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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 34 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 +22 -16
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 52 20 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.60% 3.53% 0.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.31% 22.99% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 13 3
10th Percentile £350 £287 £393
25th Percentile £419 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -39.29%
75th Percentile £557 £575 £450
90th Percentile £600 £764 £458
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £539 £500
% change year-on-year -2.62% +7.82% -28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 - £70.00

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 129 87 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.90% 15.34% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 61 52
10th Percentile £274 £263 £350
25th Percentile £409 £388 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.15%
75th Percentile £567 £550 £589
90th Percentile £638 £689 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £41.78 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +180.58%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.45 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +165.64%

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 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Kubernetes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Kubernetes

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 14 (26.92%) Confluence
2 4 (7.69%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.85%) Apache
3 2 (3.85%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 25 (48.08%) AWS
2 21 (40.38%) Azure
3 20 (38.46%) GitHub
4 19 (36.54%) GCP
5 17 (32.69%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (17.31%) OpenShift
7 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (3.85%) IaaS
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.92%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) DNS
1 4 (7.69%) NAS
1 4 (7.69%) SAN
2 3 (5.77%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.92%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.69%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (13.46%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 23 (44.23%) Jenkins
2 17 (32.69%) JIRA
3 16 (30.77%) Git
4 15 (28.85%) GitLab
5 14 (26.92%) Cucumber
5 14 (26.92%) JMeter
5 14 (26.92%) JUnit
5 14 (26.92%) Selenium
5 14 (26.92%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.92%) Liquibase
General
1 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 7 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Banking
7 2 (3.85%) Legal
8 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (19.23%) Senior
1 10 (19.23%) Tester
2 8 (15.38%) Automation Tester
3 7 (13.46%) Senior Automation Tester
3 7 (13.46%) Senior Tester
4 6 (11.54%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) Developer
6 3 (5.77%) GCP DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Systems Tester
6 3 (5.77%) Test Leader
6 3 (5.77%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.92%) Spring
1 14 (26.92%) WireMock
2 11 (21.15%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (21.15%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (7.69%) Kafka
4 3 (5.77%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.85%) Fluent Bit
6 1 (1.92%) .NET
6 1 (1.92%) ADO
6 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.92%) Loki
6 1 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (21.15%) Distributed Architecture
2 11 (21.15%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.77%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) CMDB
5 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.92%) Blog
6 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.85%) Unix
5 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) CI/CD
2 32 (61.54%) Observability
3 24 (46.15%) DevOps
4 22 (42.31%) Agile
5 21 (40.38%) Containerisation
6 18 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (32.69%) Test Automation
7 17 (32.69%) Validation
8 14 (26.92%) BDD
8 14 (26.92%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (26.92%) Microservices
8 14 (26.92%) TDD
8 14 (26.92%) Test Strategy
9 13 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 13 (25.00%) Load Testing
9 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (19.23%) Migration
10 10 (19.23%) Workshop Facilitation
11 9 (17.31%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) Python
2 8 (15.38%) Bash
3 4 (7.69%) Go
4 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.85%) Bicep
5 2 (3.85%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.92%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CCNP
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 30 (57.69%) Docker
2 9 (17.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (15.38%) vSphere
4 6 (11.54%) VMware NSX
5 3 (5.77%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.85%) etcd
7 1 (1.92%) NFS
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (67.31%) Grafana
2 33 (63.46%) Prometheus
3 22 (42.31%) Terraform
4 15 (28.85%) Ansible
5 6 (11.54%) Argo
5 6 (11.54%) Kibana
5 6 (11.54%) vCenter Server
6 5 (9.62%) logstash
7 3 (5.77%) Control-M
7 3 (5.77%) IBM Guardium
7 3 (5.77%) Nessus
8 2 (3.85%) Check_MK
8 2 (3.85%) Fluentd
8 2 (3.85%) Kustomize
8 2 (3.85%) Puppet
9 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
1 9 (17.31%) Splunk
1 9 (17.31%) VMware
2 5 (9.62%) Veeam
3 4 (7.69%) Pure Storage
3 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.77%) Cisco
4 3 (5.77%) Tenable
5 2 (3.85%) Commvault
5 2 (3.85%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.92%) Brocade
6 1 (1.92%) Dell
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) New Relic