Kubernetes Contracts in Cardiff

Kubernetes (k8s)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 26 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 5 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.13% 4.25% 1.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.25% 20.00% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £520 £413 £355
25th Percentile £531 £478 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.10% -23.08% -5.45%
75th Percentile £574 £537 £675
90th Percentile £581 £659 £698
South Wales median daily rate £586 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +17.20% -23.08% -0.95%

All Systems Management Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 16 45 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 10.00% 21.23% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 40 28
10th Percentile £213 £413 £378
25th Percentile £297 £486 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -1.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £475 £605 £603
90th Percentile £538 £652 £658
South Wales median daily rate £425 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -17.48% -1.90% +10.53%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Cardiff

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Cardiff

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
1 3 (60.00%) JBoss
1 3 (60.00%) nginx
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) JWT
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) API Management
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) GitOps
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Nagios
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft