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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 40 77
Rank change year-on-year -25 +37 -24
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 66 29 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.44% 3.56% 1.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.60% 50.88% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 66 28 17
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,125 £22,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +28.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,125 £78,125 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £73,158
UK median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.18% +1.69% +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 171 57 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 6.33% 7.00% 4.78%
Number of salaries quoted 163 56 59
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £29,658
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,602 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +18.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £65,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.26%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -24 43 £66,000 -2.22% 19
West Wales - 23 £70,000 -
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 4 (6.06%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 51 (77.27%) GCP
2 49 (74.24%) Azure
3 44 (66.67%) AWS
4 11 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (15.15%) GitHub
5 10 (15.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (9.09%) SaaS
7 6 (9.09%) Serverless
8 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.55%) dbt
8 3 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.03%) Datadog
9 2 (3.03%) PaaS
9 2 (3.03%) Vertex AI
10 1 (1.52%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (1.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Firewall
1 2 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 11 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (15.15%) MySQL
4 8 (12.12%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.55%) Redis
6 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.03%) Looker
6 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (27.27%) Git
2 7 (10.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.06%) GitLab
3 4 (6.06%) JIRA
4 3 (4.55%) JUnit
4 3 (4.55%) Selenium
5 2 (3.03%) minitest
5 2 (3.03%) RSpec
6 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.52%) Gradle
6 1 (1.52%) JMeter
6 1 (1.52%) Locust
6 1 (1.52%) Maven
General
1 19 (28.79%) Public Sector
2 10 (15.15%) Finance
2 10 (15.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.61%) Banking
5 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.52%) Aviation
6 1 (1.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (42.42%) Senior
2 23 (34.85%) Developer
3 21 (31.82%) Software Engineer
4 14 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (18.18%) Senior Developer
6 11 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 11 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (16.67%) Software Developer
7 10 (15.15%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 10 (15.15%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (15.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (15.15%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 8 (12.12%) Senior Software Developer
9 6 (9.09%) Lead
9 6 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Principal Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Principal Software Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (40.91%) React
2 20 (30.30%) Spring
2 20 (30.30%) Spring Boot
3 18 (27.27%) NestJS
4 17 (25.76%) OAuth
4 17 (25.76%) OAuth2
4 17 (25.76%) OpenID
4 17 (25.76%) SAML
5 14 (21.21%) Kafka
5 14 (21.21%) RESTful
6 12 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (16.67%) Hibernate
7 11 (16.67%) JPA
7 11 (16.67%) Node.js
8 8 (12.12%) Ruby on Rails
9 5 (7.58%) AngularJS
9 5 (7.58%) CSS
10 4 (6.06%) CSS3
10 4 (6.06%) HTML
10 4 (6.06%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 22 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 15 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (19.70%) Product Ownership
4 7 (10.61%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (10.61%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (10.61%) Virtual Team
5 4 (6.06%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.55%) Driving Licence
6 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.55%) Mainframe
6 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Linux
2 3 (4.55%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (80.30%) CI/CD
2 41 (62.12%) DevOps
3 36 (54.55%) Agile
4 33 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 27 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (39.39%) Containerisation
7 23 (34.85%) Microservices
8 22 (33.33%) Observability
9 21 (31.82%) Mentoring
10 19 (28.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 18 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (25.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (25.76%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (24.24%) Scrum
14 15 (22.73%) Decision-Making
14 15 (22.73%) Event-Driven
14 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (21.21%) API Design
15 14 (21.21%) Technology Transformation
16 13 (19.70%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (40.91%) Java
2 13 (19.70%) JavaScript
2 13 (19.70%) Python
3 11 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 8 (12.12%) Ruby
4 8 (12.12%) SQL
5 6 (9.09%) C#
6 5 (7.58%) Bash
7 4 (6.06%) Bicep
8 3 (4.55%) Go
8 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) QA
2 8 (12.12%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (75.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (69.70%) Terraform
2 9 (13.64%) Grafana
3 8 (12.12%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.03%) Ansible
4 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) Google
2 14 (21.21%) Okta
2 14 (21.21%) Ping Identity
3 7 (10.61%) Splunk
4 4 (6.06%) ForgeRock
4 4 (6.06%) OneLogin
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (3.03%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft