Kubernetes Contracts in the East of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 86 46 60
Rank change year-on-year -40 +14 -24
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 27 75 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.38% 3.85% 3.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.84% 27.27% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 59 76
10th Percentile £475 £425 £483
25th Percentile £506 £518 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £678
90th Percentile £700 - £731
England median daily rate £550 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +31.82% -
75th Percentile - £73.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.33% +25.00% +20.00%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 97 275 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 4.95% 14.12% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 197 271
10th Percentile £195 £273 £248
25th Percentile £285 £410 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £629 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -6.45% -25.45%
75th Percentile £16.25 £46.13 £18.47
90th Percentile £32.50 £73.75 £50.50
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +1 11 £575 +4.64% 5
Cambridgeshire -12 8 £525 -2.33% 16
Essex -2 3 £375 -28.77% 4
Bedfordshire -4 3 £600 +9.09%
Suffolk -5 2 £625 -10.71%
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.41%) CloudFront
4 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) dbt
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) BGP
1 2 (7.41%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
1 2 (7.41%) LAN
1 2 (7.41%) OSPF
1 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
1 2 (7.41%) VPN
1 2 (7.41%) WAN
1 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.41%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) Couchbase
4 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Git
2 7 (25.93%) JUnit
2 7 (25.93%) Mockito
3 3 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.41%) GitLab
4 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Advertising
3 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Unix Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Network Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Network Technical Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (3.70%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Scala Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) RESTful
1 8 (29.63%) Spring
1 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
2 7 (25.93%) Drools
2 7 (25.93%) Quarkus
3 2 (7.41%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
3 2 (7.41%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.70%) Akka
4 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.70%) J2EE
4 1 (3.70%) Micronaut
4 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) FMCG
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Solaris
2 5 (18.52%) Unix
3 3 (11.11%) CentOS
3 3 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 9 (33.33%) TDD
3 8 (29.63%) DevOps
3 8 (29.63%) Microservices
4 7 (25.93%) Decision Table
5 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 5 (18.52%) Change Management
6 5 (18.52%) ITIL
7 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.41%) Agile
8 2 (7.41%) Capacity Management
8 2 (7.41%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (7.41%) Clean Code
8 2 (7.41%) Computer Science
8 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (7.41%) Planning and Forecasting
8 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (7.41%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Java
2 7 (25.93%) SQL
3 6 (22.22%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 3 (11.11%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.70%) Ruby
6 1 (3.70%) Scala
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
3 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.41%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (3.70%) LPIC
5 1 (3.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Docker
2 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (18.52%) Hyper-V
3 5 (18.52%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.70%) KVM
4 1 (3.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Ansible
2 6 (22.22%) Rancher
3 5 (18.52%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (18.52%) SCOM
3 5 (18.52%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Terraform
5 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.70%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.70%) Kibana
6 1 (3.70%) logstash
6 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Red Hat
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Dell
3 5 (18.52%) HP
3 5 (18.52%) IBM
4 4 (14.81%) Splunk
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco
5 2 (7.41%) F5
5 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.41%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.70%) BT
6 1 (3.70%) Typelevel