Kubernetes Job Trends in West Wales

Kubernetes (k8s)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 1.00% 0.86% 6.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.00% 14.29% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £36,103
25th Percentile £52,400 £62,500 £38,211
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £65,000 £44,710
Median % change year-on-year -15.08% +45.38% -
75th Percentile £58,000 £67,500 £48,071
90th Percentile - - £49,116
Wales median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -3.50%

All Systems Management Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 4.00% 6.03% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £43,134 - £36,103
25th Percentile £49,091 £44,956 £38,211
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,079 £49,104 £44,710
Median % change year-on-year +26.42% +9.83% +65.59%
75th Percentile £74,679 £53,252 £48,071
90th Percentile - £58,951 £49,116
Wales median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% -8.70%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in West Wales

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Swansea +8 1 £55,200 -15.08% 1
Kubernetes
Wales

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Delphi
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle