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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 36 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 -7
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 43 21 8
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.65% 3.86% 1.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.05% 26.92% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 5
10th Percentile £374 £290 £273
25th Percentile £413 £371 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -39.29%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £738
90th Percentile £614 £745 -
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £545 £606
% change year-on-year -5.50% -10.07% -13.43%
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 113 78 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.22% 14.34% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 52 43
10th Percentile £276 £263 £350
25th Percentile £405 £349 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £638
90th Percentile £688 £575 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £41.78 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +197.30%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.45 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.18%

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 5 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 14 (32.56%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) CloudStack
3 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (62.79%) AWS
2 21 (48.84%) Azure
3 18 (41.86%) GCP
3 18 (41.86%) GitHub
4 17 (39.53%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (16.28%) OpenShift
6 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.65%) IaaS
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.33%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.33%) Datadog
9 1 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) NAS
1 4 (9.30%) SAN
2 3 (6.98%) Firewall
3 2 (4.65%) DNS
3 2 (4.65%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (2.33%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.33%) Metadata
3 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (48.84%) Jenkins
2 15 (34.88%) Git
2 15 (34.88%) GitLab
2 15 (34.88%) JIRA
3 14 (32.56%) Cucumber
3 14 (32.56%) JMeter
3 14 (32.56%) JUnit
3 14 (32.56%) Selenium
3 14 (32.56%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.33%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.33%) Maven
4 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.95%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Finance
5 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.98%) Banking
7 2 (4.65%) Legal
8 1 (2.33%) Military
8 1 (2.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Senior
1 10 (23.26%) Tester
2 9 (20.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Automation Tester
4 7 (16.28%) Senior Automation Tester
4 7 (16.28%) Senior Tester
5 6 (13.95%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Systems Tester
6 3 (6.98%) Test Leader
6 3 (6.98%) VMware Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Data Centre Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) Spring
2 14 (32.56%) WireMock
3 7 (16.28%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (11.63%) Kafka
4 5 (11.63%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.65%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (4.65%) Node.js
5 2 (4.65%) REST
6 1 (2.33%) .NET
6 1 (2.33%) ADO
6 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.33%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.33%) JSON
6 1 (2.33%) Loki
6 1 (2.33%) Mustache
6 1 (2.33%) React
6 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.33%) Web Services
6 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 11 (25.58%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.98%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) CMDB
5 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.33%) Blog
6 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.33%) Unix
4 1 (2.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (69.77%) CI/CD
2 27 (62.79%) Observability
3 21 (48.84%) Agile
4 18 (41.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (39.53%) Test Automation
6 16 (37.21%) DevOps
6 16 (37.21%) Validation
7 15 (34.88%) Microservices
7 15 (34.88%) TDD
8 14 (32.56%) BDD
8 14 (32.56%) Containerisation
8 14 (32.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 14 (32.56%) Test Strategy
9 13 (30.23%) End-to-End Testing
9 13 (30.23%) Load Testing
10 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (23.26%) Workshop Facilitation
12 8 (18.60%) Data Validation
12 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (18.60%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) Python
2 5 (11.63%) Bash
3 4 (9.30%) Go
4 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.65%) Bicep
5 2 (4.65%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (2.33%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) Groovy
6 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (51.16%) Security Cleared
2 18 (41.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.65%) CCNP
3 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 26 (60.47%) Docker
2 7 (16.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (13.95%) vSphere
4 4 (9.30%) VMware NSX
5 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (4.65%) etcd
7 1 (2.33%) NFS
7 1 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (67.44%) Grafana
1 29 (67.44%) Prometheus
2 15 (34.88%) Terraform
3 8 (18.60%) Ansible
4 4 (9.30%) Argo
4 4 (9.30%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.65%) Check_MK
5 2 (4.65%) Fluentd
5 2 (4.65%) Kibana
5 2 (4.65%) Kustomize
5 2 (4.65%) logstash
6 1 (2.33%) Control-M
6 1 (2.33%) IBM Guardium
6 1 (2.33%) Nessus
6 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
1 7 (16.28%) VMware
2 6 (13.95%) Splunk
3 5 (11.63%) Veeam
4 3 (6.98%) Cisco
5 2 (4.65%) Commvault
5 2 (4.65%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.65%) Pure Storage
5 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) Brocade
6 1 (2.33%) Dell
6 1 (2.33%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) New Relic
6 1 (2.33%) Sonatype
6 1 (2.33%) Tenable