Kubernetes Contracts in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 66 80
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 -38
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 119 88 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.47% 3.01% 2.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.18% 27.08% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 54 73
10th Percentile £413 £425 £410
25th Percentile £482 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £715 £614
90th Percentile £680 £750 £685
South East median daily rate £563 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -38.57% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 289 325 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.86% 11.12% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 238 277
10th Percentile £213 £334 £242
25th Percentile £410 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £588
90th Percentile £650 £741 £645
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 8
10th Percentile £20.20 £36.50 £10.88
25th Percentile £26.50 £52.69 £12.78
Median hourly rate £33.08 £66.00 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.88% +66.04% +0.63%
75th Percentile £39.75 £75.69 £68.75
90th Percentile £45.15 £83.82 £72.88
South East median hourly rate £37.33 £58.59 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.28% +172.51% -45.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Berkshire +34 103 £603 +5.47% 22
Buckinghamshire +17 13 £550 -20.86% 2
Oxfordshire -6 3 £500 +3.63% 9
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (19.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.36%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.52%) Confluence
4 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.84%) Apache
5 1 (0.84%) JBoss
5 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 60 (50.42%) Azure
2 41 (34.45%) AWS
3 33 (27.73%) OpenShift
4 28 (23.53%) Azure Monitor
5 27 (22.69%) Azure Storage
5 27 (22.69%) Entra ID
6 23 (19.33%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (10.08%) GCP
8 7 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (5.88%) Serverless
9 6 (5.04%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.04%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (5.04%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (4.20%) PaaS
11 4 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.36%) Azure API Management
11 4 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (3.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.69%) Firewall
2 25 (21.01%) DNS
3 23 (19.33%) DHCP
4 9 (7.56%) VSAN
5 5 (4.20%) VPN
6 3 (2.52%) Network Security
7 2 (1.68%) FTP
7 2 (1.68%) SMTP
8 1 (0.84%) 3G
8 1 (0.84%) 4G
8 1 (0.84%) 5G
8 1 (0.84%) GPRS
8 1 (0.84%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.84%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.84%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.61%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.36%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.52%) Big Data
5 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.52%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.68%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.68%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.68%) Impala
6 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.84%) MySQL
7 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (20.17%) Jenkins
2 18 (15.13%) GitLab
3 17 (14.29%) Git
3 17 (14.29%) JIRA
4 12 (10.08%) Cucumber
4 12 (10.08%) REST Assured
4 12 (10.08%) Selenium
4 12 (10.08%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.36%) Maven
6 3 (2.52%) JMeter
6 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.68%) Gradle
7 2 (1.68%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.68%) JUnit
8 1 (0.84%) Mockito
8 1 (0.84%) Spinnaker
General
1 58 (48.74%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.08%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.72%) Law
4 8 (6.72%) Police
5 2 (1.68%) Banking
5 2 (1.68%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (1.68%) Finance
5 2 (1.68%) Retail
6 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (18.49%) Active Directory Support
1 22 (18.49%) Developer
2 20 (16.81%) Senior
3 18 (15.13%) Site Engineer
3 18 (15.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 12 (10.08%) Active Directory Specialist
4 12 (10.08%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (10.08%) Azure Specialist
4 12 (10.08%) Support Specialist
5 10 (8.40%) Active Directory Engineer
5 10 (8.40%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 10 (8.40%) Java Developer
5 10 (8.40%) Support Engineer
6 9 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) VMware Expert
8 6 (5.04%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (29.41%) ARM Templates
2 24 (20.17%) Kafka
3 16 (13.45%) REST
4 12 (10.08%) Java EE
5 9 (7.56%) .NET
6 8 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (6.72%) Spring
7 7 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 7 (5.88%) Web Services
8 5 (4.20%) Node.js
9 4 (3.36%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.36%) React
10 3 (2.52%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.52%) Entity Framework
10 3 (2.52%) Google JAX
10 3 (2.52%) GraphQL
10 3 (2.52%) HTML
10 3 (2.52%) PyTorch
10 3 (2.52%) scikit-learn
10 3 (2.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.85%) Cloud Native
2 23 (19.33%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (18.49%) PKI
4 5 (4.20%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.52%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.68%) Wiki
8 1 (0.84%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.84%) IoT
8 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (33.61%) Linux
2 24 (20.17%) Windows
3 22 (18.49%) Windows Server
3 22 (18.49%) Windows Server 2016
3 22 (18.49%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (5.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.20%) Unix
6 2 (1.68%) CentOS
6 2 (1.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (75.63%) DevOps
2 57 (47.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (46.22%) Containerisation
4 54 (45.38%) CI/CD
5 49 (41.18%) Agile
6 37 (31.09%) Microservices
7 31 (26.05%) Software Engineering
8 28 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
9 26 (21.85%) Release Management
9 26 (21.85%) Technical Leadership
10 25 (21.01%) ITIL
10 25 (21.01%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 24 (20.17%) Analytics
11 24 (20.17%) Identity Management
12 23 (19.33%) Log Analytics
12 23 (19.33%) Service Management
13 22 (18.49%) Privileged Identity Management
13 22 (18.49%) RBAC
13 22 (18.49%) Test Automation
14 21 (17.65%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 34 (28.57%) C#
1 34 (28.57%) Java
2 28 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 23 (19.33%) Bicep
4 22 (18.49%) VB
4 22 (18.49%) VBScript
5 21 (17.65%) Python
6 12 (10.08%) SQL
7 9 (7.56%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.88%) Bash
9 6 (5.04%) Scala
10 5 (4.20%) C++
10 5 (4.20%) Go
10 5 (4.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (4.20%) PHP
11 4 (3.36%) Groovy
11 4 (3.36%) Ruby
12 3 (2.52%) C
12 3 (2.52%) R
12 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (63.03%) Security Cleared
2 66 (55.46%) SC Cleared
3 27 (22.69%) Degree
4 24 (20.17%) DV Cleared
5 22 (18.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.52%) GDPR
1 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.52%) NIST
2 2 (1.68%) QA
2 2 (1.68%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (32.77%) Docker
2 29 (24.37%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (21.85%) Active Directory
4 22 (18.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (7.56%) vCloud
6 9 (7.56%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.52%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.68%) vSphere
9 1 (0.84%) NFS
9 1 (0.84%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (30.25%) Terraform
2 27 (22.69%) Ansible
3 22 (18.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 22 (18.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (18.49%) SCCM
3 22 (18.49%) SCOM
3 22 (18.49%) WSUS
4 21 (17.65%) Istio
5 18 (15.13%) Prometheus
6 17 (14.29%) Grafana
7 16 (13.45%) Argo
8 15 (12.61%) Kibana
9 12 (10.08%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (10.08%) Podman
9 12 (10.08%) Rancher
10 9 (7.56%) vCenter Server
11 4 (3.36%) SELinux
11 4 (3.36%) yum
12 3 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (1.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 32 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.29%) VMware
3 9 (7.56%) Google
4 4 (3.36%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.36%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.84%) BMC
6 1 (0.84%) Databricks
6 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.84%) Remedy
6 1 (0.84%) Splunk