Kubernetes Contracts in Wales

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 54 47
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 -14
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 10 7 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.53% 1.19% 3.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.26% 5.88% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 20
10th Percentile £413 £408 £449
25th Percentile - £506 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £677
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -11.31% +53.31%
75th Percentile £646 £625 £766
90th Percentile £752 £675 £826
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £610
% change year-on-year -10.20% +0.41% +10.91%

All Systems Management Skills
Wales

Kubernetes is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 43 119 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 10.89% 20.31% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 88 86
10th Percentile £413 £273 £252
25th Percentile £438 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +6.33% +9.72%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £597
90th Percentile £667 £625 £728
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £15.23
25th Percentile - - £15.56
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile - - £17.94
90th Percentile - - £19.18
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Wales

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Wales over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Wales

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +17 9 £500 -16.67% 5
Dyfed - 1 £1,000 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) AppScan
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) WSO2 Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) NHS
1 6 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) API Management
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Application Security
3 2 (20.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) OWASP
3 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) PHP
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SANS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Graylog
2 2 (20.00%) Nagios
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) HP Fortify
3 1 (10.00%) Nessus
3 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
3 1 (10.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) WSO2
2 2 (20.00%) Checkmarx
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Veracode