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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 58 58
Rank change year-on-year +33 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 57 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.35% 1.04% 1.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.51% 13.73% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 5 10
10th Percentile £410 £308 £260
25th Percentile £480 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -20.39%
75th Percentile £556 £738 £700
90th Percentile £755 - £713
West Midlands median daily rate £530 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -13.40% +22.40% -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 148 51 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.10% 7.61% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 28 63
10th Percentile £338 £173 £280
25th Percentile £428 £239 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £421 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.91% +5.13% -17.95%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £478
90th Percentile £626 £559 £698
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +3.00% +17.65% -12.37%
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 2 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 (7.02%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) AWS
2 16 (28.07%) GCP
3 14 (24.56%) GitHub
3 14 (24.56%) Serverless
4 9 (15.79%) Azure
4 9 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (14.04%) OpenShift
6 4 (7.02%) AWS KMS
7 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.51%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.51%) IaaS
8 2 (3.51%) PaaS
9 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) SSL
2 2 (3.51%) SSH
2 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (35.09%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (28.07%) NoSQL
3 11 (19.30%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.51%) Big Data
4 2 (3.51%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.51%) Parquet
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) Metadata
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 17 (29.82%) GitLab
3 10 (17.54%) Liquibase
4 6 (10.53%) JIRA
5 4 (7.02%) CircleCI
6 3 (5.26%) Git
7 2 (3.51%) MLflow
7 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.75%) Poetry
8 1 (1.75%) PyCharm
8 1 (1.75%) Selenium
8 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (22.81%) Finance
4 10 (17.54%) Financial Institution
5 9 (15.79%) Banking
6 4 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 15 (26.32%) Splunk Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Senior
2 12 (21.05%) Site Engineer
3 9 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (15.79%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (12.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) AWS Software Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) GCP Software Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes Specialist
8 3 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
8 3 (5.26%) Splunk Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (68.42%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (28.07%) REST
3 14 (24.56%) RESTful
4 3 (5.26%) Kafka
4 3 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.51%) Apache Avro
5 2 (3.51%) Flask
5 2 (3.51%) NumPy
5 2 (3.51%) Pandas
6 1 (1.75%) .NET
6 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.75%) Middleware
6 1 (1.75%) OAuth
6 1 (1.75%) pytest
6 1 (1.75%) Web Services
6 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Public Cloud
2 12 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 11 (19.30%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.02%) PKI
5 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.51%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (54.39%) Linux
2 12 (21.05%) Unix
3 3 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) Containerisation
2 41 (71.93%) DevOps
3 34 (59.65%) CI/CD
4 28 (49.12%) Migration
5 27 (47.37%) Computer Science
6 24 (42.11%) Change Management
7 23 (40.35%) Agile
8 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (33.33%) Observability
10 18 (31.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (29.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (29.82%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (28.07%) Data Ingestion
12 16 (28.07%) Data Modelling
12 16 (28.07%) High Availability
13 15 (26.32%) Incident Response
14 14 (24.56%) Cryptography
14 14 (24.56%) Microservices
15 13 (22.81%) Validation
16 12 (21.05%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 39 (68.42%) Python
2 19 (33.33%) Bash
2 19 (33.33%) Go
3 8 (14.04%) SQL
4 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.02%) Bicep
6 2 (3.51%) Groovy
7 1 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (49.12%) Degree
2 27 (47.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (22.81%) Master's Degree
4 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.02%) AWS Certification
6 4 (7.02%) CISM
6 4 (7.02%) CISSP
7 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) GDPR
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 40 (70.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (63.16%) Ansible
2 28 (49.12%) Terraform
3 20 (35.09%) Kibana
4 19 (33.33%) Grafana
5 15 (26.32%) Prometheus
6 12 (21.05%) Puppet
7 8 (14.04%) logstash
8 5 (8.77%) Argo
9 2 (3.51%) Istio
10 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (57.89%) Splunk
2 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.53%) Google
4 2 (3.51%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.75%) VMware