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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 35 58
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -22
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 55 17 5
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.04% 3.43% 0.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.65% 24.29% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 10 4
10th Percentile £350 £281 -
25th Percentile £419 £337 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £338
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +33.33% -51.79%
75th Percentile £557 £553 £444
90th Percentile £600 £800 £455
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £539 £500
% change year-on-year -4.47% +7.82% -28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £66.57 - £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 126 70 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.85% 14.11% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 51 57
10th Percentile £231 £263 £223
25th Percentile £381 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -28.57%
75th Percentile £560 £563 £588
90th Percentile £638 £700 £653
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £34.04 - -
25th Percentile £45.65 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +180.58%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.00 £18.13 £55.00
% change year-on-year +258.52% -67.04% +197.30%

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 June 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 (27.27%) Confluence
2 5 (9.09%) OpenStack
3 3 (5.45%) Apache
4 2 (3.64%) CloudStack
5 1 (1.82%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) AWS
2 21 (38.18%) Azure
3 19 (34.55%) GCP
4 17 (30.91%) GitHub
5 13 (23.64%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (14.55%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (5.45%) IaaS
8 3 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.82%) PaaS
10 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) DNS
1 4 (7.27%) NAS
1 4 (7.27%) SAN
2 3 (5.45%) Firewall
3 2 (3.64%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.82%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.82%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (34.55%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (23.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 18 (32.73%) JIRA
3 17 (30.91%) Git
4 14 (25.45%) Cucumber
4 14 (25.45%) JMeter
4 14 (25.45%) JUnit
4 14 (25.45%) Selenium
4 14 (25.45%) WebDriver
5 11 (20.00%) GitLab
6 1 (1.82%) Liquibase
General
1 25 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (18.18%) Finance
4 6 (10.91%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.27%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Senior
1 10 (18.18%) Tester
2 8 (14.55%) Automation Tester
3 7 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Senior Automation Tester
3 7 (12.73%) Senior Tester
4 6 (10.91%) Site Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Splunk Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Lead
7 3 (5.45%) Consultant
7 3 (5.45%) Developer
7 3 (5.45%) GCP DevOps
7 3 (5.45%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Security Specialist
7 3 (5.45%) Systems Tester
7 3 (5.45%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.09%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (25.45%) Spring
2 14 (25.45%) WireMock
3 12 (21.82%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (7.27%) Kafka
5 3 (5.45%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.64%) .NET
6 2 (3.64%) Fluent Bit
7 1 (1.82%) ADO
7 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.82%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.82%) Loki
7 1 (1.82%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.82%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.82%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.82%) REST
7 1 (1.82%) SpaCy
7 1 (1.82%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 10 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (16.36%) Cloud Native
4 6 (10.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (10.91%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.45%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) CMDB
6 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.82%) Blog
7 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.82%) Replication
7 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.82%) Linux
2 8 (14.55%) Unix
3 7 (12.73%) Windows
4 3 (5.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (63.64%) Observability
2 28 (50.91%) CI/CD
3 27 (49.09%) DevOps
4 25 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 22 (40.00%) Validation
6 20 (36.36%) Agile
7 17 (30.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (29.09%) Test Automation
9 14 (25.45%) BDD
9 14 (25.45%) Incident Response
9 14 (25.45%) Microservices
9 14 (25.45%) Migration
9 14 (25.45%) TDD
9 14 (25.45%) Test Strategy
10 13 (23.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 13 (23.64%) End-to-End Testing
10 13 (23.64%) Load Testing
11 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) Python
2 11 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (5.45%) SQL
4 2 (3.64%) Bicep
4 2 (3.64%) Go
4 2 (3.64%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.82%) Groovy
5 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 17 (30.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) Degree
4 7 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.64%) CCNP
5 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 32 (58.18%) Docker
2 9 (16.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (14.55%) vSphere
4 6 (10.91%) VMware NSX
5 3 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.64%) etcd
7 1 (1.82%) NFS
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (56.36%) Grafana
2 29 (52.73%) Prometheus
3 18 (32.73%) Ansible
3 18 (32.73%) Terraform
4 12 (21.82%) Kibana
5 6 (10.91%) logstash
5 6 (10.91%) Puppet
5 6 (10.91%) vCenter Server
6 5 (9.09%) Argo
7 3 (5.45%) Control-M
7 3 (5.45%) IBM Guardium
7 3 (5.45%) Nessus
8 2 (3.64%) Check_MK
8 2 (3.64%) Fluentd
9 1 (1.82%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Splunk
2 9 (16.36%) VMware
3 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.09%) Veeam
5 4 (7.27%) Pure Storage
5 4 (7.27%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.45%) Cisco
6 3 (5.45%) Tenable
7 2 (3.64%) Commvault
7 2 (3.64%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.82%) Brocade
8 1 (1.82%) Dell
8 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.82%) Google
8 1 (1.82%) New Relic
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle