Kubernetes Contracts in Birmingham

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 61 40
Rank change year-on-year +25 -21 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 14 6 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.68% 0.78% 3.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.14% 7.69% 28.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 26
10th Percentile £280 - £598
25th Percentile £301 £238 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £275 £700
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -60.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £566 £463 -
90th Percentile £800 £680 -
West Midlands median daily rate £545 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +8.91% -25.93% +35.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 58 78 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.11% 10.09% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 62 81
10th Percentile £263 £204 £313
25th Percentile £310 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -27.66% +30.56%
75th Percentile £621 £569 £700
90th Percentile £700 £650 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.45
25th Percentile - - £18.74
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £19.60
Median % change year-on-year - +180.58% -
75th Percentile - - £20.58
90th Percentile - - £20.94
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.19 £55.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -70.56% +197.30% +14.76%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) SonarCloud
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JMeter
2 2 (14.29%) Postman
2 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (14.29%) TestNG
2 2 (14.29%) Travis CI
3 1 (7.14%) Snyk
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Site Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Application Development Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Development Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Development Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) Middleware
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (14.29%) YAML
3 1 (7.14%) ADO
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
4 5 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (35.71%) SIEM
5 4 (28.57%) ITIL
5 4 (28.57%) Service Management
5 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Line Management
7 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Bash
3 4 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) CEH
5 2 (14.29%) CISSP
5 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
5 2 (14.29%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Kibana
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
5 1 (7.14%) Argo
5 1 (7.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) BT
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat