Kubernetes Contracts in Central London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 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 35 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 125 253 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.17% 6.90% 7.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.94% 42.24% 41.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 151 277
10th Percentile £433 £500 £475
25th Percentile £492 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +10.64%
75th Percentile £703 £741 £756
90th Percentile £796 £800 £814
London median daily rate £575 £636 £648
% change year-on-year -9.63% -1.81% +17.82%

All Systems Management Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 321 599 813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.27% 16.33% 18.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 397 664
10th Percentile £350 £367 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.26% +6.68%
75th Percentile £657 £700 £721
90th Percentile £762 £775 £788
London median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 2
10th Percentile - £23.09 £26.23
25th Percentile £12.75 £36.25 £27.69
Median hourly rate £20.25 £84.09 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -75.92% +173.46% +56.95%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £33.19
90th Percentile £43.28 - £34.28
London median hourly rate £24.18 £64.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -62.22% +167.67% -24.10%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London 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
City of London -6 121 £600 -5.88% 42
West End of London - 2 £450 - 4
City of Westminster -3 1 £725 -9.38% 2
Camden - 1 £450 - 2
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 5 (4.00%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.60%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.60%) nginx
3 2 (1.60%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.60%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.80%) Apache
4 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.80%) Camunda
4 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.80%) Endur
1 1 (0.80%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 65 (52.00%) AWS
2 52 (41.60%) Azure
3 21 (16.80%) GitHub
4 18 (14.40%) Serverless
5 17 (13.60%) GCP
6 15 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (9.60%) Azure AKS
8 11 (8.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.20%) Azure Functions
11 8 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (6.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.20%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (3.20%) Snowflake
14 3 (2.40%) Amazon EventBridge
14 3 (2.40%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.20%) Firewall
2 2 (1.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.80%) AMQP
3 1 (0.80%) FTP
3 1 (0.80%) HTTP
3 1 (0.80%) MQTT
3 1 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.40%) MongoDB
2 13 (10.40%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.40%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.40%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.80%) DynamoDB
4 6 (4.80%) MySQL
5 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.00%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.20%) Tableau
7 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.80%) Big Data
8 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.80%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.80%) Scylla
8 1 (0.80%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 19 (15.20%) Git
2 18 (14.40%) Jenkins
3 17 (13.60%) GitLab
4 7 (5.60%) JMeter
4 7 (5.60%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.80%) CircleCI
5 6 (4.80%) Selenium
6 5 (4.00%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.20%) Maven
8 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.40%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.40%) Gradle
8 3 (2.40%) JUnit
8 3 (2.40%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (2.40%) Mercurial
8 3 (2.40%) Mockito
8 3 (2.40%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.60%) JIRA
9 2 (1.60%) Postman
General
1 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.80%) Finance
3 17 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.00%) Banking
5 8 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.00%) Marketing
7 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.80%) Advertising
9 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Front Office
9 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.80%) Law
9 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (21.60%) Developer
2 21 (16.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (14.40%) Senior
4 15 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Site Engineer
6 11 (8.80%) Full Stack Developer
7 10 (8.00%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Lead
9 7 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Architect
10 6 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.00%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (33.60%) Kafka
2 21 (16.80%) RESTful
3 16 (12.80%) .NET
4 12 (9.60%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (9.60%) React
5 10 (8.00%) pytest
6 9 (7.20%) Node.js
6 9 (7.20%) Spring
6 9 (7.20%) Spring Boot
7 8 (6.40%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.60%) HTML
8 7 (5.60%) REST
8 7 (5.60%) Svelte
9 6 (4.80%) Web Services
10 4 (3.20%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.20%) CSS
10 4 (3.20%) Matplotlib
10 4 (3.20%) Pandas
10 4 (3.20%) PyTorch
10 4 (3.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.40%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.20%) Data Structures
3 12 (9.60%) Algorithms
4 9 (7.20%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.40%) Machine to Machine
8 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.60%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.60%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.80%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.60%) Linux
2 10 (8.00%) Windows
3 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.80%) Android
4 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (48.80%) DevOps
2 58 (46.40%) CI/CD
3 30 (24.00%) Microservices
4 23 (18.40%) Agile
5 21 (16.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 17 (13.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (13.60%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (12.80%) Containerisation
7 16 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 13 (10.40%) Full Stack Development
10 12 (9.60%) Task Automation
11 11 (8.80%) Analytical Thinking
11 11 (8.80%) Architectural Design
11 11 (8.80%) Open Source
12 10 (8.00%) Computer Science
12 10 (8.00%) Test Automation
13 9 (7.20%) Machine Learning
13 9 (7.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 72 (57.60%) Python
2 37 (29.60%) SQL
3 36 (28.80%) Java
4 18 (14.40%) Go
5 15 (12.00%) Bash
6 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
7 13 (10.40%) C#
7 13 (10.40%) C++
8 12 (9.60%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.60%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.60%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.60%) Clojure
11 2 (1.60%) Haskell
11 2 (1.60%) PHP
11 2 (1.60%) Rust
12 1 (0.80%) R
12 1 (0.80%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.00%) Degree
4 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.80%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) Actionable Recommendations
1 4 (3.20%) QA
2 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.80%) GDPR
3 1 (0.80%) NCSC
3 1 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (53.60%) Docker
2 11 (8.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.80%) Ceph
5 1 (0.80%) NFS
Systems Management
1 43 (34.40%) Terraform
2 19 (15.20%) Prometheus
3 17 (13.60%) Grafana
4 14 (11.20%) Ansible
5 12 (9.60%) Consul
6 5 (4.00%) Argo
6 5 (4.00%) Puppet
7 4 (3.20%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.40%) Nagios
9 2 (1.60%) Graylog
9 2 (1.60%) Packer
10 1 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.80%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.80%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.80%) Kibana
10 1 (0.80%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.80%) Mesos
10 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.40%) Databricks
3 11 (8.80%) SaltStack
4 8 (6.40%) Oracle
5 7 (5.60%) Splunk
6 5 (4.00%) Google
7 3 (2.40%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.40%) VMware
8 2 (1.60%) IBM
8 2 (1.60%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.60%) New Relic
8 2 (1.60%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.80%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.80%) Brio
9 1 (0.80%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco
9 1 (0.80%) Confluent
9 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.80%) Juniper
9 1 (0.80%) Veracode