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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 43 78
Rank change year-on-year -41 +35 -14
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 27 19 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.27% 3.18% 1.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.40% 47.50% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 27 18 27
10th Percentile £47,930 £56,250 £22,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +58.82% -29.17%
75th Percentile £71,750 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,027 £80,000 £79,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% +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 86 40 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.04% 6.70% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 77 38 98
10th Percentile £35,600 £37,733 £28,290
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,740 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +36.47% -8.03%
75th Percentile £72,000 £73,218 £54,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,651 £62,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend 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 30 June 2026.

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 30 June 2026. 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 -40 15 £67,500 - 11
West Wales - 12 £70,000 - 3
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
2 16 (59.26%) Azure
3 13 (48.15%) GCP
4 7 (25.93%) GitHub
5 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (22.22%) SaaS
6 5 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (18.52%) Serverless
7 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (11.11%) dbt
8 3 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
9 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (7.41%) Datadog
9 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (7.41%) PaaS
9 2 (7.41%) Vertex AI
10 1 (3.70%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (3.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
1 2 (7.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.11%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.41%) Looker
5 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (7.41%) JUnit
4 2 (7.41%) Selenium
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) Gradle
5 1 (3.70%) JMeter
5 1 (3.70%) Locust
5 1 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 11 (40.74%) Public Sector
2 8 (29.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Aviation
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
1 10 (37.04%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) Software Developer
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Lead
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Software Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Principal Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Principal Software Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) Spring
1 10 (37.04%) Spring Boot
2 7 (25.93%) React
3 6 (22.22%) Kafka
4 5 (18.52%) Hibernate
4 5 (18.52%) JPA
4 5 (18.52%) Node.js
4 5 (18.52%) RESTful
4 5 (18.52%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (14.81%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (11.11%) CSS
6 3 (11.11%) CSS3
6 3 (11.11%) HTML
6 3 (11.11%) HTML5
6 3 (11.11%) OpenAPI
7 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.41%) REST
8 1 (3.70%) Gherkin
8 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
8 1 (3.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Cloud Native
2 8 (29.63%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
4 3 (11.11%) Driving Licence
5 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (7.41%) Mainframe
5 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) AIX
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 22 (81.48%) Agile
3 19 (70.37%) DevOps
4 14 (51.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (48.15%) Containerisation
6 12 (44.44%) Observability
7 11 (40.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (37.04%) Microservices
9 9 (33.33%) Scrum
9 9 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (29.63%) API Design
10 8 (29.63%) Decision-Making
10 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
10 8 (29.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 7 (25.93%) AI
11 7 (25.93%) Front End Development
11 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
12 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (18.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) Java
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 9 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.93%) SQL
5 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 5 (18.52%) Bash
6 5 (18.52%) C#
6 5 (18.52%) Ruby
7 3 (11.11%) Bicep
7 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
8 2 (7.41%) Go
8 2 (7.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.81%) QA
3 3 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (70.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (14.81%) Grafana
3 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.41%) Ansible
4 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) MicroStrategy
2 2 (7.41%) OneLogin
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) ForgeRock
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Okta
3 1 (3.70%) Ping Identity