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 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 43 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 814 1,994 3,116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.66% 7.66% 8.00%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.14% 46.82% 46.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 1,454 2,400
10th Percentile £413 £475 £475
25th Percentile £475 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £638 £638
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - +15.91%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £725
90th Percentile £775 £813 £800
England median daily rate £550 £625 £615
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.63% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 3
10th Percentile £55.25 £63.00 £76.50
25th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £76.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £80.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +1.59% +15.81%
75th Percentile £62.88 £90.00 £80.63
90th Percentile £65.35 - £81.75
England median hourly rate £62.00 £73.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +21.67% +18.23%

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 2,192 4,259 6,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.54% 16.37% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 3,094 5,113
10th Percentile £321 £400 £423
25th Percentile £431 £500 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +13.74%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £798 £788
England median daily rate £515 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.40% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 44 49
10th Percentile £20.00 £22.90 £14.95
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.71 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £64.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -61.24% +169.76% -40.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £84.32 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.40 £90.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.58% +142.47% -13.13%

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 20 May 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 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
Central London -12 116 £588 -6.00% 35
South London +3 44 £525 -10.64% 3
West London -6 26 £375 -37.50% 14
East London -3 4 £493 -38.44% 132
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 45 (5.53%) Confluence
2 39 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.21%) nginx
3 18 (2.21%) OpenStack
4 16 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.72%) Apache
6 8 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
7 7 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.74%) CMS
8 6 (0.74%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
9 5 (0.61%) IIS
9 5 (0.61%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.49%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.49%) Camunda
10 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.37%) JBoss
11 3 (0.37%) Tornado
11 3 (0.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) Endur
2 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 447 (54.91%) AWS
2 261 (32.06%) Azure
3 166 (20.39%) GCP
4 97 (11.92%) Serverless
5 82 (10.07%) GitHub
6 70 (8.60%) Amazon S3
7 61 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (6.02%) OpenShift
12 44 (5.41%) Azure AKS
13 40 (4.91%) PaaS
14 38 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (3.07%) Azure Functions
16 25 (3.07%) Snowflake
16 25 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
17 24 (2.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.79%) HTTP
2 31 (3.81%) Firewall
3 23 (2.83%) DNS
4 15 (1.84%) DHCP
5 14 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.60%) Network Security
7 12 (1.47%) SAN
8 10 (1.23%) NAS
9 8 (0.98%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.98%) VPN
10 6 (0.74%) VLAN
10 6 (0.74%) WAN
10 6 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.49%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.49%) LAN
11 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.37%) DMZ
12 3 (0.37%) Internet
12 3 (0.37%) IPv4
12 3 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (8.60%) NoSQL
2 61 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (7.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 52 (6.39%) MongoDB
5 45 (5.53%) Relational Database
6 41 (5.04%) SQL Server
7 39 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (4.18%) Big Data
9 29 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
10 24 (2.95%) Data Lake
11 22 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (2.46%) MySQL
13 19 (2.33%) BigQuery
14 18 (2.21%) Apache Arrow
14 18 (2.21%) Dremio
15 17 (2.09%) RDBMS
16 16 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (1.97%) DynamoDB
17 11 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
18 10 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 185 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 146 (17.94%) Git
3 75 (9.21%) GitLab
4 58 (7.13%) JIRA
5 28 (3.44%) TeamCity
6 26 (3.19%) Selenium
7 24 (2.95%) Cypress.io
8 23 (2.83%) JUnit
9 21 (2.58%) Bitbucket
9 21 (2.58%) JMeter
10 19 (2.33%) Cucumber
10 19 (2.33%) Maven
11 16 (1.97%) Mockito
12 15 (1.84%) SonarQube
13 14 (1.72%) Artifactory
14 11 (1.35%) CircleCI
15 9 (1.11%) Gradle
15 9 (1.11%) TestNG
16 7 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.86%) ScalaTest
General
1 160 (19.66%) Finance
2 132 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 53 (6.51%) Public Sector
4 51 (6.27%) Banking
5 49 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (1.97%) Investment Banking
7 15 (1.84%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.60%) Law
8 13 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.23%) Retail
10 9 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.11%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.98%) Front Office
12 7 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Marketing
14 4 (0.49%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.37%) Billing
15 3 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.37%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 227 (27.89%) Developer
2 164 (20.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 105 (12.90%) Senior
4 81 (9.95%) AWS Engineer
5 57 (7.00%) Architect
6 54 (6.63%) Software Engineer
7 51 (6.27%) Java Developer
8 49 (6.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 48 (5.90%) Azure Engineer
10 45 (5.53%) Lead
11 43 (5.28%) Site Engineer
12 41 (5.04%) Full Stack Developer
13 40 (4.91%) Scala Developer
14 39 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
15 37 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
16 36 (4.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 35 (4.30%) Python Engineer
18 33 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
19 30 (3.69%) Python Developer
20 27 (3.32%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (22.11%) Kafka
2 91 (11.18%) React
3 79 (9.71%) Node.js
4 78 (9.58%) RESTful
5 73 (8.97%) Spring Boot
6 68 (8.35%) REST
7 67 (8.23%) .NET
8 63 (7.74%) Spring
9 42 (5.16%) Akka
10 36 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
11 34 (4.18%) .NET Core
12 32 (3.93%) HTML
13 26 (3.19%) gRPC
13 26 (3.19%) Web Services
14 25 (3.07%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (2.58%) AngularJS
16 19 (2.33%) CSS
16 19 (2.33%) OAuth
17 18 (2.21%) Hibernate
17 18 (2.21%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (4.18%) Clustering
2 34 (4.18%) Public Cloud
3 33 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 31 (3.81%) Data Structures
5 30 (3.69%) Algorithms
6 27 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
6 27 (3.32%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.46%) Hedge funds
8 19 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.11%) Replication
14 8 (0.98%) Derivative
15 7 (0.86%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 168 (20.64%) Linux
2 48 (5.90%) Windows
3 46 (5.65%) Unix
4 21 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.11%) Android
8 7 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.74%) Solaris
10 5 (0.61%) CentOS
11 3 (0.37%) VMS
12 1 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.12%) Debian
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (52.33%) DevOps
2 328 (40.29%) CI/CD
3 258 (31.70%) Agile
4 243 (29.85%) Microservices
5 153 (18.80%) Containerisation
6 127 (15.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 118 (14.50%) Software Engineering
8 104 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (10.69%) TDD
9 87 (10.69%) Test Automation
10 75 (9.21%) Continuous Integration
10 75 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 66 (8.11%) SDLC
12 60 (7.37%) Full Stack Development
13 58 (7.13%) Platform Engineering
14 57 (7.00%) Scrum
15 54 (6.63%) Machine Learning
16 50 (6.14%) High Availability
17 49 (6.02%) Computer Science
18 46 (5.65%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 336 (41.28%) Python
2 233 (28.62%) Java
3 146 (17.94%) SQL
4 123 (15.11%) JavaScript
5 110 (13.51%) Go
6 79 (9.71%) Bash
7 57 (7.00%) TypeScript
8 52 (6.39%) C#
9 50 (6.14%) PowerShell
10 49 (6.02%) Scala
11 35 (4.30%) Shell Script
12 29 (3.56%) C++
13 13 (1.60%) Ruby
14 12 (1.47%) C
14 12 (1.47%) Groovy
14 12 (1.47%) Perl
15 9 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.11%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.11%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 191 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 164 (20.15%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.63%) Degree
4 29 (3.56%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.21%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.49%) CISSP
12 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.25%) CISA
13 2 (0.25%) CISM
13 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.12%) MCSA
14 1 (0.12%) OCP
14 1 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.72%) QA
2 11 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (0.86%) NIST
4 6 (0.74%) GDPR
4 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.49%) NCSC
7 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 463 (56.88%) Docker
2 29 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.72%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (0.74%) Firmware
8 5 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.37%) KVM
9 3 (0.37%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.12%) Ceph
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 331 (40.66%) Terraform
2 139 (17.08%) Ansible
3 97 (11.92%) Prometheus
4 83 (10.20%) Grafana
5 32 (3.93%) Puppet
6 26 (3.19%) Consul
7 20 (2.46%) Packer
8 17 (2.09%) Argo
8 17 (2.09%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.23%) Kibana
10 9 (1.11%) Netcool
11 7 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.74%) Istio
12 6 (0.74%) Tivoli
12 6 (0.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 5 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.61%) Nagios
13 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.49%) Nessus
Vendors
1 95 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.23%) Oracle
3 47 (5.77%) Google
4 39 (4.79%) VMware
5 38 (4.67%) Splunk
6 22 (2.70%) Databricks
7 20 (2.46%) Typelevel
8 16 (1.97%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.84%) CyberArk
9 15 (1.84%) IBM
10 14 (1.72%) Cisco
10 14 (1.72%) Dell
11 12 (1.47%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.47%) SaltStack
12 11 (1.35%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.98%) AppDynamics
13 8 (0.98%) HP
14 6 (0.74%) EMC
14 6 (0.74%) SAP
14 6 (0.74%) Serena