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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 45 58
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 30 24 9
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.28% 4.03% 1.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.97% 21.82% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 5
10th Percentile - £314 £273
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +24.71% -39.29%
75th Percentile £600 £709 £738
90th Percentile £618 £855 -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £550 £606
% change year-on-year -5.45% -9.24% -11.85%
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 79 110 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.62% 18.46% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 64 21
10th Percentile £210 £249 £206
25th Percentile £281 £400 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £606 £546 £550
90th Percentile £701 £636 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £487 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -6.12% +3.70% +5.26%
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 £65.45 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +278.38%

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 17 September 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 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) CloudStack
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 9 (30.00%) GitHub
4 8 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (23.33%) GCP
6 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (16.67%) OpenShift
8 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
9 2 (6.67%) IaaS
9 2 (6.67%) OCI
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (3.33%) Azure API Management
10 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) NAS
1 4 (13.33%) SAN
2 3 (10.00%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.67%) Metadata
3 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (26.67%) GitLab
3 4 (13.33%) Git
4 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 2 (6.67%) JMeter
4 2 (6.67%) JUnit
4 2 (6.67%) Maven
4 2 (6.67%) Selenium
4 2 (6.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Legal
4 2 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) Terraform
2 6 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (10.00%) Kafka
3 3 (10.00%) Node.js
3 3 (10.00%) Spring
4 2 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 2 (6.67%) JSON
4 2 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (6.67%) REST
4 2 (6.67%) SLSA
4 2 (6.67%) WireMock
4 2 (6.67%) YAML
5 1 (3.33%) .NET
5 1 (3.33%) ADO
5 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.33%) Loki
5 1 (3.33%) Mustache
5 1 (3.33%) React
5 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (6.67%) Private Cloud
5 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Blog
6 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.33%) Unix
4 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 17 (56.67%) DevOps
3 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (43.33%) Observability
5 10 (33.33%) Agile
6 9 (30.00%) Migration
7 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
8 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (23.33%) Data Protection
8 7 (23.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (16.67%) High Availability
10 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 4 (13.33%) Application Packaging
11 4 (13.33%) DevSecOps
11 4 (13.33%) Microservices
11 4 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) Bash
3 4 (13.33%) Java
3 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.00%) Bicep
4 3 (10.00%) Go
5 2 (6.67%) Groovy
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.67%) CCNP
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Docker
2 8 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (20.00%) vSphere
4 4 (13.33%) VMware NSX
5 3 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.33%) NFS
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Grafana
2 13 (43.33%) Prometheus
3 8 (26.67%) Ansible
4 4 (13.33%) Argo
4 4 (13.33%) vCenter Server
5 2 (6.67%) Check_MK
5 2 (6.67%) Kibana
5 2 (6.67%) Kustomize
5 2 (6.67%) logstash
6 1 (3.33%) Control-M
6 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) VMware
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Veeam
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco
4 3 (10.00%) Splunk
5 2 (6.67%) Commvault
5 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.67%) Pure Storage
5 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.67%) Sonatype
6 1 (3.33%) Brocade
6 1 (3.33%) Dell
6 1 (3.33%) IBM
6 1 (3.33%) New Relic