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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 63 58
Rank change year-on-year +43 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 63 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.99% 0.62% 1.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.38% 6.78% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 3 11
10th Percentile £468 £244 £238
25th Percentile £485 £340 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -28.57%
75th Percentile £571 £519 £700
90th Percentile £673 £530 -
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £563 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +12.50% -18.37%

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 156 59 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.80% 9.15% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 39 56
10th Percentile £233 £158 £219
25th Percentile £425 £271 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £413
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +10.91% -17.50%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £506
90th Percentile £608 £695 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +3.00% +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £39.98 - -
25th Percentile £45.94 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +165.64%
75th Percentile £66.94 - -
90th Percentile £73.13 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £75.00 £16.19 £55.00
% change year-on-year +363.25% -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 25 January 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 6 (9.52%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) SAS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.75%) AWS
2 17 (26.98%) GCP
3 14 (22.22%) Serverless
4 12 (19.05%) GitHub
5 11 (17.46%) Azure
6 8 (12.70%) OpenShift
7 7 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.35%) AWS KMS
8 4 (6.35%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.17%) Azure API Management
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.17%) IaaS
10 2 (3.17%) PaaS
10 2 (3.17%) SaaS
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (38.10%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 10 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (34.92%) Jenkins
2 17 (26.98%) GitLab
3 10 (15.87%) Liquibase
4 6 (9.52%) JIRA
5 5 (7.94%) Git
6 4 (6.35%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 41 (65.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (22.22%) Finance
4 10 (15.87%) Banking
4 10 (15.87%) Financial Institution
5 4 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 17 (26.98%) Splunk Engineer
2 14 (22.22%) Site Engineer
3 13 (20.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (17.46%) GCP Engineer
5 11 (17.46%) Senior
6 9 (14.29%) Software Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (9.52%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) AWS Software Engineer
10 4 (6.35%) GCP DevOps
10 4 (6.35%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 4 (6.35%) GCP Software Engineer
10 4 (6.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes Specialist
11 3 (4.76%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (65.08%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (25.40%) REST
3 14 (22.22%) RESTful
4 3 (4.76%) Kafka
4 3 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.17%) .NET
6 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.59%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.59%) Middleware
6 1 (1.59%) OAuth
6 1 (1.59%) OpenCV
6 1 (1.59%) pytest
6 1 (1.59%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.59%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.59%) SpaCy
6 1 (1.59%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.59%) Web Services
6 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Management Information System
1 14 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 12 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.35%) PKI
5 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.17%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (50.79%) Linux
2 15 (23.81%) Unix
3 4 (6.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (74.60%) Containerisation
1 47 (74.60%) DevOps
2 35 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 30 (47.62%) Migration
4 29 (46.03%) Computer Science
5 26 (41.27%) Change Management
6 25 (39.68%) Observability
7 23 (36.51%) Agile
8 22 (34.92%) Incident Response
9 21 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (31.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (31.75%) Root Cause Analysis
10 20 (31.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
11 18 (28.57%) Data Modelling
12 17 (26.98%) High Availability
13 15 (23.81%) Dashboard Development
13 15 (23.81%) Validation
14 14 (22.22%) Microservices
14 14 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 42 (66.67%) Python
2 19 (30.16%) Bash
2 19 (30.16%) Go
3 6 (9.52%) SQL
4 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.35%) Bicep
6 1 (1.59%) Groovy
6 1 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (47.62%) Degree
2 29 (46.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (20.63%) Master's Degree
4 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
5 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.35%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.35%) CISM
6 4 (6.35%) CISSP
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 43 (68.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (63.49%) Ansible
2 33 (52.38%) Terraform
3 24 (38.10%) Kibana
4 22 (34.92%) Grafana
5 18 (28.57%) Prometheus
6 14 (22.22%) Puppet
7 10 (15.87%) logstash
8 3 (4.76%) Argo
9 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (55.56%) Splunk
2 7 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.52%) Google
4 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle
4 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.59%) VMware