Google Kubernetes Engine Job Trends in South Wales

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 68 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 2 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.28% 0.33% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.01% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63,500 - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £75,000 - -
90th Percentile £76,500 - -
Wales median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 144 297 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 20.25% 32.75% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 117 196 233
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,309 £51,104
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -1.56% -2.66%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -9.52%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in South Wales

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +23 2 £70,000 -
Google Kubernetes Engine
Wales

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Anthos
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google