Kubernetes Specialist Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Kubernetes Specialist (K8s Specialist)
England > Midlands

As of 19 October 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kubernetes Specialist (K8s Specialist) daily rate in the Midlands.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Specialist 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £438 £500 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,491 2,481 2,747
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.44% 92.71% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,637 1,543 1,923
10th Percentile £225 £228 £213
25th Percentile £360 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £492 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +3.47% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £658 £688 £688
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.43% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 100 118
10th Percentile £13.61 £12.58 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.40 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.34 £23.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% +15.25% +13.90%
75th Percentile £30.65 £33.64 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £50.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +62.04%

Kubernetes Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Kubernetes Specialist job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Kubernetes Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Specialist within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 3 - -
Kubernetes Specialist
England

Kubernetes Specialist Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, Kubernetes Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Kubernetes Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) logstash
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform

Kubernetes Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) logstash
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk