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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 58 48
Rank change year-on-year +27 -10 +5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 39 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.96% 1.42% 2.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.46% 16.39% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 7 12
10th Percentile £377 £320 £478
25th Percentile £468 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £645
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -22.48% +12.17%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £700
90th Percentile £892 £738 -
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -10.46% +11.63% -6.52%

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 142 61 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.71% 8.66% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 34 79
10th Percentile £260 £182 £313
25th Percentile £420 £355 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £441 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% +10.31% -23.08%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £528
90th Percentile £629 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £500 £438
% change year-on-year +2.75% +14.29% -9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +90.77%
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.57% +27.27% +210.38%

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 2 November 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 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.13%) SAS
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) GCP
2 16 (41.03%) Serverless
3 9 (23.08%) GitHub
4 7 (17.95%) Azure
5 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
6 4 (10.26%) AWS KMS
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
7 3 (7.69%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.13%) Azure API Management
8 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.13%) IaaS
8 2 (5.13%) PaaS
9 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
1 2 (5.13%) SSH
1 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (41.03%) NoSQL
2 12 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (28.21%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.13%) Big Data
4 2 (5.13%) Delta Lake
4 2 (5.13%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.13%) Parquet
5 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.56%) Metadata
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (51.28%) Jenkins
2 13 (33.33%) GitLab
3 10 (25.64%) Liquibase
4 4 (10.26%) Git
5 2 (5.13%) CircleCI
5 2 (5.13%) JIRA
5 2 (5.13%) MLflow
5 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.56%) Poetry
6 1 (2.56%) PyCharm
6 1 (2.56%) Selenium
6 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (71.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (33.33%) Finance
3 10 (25.64%) Financial Institution
4 9 (23.08%) Banking
5 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.56%) Military
8 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Senior
3 9 (23.08%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Software Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Splunk Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (15.38%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 6 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 6 (15.38%) Site Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) GCP Software Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (7.69%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (74.36%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (43.59%) REST
3 14 (35.90%) RESTful
4 2 (5.13%) Apache Avro
4 2 (5.13%) Flask
4 2 (5.13%) NumPy
4 2 (5.13%) Pandas
4 2 (5.13%) Web Services
5 1 (2.56%) .NET
5 1 (2.56%) Kafka
5 1 (2.56%) Mustache
5 1 (2.56%) Node.js
5 1 (2.56%) OAuth
5 1 (2.56%) pytest
5 1 (2.56%) React
5 1 (2.56%) Spring
5 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (38.46%) Public Cloud
2 13 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (25.64%) Cloud Native
4 6 (15.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (61.54%) Linux
2 6 (15.38%) Unix
3 2 (5.13%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (79.49%) Containerisation
2 28 (71.79%) DevOps
3 25 (64.10%) CI/CD
4 20 (51.28%) Computer Science
5 19 (48.72%) Agile
6 16 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (41.03%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (35.90%) Cryptography
7 14 (35.90%) Migration
8 13 (33.33%) Change Management
8 13 (33.33%) High Availability
8 13 (33.33%) Microservices
9 11 (28.21%) Observability
9 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (25.64%) Cost Optimisation
10 10 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (25.64%) Data Modelling
10 10 (25.64%) Non-Functional Testing
10 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
11 9 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 30 (76.92%) Python
2 15 (38.46%) Go
3 14 (35.90%) Bash
4 8 (20.51%) SQL
5 4 (10.26%) Bicep
6 2 (5.13%) Groovy
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) Java
7 1 (2.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (51.28%) Computer Science Degree
1 20 (51.28%) Degree
2 12 (30.77%) Master's Degree
3 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 5 (12.82%) AWS Certification
5 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 29 (74.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (56.41%) Ansible
2 19 (48.72%) Terraform
3 15 (38.46%) Grafana
3 15 (38.46%) Prometheus
4 11 (28.21%) Kibana
5 6 (15.38%) Puppet
6 5 (12.82%) logstash
7 2 (5.13%) Argo
7 2 (5.13%) Istio
8 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (64.10%) Splunk
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.38%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.56%) Commvault
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Veeam