Kubernetes Contracts in Wales

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 35 35 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 8 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.73% 2.28% 1.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.60% 16.98% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £413 £370
25th Percentile £513 £478 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +17.20% -23.08% -
75th Percentile £600 £537 £675
90th Percentile £660 £659 £690
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Systems Management Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 43 53 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 14.68% 13.42% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 46 73
10th Percentile £187 £413 £273
25th Percentile £213 £470 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.36% -1.90% +9.19%
75th Percentile £475 £600 £575
90th Percentile £589 £658 £646
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £28.50 - £15.05
25th Percentile £31.88 - £15.13
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.06%
75th Percentile £41.25 - £16.13
90th Percentile - - £16.35
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +5 8 £586 +17.20% 14
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) JBoss
1 3 (37.50%) nginx
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) JWT
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Rocky
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) API Management
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) GitOps
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CSSLP
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) LXC
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Argo
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Nagios
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft