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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 51 69
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 14 23 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.35% 2.61% 2.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.57% 44.23% 24.51%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 23
10th Percentile £55,055 £64,471 £36,900
25th Percentile £61,250 - £42,069
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -6.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £71,150
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,144 £78,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -3.23%

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 49 52 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.73% 5.90% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 44 37 63
10th Percentile £32,500 £43,449 £36,800
25th Percentile £44,688 £44,956 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,679 £65,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,790 £70,158 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -7 13 £67,500 +3.85% 66
West Wales +5 1 £55,200 -15.08% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Stack
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Anthos
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.14%) Datadog
5 1 (7.14%) dbt
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) git-flow
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Locust
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Django
1 5 (35.71%) React
2 4 (28.57%) CSS
2 4 (28.57%) HTML
2 4 (28.57%) HTML5
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Flask
3 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
3 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.14%) Jest
3 1 (7.14%) Playwright
3 1 (7.14%) pytest
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.14%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Rocky
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 8 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (35.71%) Kanban
3 5 (35.71%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 4 (28.57%) User Experience
4 4 (28.57%) Workflow
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Event-Driven
5 3 (21.43%) Observability
6 2 (14.29%) FinOps
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) Delphi
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Dell
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle