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

 6 months to
11 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 44 58
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 -15
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 63 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 7.01% 2.13% 0.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.22% 20.00% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 6 6
10th Percentile £390 £295 £238
25th Percentile £444 £337 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +28.57% -50.00%
75th Percentile £567 £484 £491
90th Percentile £600 £513 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -23.08%

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 128 55 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.24% 10.66% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 41 69
10th Percentile £325 £263 £230
25th Percentile £425 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +7.65% -26.88%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £694 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £477 £425
% change year-on-year +3.14% +12.24% -19.05%
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% +203.70%

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 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 2 (3.17%) SAS
4 1 (1.59%) Apache
4 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 15 (23.81%) OpenShift
5 14 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.17%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.17%) IaaS
7 2 (3.17%) PaaS
7 2 (3.17%) SaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.59%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
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%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (25.40%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.59%) Metadata
3 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (34.92%) Jenkins
1 22 (34.92%) JIRA
2 17 (26.98%) Git
3 14 (22.22%) GitLab
3 14 (22.22%) Selenium
4 13 (20.63%) Cucumber
4 13 (20.63%) JMeter
4 13 (20.63%) JUnit
4 13 (20.63%) WebDriver
5 2 (3.17%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.17%) Liquibase
General
1 36 (57.14%) 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 13 (20.63%) 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%) Site Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Tester
6 6 (9.52%) 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%) Cybersecurity Specialist
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 21 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (20.63%) Spring
2 13 (20.63%) WireMock
3 11 (17.46%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (7.94%) Kafka
5 4 (6.35%) REST
6 3 (4.76%) FastAPI
6 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.17%) .NET
7 2 (3.17%) Fluent Bit
8 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.59%) Middleware
8 1 (1.59%) OAuth
8 1 (1.59%) OpenCV
8 1 (1.59%) pytest
8 1 (1.59%) Regular Expression
8 1 (1.59%) RESTful
8 1 (1.59%) SpaCy
8 1 (1.59%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (15.87%) Distributed Architecture
3 8 (12.70%) Management Information System
4 7 (11.11%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.35%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.35%) PKI
6 3 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.17%) CMDB
7 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.22%) Linux
2 9 (14.29%) Unix
3 6 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (58.73%) CI/CD
2 36 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 34 (53.97%) Observability
4 33 (52.38%) DevOps
5 24 (38.10%) Agile
6 22 (34.92%) Validation
7 21 (33.33%) Migration
7 21 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (30.16%) Incident Response
9 16 (25.40%) Microservices
10 15 (23.81%) Change Management
10 15 (23.81%) Test Automation
11 14 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (22.22%) Test Strategy
12 13 (20.63%) BDD
12 13 (20.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 13 (20.63%) End-to-End Testing
12 13 (20.63%) Load Testing
12 13 (20.63%) TDD
13 12 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.86%) 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%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.59%) Bicep
6 1 (1.59%) Groovy
6 1 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.40%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.05%) 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 3 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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 30 (47.62%) Grafana
2 27 (42.86%) Ansible
3 24 (38.10%) Prometheus
3 24 (38.10%) Terraform
4 15 (23.81%) Kibana
5 8 (12.70%) Puppet
6 7 (11.11%) logstash
7 6 (9.52%) 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
10 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
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%) Oracle
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