Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 43 60
Rank change year-on-year +26 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 76 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.73% 1.74% 0.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 53.15% 15.79% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 6 7
10th Percentile £394 £295 £238
25th Percentile £463 £337 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% +5.88% -39.29%
75th Percentile £550 £484 £500
90th Percentile £593 £513 £630
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £532 £500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +6.41% -21.88%

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 143 57 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.42% 11.05% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 44 69
10th Percentile £350 £219 £230
25th Percentile £425 £311 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -26.88%
75th Percentile £541 £556 £525
90th Percentile £588 £692 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £499 £477 £425
% change year-on-year +4.56% +12.24% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £31.25 - -
25th Percentile £38.66 - -
Median hourly rate £51.55 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +180.58%
75th Percentile £64.66 - -
90th Percentile £72.22 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £64.07 £16.19 £55.00
% change year-on-year +295.72% -70.56% +210.38%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (19.74%) Confluence
2 9 (11.84%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.63%) SAS
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.16%) AWS
2 26 (34.21%) GCP
3 23 (30.26%) Azure
3 23 (30.26%) GitHub
4 16 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (19.74%) OpenShift
6 9 (11.84%) Serverless
7 4 (5.26%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.95%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.63%) IaaS
9 2 (2.63%) PaaS
9 2 (2.63%) SaaS
10 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (2.63%) SSL
3 1 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.32%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.32%) NAS
3 1 (1.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (34.21%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (23.68%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (11.84%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.32%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.95%) GitLab
2 22 (28.95%) JIRA
3 18 (23.68%) Git
4 14 (18.42%) Selenium
5 13 (17.11%) Cucumber
5 13 (17.11%) JMeter
5 13 (17.11%) JUnit
5 13 (17.11%) WebDriver
6 6 (7.89%) Liquibase
7 3 (3.95%) CircleCI
General
1 45 (59.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.68%) Finance
3 16 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.16%) Banking
5 7 (9.21%) Financial Institution
6 6 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.63%) Military
9 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (19.74%) Senior
2 11 (14.47%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (14.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 11 (14.47%) Splunk Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) GCP Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) Tester
4 9 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) Site Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Automation Tester
6 7 (9.21%) Senior Automation Tester
6 7 (9.21%) Senior Tester
7 6 (7.89%) Architect
8 5 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Lead
8 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (40.79%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (17.11%) Spring
2 13 (17.11%) WireMock
3 12 (15.79%) REST
4 11 (14.47%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (11.84%) RESTful
6 5 (6.58%) Kafka
7 3 (3.95%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.63%) .NET
8 2 (2.63%) Fluent Bit
9 1 (1.32%) Middleware
9 1 (1.32%) OAuth
9 1 (1.32%) OpenCV
9 1 (1.32%) pytest
9 1 (1.32%) Regular Expression
9 1 (1.32%) SpaCy
9 1 (1.32%) TensorFlow
9 1 (1.32%) Web Services
9 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (14.47%) Cloud Native
3 10 (13.16%) Distributed Architecture
3 10 (13.16%) Public Cloud
4 9 (11.84%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.26%) PKI
6 3 (3.95%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.95%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.63%) CMDB
8 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.26%) Linux
2 10 (13.16%) Unix
3 6 (7.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (63.16%) CI/CD
1 48 (63.16%) Containerisation
2 44 (57.89%) DevOps
3 36 (47.37%) Observability
4 32 (42.11%) Agile
5 24 (31.58%) Migration
6 23 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (30.26%) Validation
7 22 (28.95%) Microservices
8 20 (26.32%) Computer Science
8 20 (26.32%) Incident Response
9 19 (25.00%) Change Management
10 18 (23.68%) High Availability
11 17 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (22.37%) Test Automation
12 15 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (18.42%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (18.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (18.42%) Test Strategy
14 13 (17.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 37 (48.68%) Python
2 15 (19.74%) Bash
2 15 (19.74%) Go
3 5 (6.58%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.26%) SQL
5 2 (2.63%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.32%) Bicep
6 1 (1.32%) Groovy
6 1 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (27.63%) Degree
1 21 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 20 (26.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 11 (14.47%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.26%) CISM
5 4 (5.26%) CISSP
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
2 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.63%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 49 (64.47%) Docker
2 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.95%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.95%) vSphere
3 2 (2.63%) etcd
4 1 (1.32%) NFS
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (50.00%) Grafana
2 35 (46.05%) Ansible
3 33 (43.42%) Terraform
4 32 (42.11%) Prometheus
5 17 (22.37%) Kibana
6 9 (11.84%) Puppet
7 8 (10.53%) logstash
8 6 (7.89%) Argo
9 3 (3.95%) Control-M
9 3 (3.95%) IBM Guardium
9 3 (3.95%) Nessus
9 3 (3.95%) vCenter Server
10 2 (2.63%) Fluentd
11 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (36.84%) Splunk
2 9 (11.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.58%) Google
3 5 (6.58%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.26%) Pure Storage
4 4 (5.26%) VMware
5 3 (3.95%) Tenable
6 1 (1.32%) Brocade
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco
6 1 (1.32%) Dell
6 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle