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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 56 52
Rank change year-on-year +18 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 26 9 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.33% 1.26% 2.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.31% 18.75% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile £313 £273 £486
25th Percentile £381 £413 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £425 £700
Median % change year-on-year +24.71% -39.29% +23.08%
75th Percentile £709 £738 -
90th Percentile £855 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £588 £675
% change year-on-year -6.38% -12.96% +25.00%

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 122 48 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.30% 6.71% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 29 78
10th Percentile £243 £201 £313
25th Percentile £393 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -22.33%
75th Percentile £546 £544 £652
90th Percentile £634 £667 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.70% +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +197.30% -35.83%
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.00 £62.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -42.40% +237.84% +12.12%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 2 (7.69%) Confluence
1 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) GCP
2 6 (23.08%) Serverless
3 5 (19.23%) GitHub
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.54%) Azure
5 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.85%) IaaS
7 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
1 2 (7.69%) SSH
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (38.46%) NoSQL
3 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.69%) Big Data
5 2 (7.69%) Delta Lake
5 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 2 (7.69%) Parquet
5 2 (7.69%) Tableau
6 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) Liquibase
3 3 (11.54%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) GitLab
3 3 (11.54%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) MLflow
4 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.85%) JMeter
5 1 (3.85%) Poetry
5 1 (3.85%) Postman
5 1 (3.85%) PyCharm
5 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.85%) Selenium
5 1 (3.85%) TestNG
5 1 (3.85%) Travis CI
5 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Finance
5 2 (7.69%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.69%) Legal
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Site Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Splunk Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes Specialist
4 3 (11.54%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (11.54%) Splunk Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Application Development Manager
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (61.54%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 5 (19.23%) REST
3 4 (15.38%) RESTful
4 3 (11.54%) Web Services
5 2 (7.69%) Apache Avro
5 2 (7.69%) Flask
5 2 (7.69%) HTML
5 2 (7.69%) Middleware
5 2 (7.69%) NumPy
5 2 (7.69%) Pandas
6 1 (3.85%) Kafka
6 1 (3.85%) Mustache
6 1 (3.85%) Node.js
6 1 (3.85%) React
6 1 (3.85%) Spring
6 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Public Cloud
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Windows
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Containerisation
2 13 (50.00%) DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (42.31%) Computer Science
4 10 (38.46%) Agile
4 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 9 (34.62%) Migration
6 8 (30.77%) Change Management
6 8 (30.77%) Observability
6 8 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (26.92%) Data Modelling
7 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (26.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
8 6 (23.08%) Incident Response
9 5 (19.23%) ITIL
9 5 (19.23%) Microservices
9 5 (19.23%) Service Management
9 5 (19.23%) Task Automation
10 4 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) Python
2 15 (57.69%) Bash
3 10 (38.46%) SQL
4 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 4 (15.38%) Bicep
5 4 (15.38%) Go
5 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.69%) C#
6 2 (7.69%) Groovy
7 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Degree
2 11 (42.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) CEH
6 1 (3.85%) CISSP
6 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Ansible
2 10 (38.46%) Terraform
3 9 (34.62%) Kibana
4 7 (26.92%) Grafana
5 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
6 4 (15.38%) logstash
6 4 (15.38%) Puppet
7 2 (7.69%) Argo
7 2 (7.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Splunk
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Cloudera
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.85%) BT
4 1 (3.85%) Commvault
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Veeam