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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 43 68
Rank change year-on-year -25 +25 -13
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 72 28 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.21% 3.29% 1.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 54.96% 65.12% 38.30%
Number of salaries quoted 69 27 12
10th Percentile £47,930 £56,250 £45,325
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £73,750 - £73,480
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -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 131 43 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.02% 5.06% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 123 39 24
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £39,005
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,875 £44,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £80,000 £66,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -35 42 £66,000 -2.22% 15
West Wales - 30 £70,000 - 2
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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 60 (83.33%) GCP
2 58 (80.56%) Azure
3 49 (68.06%) AWS
4 18 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (13.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 9 (12.50%) GitHub
8 6 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (8.33%) Serverless
9 4 (5.56%) SaaS
10 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.78%) dbt
11 2 (2.78%) Vertex AI
12 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
12 1 (1.39%) Azure Event Grid
12 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Firewall
1 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 17 (23.61%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (22.22%) MySQL
4 14 (19.44%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.17%) Redis
6 2 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.78%) Looker
6 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (31.94%) Git
2 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.56%) GitLab
3 4 (5.56%) JIRA
4 3 (4.17%) JUnit
4 3 (4.17%) Selenium
5 2 (2.78%) minitest
5 2 (2.78%) RSpec
6 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
General
1 26 (36.11%) Public Sector
2 16 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (19.44%) Banking
4 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
5 10 (13.89%) Finance
5 10 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Aviation
7 1 (1.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (45.83%) Senior
2 29 (40.28%) Developer
3 23 (31.94%) Software Engineer
4 17 (23.61%) Java Developer
5 15 (20.83%) Senior Developer
6 13 (18.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (15.28%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (15.28%) Software Developer
8 10 (13.89%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 10 (13.89%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (13.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (13.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 8 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
9 8 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (8.33%) Lead
10 6 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Principal Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Principal Software Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (73.61%) Terraform
2 28 (38.89%) React
3 26 (36.11%) Spring
3 26 (36.11%) Spring Boot
4 20 (27.78%) Kafka
4 20 (27.78%) NestJS
4 20 (27.78%) RESTful
5 19 (26.39%) OAuth
5 19 (26.39%) OAuth2
5 19 (26.39%) OpenID
5 19 (26.39%) RabbitMQ
5 19 (26.39%) SAML
6 17 (23.61%) Hibernate
6 17 (23.61%) JPA
7 13 (18.06%) Node.js
8 8 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.56%) CSS
10 3 (4.17%) HTML5
10 3 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (40.28%) Cloud Native
2 21 (29.17%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (27.78%) Product Ownership
4 14 (19.44%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (19.44%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (19.44%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.56%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.17%) Driving Licence
6 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.17%) Mainframe
6 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (81.94%) CI/CD
2 45 (62.50%) DevOps
3 42 (58.33%) Software Engineering
4 40 (55.56%) Agile
5 32 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (43.06%) Containerisation
7 30 (41.67%) Mentoring
7 30 (41.67%) Microservices
8 27 (37.50%) Observability
9 24 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (31.94%) Technical Leadership
10 23 (31.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 22 (30.56%) Event-Driven
11 22 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (30.56%) Scrum
12 21 (29.17%) Decision-Making
12 21 (29.17%) Secure Coding
13 20 (27.78%) API Design
14 19 (26.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (26.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (44.44%) Java
2 13 (18.06%) TypeScript
3 12 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 12 (16.67%) Python
4 8 (11.11%) Ruby
5 7 (9.72%) SQL
6 6 (8.33%) C#
7 5 (6.94%) Bash
8 4 (5.56%) Bicep
9 3 (4.17%) Go
9 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.78%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.61%) QA
2 7 (9.72%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (79.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (20.83%) Grafana
1 15 (20.83%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.39%) Ansible
2 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (22.22%) Google
2 14 (19.44%) Okta
2 14 (19.44%) Ping Identity
2 14 (19.44%) Splunk
3 4 (5.56%) ForgeRock
3 4 (5.56%) OneLogin
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (2.78%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft