network Security
6 11 (1.25%) SAN
7 9 (1.02%) Kerberos
7 9 (1.02%) NAS
8 8 (0.91%) VPN
9 6 (0.68%) AMQP
10 5 (0.57%) VLAN
10 5 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.46%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.46%) SSL
11 4 (0.46%) WAN
12 3 (0.34%) Internet
12 3 (0.34%) IPv4
12 3 (0.34%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (9.90%) NoSQL
2 63 (7.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 61 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (6.03%) MongoDB
5 48 (5.46%) Relational Database
6 41 (4.66%) SQL Server
7 38 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (3.87%) Big Data
9 30 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
10 28 (3.19%) MySQL
11 25 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (2.84%) Data Lake
12 22 (2.50%) BigQuery
13 20 (2.28%) DynamoDB
14 18 (2.05%) Apache Arrow
14 18 (2.05%) Dremio
14 18 (2.05%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
17 11 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 186 (21.16%) Jenkins
2 152 (17.29%) Git
3 80 (9.10%) GitLab
4 61 (6.94%) JIRA
5 28 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 22 (2.50%) Cypress.io
6 22 (2.50%) JMeter
7 21 (2.39%) JUnit
7 21 (2.39%) Selenium
8 19 (2.16%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.82%) Artifactory
10 15 (1.71%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.71%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.59%) Mockito
12 12 (1.37%) Maven
13 10 (1.14%) CircleCI
14 9 (1.02%) Gradle
15 7 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.80%) ScalaTest
16 6 (0.68%) Mercurial
General
1 186 (21.16%) Finance
2 136 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 72 (8.19%) Banking
4 60 (6.83%) Public Sector
5 54 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.05%) Investment Banking
7 14 (1.59%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.25%) Front Office
8 11 (1.25%) Law
9 10 (1.14%) Retail
10 9 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.02%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.91%) Marketing
12 7 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.34%) Billing
16 3 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 242 (27.53%) Developer
2 171 (19.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 126 (14.33%) Senior
4 86 (9.78%) AWS Engineer
5 60 (6.83%) Java Developer
6 58 (6.60%) Software Engineer
7 55 (6.26%) Azure Engineer
8 51 (5.80%) Architect
8 51 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 48 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 48 (5.46%) Lead
10 46 (5.23%) Scala Developer
11 45 (5.12%) Site Engineer
12 39 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
12 39 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 38 (4.32%) Full Stack Developer
14 36 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
15 35 (3.98%) Data Engineer
15 35 (3.98%) Senior Developer
16 33 (3.75%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (23.66%) Kafka
2 96 (10.92%) React
3 88 (10.01%) RESTful
4 78 (8.87%) Node.js
5 77 (8.76%) .NET
6 75 (8.53%) Spring Boot
7 67 (7.62%) REST
8 66 (7.51%) Spring
9 48 (5.46%) Akka
10 38 (4.32%) HTML
11 35 (3.98%) .NET Core
11 35 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
13 29 (3.30%) gRPC
14 28 (3.19%) Web Services
15 25 (2.84%) CSS
15 25 (2.84%) GraphQL
16 24 (2.73%) AngularJS
17 18 (2.05%) Hibernate
17 18 (2.05%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (3.98%) Data Structures
3 34 (3.87%) Algorithms
3 34 (3.87%) Public Cloud
4 33 (3.75%) Clustering
5 30 (3.41%) Cloud Native
6 29 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 28 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (2.28%) Hedge funds
9 19 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.37%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.25%) Replication
13 11 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.91%) Derivative
14 8 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.91%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.80%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 167 (19.00%) Linux
2 53 (6.03%) Unix
3 42 (4.78%) Windows
4 22 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.02%) Android
8 6 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.57%) Solaris
10 4 (0.46%) CentOS
10 4 (0.46%) VMS
11 1 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Debian
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (53.13%) DevOps
2 345 (39.25%) CI/CD
3 283 (32.20%) Agile
4 264 (30.03%) Microservices
5 168 (19.11%) Containerisation
6 142 (16.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 127 (14.45%) Software Engineering
8 114 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
9 99 (11.26%) TDD
10 85 (9.67%) Test Automation
11 81 (9.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 75 (8.53%) Continuous Integration
13 66 (7.51%) SDLC
14 63 (7.17%) Platform Engineering
15 61 (6.94%) Machine Learning
16 59 (6.71%) Scrum
17 56 (6.37%) Full Stack Development
18 55 (6.26%) Computer Science
19 52 (5.92%) Configuration Management
20 51 (5.80%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 342 (38.91%) Python
2 255 (29.01%) Java
3 158 (17.97%) SQL
4 127 (14.45%) JavaScript
5 120 (13.65%) Go
6 81 (9.22%) Bash
7 64 (7.28%) C#
8 63 (7.17%) TypeScript
9 60 (6.83%) Scala
10 47 (5.35%) PowerShell
11 45 (5.12%) Shell Script
12 29 (3.30%) C++
13 17 (1.93%) Groovy
13 17 (1.93%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.48%) Ruby
15 11 (1.25%) C
16 9 (1.02%) Perl
17 8 (0.91%) PHP
17 8 (0.91%) Rust
18 6 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 191 (21.73%) Security Cleared
2 165 (18.77%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.60%) Degree
4 28 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (3.19%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.62%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.71%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.34%) CISSP
11 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.23%) CISA
12 2 (0.23%) CISM
12 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.11%) OCP
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (1.71%) QA
2 9 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.68%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.68%) GDPR
3 6 (0.68%) NIST
4 5 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.46%) NCSC
5 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 490 (55.75%) Docker
2 33 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 12 (1.37%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.68%) Firmware
7 5 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.34%) KVM
8 3 (0.34%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.11%) Ceph
9 1 (0.11%) NFS
9 1 (0.11%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 354 (40.27%) Terraform
2 148 (16.84%) Ansible
3 102 (11.60%) Prometheus
4 92 (10.47%) Grafana
5 34 (3.87%) Puppet
6 23 (2.62%) Consul
7 20 (2.28%) Packer
8 19 (2.16%) Argo
9 17 (1.93%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.91%) Istio
10 8 (0.91%) Kibana
10 8 (0.91%) Netcool
11 7 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
12 5 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.57%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (0.34%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.34%) Nessus
Vendors
1 101 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.19%) Oracle
3 57 (6.48%) Google
4 36 (4.10%) Splunk
5 32 (3.64%) VMware
6 26 (2.96%) Databricks
7 22 (2.50%) Typelevel
8 15 (1.71%) IBM
9 14 (1.59%) CyberArk
10 13 (1.48%) Cisco
10 13 (1.48%) Dell
11 12 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.37%) SaltStack
12 11 (1.25%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.14%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.91%) AppDynamics
14 8 (0.91%) Confluent
15 7 (0.80%) HP
15 7 (0.80%) Informatica
16 6 (0.68%) SAP