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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 61 57
Rank change year-on-year +37 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 59 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.65% 0.95% 1.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.07% 12.77% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 5 11
10th Percentile £468 £308 £238
25th Percentile £482 £500 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £576 £738 £700
90th Percentile £755 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £530 £606 £500
% change year-on-year -12.54% +21.20% -16.67%

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 151 47 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.58% 7.46% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 28 55
10th Percentile £283 £173 £248
25th Percentile £452 £239 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £421 £413
Median % change year-on-year +18.91% +1.94% -16.46%
75th Percentile £546 £525 £500
90th Percentile £623 £559 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +3.70% +17.65% -15.00%
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 £16.19 £55.00
% change year-on-year +363.25% -70.56% +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 13 January 2026.

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 (6.78%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SAS
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) AWS
2 15 (25.42%) GCP
3 14 (23.73%) Serverless
4 12 (20.34%) Azure
4 12 (20.34%) GitHub
5 8 (13.56%) OpenShift
6 7 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.78%) AWS KMS
7 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.39%) Azure API Management
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.39%) IaaS
9 2 (3.39%) PaaS
9 2 (3.39%) SaaS
10 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.59%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (23.73%) NoSQL
3 10 (16.95%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.69%) Metadata
4 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (33.90%) Jenkins
2 17 (28.81%) GitLab
3 10 (16.95%) Liquibase
4 6 (10.17%) JIRA
5 4 (6.78%) CircleCI
6 3 (5.08%) Git
7 1 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 40 (67.80%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (23.73%) Finance
4 10 (16.95%) Banking
4 10 (16.95%) Financial Institution
5 4 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 16 (27.12%) Splunk Engineer
2 13 (22.03%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (22.03%) Site Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) Senior
4 10 (16.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Software Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (11.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Software Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) GCP Software Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes Specialist
10 3 (5.08%) Migration Specialist
10 3 (5.08%) Splunk Specialist
11 2 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (64.41%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (27.12%) REST
3 14 (23.73%) RESTful
4 3 (5.08%) Kafka
4 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.39%) .NET
6 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.69%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.69%) Middleware
6 1 (1.69%) OAuth
6 1 (1.69%) OpenCV
6 1 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.69%) pytest
6 1 (1.69%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.69%) Regular Expression
6 1 (1.69%) SpaCy
6 1 (1.69%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.69%) Web Services
6 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Public Cloud
2 13 (22.03%) Management Information System
3 12 (20.34%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (18.64%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.78%) PKI
6 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.39%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (52.54%) Linux
2 14 (23.73%) Unix
3 4 (6.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (74.58%) Containerisation
2 42 (71.19%) DevOps
3 33 (55.93%) CI/CD
4 29 (49.15%) Migration
5 28 (47.46%) Computer Science
6 25 (42.37%) Change Management
7 24 (40.68%) Agile
8 22 (37.29%) Observability
9 20 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (32.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (30.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (30.51%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (28.81%) Data Ingestion
12 17 (28.81%) Data Modelling
12 17 (28.81%) High Availability
12 17 (28.81%) Incident Response
13 14 (23.73%) Cryptography
13 14 (23.73%) Dashboard Development
13 14 (23.73%) Microservices
13 14 (23.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (67.80%) Python
2 19 (32.20%) Go
3 18 (30.51%) Bash
4 7 (11.86%) SQL
5 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.78%) Bicep
7 1 (1.69%) Groovy
7 1 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (49.15%) Degree
2 28 (47.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (22.03%) Master's Degree
4 8 (13.56%) Security Cleared
5 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.78%) CISM
6 4 (6.78%) CISSP
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 40 (67.80%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (62.71%) Ansible
2 29 (49.15%) Terraform
3 21 (35.59%) Kibana
4 20 (33.90%) Grafana
5 16 (27.12%) Prometheus
6 13 (22.03%) Puppet
7 8 (13.56%) logstash
8 3 (5.08%) Argo
9 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (57.63%) Splunk
2 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.17%) Google
4 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.69%) VMware