Kubernetes Jobs in Wales

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 88 59
Rank change year-on-year +15 -29 -21
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 8 37 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.72% 1.78% 4.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.24% 21.89% 41.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8 27 36
10th Percentile £54,500 £22,000 £41,409
25th Percentile £61,523 £32,000 £42,819
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -30.89% +11.82%
75th Percentile £71,000 £71,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,265 £79,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 33 169 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.98% 8.14% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 27 99 80
10th Percentile £41,163 £28,290 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,448 £32,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £51,104
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -16.84% -2.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,875 £68,497
90th Percentile £71,249 £71,487 £75,250
UK median annual salary £69,000 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.73% -9.32% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Wales

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Wales.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Wales

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Wales over the 6 months to 22 May 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 22 May 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 +19 8 £65,000 +8.33% 15
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
2 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (12.50%) IIS
3 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub
3 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (37.50%) AWS
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (37.50%) Redis
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
1 5 (62.50%) Senior Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Backend Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Backend Developer
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Django
1 3 (37.50%) FastAPI
1 3 (37.50%) Flask
1 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
1 3 (37.50%) Keycloak
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
1 3 (37.50%) pytest
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
1 3 (37.50%) SQLAlchemy
1 3 (37.50%) WebSockets
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Prototyping
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Availability Management
5 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
5 2 (25.00%) CRM
5 2 (25.00%) Deep Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Information Security
5 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) MLOps
5 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Pega
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Guidewire
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce