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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 42 55
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -7
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 37 19 8
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.13% 3.31% 1.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.58% 20.65% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 5
10th Percentile £412 £298 £273
25th Percentile £422 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% -39.29%
75th Percentile £544 £613 £738
90th Percentile £602 £764 -
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £539 £588
% change year-on-year -4.66% -8.23% -14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 - £70.00

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 83 92 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.26% 16.03% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 58 27
10th Percentile £226 £263 £350
25th Percentile £350 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +14.46%
75th Percentile £563 £500 £638
90th Percentile £638 £614 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.45 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +65.68%

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 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Kubernetes

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 8 (21.62%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Apache
2 2 (5.41%) CloudStack
3 1 (2.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) AWS
2 15 (40.54%) Azure
3 14 (37.84%) GitHub
4 13 (35.14%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (32.43%) GCP
6 7 (18.92%) OpenShift
7 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.41%) IaaS
9 2 (5.41%) OCI
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.70%) Azure API Management
10 1 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) NAS
1 4 (10.81%) SAN
2 3 (8.11%) Firewall
3 2 (5.41%) DNS
3 2 (5.41%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (2.70%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.70%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.41%) Metadata
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (45.95%) Jenkins
2 12 (32.43%) GitLab
3 9 (24.32%) Git
4 8 (21.62%) Cucumber
4 8 (21.62%) JIRA
4 8 (21.62%) JMeter
4 8 (21.62%) JUnit
4 8 (21.62%) Selenium
4 8 (21.62%) WebDriver
5 2 (5.41%) Maven
5 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Legal
4 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Publishing
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Tester
4 5 (13.51%) Automation Tester
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Automation Tester
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Tester
5 4 (10.81%) Lead
6 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Consultant
6 3 (8.11%) VMware Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Data Centre Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Automation Test Lead
8 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) Terraform
2 9 (24.32%) Spring
3 8 (21.62%) WireMock
4 6 (16.22%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (13.51%) Kafka
6 4 (10.81%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (8.11%) Node.js
8 2 (5.41%) Fluent Bit
8 2 (5.41%) JSON
8 2 (5.41%) SLSA
8 2 (5.41%) YAML
9 1 (2.70%) .NET
9 1 (2.70%) ADO
9 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
9 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
9 1 (2.70%) Loki
9 1 (2.70%) React
9 1 (2.70%) REST
9 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
9 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 9 (24.32%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (18.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (10.81%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
5 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
6 2 (5.41%) CMDB
6 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
6 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.70%) Blog
7 1 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.70%) Unix
5 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 20 (54.05%) Observability
3 16 (43.24%) Agile
3 16 (43.24%) DevOps
4 12 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (29.73%) Test Automation
6 10 (27.03%) Containerisation
6 10 (27.03%) Validation
7 9 (24.32%) Microservices
7 9 (24.32%) TDD
8 8 (21.62%) BDD
8 8 (21.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 8 (21.62%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (21.62%) Test Strategy
9 7 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (18.92%) End-to-End Testing
9 7 (18.92%) Load Testing
9 7 (18.92%) Migration
10 6 (16.22%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) Bash
3 3 (8.11%) Go
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) Bicep
4 2 (5.41%) Groovy
4 2 (5.41%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 14 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.41%) CCNP
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 18 (48.65%) Docker
2 8 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (16.22%) vSphere
4 4 (10.81%) VMware NSX
5 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (5.41%) etcd
7 1 (2.70%) NFS
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (56.76%) Grafana
1 21 (56.76%) Prometheus
2 7 (18.92%) Ansible
3 4 (10.81%) Argo
3 4 (10.81%) vCenter Server
4 2 (5.41%) Check_MK
4 2 (5.41%) Fluentd
4 2 (5.41%) Kibana
4 2 (5.41%) Kustomize
4 2 (5.41%) logstash
5 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) VMware
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) Splunk
3 5 (13.51%) Veeam
4 3 (8.11%) Cisco
5 2 (5.41%) Commvault
5 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.41%) Pure Storage
5 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.41%) Sonatype
6 1 (2.70%) Brocade
6 1 (2.70%) Dell
6 1 (2.70%) New Relic