Kubernetes Specialist Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Kubernetes Specialist (K8s Specialist)
West Midlands > Birmingham

As of 8 September 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kubernetes Specialist (K8s Specialist) daily rate in Birmingham.

 6 months to
8 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 521 678 827
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 95.63% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 455 558
10th Percentile £184 £206 £260
25th Percentile £350 £368 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £622 £600
90th Percentile £642 £729 £702
West Midlands median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.55% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 16 29
10th Percentile - £15.61 £13.46
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £31.81 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -55.99% +51.70% +16.50%
75th Percentile £26.51 £50.63 £35.08
90th Percentile £33.72 £55.13 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £19.59 £20.99
% change year-on-year +28.38% -6.65% +16.58%

Kubernetes Specialist Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 8 September 2025, Kubernetes Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Kubernetes Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps

Kubernetes Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk