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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 59 60
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 30 22 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 3.29% 1.80% 4.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.78% 44.00% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 29 16 36
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,375 £40,319
25th Percentile £61,250 £64,471 £42,392
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,161 £69,347
90th Percentile - £74,144 £71,150
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -1.17%

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 67 50 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.34% 4.08% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 61 31 106
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,449 £30,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £44,250 £40,080
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +40.66% -11.98%
75th Percentile £74,066 - £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £69,800
UK median annual salary £61,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +3.85% -3.70%

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 1 November 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 1 November 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 +16 30 £67,500 +3.85% 14
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 5 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (13.33%) IIS
3 3 (10.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (90.00%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (26.67%) Azure Stack
2 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
3 6 (20.00%) GitHub
3 6 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.67%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (3.33%) Anthos
5 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.33%) Datadog
5 1 (3.33%) dbt
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) MySQL
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.33%) Metadata
3 1 (3.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (13.33%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
3 2 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.33%) JMeter
4 1 (3.33%) Locust
4 1 (3.33%) MLflow
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Lead
2 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) IT Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (3.33%) Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) React
2 11 (36.67%) CSS
2 11 (36.67%) Django
2 11 (36.67%) HTML
2 11 (36.67%) HTML5
3 5 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.33%) Jest
4 1 (3.33%) Keras
4 1 (3.33%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (3.33%) Metaflow
4 1 (3.33%) NumPy
4 1 (3.33%) Playwright
4 1 (3.33%) PySpark
4 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.33%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.33%) Vitest
4 1 (3.33%) Web Services
4 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Data Centre
1 8 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (26.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Windows
1 12 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (26.67%) Linux
2 8 (26.67%) Rocky
2 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (46.67%) Software Testing
3 13 (43.33%) Agile
3 13 (43.33%) Mentoring
4 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
4 11 (36.67%) Kanban
4 11 (36.67%) Scrum
4 11 (36.67%) User Experience
4 11 (36.67%) Workflow
5 10 (33.33%) DevOps
6 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (16.67%) Software Delivery
9 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
9 4 (13.33%) CRM
9 4 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (10.00%) Observability
10 3 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Python
2 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) Azure Certification
2 8 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (26.67%) DV Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (33.33%) Docker
3 8 (26.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (13.33%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) Grafana
4 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.33%) Argo
5 1 (3.33%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Dell
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Pega
2 4 (13.33%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Guidewire
3 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Google