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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 58 61
Rank change year-on-year +37 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 56 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.36% 0.94% 1.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.10% 12.77% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 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 £569 £738 £700
90th Percentile £810 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £530 £612 £500
% change year-on-year -13.40% +22.40% -14.53%

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 147 47 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.32% 7.33% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 28 56
10th Percentile £314 £173 £250
25th Percentile £463 £239 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £421 £406
Median % change year-on-year +18.91% +3.51% -15.58%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £500
90th Percentile £627 £559 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +3.70% +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 11 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 (7.14%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.14%) AWS
2 14 (25.00%) GCP
2 14 (25.00%) Serverless
3 12 (21.43%) GitHub
4 9 (16.07%) Azure
5 8 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 7 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.14%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.57%) Azure API Management
9 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.57%) IaaS
9 2 (3.57%) PaaS
10 1 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.79%) Metadata
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) Jenkins
2 17 (30.36%) GitLab
3 10 (17.86%) Liquibase
4 6 (10.71%) JIRA
5 4 (7.14%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.57%) Git
7 1 (1.79%) Selenium
General
1 40 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (21.43%) Finance
4 10 (17.86%) Financial Institution
5 9 (16.07%) Banking
6 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 16 (28.57%) Splunk Engineer
2 13 (23.21%) Site Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Senior
4 9 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) GCP Engineer
4 9 (16.07%) Software Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) GCP Software Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes Specialist
9 3 (5.36%) Migration Specialist
9 3 (5.36%) Splunk Specialist
10 2 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (67.86%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (28.57%) REST
3 14 (25.00%) RESTful
4 3 (5.36%) Kafka
4 3 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.79%) .NET
5 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.79%) Middleware
5 1 (1.79%) OAuth
5 1 (1.79%) pytest
5 1 (1.79%) Web Services
5 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 13 (23.21%) Management Information System
3 12 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (19.64%) Cloud Native
5 4 (7.14%) PKI
6 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (53.57%) Linux
2 13 (23.21%) Unix
3 3 (5.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (76.79%) Containerisation
2 40 (71.43%) DevOps
3 32 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 29 (51.79%) Migration
5 28 (50.00%) Computer Science
6 25 (44.64%) Change Management
7 23 (41.07%) Agile
8 20 (35.71%) Observability
8 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (33.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (30.36%) Data Ingestion
10 17 (30.36%) Data Modelling
10 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (30.36%) Root Cause Analysis
11 16 (28.57%) High Availability
11 16 (28.57%) Incident Response
12 14 (25.00%) Cryptography
12 14 (25.00%) Microservices
12 14 (25.00%) Validation
13 13 (23.21%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 38 (67.86%) Python
2 19 (33.93%) Go
3 18 (32.14%) Bash
4 6 (10.71%) SQL
5 5 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.14%) Bicep
7 1 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (51.79%) Degree
2 28 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (23.21%) Master's Degree
4 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 4 (7.14%) CISM
6 4 (7.14%) CISSP
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 39 (69.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (66.07%) Ansible
2 28 (50.00%) Terraform
3 21 (37.50%) Kibana
4 19 (33.93%) Grafana
5 15 (26.79%) Prometheus
6 13 (23.21%) Puppet
7 8 (14.29%) logstash
8 3 (5.36%) Argo
9 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (60.71%) Splunk
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.71%) Google
4 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.79%) VMware