Kubernetes Contracts in the West Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 80 70
Rank change year-on-year -13 -10 +22
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 19 63 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.99% 2.63% 3.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.67% 20.32% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 52 81
10th Percentile £255 £481 £413
25th Percentile £378 £544 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £586
90th Percentile £750 - £673
England median daily rate £550 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% +16.67%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

Kubernetes is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 178 310 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.23% 12.96% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 209 263
10th Percentile £200 £300 £213
25th Percentile £350 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £625
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 16
10th Percentile £23.52 £17.25 £10.68
25th Percentile £35.33 £17.72 £12.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.50 £16.12
Median % change year-on-year +197.30% +14.76% -5.18%
75th Percentile - £43.59 £19.53
90th Percentile - £66.00 £21.13
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -8.92%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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
Coventry +13 6 £475 -1.04% 3
Birmingham -21 6 £275 -60.71% 18
Warwickshire -1 5 £500 - 1
Worcestershire +9 1 £475 -32.14% 1
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 1 (5.26%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Magento
1 1 (5.26%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (5.26%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Flink
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.26%) NUnit
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
2 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.26%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Architect
2 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Angular Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Server Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Site Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (5.26%) E-Commerce Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Magento Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Market Data Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
1 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
1 2 (10.53%) Kafka
1 2 (10.53%) Vue
2 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.26%) ADO
2 1 (5.26%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.26%) Castle Windsor
2 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.26%) Flask
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) jQuery
2 1 (5.26%) NHibernate
2 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.26%) React
2 1 (5.26%) Sass
2 1 (5.26%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (21.05%) Full Stack Development
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.79%) Edge Computing
4 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 2 (10.53%) Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.53%) Data Transformation
5 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
5 2 (10.53%) ETL
5 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.26%) Event-Driven
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (5.26%) Server Management
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) PHP
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Docker
2 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Argo
3 1 (5.26%) Istio
3 1 (5.26%) linkerd
3 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) VMware
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Bloomberg
4 1 (5.26%) Confluent
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) SAP