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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 47 57
Rank change year-on-year +30 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 78 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 9.11% 1.53% 0.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 52.70% 12.90% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 5 7
10th Percentile £360 £355 £238
25th Percentile £463 £425 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -39.29%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £500
90th Percentile £588 £523 £630
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 148 62 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.29% 11.88% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 42 74
10th Percentile £325 £161 £211
25th Percentile £425 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% +6.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £540 £569 £500
90th Percentile £589 £693 £646
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £477 £425
% change year-on-year +4.82% +12.24% -16.26%
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 17 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 14 (17.95%) Confluence
2 9 (11.54%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.56%) SAS
4 1 (1.28%) Apache
4 1 (1.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.46%) AWS
2 26 (33.33%) GCP
3 23 (29.49%) Azure
3 23 (29.49%) GitHub
4 16 (20.51%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (15.38%) OpenShift
6 10 (12.82%) Serverless
7 4 (5.13%) AWS KMS
7 4 (5.13%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.56%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.56%) IaaS
9 2 (2.56%) PaaS
9 2 (2.56%) SaaS
10 1 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) DNS
1 2 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (32.05%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (28.21%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (12.82%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (41.03%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.21%) GitLab
3 21 (26.92%) JIRA
4 17 (21.79%) Git
5 13 (16.67%) Selenium
6 12 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 12 (15.38%) JMeter
6 12 (15.38%) JUnit
6 12 (15.38%) WebDriver
7 7 (8.97%) Liquibase
8 4 (5.13%) CircleCI
General
1 47 (60.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (23.08%) Finance
3 9 (11.54%) Banking
4 8 (10.26%) Financial Institution
5 6 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Military
8 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (19.23%) Senior
2 14 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 14 (17.95%) Splunk Engineer
3 12 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (14.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (14.10%) GCP Engineer
4 11 (14.10%) Site Engineer
5 9 (11.54%) Tester
6 7 (8.97%) Automation Tester
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Automation Tester
7 6 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Tester
7 6 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Lead
9 4 (5.13%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (5.13%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (16.67%) REST
3 12 (15.38%) Spring
3 12 (15.38%) WireMock
4 10 (12.82%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (12.82%) RESTful
5 5 (6.41%) Kafka
6 3 (3.85%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.56%) .NET
7 2 (2.56%) Fluent Bit
8 1 (1.28%) Middleware
8 1 (1.28%) OAuth
8 1 (1.28%) OpenCV
8 1 (1.28%) pytest
8 1 (1.28%) Regular Expression
8 1 (1.28%) SpaCy
8 1 (1.28%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.28%) Web Services
8 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.36%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (14.10%) Management Information System
2 11 (14.10%) Public Cloud
3 10 (12.82%) Cloud Native
4 9 (11.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.13%) PKI
6 3 (3.85%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.85%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.56%) CMDB
7 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 26 (33.33%) Linux
2 12 (15.38%) Unix
3 6 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (64.10%) Containerisation
2 49 (62.82%) CI/CD
3 47 (60.26%) DevOps
4 38 (48.72%) Observability
5 32 (41.03%) Agile
6 27 (34.62%) Migration
7 24 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (30.77%) Validation
8 23 (29.49%) Computer Science
9 22 (28.21%) Change Management
9 22 (28.21%) Incident Response
9 22 (28.21%) Microservices
10 17 (21.79%) High Availability
10 17 (21.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (21.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (20.51%) Root Cause Analysis
11 16 (20.51%) Test Automation
12 15 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (19.23%) Data Ingestion
13 13 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (50.00%) Python
2 16 (20.51%) Bash
2 16 (20.51%) Go
3 5 (6.41%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.41%) SQL
4 2 (2.56%) Bicep
4 2 (2.56%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.28%) Groovy
5 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (30.77%) Degree
2 23 (29.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (25.64%) Security Cleared
4 15 (19.23%) SC Cleared
5 12 (15.38%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.13%) CISM
6 4 (5.13%) CISSP
7 3 (3.85%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.85%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.56%) GDPR
2 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 53 (67.95%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) etcd
2 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.56%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.56%) vSphere
3 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (47.44%) Ansible
2 36 (46.15%) Grafana
3 33 (42.31%) Terraform
4 32 (41.03%) Prometheus
5 21 (26.92%) Kibana
6 11 (14.10%) Puppet
7 10 (12.82%) logstash
8 5 (6.41%) Argo
9 3 (3.85%) Control-M
9 3 (3.85%) IBM Guardium
9 3 (3.85%) Nessus
10 2 (2.56%) Fluentd
10 2 (2.56%) vCenter Server
11 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (39.74%) Splunk
2 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.69%) Google
4 3 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.85%) Tenable
4 3 (3.85%) VMware
5 2 (2.56%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle