Kubernetes Jobs in South Wales

Kubernetes (k8s)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 82 54
Rank change year-on-year +23 -28 -4
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 8 27 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.95% 1.82% 4.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.36% 20.45% 39.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8 18 24
10th Percentile £58,255 £22,000 £51,104
25th Percentile £64,466 £36,938 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £66,825
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -10.21% +21.50%
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,265 £80,750 £78,750
Wales median annual salary £65,000 £42,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +52.94% -30.89% +11.82%

All Systems Management Skills
South Wales

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 22 132 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.62% 8.89% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 21 74 49
10th Percentile £45,637 £28,290 £30,604
25th Percentile £48,659 £35,195 £51,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.65% -29.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £71,622 £72,433 £77,750
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £51,104
% change year-on-year +29.41% -16.84% -2.66%

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
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in South Wales

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in South Wales over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in South Wales

Kubernetes
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 Kubernetes within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Monmouthshire - 4 £65,000 -
Bridgend +54 1 £50,000 - 3
Cardiff +20 1 £69,040 +62.45% 11
Newport -14 1 £69,000 +2.22% 5
Gwent - 1 £69,000 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
1 6 (75.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Django
1 4 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 4 (50.00%) Flask
1 4 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (50.00%) Keycloak
1 4 (50.00%) OAuth
1 4 (50.00%) pytest
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
1 4 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
1 4 (50.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Availability Management
5 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
5 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Deep Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Linear Algebra
5 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) MLOps
5 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
1 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Guidewire
2 1 (12.50%) Pega
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) VMware