Kubernetes Job Trends in Wales

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Wales

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 69 48
Rank change year-on-year +28 -21 -12
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 28 18 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.39% 1.18% 4.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.28% 31.03% 28.83%
Number of salaries quoted 27 12 45
10th Percentile £56,250 £44,250 £40,319
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,313 £42,569
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,625 £69,800
90th Percentile - £73,480 £77,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 58 58 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.01% 3.80% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 54 33 119
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,620 £26,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £43,449 £40,159
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.20% -11.98%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,000 £69,840
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -3.70%

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
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Wales over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Wales

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Wales region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
South Wales +29 28 £67,500 +3.85% 15
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 5 (17.86%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (14.29%) IIS
3 3 (10.71%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) Azure Stack
2 8 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 6 (21.43%) GitHub
3 6 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Anthos
5 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) MySQL
2 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 2 (7.14%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.57%) MLflow
General
1 14 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Lead
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) React
2 11 (39.29%) CSS
2 11 (39.29%) Django
2 11 (39.29%) HTML
2 11 (39.29%) HTML5
3 5 (17.86%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) Jest
4 1 (3.57%) Keras
4 1 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (3.57%) Metaflow
4 1 (3.57%) NumPy
4 1 (3.57%) Pandas
4 1 (3.57%) Playwright
4 1 (3.57%) PySpark
4 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.57%) Vitest
4 1 (3.57%) Web Services
4 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 8 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Windows
1 12 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Rocky
2 8 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 13 (46.43%) Containerisation
3 12 (42.86%) Agile
3 12 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 11 (39.29%) Kanban
4 11 (39.29%) Scrum
4 11 (39.29%) User Experience
4 11 (39.29%) Workflow
5 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
6 8 (28.57%) DevOps
6 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.86%) Software Delivery
8 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (14.29%) CRM
8 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (10.71%) Static Application Security Testing
10 2 (7.14%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 8 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 8 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
1 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Active Directory
2 8 (28.57%) Docker
2 8 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Terraform
2 4 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.57%) Argo
4 1 (3.57%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Dell
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Pega
2 4 (14.29%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) Guidewire
3 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Google