Kubernetes Contracts in Birmingham

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 60 36
Rank change year-on-year +24 -24 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 17 5 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.39% 0.67% 4.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.94% 7.58% 32.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 27
10th Percentile £281 - £602
25th Percentile £337 £238 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £338 £700
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -51.79% +30.23%
75th Percentile £553 £444 -
90th Percentile £800 £455 -
West Midlands median daily rate £539 £500 £700
% change year-on-year +7.82% -28.57% +32.08%

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 71 66 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.14% 8.87% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 57 78
10th Percentile £264 £223 £350
25th Percentile £388 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -29.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £700
90th Percentile £699 £653 £704
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.45
25th Percentile - - £18.74
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £19.60
Median % change year-on-year - +180.58% +54.84%
75th Percentile - - £20.58
90th Percentile - - £20.94
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £55.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -67.04% +197.30% +12.12%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Birmingham over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
1 2 (11.76%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) SonarCloud
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) JMeter
3 2 (11.76%) Postman
3 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
3 2 (11.76%) Selenium
3 2 (11.76%) TestNG
3 2 (11.76%) Travis CI
4 1 (5.88%) Snyk
4 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Application Development Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Applications Development Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Applications Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Development Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Tester
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (17.65%) Web Services
3 2 (11.76%) HTML
3 2 (11.76%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) Middleware
3 2 (11.76%) YAML
4 1 (5.88%) ADO
4 1 (5.88%) Mustache
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
1 9 (52.94%) Containerisation
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
4 5 (29.41%) ITIL
4 5 (29.41%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (29.41%) Service Management
4 5 (29.41%) SIEM
5 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Scrum
7 2 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (11.76%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) Bash
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 4 (23.53%) C#
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
5 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) CEH
4 2 (11.76%) CISSP
4 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
4 2 (11.76%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Ansible
3 3 (17.65%) Grafana
3 3 (17.65%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) Argo
4 1 (5.88%) logstash
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.88%) BT
2 1 (5.88%) Commvault
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Veeam