Kubernetes Contracts

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 30 29
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1,600 3,388 5,663
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.76% 5.95% 6.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.27% 37.31% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 2,433 4,127
10th Percentile £413 £456 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £604
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.66% +13.96%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £786 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.30% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 42 13
10th Percentile £46.20 £50.08 £41.87
25th Percentile £53.13 £60.84 £46.25
Median hourly rate £64.50 £70.00 £48.36
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +44.76% +1.86%
75th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.85 £90.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.75 £64.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +1.17% +34.74% +0.13%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,116 9,081 13,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 15.95% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,691 6,515 10,034
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 204 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.67 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £54.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.44% +146.25% -45.00%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.85 £59.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -12.74%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England -25 1,347 £550 -12.00% 948
London -22 817 £563 -11.76% 565
Work from Home -12 600 £575 -4.17% 547
UK excluding London -21 543 £533 -7.30% 536
North of England -12 157 £525 -12.50% 109
South East -4 150 £575 -2.13% 217
South West -30 93 £550 - 79
Scotland -5 79 £480 -12.73% 37
Yorkshire +3 76 £520 -16.80% 38
North West -26 71 £550 -6.38% 60
Midlands -21 31 £500 -20.00% 48
East of England -35 23 £600 -7.69% 27
West Midlands -19 19 £500 -28.57% 29
East Midlands -11 12 £450 -35.71% 19
North East -12 12 £413 -41.07% 11
Wales +20 10 £500 -16.67% 11
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 12

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 86 (5.38%) Confluence
2 60 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (2.88%) Apache
4 33 (2.06%) OpenStack
5 31 (1.94%) Apache Spark
6 29 (1.81%) nginx
7 27 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
9 8 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
9 8 (0.50%) CMS
9 8 (0.50%) JBoss
10 7 (0.44%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.38%) SAS
11 6 (0.38%) Tornado
12 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.31%) Camunda
12 5 (0.31%) IIS
12 5 (0.31%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.063%) PlantUML
2 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.31%) Endur
3 2 (0.13%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.13%) RMDS
4 1 (0.063%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.063%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.063%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.063%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 918 (57.38%) AWS
2 575 (35.94%) Azure
3 288 (18.00%) GCP
4 172 (10.75%) Serverless
5 170 (10.63%) OpenShift
6 151 (9.44%) Amazon S3
7 144 (9.00%) GitHub
8 128 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
9 126 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
10 120 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
11 115 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
12 90 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 74 (4.63%) Azure AKS
14 70 (4.38%) PaaS
15 61 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 56 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
17 51 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 50 (3.13%) IaaS
18 50 (3.13%) SaaS
19 48 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (5.13%) Firewall
2 69 (4.31%) DNS
3 59 (3.69%) HTTP
4 38 (2.38%) DHCP
5 37 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 37 (2.31%) VPN
6 36 (2.25%) Network Security
7 28 (1.75%) SAN
8 17 (1.06%) NAS
9 9 (0.56%) AMQP
9 9 (0.56%) HTTPS
9 9 (0.56%) Kerberos
9 9 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
9 9 (0.56%) VSAN
9 9 (0.56%) WAN
9 9 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.50%) 5G
10 8 (0.50%) SSL
11 7 (0.44%) LAN
11 7 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (6.75%) NoSQL
3 95 (5.94%) Apache Cassandra
4 94 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 78 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
6 75 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
7 74 (4.63%) MongoDB
8 60 (3.75%) MySQL
9 58 (3.63%) SQL Server
10 43 (2.69%) Big Data
11 38 (2.38%) Data Lake
12 32 (2.00%) RDBMS
13 31 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 28 (1.75%) DynamoDB
16 24 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.50%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.06%) Flink
18 16 (1.00%) Apache Arrow
18 16 (1.00%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 356 (22.25%) Jenkins
2 305 (19.06%) Git
3 205 (12.81%) GitLab
4 132 (8.25%) JIRA
5 58 (3.63%) SonarQube
6 52 (3.25%) Selenium
7 46 (2.88%) JUnit
8 40 (2.50%) Cucumber
9 37 (2.31%) Bitbucket
10 35 (2.19%) TeamCity
11 33 (2.06%) Artifactory
11 33 (2.06%) Maven
12 31 (1.94%) JMeter
13 28 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 28 (1.75%) Cypress.io
14 25 (1.56%) CircleCI
15 24 (1.50%) Mockito
16 21 (1.31%) Gradle
17 19 (1.19%) REST Assured
18 16 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 282 (17.63%) Social Skills
2 203 (12.69%) Finance
3 120 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 92 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (5.06%) Banking
6 31 (1.94%) Telecoms
7 23 (1.44%) Investment Banking
8 22 (1.38%) Law
9 21 (1.31%) Retail
10 15 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (0.94%) Tech for Good
11 13 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.56%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (0.50%) Front Office
14 8 (0.50%) Marketing
14 8 (0.50%) Police
15 6 (0.38%) Legal
16 4 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 383 (23.94%) Developer
2 360 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 196 (12.25%) Senior
4 136 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
5 114 (7.13%) Software Engineer
6 105 (6.56%) Architect
7 99 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
8 98 (6.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 94 (5.88%) Java Developer
10 91 (5.69%) Lead
11 83 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
12 80 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
13 79 (4.94%) Site Engineer
14 74 (4.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 68 (4.25%) Cloud Engineer
16 60 (3.75%) Full Stack Developer
17 54 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
18 52 (3.25%) Python Engineer
18 52 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
19 50 (3.13%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (18.13%) Kafka
2 160 (10.00%) React
3 144 (9.00%) Node.js
4 140 (8.75%) Spring Boot
5 137 (8.56%) REST
6 119 (7.44%) Spring
7 113 (7.06%) RESTful
8 93 (5.81%) .NET
9 86 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
10 52 (3.25%) ARM Templates
11 48 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
12 46 (2.88%) Akka
13 45 (2.81%) HTML
14 43 (2.69%) YAML
15 42 (2.63%) .NET Core
16 36 (2.25%) GraphQL
17 35 (2.19%) AngularJS
17 35 (2.19%) OAuth
17 35 (2.19%) Web Services
18 33 (2.06%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 81 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 56 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 48 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 38 (2.38%) Clustering
6 38 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 37 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 37 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
9 35 (2.19%) Product Ownership
10 29 (1.81%) PKI
11 28 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.75%) Onboarding
12 23 (1.44%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.13%) Hedge funds
15 16 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (0.94%) Private Cloud
17 12 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 373 (23.31%) Linux
2 136 (8.50%) Windows
3 99 (6.19%) Unix
4 68 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 61 (3.81%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.19%) CentOS
7 18 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (1.00%) VMS
9 15 (0.94%) Solaris
10 12 (0.75%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.69%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
12 10 (0.63%) Android
13 5 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.13%) Windows 2000
15 2 (0.13%) Windows XP
16 1 (0.063%) Debian
16 1 (0.063%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 873 (54.56%) DevOps
2 646 (40.38%) CI/CD
3 483 (30.19%) Agile
4 386 (24.13%) Containerisation
5 361 (22.56%) Microservices
6 316 (19.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 255 (15.94%) Software Engineering
8 205 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
9 183 (11.44%) Test Automation
10 157 (9.81%) Continuous Integration
11 144 (9.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 129 (8.06%) TDD
13 124 (7.75%) Scrum
14 116 (7.25%) Configuration Management
15 112 (7.00%) Full Stack Development
16 105 (6.56%) Platform Engineering
17 100 (6.25%) SDLC
18 99 (6.19%) Computer Science
19 93 (5.81%) Machine Learning
20 92 (5.75%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 633 (39.56%) Python
2 409 (25.56%) Java
3 235 (14.69%) SQL
4 204 (12.75%) Go
5 188 (11.75%) JavaScript
6 185 (11.56%) Bash
7 135 (8.44%) PowerShell
8 112 (7.00%) TypeScript
9 94 (5.88%) C#
10 84 (5.25%) Scala
11 77 (4.81%) Shell Script
12 45 (2.81%) Ruby
13 43 (2.69%) Perl
14 37 (2.31%) C++
15 33 (2.06%) C
16 28 (1.75%) Bicep
16 28 (1.75%) Groovy
17 20 (1.25%) PHP
18 19 (1.19%) Kotlin
19 17 (1.06%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 433 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 341 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 112 (7.00%) Degree
4 109 (6.81%) DV Cleared
5 58 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 31 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.31%) CISSP
14 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.19%) SANS
16 2 (0.13%) CISA
16 2 (0.13%) CISM
17 1 (0.063%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.63%) QA
2 20 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.00%) GDPR
3 16 (1.00%) NCSC
3 16 (1.00%) NIST
4 13 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.38%) SLA
7 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.19%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.063%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.063%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 926 (57.88%) Docker
2 74 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (4.50%) Active Directory
4 55 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (1.81%) Hyper-V
6 21 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 20 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.88%) vSphere
10 12 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 10 (0.63%) vCloud
12 6 (0.38%) Firmware
12 6 (0.38%) NFS
13 5 (0.31%) KVM
14 4 (0.25%) GPFS
14 4 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.13%) HDFS
15 2 (0.13%) Postfix
15 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.063%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 638 (39.88%) Terraform
2 345 (21.56%) Ansible
3 211 (13.19%) Prometheus
4 192 (12.00%) Grafana
5 82 (5.13%) Puppet
6 63 (3.94%) Progress Chef
7 43 (2.69%) Docker Swarm
7 43 (2.69%) Kibana
8 40 (2.50%) Istio
9 38 (2.38%) Packer
10 37 (2.31%) Argo
11 31 (1.94%) Consul
12 23 (1.44%) Rancher
13 22 (1.38%) SCOM
14 20 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 20 (1.25%) SCCM
15 18 (1.13%) Nagios
16 17 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (1.06%) Podman
16 17 (1.06%) WSUS
Vendors
1 167 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.75%) VMware
3 99 (6.19%) Oracle
4 97 (6.06%) Splunk
5 89 (5.56%) Google
6 52 (3.25%) Red Hat
7 45 (2.81%) Databricks
8 25 (1.56%) IBM
9 23 (1.44%) CyberArk
10 22 (1.38%) SAP
11 21 (1.31%) Typelevel
12 20 (1.25%) Dell
13 19 (1.19%) Cisco
14 17 (1.06%) Dynatrace
15 15 (0.94%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.88%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.88%) Veritas
17 13 (0.81%) AppDynamics
17 13 (0.81%) HP
18 12 (0.75%) SaltStack