Kubernetes Contracts in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 63 55 45
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 174 215 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.02% 3.80% 4.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.14% 29.01% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 163 211
10th Percentile £413 £475 £388
25th Percentile £458 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +17.50%
75th Percentile £613 £691 £650
90th Percentile £675 £729 £738
England median daily rate £550 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £37.70 - -
25th Percentile £39.13 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% - -
75th Percentile £46.63 - -
90th Percentile £47.90 - -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.33% +25.00% +20.00%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 786 741 1,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.66% 13.08% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 543 745
10th Percentile £225 £309 £251
25th Percentile £413 £450 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £680
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.50 £48.50 £17.21
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -43.05%
75th Percentile £49.06 £73.71 £46.69
90th Percentile £52.70 £75.75 £67.63
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South East 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
Thames Valley +19 115 £563 -6.25% 39
Berkshire +27 101 £600 +5.03% 31
Hampshire -23 27 £550 - 20
West Sussex -2 17 £463 -33.74% 4
Buckinghamshire +10 11 £540 -22.30% 3
Surrey -21 9 £650 +8.33% 13
Sussex -1 3 £550 -8.33%
Oxfordshire -7 3 £500 - 5
Middlesex -2 2 - - 1
East Sussex +1 1 - - 4
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 23 (13.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.47%) Confluence
3 6 (3.45%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.72%) Apache
4 3 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.57%) JBoss
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (47.70%) Azure
2 73 (41.95%) AWS
3 35 (20.11%) OpenShift
4 27 (15.52%) Entra ID
5 26 (14.94%) Azure Monitor
6 25 (14.37%) Azure Storage
7 23 (13.22%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (6.90%) GCP
9 12 (6.90%) Serverless
10 11 (6.32%) IaaS
11 8 (4.60%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.60%) GitHub
11 8 (4.60%) PaaS
12 7 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.45%) Azure AKS
13 6 (3.45%) SaaS
14 5 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 30 (17.24%) Firewall
2 26 (14.94%) DNS
3 23 (13.22%) DHCP
4 10 (5.75%) VSAN
5 4 (2.30%) VPN
6 3 (1.72%) Network Security
7 2 (1.15%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.15%) SSL
8 1 (0.57%) 3G
8 1 (0.57%) 4G
8 1 (0.57%) 5G
8 1 (0.57%) GPRS
8 1 (0.57%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.57%) SAN
8 1 (0.57%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.57%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.82%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.05%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.60%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.87%) MySQL
6 5 (2.87%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.72%) Big Data
8 3 (1.72%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.15%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.15%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.15%) Couchbase
9 2 (1.15%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.15%) Impala
9 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (19.54%) GitLab
2 30 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 28 (16.09%) Git
4 25 (14.37%) JIRA
5 15 (8.62%) Selenium
6 12 (6.90%) Cucumber
6 12 (6.90%) REST Assured
6 12 (6.90%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.45%) JMeter
8 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.72%) JUnit
8 3 (1.72%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.15%) Maven
10 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.57%) Mockito
10 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.57%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.57%) TestNG
10 1 (0.57%) Travis CI
General
1 63 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.60%) Law
4 8 (4.60%) Police
5 4 (2.30%) Finance
6 2 (1.15%) Automotive
6 2 (1.15%) Banking
6 2 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.15%) Legal
6 2 (1.15%) Retail
7 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (20.11%) Developer
2 24 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (13.22%) Senior
4 21 (12.07%) Active Directory Support
5 18 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 17 (9.77%) Site Engineer
6 17 (9.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 15 (8.62%) Linux Engineer
8 14 (8.05%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (8.05%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (8.05%) Support Specialist
9 12 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (5.17%) Architect
10 9 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.60%) Support Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) Active Directory Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) Active Directory Support Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) VMware Expert
13 6 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.54%) ARM Templates
2 26 (14.94%) Kafka
3 22 (12.64%) REST
4 12 (6.90%) Java EE
5 10 (5.75%) .NET
5 10 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (5.75%) Spring
6 9 (5.17%) Web Services
7 8 (4.60%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.02%) Node.js
9 6 (3.45%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.45%) React
10 5 (2.87%) OpenID
10 5 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.30%) Keycloak
11 4 (2.30%) LDAP
12 3 (1.72%) .NET Core
12 3 (1.72%) PyTorch
12 3 (1.72%) scikit-learn
12 3 (1.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.37%) Cloud Native
2 24 (13.79%) PKI
3 22 (12.64%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.75%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.02%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.87%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.72%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.72%) Smart Meter
8 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.15%) Clustering
10 1 (0.57%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.57%) IoT
10 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 67 (38.51%) Linux
2 31 (17.82%) Windows
3 25 (14.37%) Windows Server
4 22 (12.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (12.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (9.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (9.20%) Unix
8 10 (5.75%) VMS
9 5 (2.87%) Solaris
10 4 (2.30%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (63.22%) DevOps
2 71 (40.80%) Containerisation
3 70 (40.23%) Agile
4 67 (38.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (35.06%) CI/CD
6 34 (19.54%) Microservices
7 33 (18.97%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (17.82%) Test Automation
9 30 (17.24%) Software Engineering
10 27 (15.52%) ITIL
11 26 (14.94%) Collaborative Working
11 26 (14.94%) Release Management
12 25 (14.37%) Analytics
12 25 (14.37%) Identity Management
13 24 (13.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 22 (12.64%) Configuration Management
14 22 (12.64%) Log Analytics
14 22 (12.64%) Service Management
15 21 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (12.07%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 44 (25.29%) Java
2 43 (24.71%) Python
3 34 (19.54%) PowerShell
4 33 (18.97%) C#
5 22 (12.64%) Bicep
6 21 (12.07%) VB
6 21 (12.07%) VBScript
7 16 (9.20%) Bash
8 13 (7.47%) SQL
9 12 (6.90%) Go
10 11 (6.32%) JavaScript
11 9 (5.17%) C++
11 9 (5.17%) Ruby
12 8 (4.60%) Scala
13 6 (3.45%) C
13 6 (3.45%) Shell Script
14 5 (2.87%) PHP
15 4 (2.30%) Groovy
15 4 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (2.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 93 (53.45%) Security Cleared
2 80 (45.98%) SC Cleared
3 36 (20.69%) Degree
4 26 (14.94%) DV Cleared
5 21 (12.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) OCP
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.30%) NIST
2 3 (1.72%) GDPR
2 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.72%) QA
3 2 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (33.33%) Docker
2 32 (18.39%) Active Directory
3 31 (17.82%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (12.07%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (12.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (6.32%) VMware NSX
6 9 (5.17%) vCloud
7 7 (4.02%) vSphere
8 6 (3.45%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.57%) NFS
10 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 52 (29.89%) Terraform
2 49 (28.16%) Ansible
3 23 (13.22%) SCOM
4 21 (12.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (12.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (12.07%) SCCM
4 21 (12.07%) WSUS
5 20 (11.49%) Istio
6 17 (9.77%) Prometheus
7 16 (9.20%) Grafana
8 15 (8.62%) Argo
8 15 (8.62%) Rancher
9 14 (8.05%) Kibana
10 12 (6.90%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (6.90%) Podman
11 10 (5.75%) vCenter Server
12 8 (4.60%) Packer
13 7 (4.02%) vRealize
14 5 (2.87%) SELinux
15 4 (2.30%) yum
Vendors
1 34 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.67%) VMware
3 12 (6.90%) Red Hat
4 9 (5.17%) Google
5 8 (4.60%) Oracle
6 5 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.30%) Arqiva
7 4 (2.30%) Splunk
7 4 (2.30%) Veritas
8 3 (1.72%) Dell
8 3 (1.72%) New Relic
8 3 (1.72%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.15%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.15%) Foundry
9 2 (1.15%) HP
9 2 (1.15%) IBM
9 2 (1.15%) Palantir
9 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.15%) SAP
10 1 (0.57%) Databricks