Kubernetes Contracts in Wales

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 55 44
Rank change year-on-year +17 -11 -18
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 9 7 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.21% 1.09% 3.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.79% 7.00% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 24
10th Percentile £413 £370 £444
25th Percentile £478 £456 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% - +42.47%
75th Percentile £537 £675 £735
90th Percentile £659 £690 £821
UK median daily rate £550 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.83% +14.29%

All Systems Management Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 57 100 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 14.00% 15.55% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 69 100
10th Percentile £402 £275 £273
25th Percentile £444 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £597 £575 £588
90th Percentile £652 £650 £690
UK median daily rate £516 £570 £563
% change year-on-year -9.41% +1.33% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £15.05 £15.99
25th Percentile - £15.13 £16.34
Median hourly rate - £15.50 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year - -12.06% +11.90%
75th Percentile - £16.13 £18.84
90th Percentile - £16.35 £19.16
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -46.52% +158.08% -23.17%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Wales

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Wales

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Wales over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Wales

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Wales region over the 6 months to 24 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
South Wales +17 9 £500 -23.08% 5
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure AKS
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Burp Suite
1 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
2 1 (11.11%) AppScan
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) WSO2 Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) NHS
1 6 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Educational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) API Management
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Application Security
3 2 (22.22%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) OWASP
3 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Change Control
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) PHP
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SANS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Grafana
2 2 (22.22%) Graylog
2 2 (22.22%) Nagios
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) HP Fortify
3 1 (11.11%) Nessus
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) WSO2
2 2 (22.22%) Checkmarx
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Veracode