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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 59 64
Rank change year-on-year +39 +5 -16
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 70 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 8.45% 0.49% 1.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.42% 4.76% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 2 9
10th Percentile £442 £501 £238
25th Percentile £482 £503 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -28.57%
75th Percentile £566 £528 £538
90th Percentile £609 £534 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £537 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.29% +5.00% -19.19%

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 169 63 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.41% 10.19% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 41 57
10th Percentile £280 £158 £196
25th Percentile £425 £291 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +21.21% -17.50%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £488
90th Percentile £606 £694 £659
West Midlands median daily rate £503 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +0.60% +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £28.24 - -
25th Percentile £31.15 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +165.64%
75th Percentile £56.63 - -
90th Percentile £69.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.00 £16.19 £55.00
% change year-on-year +122.36% -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 8 February 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 9 (12.86%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) SAS
3 1 (1.43%) Apache
3 1 (1.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.57%) AWS
2 17 (24.29%) GCP
3 14 (20.00%) GitHub
3 14 (20.00%) Serverless
4 11 (15.71%) Azure
5 10 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 7 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (5.71%) AWS KMS
7 4 (5.71%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.86%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.86%) IaaS
9 2 (2.86%) PaaS
9 2 (2.86%) SaaS
10 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) DNS
1 2 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (38.57%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 12 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (34.29%) Jenkins
2 17 (24.29%) GitLab
3 10 (14.29%) Liquibase
4 8 (11.43%) JIRA
5 5 (7.14%) Git
6 4 (5.71%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 43 (61.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Finance
3 17 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.29%) Banking
4 10 (14.29%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 17 (24.29%) Splunk Engineer
2 14 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 13 (18.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (17.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (15.71%) GCP Engineer
5 11 (15.71%) Senior
6 9 (12.86%) Software Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Architect
10 4 (5.71%) GCP DevOps
10 4 (5.71%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) GCP Software Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.71%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (62.86%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (22.86%) REST
3 14 (20.00%) RESTful
4 7 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (4.29%) Kafka
5 3 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.86%) .NET
6 2 (2.86%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.43%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.43%) Middleware
7 1 (1.43%) OAuth
7 1 (1.43%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.43%) pytest
7 1 (1.43%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.43%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.43%) SpaCy
7 1 (1.43%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.43%) Web Services
7 1 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 14 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 13 (18.57%) Cloud Native
3 12 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.71%) PKI
5 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.29%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (45.71%) Linux
2 15 (21.43%) Unix
3 4 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (74.29%) DevOps
2 51 (72.86%) Containerisation
3 39 (55.71%) CI/CD
4 32 (45.71%) Migration
5 30 (42.86%) Computer Science
6 27 (38.57%) Observability
7 26 (37.14%) Change Management
8 25 (35.71%) Agile
8 25 (35.71%) Incident Response
8 25 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
9 20 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (27.14%) High Availability
11 18 (25.71%) Data Ingestion
11 18 (25.71%) Data Modelling
12 17 (24.29%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
13 15 (21.43%) Validation
14 14 (20.00%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 46 (65.71%) Python
2 21 (30.00%) Bash
3 19 (27.14%) Go
4 6 (8.57%) SQL
5 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.71%) Bicep
7 1 (1.43%) Groovy
7 1 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (44.29%) Degree
2 30 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 9 (12.86%) Security Cleared
5 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.71%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.71%) CISM
6 4 (5.71%) CISSP
7 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) GDPR
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 45 (64.29%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.86%) vSphere
3 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (64.29%) Ansible
2 38 (54.29%) Terraform
3 26 (37.14%) Grafana
3 26 (37.14%) Kibana
4 20 (28.57%) Prometheus
5 14 (20.00%) Puppet
6 12 (17.14%) logstash
7 5 (7.14%) Argo
8 2 (2.86%) Control-M
8 2 (2.86%) IBM Guardium
8 2 (2.86%) Nessus
8 2 (2.86%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (52.86%) Splunk
2 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.57%) Google
4 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.29%) VMware
5 2 (2.86%) Pure Storage
5 2 (2.86%) Tenable
6 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle