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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 49 62
Rank change year-on-year +32 +13 -20
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 79 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.26% 1.33% 1.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.32% 10.94% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 4 8
10th Percentile £360 £343 £238
25th Percentile £468 £396 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% -33.93%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £509
90th Percentile £614 £526 £624
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% -20.00%

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 157 64 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.41% 12.12% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 42 71
10th Percentile £270 £189 £200
25th Percentile £425 £323 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -17.87%
75th Percentile £544 £547 £513
90th Percentile £600 £693 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £477 £425
% change year-on-year +4.82% +12.24% -15.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £31.25 - -
25th Percentile £38.66 - -
Median hourly rate £51.55 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +165.64%
75th Percentile £64.66 - -
90th Percentile £72.22 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.80 £16.19 £35.33
% change year-on-year +213.79% -54.17% +99.35%

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 3 March 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 11 (13.92%) Confluence
2 9 (11.39%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.53%) SAS
4 1 (1.27%) Apache
4 1 (1.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.71%) AWS
2 26 (32.91%) GCP
3 20 (25.32%) Azure
3 20 (25.32%) GitHub
4 13 (16.46%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (16.46%) Serverless
5 10 (12.66%) OpenShift
6 4 (5.06%) AWS KMS
6 4 (5.06%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.53%) Azure API Management
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.53%) IaaS
8 2 (2.53%) PaaS
8 2 (2.53%) SaaS
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) DNS
1 2 (2.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (32.91%) Elasticsearch
2 22 (27.85%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (16.46%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 31 (39.24%) Jenkins
2 21 (26.58%) GitLab
3 18 (22.78%) JIRA
4 14 (17.72%) Git
5 10 (12.66%) Liquibase
5 10 (12.66%) Selenium
6 9 (11.39%) Cucumber
6 9 (11.39%) JMeter
6 9 (11.39%) JUnit
6 9 (11.39%) WebDriver
7 4 (5.06%) CircleCI
General
1 50 (63.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.32%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (25.32%) Finance
3 11 (13.92%) Banking
4 10 (12.66%) Financial Institution
5 6 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (20.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 16 (20.25%) Splunk Engineer
2 14 (17.72%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (17.72%) Senior
3 13 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Site Engineer
4 12 (15.19%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Software Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (10.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 7 (8.86%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) Tester
9 5 (6.33%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) GCP DevOps
9 5 (6.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) GCP Software Engineer
9 5 (6.33%) Lead
9 5 (6.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (54.43%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (20.25%) REST
3 13 (16.46%) RESTful
4 9 (11.39%) Spring
4 9 (11.39%) WireMock
5 8 (10.13%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (3.80%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.80%) Kafka
6 3 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.53%) .NET
8 1 (1.27%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.27%) Middleware
8 1 (1.27%) OAuth
8 1 (1.27%) OpenCV
8 1 (1.27%) pytest
8 1 (1.27%) Regular Expression
8 1 (1.27%) SpaCy
8 1 (1.27%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.27%) Web Services
8 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (17.72%) Public Cloud
3 13 (16.46%) Cloud Native
3 13 (16.46%) Management Information System
4 6 (7.59%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (5.06%) PKI
6 3 (3.80%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (39.24%) Linux
2 14 (17.72%) Unix
3 4 (5.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (68.35%) Containerisation
2 51 (64.56%) DevOps
3 49 (62.03%) CI/CD
4 36 (45.57%) Observability
5 31 (39.24%) Agile
5 31 (39.24%) Migration
6 28 (35.44%) Computer Science
7 27 (34.18%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (32.91%) Change Management
9 24 (30.38%) Incident Response
10 23 (29.11%) Validation
11 22 (27.85%) Microservices
12 20 (25.32%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (24.05%) High Availability
13 19 (24.05%) Root Cause Analysis
13 19 (24.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 17 (21.52%) Data Ingestion
14 17 (21.52%) Data Modelling
15 16 (20.25%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (17.72%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (58.23%) Python
2 20 (25.32%) Bash
3 19 (24.05%) Go
4 7 (8.86%) SQL
5 5 (6.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.06%) Bicep
7 1 (1.27%) Groovy
7 1 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (36.71%) Degree
2 28 (35.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
4 14 (17.72%) Master's Degree
5 12 (15.19%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.06%) CISM
6 4 (5.06%) CISSP
7 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) QA
2 2 (2.53%) GDPR
2 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 54 (68.35%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.53%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.53%) vSphere
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (55.70%) Ansible
2 38 (48.10%) Terraform
3 36 (45.57%) Grafana
4 30 (37.97%) Prometheus
5 25 (31.65%) Kibana
6 13 (16.46%) Puppet
7 12 (15.19%) logstash
8 5 (6.33%) Argo
9 3 (3.80%) Control-M
9 3 (3.80%) IBM Guardium
9 3 (3.80%) Nessus
10 2 (2.53%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (45.57%) Splunk
2 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.86%) Google
4 3 (3.80%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.80%) Tenable
4 3 (3.80%) VMware
5 2 (2.53%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle