Kubernetes Contracts in the West Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 95 59
Rank change year-on-year +45 -36 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 51 19 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.67% 0.98% 3.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.27% 9.50% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 49
10th Percentile £330 £256 £480
25th Percentile £455 £359 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -28.57% +30.84%
75th Percentile £675 £563 -
90th Percentile £700 £713 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £67.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year +19.40% -7.90% +21.25%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 229 200 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.49% 10.29% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 162 200
10th Percentile £200 £213 £313
25th Percentile £324 £350 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +16.02%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £675
90th Percentile £689 £662 £700
England median daily rate £521 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.86% -8.70% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £15.80 £23.52 £17.25
25th Percentile £16.68 £35.33 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.13 £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.04% +197.30% +12.12%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £43.59
90th Percentile - £71.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £27.25 £52.32
% change year-on-year +6.42% -47.91% +143.33%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 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 +25 17 £450 +80.00% 27
Worcestershire +5 9 £700 +47.37% 5
Shropshire - 9 £525 - 15
Solihull - 6 £594 - 1
Herefordshire - 6 £700 - 1
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 23
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.80%) Confluence
2 4 (7.84%) Apache
2 4 (7.84%) WebLogic
3 3 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.92%) IIS
5 1 (1.96%) JBoss
5 1 (1.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) Azure
2 18 (35.29%) AWS
3 8 (15.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (15.69%) Amazon S3
4 7 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (11.76%) GCP
6 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.84%) GitHub
7 4 (7.84%) Serverless
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.88%) AWS KMS
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.88%) PaaS
8 3 (5.88%) Route 53
8 3 (5.88%) SaaS
9 2 (3.92%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) Network Security
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
3 1 (1.96%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) NoSQL
2 9 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (13.73%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 5 (9.80%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.88%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.92%) Tableau
8 1 (1.96%) Flink
8 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Jenkins
2 11 (21.57%) Git
3 9 (17.65%) JIRA
4 8 (15.69%) GitLab
5 5 (9.80%) Maven
6 3 (5.88%) JMeter
6 3 (5.88%) JUnit
6 3 (5.88%) Mockito
6 3 (5.88%) Postman
6 3 (5.88%) REST Assured
6 3 (5.88%) Selenium
6 3 (5.88%) TestNG
6 3 (5.88%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.96%) Snyk
7 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.73%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Legal
5 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Developer
2 7 (13.73%) Java Developer
3 6 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Architect
4 5 (9.80%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Java Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Lead
7 2 (3.92%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) .NET
2 7 (13.73%) HTML
2 7 (13.73%) Spring
2 7 (13.73%) Web Services
3 6 (11.76%) React
3 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 5 (9.80%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (9.80%) REST
5 4 (7.84%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 3 (5.88%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.88%) jQuery
6 3 (5.88%) Kafka
6 3 (5.88%) Node.js
6 3 (5.88%) PySpark
6 3 (5.88%) WireMock
6 3 (5.88%) YAML
7 2 (3.92%) CSS
7 2 (3.92%) Middleware
7 2 (3.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Rocky
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 26 (50.98%) Agile
3 22 (43.14%) Containerisation
4 20 (39.22%) DevOps
5 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (23.53%) Microservices
7 10 (19.61%) ITIL
7 10 (19.61%) Test Automation
8 7 (13.73%) BDD
8 7 (13.73%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (13.73%) Computer Science
8 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (13.73%) DevSecOps
8 7 (13.73%) Scrum
8 7 (13.73%) SDLC
8 7 (13.73%) Task Automation
9 6 (11.76%) SIEM
9 6 (11.76%) TDD
10 5 (9.80%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) Python
2 16 (31.37%) Java
3 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 13 (25.49%) SQL
5 10 (19.61%) Bash
6 4 (7.84%) C#
6 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.92%) Go
7 2 (3.92%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.92%) R
7 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.96%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 22 (43.14%) Security Cleared
2 15 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 13 (25.49%) DV Cleared
4 11 (21.57%) Degree
5 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.88%) CEH
7 3 (5.88%) CISSP
7 3 (5.88%) ISTQB
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (3.92%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) NCSC
3 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (29.41%) Terraform
2 10 (19.61%) Ansible
3 5 (9.80%) Grafana
4 4 (7.84%) Kibana
5 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) Argo
6 1 (1.96%) logstash
6 1 (1.96%) Puppet
6 1 (1.96%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco
3 2 (3.92%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.96%) BT
4 1 (1.96%) Commvault
4 1 (1.96%) Dell
4 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.96%) Veeam