Kubernetes Specialist Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Kubernetes Specialist (K8s Specialist)
England > West Midlands

As of 8 September 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 West Midlands.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.057% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% - -
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
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,581 1,755 2,023
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.42% 93.05% 94.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 1,155 1,391
10th Percentile £238 £250 £250
25th Percentile £379 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £582 £621 £600
90th Percentile £649 £716 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 65 60
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.65 £14.09
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.91 £16.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.59 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -6.65% +16.58%
75th Percentile £40.02 £33.54 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £49.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -47.05% +8.20% +68.85%

Kubernetes Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Specialist in the West Midlands

Kubernetes Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Birmingham - 1 - - 1
Kubernetes Specialist
England

Kubernetes Specialist Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 8 September 2025, Kubernetes Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Kubernetes Specialist in the job title.

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

Kubernetes Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

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