Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Kubernetes (k8s)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 17.78% - 4.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.44% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.90%
75th Percentile £488 - £519
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £475 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% -7.69%

All Systems Management Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 18 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 40.00% 13.33% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 1
10th Percentile - £169 -
25th Percentile £206 £265 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £519
90th Percentile - £555 -
Wales median daily rate £406 £356 £525
% change year-on-year +14.04% -32.14% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £17.83 - -
25th Percentile £17.94 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £18.75 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £19.44 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.48 - -
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £27.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year -25.45% -51.33% +264.52%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in West Wales

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Swansea - 8 £475 - 1
Kubernetes
Wales

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker