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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 62 73
Rank change year-on-year -31 +11 +24
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 18 68 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 3.07% 3.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.93% 22.08% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 50 74
10th Percentile £275 £480 £415
25th Percentile £400 £513 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £540
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +29.63% +1.41%
75th Percentile £575 - £619
90th Percentile £721 - £675
England median daily rate £550 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £75.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.33% +25.00% +20.00%

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 227 308 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.12% 13.92% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 202 229
10th Percentile £228 £313 £204
25th Percentile £350 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +9.20%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £575
90th Percentile £664 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 16
10th Percentile £23.52 £17.13 £10.68
25th Percentile £35.33 £17.85 £12.62
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.60 £16.12
Median % change year-on-year +180.58% +21.60% -2.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.80 £20.56
90th Percentile £71.00 £66.00 £24.13
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +11 7 £475 -1.04% 1
Warwickshire -10 4 £500 - 3
Birmingham -24 4 £425 -39.29% 12
Worcestershire +4 2 £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 2 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Flink
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) GitLab
2 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.11%) Artifactory
3 2 (11.11%) Travis CI
4 1 (5.56%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) Flask
3 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
5 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 4 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (16.67%) Edge Computing
6 3 (16.67%) Microservices
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (11.11%) Code Quality
7 2 (11.11%) Data Transformation
7 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 2 (11.11%) ETL
7 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
7 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
7 2 (11.11%) SQL Optimisation
8 1 (5.56%) A/B Testing
8 1 (5.56%) Data Science
8 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Argo
3 1 (5.56%) Istio
3 1 (5.56%) linkerd
3 1 (5.56%) logstash
3 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 3 (16.67%) VMware
2 2 (11.11%) Confluent
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) SAP