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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 60 55
Rank change year-on-year +30 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 45 9 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.28% 1.25% 1.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.20% 15.79% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 6 12
10th Percentile £394 £296 £284
25th Percentile £480 £434 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -16.33% +4.26%
75th Percentile £580 £688 £700
90th Percentile £892 £738 -
West Midlands median daily rate £540 £606 £500
% change year-on-year -10.89% +21.20% -13.04%

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 149 57 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.78% 7.94% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 30 77
10th Percentile £279 £178 £308
25th Percentile £428 £260 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £441 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.31% -16.88%
75th Percentile £545 £534 £530
90th Percentile £626 £594 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £500 £438
% change year-on-year +3.70% +14.29% -7.89%
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 £56.25 £12.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +361.82% -77.85% +221.45%

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 December 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 3 (6.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) SAS
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) AWS
2 16 (35.56%) GCP
3 14 (31.11%) GitHub
3 14 (31.11%) Serverless
4 9 (20.00%) Azure
4 9 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (8.89%) AWS KMS
6 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.44%) Azure API Management
7 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.44%) IaaS
7 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.44%) PaaS
8 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) SSH
1 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
2 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (35.56%) NoSQL
2 14 (31.11%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (24.44%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.44%) Big Data
4 2 (4.44%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.44%) Parquet
5 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.22%) Metadata
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 17 (37.78%) GitLab
3 10 (22.22%) Liquibase
4 5 (11.11%) JIRA
5 4 (8.89%) CircleCI
6 3 (6.67%) Git
7 2 (4.44%) MLflow
7 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.22%) Poetry
8 1 (2.22%) PyCharm
8 1 (2.22%) Selenium
8 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (75.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.89%) Finance
3 10 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (20.00%) Banking
5 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 12 (26.67%) Senior
2 10 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Splunk Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (15.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Senior Software Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Site Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) GCP Software Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes Specialist
8 3 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
8 3 (6.67%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (73.33%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (35.56%) REST
3 14 (31.11%) RESTful
4 3 (6.67%) Kafka
4 3 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.44%) Apache Avro
5 2 (4.44%) Flask
5 2 (4.44%) NumPy
5 2 (4.44%) Pandas
6 1 (2.22%) .NET
6 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.22%) OAuth
6 1 (2.22%) pytest
6 1 (2.22%) Web Services
6 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Public Cloud
2 12 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (22.22%) Cloud Native
4 7 (15.56%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 2 (4.44%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (57.78%) Linux
2 7 (15.56%) Unix
3 3 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (82.22%) Containerisation
2 32 (71.11%) DevOps
3 31 (68.89%) CI/CD
4 22 (48.89%) Agile
5 21 (46.67%) Computer Science
6 17 (37.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (37.78%) Migration
7 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (35.56%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (31.11%) Change Management
8 14 (31.11%) Cryptography
8 14 (31.11%) High Availability
8 14 (31.11%) Microservices
8 14 (31.11%) Observability
9 12 (26.67%) Software Engineering
10 11 (24.44%) Data Ingestion
10 11 (24.44%) Data Modelling
10 11 (24.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
11 10 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 33 (73.33%) Python
2 19 (42.22%) Go
3 13 (28.89%) Bash
4 8 (17.78%) SQL
5 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.89%) Bicep
7 2 (4.44%) Groovy
8 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 21 (46.67%) Degree
2 12 (26.67%) Master's Degree
3 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
4 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (60.00%) Ansible
2 24 (53.33%) Terraform
3 18 (40.00%) Grafana
4 14 (31.11%) Kibana
4 14 (31.11%) Prometheus
5 7 (15.56%) logstash
5 7 (15.56%) Puppet
6 5 (11.11%) Argo
7 2 (4.44%) Istio
8 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (62.22%) Splunk
2 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.33%) Google
4 2 (4.44%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.22%) VMware