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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 40 59
Rank change year-on-year +17 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 63 13 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.92% 2.44% 0.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.81% 22.41% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 7 5
10th Percentile £380 £297 -
25th Percentile £425 £366 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £450 £275
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% +63.64% -60.71%
75th Percentile £569 £644 £463
90th Percentile £600 £800 £680
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -5.45% +12.82% -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 124 58 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.63% 10.88% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 42 62
10th Percentile £325 £263 £204
25th Percentile £425 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £459 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.99% +7.94% -29.17%
75th Percentile £550 £634 £569
90th Percentile £600 £700 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £484 £475 £431
% change year-on-year +1.79% +10.14% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £31.25 - -
25th Percentile £38.66 - -
Median hourly rate £51.55 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +180.58%
75th Percentile £64.66 - -
90th Percentile £72.22 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £64.07 £16.19 £55.00
% change year-on-year +295.72% -70.56% +197.30%

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 25 April 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 15 (23.81%) Confluence
2 9 (14.29%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.33%) AWS
1 21 (33.33%) Azure
2 20 (31.75%) GitHub
3 18 (28.57%) GCP
4 14 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (20.63%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.17%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.59%) IaaS
8 1 (1.59%) PaaS
8 1 (1.59%) SaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) SSL
3 1 (1.59%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.59%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.59%) NAS
3 1 (1.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
1 18 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (34.92%) JIRA
2 21 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 16 (25.40%) Git
4 13 (20.63%) Cucumber
4 13 (20.63%) GitLab
4 13 (20.63%) JMeter
4 13 (20.63%) JUnit
4 13 (20.63%) Selenium
4 13 (20.63%) WebDriver
5 2 (3.17%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.17%) Liquibase
General
1 33 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Finance
4 6 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Banking
6 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Senior
2 10 (15.87%) Tester
3 9 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Splunk Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Automation Tester
4 8 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Site Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Tester
6 5 (7.94%) Architect
7 4 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Lead
7 4 (6.35%) SIEM Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Automation Test Lead
8 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) GCP DevOps
8 3 (4.76%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (36.51%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (20.63%) Spring
2 13 (20.63%) WireMock
3 12 (19.05%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (11.11%) Kafka
5 3 (4.76%) FastAPI
5 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.17%) .NET
6 2 (3.17%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.17%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (3.17%) REST
7 1 (1.59%) ADO
7 1 (1.59%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.59%) Middleware
7 1 (1.59%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.59%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.59%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.59%) RESTful
7 1 (1.59%) SpaCy
7 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (15.87%) Distributed Architecture
3 8 (12.70%) Cloud Native
3 8 (12.70%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.35%) PKI
5 3 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.17%) CMDB
6 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.22%) Linux
2 9 (14.29%) Unix
3 6 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 35 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 35 (55.56%) Observability
3 33 (52.38%) DevOps
4 22 (34.92%) Agile
4 22 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (34.92%) Validation
5 21 (33.33%) Migration
6 19 (30.16%) Incident Response
7 16 (25.40%) Microservices
8 15 (23.81%) Change Management
8 15 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (22.22%) Test Automation
10 13 (20.63%) BDD
10 13 (20.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 13 (20.63%) End-to-End Testing
10 13 (20.63%) Load Testing
10 13 (20.63%) TDD
10 13 (20.63%) Test Strategy
11 12 (19.05%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.27%) Python
2 14 (22.22%) Bash
3 6 (9.52%) Go
4 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.35%) SQL
5 2 (3.17%) Bicep
5 2 (3.17%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.59%) Groovy
6 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.63%) Degree
4 11 (17.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.35%) CISM
5 4 (6.35%) CISSP
6 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.17%) GDPR
1 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.17%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (61.90%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.76%) VMware NSX
2 3 (4.76%) vSphere
3 2 (3.17%) etcd
4 1 (1.59%) NFS
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (49.21%) Grafana
2 27 (42.86%) Ansible
3 25 (39.68%) Prometheus
3 25 (39.68%) Terraform
4 17 (26.98%) Kibana
5 9 (14.29%) logstash
6 8 (12.70%) Puppet
7 7 (11.11%) Argo
8 3 (4.76%) Control-M
8 3 (4.76%) IBM Guardium
8 3 (4.76%) Nessus
8 3 (4.76%) vCenter Server
9 2 (3.17%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Splunk
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.94%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.35%) Pure Storage
4 4 (6.35%) VMware
5 3 (4.76%) Tenable
6 1 (1.59%) Brocade
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco
6 1 (1.59%) Dell
6 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.59%) Google
6 1 (1.59%) New Relic
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle