Kubernetes Jobs in Wales

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 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 69 87 67
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 -30
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 9 37 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.94% 1.83% 4.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.00% 20.90% 42.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 34
10th Percentile £64,573 £22,000 £39,875
25th Percentile - £32,000 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -30.89% +6.96%
75th Percentile £71,000 £71,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £71,843 £79,125 £78,375
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -2.91%

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 36 177 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.74% 8.75% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 30 101 67
10th Percentile £42,877 £28,290 £28,800
25th Percentile £44,956 £32,500 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,059 £42,500 £51,104
Median % change year-on-year +27.20% -16.84% -7.08%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £68,846
90th Percentile £71,062 £72,433 £77,500
UK median annual salary £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.17% -11.11% -3.57%

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

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

Salary trend 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +24 9 £65,000 +8.33% 13
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 6 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) GitHub
3 6 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (66.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Git
2 6 (66.67%) JIRA
2 6 (66.67%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Senior
1 8 (88.89%) Senior Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Backend Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Django
1 6 (66.67%) FastAPI
1 6 (66.67%) Flask
1 6 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 6 (66.67%) Keycloak
1 6 (66.67%) OAuth
1 6 (66.67%) pytest
1 6 (66.67%) RESTful
1 6 (66.67%) SQLAlchemy
1 6 (66.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 6 (66.67%) Front End Development
3 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Availability Management
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 2 (22.22%) Linear Algebra
4 2 (22.22%) MLOps
4 2 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Prototyping
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Grafana
1 6 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft