Kubernetes Contracts in South Wales

Kubernetes (k8s)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 53 47
Rank change year-on-year +20 -6 -17
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 9 6 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.69% 1.16% 3.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.15% 6.32% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 20
10th Percentile £413 £363 £444
25th Percentile £478 £456 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £656
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -0.95% +48.73%
75th Percentile £537 £675 £766
90th Percentile £659 £694 £826
Wales median daily rate £500 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -23.08% - +44.44%

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South Wales with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 47 95 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 14.07% 18.30% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 64 89
10th Percentile £413 £290 £350
25th Percentile £494 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £616 £578 £588
90th Percentile £665 £644 £683
Wales median daily rate £515 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -1.90% +10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £15.99
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.34
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year - -9.22% +6.82%
75th Percentile - £16.50 £18.84
90th Percentile - - £19.16
Wales median hourly rate - £15.50 £17.63
% change year-on-year - -12.06% +11.90%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in South Wales

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in South Wales

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in South Wales over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in South Wales

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Cardiff +13 9 £500 -23.08% 3
Kubernetes
Wales

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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