Kubernetes Contracts in the South West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 40 44
Rank change year-on-year -22 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 100 171 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.08% 5.06% 4.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.42% 32.02% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 143 119
10th Percentile £475 £421 £425
25th Percentile £514 £450 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £694 £628
90th Percentile £652 £738 £682
England median daily rate £550 £625 £615
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.63% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 1
10th Percentile £59.88 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £65.94 £59.80 £47.02
Median hourly rate £74.44 £78.00 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +61.59% -4.89%
75th Percentile £76.74 - £49.52
90th Percentile £77.75 £82.80 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +23.33% +16.50%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 427 534 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.16% 15.79% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 435 367
10th Percentile £213 £350 £254
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.91% +12.22%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +10.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 17
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £60.25 £15.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £77.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.39% +287.50% -59.60%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £76.28 £89.50 £50.29
England median hourly rate £27.50 £54.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year -49.24% +151.98% -12.24%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Gloucestershire +5 45 £550 -7.17% 39
Bristol -19 28 £533 +14.01% 31
Wiltshire -22 15 £600 +4.35% 6
Devon -3 5 £550 -21.43% 4
Dorset +2 4 - - 5
Somerset -6 2 £475 -34.48% 4
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (9.00%) Apache
1 9 (9.00%) Confluence
2 4 (4.00%) Apache Solr
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.00%) nginx
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 53 (53.00%) AWS
2 34 (34.00%) Azure
3 33 (33.00%) OpenShift
4 22 (22.00%) GCP
5 10 (10.00%) GitHub
5 10 (10.00%) Serverless
6 9 (9.00%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (9.00%) Amazon S3
6 9 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (9.00%) PaaS
7 6 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (3.00%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.00%) Apigee
10 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.00%) VPN
2 8 (8.00%) AMQP
3 7 (7.00%) DNS
3 7 (7.00%) Network Security
3 7 (7.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.00%) Firewall
5 5 (5.00%) HTTP
6 4 (4.00%) HTTPS
6 4 (4.00%) IPsec
6 4 (4.00%) SAN
7 3 (3.00%) DHCP
8 1 (1.00%) 5G
8 1 (1.00%) IPv4
8 1 (1.00%) LTE
8 1 (1.00%) OSPF
8 1 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (1.00%) VLAN
8 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) InfluxDB
2 9 (9.00%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.00%) Triplestore
6 4 (4.00%) Big Data
6 4 (4.00%) Couchbase
6 4 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.00%) MySQL
7 2 (2.00%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.00%) GitLab
3 11 (11.00%) JIRA
4 8 (8.00%) Bitbucket
5 6 (6.00%) Git
6 5 (5.00%) Artifactory
6 5 (5.00%) Spinnaker
7 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.00%) Snyk
8 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.00%) git-flow
9 1 (1.00%) JMeter
9 1 (1.00%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.00%) Selenium
9 1 (1.00%) webpack
General
1 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.00%) Finance
3 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.00%) Legal
6 3 (3.00%) Tech for Good
7 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.00%) Electronics
8 1 (1.00%) Law
8 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Developer
3 10 (10.00%) Senior
3 10 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Architect
5 8 (8.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Site Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Lead
8 5 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Automation Architect
9 4 (4.00%) Python Developer
10 3 (3.00%) JavaScript Developer
10 3 (3.00%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.00%) REST
2 12 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
2 12 (12.00%) React
3 11 (11.00%) Node.js
4 10 (10.00%) .NET
5 9 (9.00%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (8.00%) Kafka
7 7 (7.00%) CSS
7 7 (7.00%) HTML
8 6 (6.00%) GraphQL
8 6 (6.00%) ModSecurity
8 6 (6.00%) Spring
8 6 (6.00%) Spring Boot
9 5 (5.00%) Apache Jena
9 5 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (5.00%) PostGIS
10 4 (4.00%) .NET Framework
10 4 (4.00%) JSON
10 4 (4.00%) LEMP Stack
10 4 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.00%) Public Cloud
2 11 (11.00%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.00%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (6.00%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.00%) PKI
5 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (40.00%) Linux
2 19 (19.00%) Windows
3 8 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.00%) CentOS
4 4 (4.00%) Unix
5 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.00%) VMS
5 2 (2.00%) Windows 2000
5 2 (2.00%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (61.00%) DevOps
2 57 (57.00%) CI/CD
3 28 (28.00%) Containerisation
4 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (16.00%) Agile
6 15 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 14 (14.00%) Configuration Management
7 14 (14.00%) Microservices
7 14 (14.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
8 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (9.00%) Migration
10 8 (8.00%) GitOps
10 8 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (7.00%) Event-Driven
11 7 (7.00%) Observability
11 7 (7.00%) Project Delivery
11 7 (7.00%) Service Management
11 7 (7.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.00%) Python
2 27 (27.00%) Java
3 20 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 19 (19.00%) JavaScript
5 16 (16.00%) Go
5 16 (16.00%) SQL
6 12 (12.00%) C
7 11 (11.00%) TypeScript
8 9 (9.00%) Bash
9 8 (8.00%) Shell Script
10 7 (7.00%) C#
11 5 (5.00%) SPARQL
12 4 (4.00%) PHP
13 2 (2.00%) Bicep
13 2 (2.00%) Perl
13 2 (2.00%) Ruby
14 1 (1.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (43.00%) DV Cleared
3 19 (19.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.00%) Degree
5 4 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 6 (6.00%) NIST
3 4 (4.00%) GDPR
3 4 (4.00%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 67 (67.00%) Docker
2 14 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (12.00%) VMware NSX
4 6 (6.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (6.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (45.00%) Terraform
2 44 (44.00%) Ansible
3 24 (24.00%) Grafana
3 24 (24.00%) Prometheus
4 12 (12.00%) Docker Swarm
5 10 (10.00%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.00%) Istio
6 6 (6.00%) OPNET
7 4 (4.00%) Argo
7 4 (4.00%) PowerCLI
8 2 (2.00%) Kibana
8 2 (2.00%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.00%) logstash
8 2 (2.00%) Rancher
8 2 (2.00%) SCCM
8 2 (2.00%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.00%) Puppet
9 1 (1.00%) rkt
9 1 (1.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 18 (18.00%) VMware
2 11 (11.00%) Atlassian
2 11 (11.00%) Google
3 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.00%) Cisco
5 4 (4.00%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.00%) Juniper
6 2 (2.00%) Veeam
7 1 (1.00%) IBM
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle
7 1 (1.00%) SAP
7 1 (1.00%) Splunk