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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 37 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 46 21 8
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.02% 3.82% 1.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.32% 26.92% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 5
10th Percentile £391 £290 £398
25th Percentile £422 £371 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% -39.29%
75th Percentile £544 £603 £738
90th Percentile £607 £745 -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £612
% change year-on-year -4.55% -10.13% -12.57%
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 117 78 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.77% 14.18% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 52 46
10th Percentile £281 £263 £350
25th Percentile £409 £349 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -4.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £500 £627
90th Percentile £673 £609 £661
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% 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 - - +197.30%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.23 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.18%

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 29 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 (30.43%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) CloudStack
2 2 (4.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) AWS
2 21 (45.65%) Azure
3 20 (43.48%) GitHub
4 18 (39.13%) GCP
5 17 (36.96%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (19.57%) OpenShift
7 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.35%) IaaS
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
10 1 (2.17%) Datadog
10 1 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
1 4 (8.70%) NAS
1 4 (8.70%) SAN
2 3 (6.52%) Firewall
3 2 (4.35%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (2.17%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.17%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.17%) Metadata
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (32.61%) Git
2 15 (32.61%) GitLab
2 15 (32.61%) JIRA
3 14 (30.43%) Cucumber
3 14 (30.43%) JMeter
3 14 (30.43%) JUnit
3 14 (30.43%) Selenium
3 14 (30.43%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.17%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.17%) Maven
4 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Finance
2 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Legal
7 1 (2.17%) Military
7 1 (2.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Senior
1 10 (21.74%) Tester
2 9 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Automation Tester
4 7 (15.22%) Senior Automation Tester
4 7 (15.22%) Senior Tester
5 6 (13.04%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Consultant
7 3 (6.52%) Systems Tester
7 3 (6.52%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.52%) VMware Consultant
8 2 (4.35%) Data Centre Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (32.61%) Spring
2 14 (30.43%) WireMock
3 8 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (15.22%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (10.87%) Kafka
6 2 (4.35%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (4.35%) Node.js
6 2 (4.35%) REST
7 1 (2.17%) .NET
7 1 (2.17%) ADO
7 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.17%) FastAPI
7 1 (2.17%) JSON
7 1 (2.17%) Loki
7 1 (2.17%) Mustache
7 1 (2.17%) React
7 1 (2.17%) SLSA
7 1 (2.17%) Web Services
7 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 12 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (23.91%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.52%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.52%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.35%) CMDB
6 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.17%) Blog
7 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Replication
7 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
1 5 (10.87%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 27 (58.70%) Observability
3 21 (45.65%) Agile
4 19 (41.30%) DevOps
5 18 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (36.96%) Test Automation
7 16 (34.78%) Containerisation
7 16 (34.78%) Validation
8 15 (32.61%) Microservices
8 15 (32.61%) TDD
9 14 (30.43%) BDD
9 14 (30.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 14 (30.43%) Test Strategy
10 13 (28.26%) End-to-End Testing
10 13 (28.26%) Load Testing
11 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (21.74%) Workshop Facilitation
13 9 (19.57%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (19.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) Bash
3 4 (8.70%) Go
4 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
5 2 (4.35%) Java
5 2 (4.35%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 18 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) CCNP
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 26 (56.52%) Docker
2 9 (19.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (17.39%) vSphere
4 6 (13.04%) VMware NSX
5 3 (6.52%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (4.35%) etcd
7 1 (2.17%) NFS
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (67.39%) Grafana
2 29 (63.04%) Prometheus
3 18 (39.13%) Terraform
4 11 (23.91%) Ansible
5 6 (13.04%) Argo
5 6 (13.04%) vCenter Server
6 3 (6.52%) Kibana
6 3 (6.52%) logstash
7 2 (4.35%) Check_MK
7 2 (4.35%) Fluentd
7 2 (4.35%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.17%) Control-M
8 1 (2.17%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (2.17%) Nessus
8 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) VMware
2 8 (17.39%) Splunk
3 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.87%) Veeam
5 4 (8.70%) Pure Storage
5 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco
7 2 (4.35%) Commvault
7 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.17%) Brocade
8 1 (2.17%) Dell
8 1 (2.17%) Google
8 1 (2.17%) New Relic
8 1 (2.17%) Sonatype
8 1 (2.17%) Tenable