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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 58 58
Rank change year-on-year +35 0 -7
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 54 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.45% 1.16% 1.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.24% 14.29% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 5 11
10th Percentile £408 £308 £263
25th Percentile £480 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.64%
75th Percentile £548 £738 £700
90th Percentile £780 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -12.25% +22.40% -13.04%

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 149 56 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.55% 8.12% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 32 70
10th Percentile £360 £181 £300
25th Percentile £450 £281 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £479 £393
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +21.97% -18.44%
75th Percentile £541 £532 £500
90th Percentile £619 £589 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +3.00% +17.65% -10.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £39.98 - -
25th Percentile £45.94 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £66.94 - -
90th Percentile £73.13 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £75.00 £12.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +515.76% -77.85% +221.45%

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 December 2025.

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 4 (7.41%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.70%) SAS
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.33%) AWS
2 16 (29.63%) GCP
3 14 (25.93%) Serverless
4 13 (24.07%) GitHub
5 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (14.81%) Azure
6 8 (14.81%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.41%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.56%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.70%) Azure API Management
9 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.85%) IaaS
10 1 (1.85%) PaaS
10 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) SSL
2 2 (3.70%) SSH
2 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (29.63%) NoSQL
3 10 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.70%) Big Data
4 2 (3.70%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.70%) Parquet
5 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.85%) Metadata
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 17 (31.48%) GitLab
3 10 (18.52%) Liquibase
4 5 (9.26%) JIRA
5 4 (7.41%) CircleCI
6 3 (5.56%) Git
7 2 (3.70%) MLflow
7 2 (3.70%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.85%) Poetry
8 1 (1.85%) PyCharm
8 1 (1.85%) Selenium
8 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (68.52%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Finance
3 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (18.52%) Financial Institution
5 9 (16.67%) Banking
6 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 13 (24.07%) Splunk Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) Senior
3 10 (18.52%) Site Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (12.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) GCP Software Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes Specialist
9 3 (5.56%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (5.56%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (68.52%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (29.63%) REST
3 14 (25.93%) RESTful
4 3 (5.56%) Kafka
4 3 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.70%) Apache Avro
5 2 (3.70%) Flask
5 2 (3.70%) NumPy
5 2 (3.70%) Pandas
6 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.85%) Middleware
6 1 (1.85%) OAuth
6 1 (1.85%) pytest
6 1 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Public Cloud
2 12 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (20.37%) Cloud Native
4 10 (18.52%) Management Information System
5 4 (7.41%) PKI
6 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (51.85%) Linux
2 10 (18.52%) Unix
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (75.93%) Containerisation
2 38 (70.37%) DevOps
3 34 (62.96%) CI/CD
4 25 (46.30%) Computer Science
4 25 (46.30%) Migration
5 22 (40.74%) Agile
5 22 (40.74%) Change Management
6 19 (35.19%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (31.48%) Observability
7 17 (31.48%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (29.63%) High Availability
8 16 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (29.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 14 (25.93%) Cryptography
9 14 (25.93%) Data Ingestion
9 14 (25.93%) Data Modelling
9 14 (25.93%) Microservices
10 13 (24.07%) Incident Response
11 12 (22.22%) Software Engineering
12 11 (20.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (68.52%) Python
2 19 (35.19%) Go
3 16 (29.63%) Bash
4 7 (12.96%) SQL
5 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.56%) Bicep
7 2 (3.70%) Groovy
8 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (48.15%) Degree
2 25 (46.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (24.07%) Master's Degree
4 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.41%) CISM
5 4 (7.41%) CISSP
5 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (3.70%) GDPR
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 37 (68.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (62.96%) Ansible
2 27 (50.00%) Terraform
3 19 (35.19%) Grafana
4 18 (33.33%) Kibana
5 15 (27.78%) Prometheus
6 10 (18.52%) Puppet
7 8 (14.81%) logstash
8 5 (9.26%) Argo
9 2 (3.70%) Istio
10 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (57.41%) Splunk
2 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.85%) VMware