Kubernetes Contracts in Glasgow

Kubernetes (k8s)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 37 16
Rank change year-on-year +14 -21 +23
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 70 47 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.77% 5.36% 10.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 47.30% 43.52% 44.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 40 50
10th Percentile £351 £400 £456
25th Percentile £411 £413 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £457 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -29.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £525 £587 £676
90th Percentile £550 £639 £750
Scotland median daily rate £500 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
Scotland median hourly rate - - £60.55
% change year-on-year - - +30.72%

All Systems Management Skills
Glasgow

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 148 108 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 18.55% 12.31% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 83 136
10th Percentile £358 £203 £363
25th Percentile £410 £400 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -16.36% +9.18%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £650
90th Percentile £580 £629 £723
Scotland median daily rate £474 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -0.26% -2.96% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £59.65
90th Percentile - - £60.19
Scotland median hourly rate £23.00 £37.99 £56.25
% change year-on-year -39.45% -32.47% +25.50%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Glasgow

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Glasgow

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Glasgow

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (8.57%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.43%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.14%) AWS
2 23 (32.86%) Azure
3 20 (28.57%) OpenShift
4 12 (17.14%) Amazon S3
4 12 (17.14%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (15.71%) GitHub
6 6 (8.57%) Cohesity
7 5 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.71%) Azure AKS
8 4 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.86%) GCP
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.43%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.14%) SAN
2 11 (15.71%) NAS
3 4 (5.71%) Network Security
3 4 (5.71%) VPN
4 1 (1.43%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.43%) Firewall
4 1 (1.43%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.43%) KDB
1 15 (21.43%) Kdb+
2 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.86%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.43%) DB2
5 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.43%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.43%) MySQL
5 1 (1.43%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (30.00%) Git
2 20 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 10 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 9 (12.86%) JIRA
5 1 (1.43%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.43%) Gatling
5 1 (1.43%) GitLab
5 1 (1.43%) Gradle
5 1 (1.43%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.43%) JMeter
5 1 (1.43%) JUnit
5 1 (1.43%) Maven
5 1 (1.43%) PyCharm
5 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 26 (37.14%) Banking
2 26 (37.14%) Investment Banking
3 19 (27.14%) Finance
4 18 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Legal
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (58.57%) Developer
2 32 (45.71%) Python Developer
3 14 (20.00%) C++ Developer
4 13 (18.57%) Senior
5 11 (15.71%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Linux Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Senior C++ Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Senior Developer
5 11 (15.71%) Senior Python Developer
6 9 (12.86%) Python Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Applications Support
9 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) NetBackup Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Applications Specialist
11 2 (2.86%) Automation Developer
11 2 (2.86%) Backup Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) Infrastructure Support
11 2 (2.86%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.14%) Loki
1 5 (7.14%) Spring
2 4 (5.71%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.29%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.29%) Middleware
3 3 (4.29%) pytest
4 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.43%) CSS
4 1 (1.43%) Flash
4 1 (1.43%) Kafka
4 1 (1.43%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.43%) NumPy
4 1 (1.43%) Pandas
4 1 (1.43%) POSIX
4 1 (1.43%) React
4 1 (1.43%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.14%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.71%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.43%) NVMe
5 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (67.14%) Windows
2 44 (62.86%) Linux
3 19 (27.14%) Unix
4 12 (17.14%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.29%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.43%) AIX
6 1 (1.43%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 31 (44.29%) SDLC
3 25 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 21 (30.00%) DevOps
5 19 (27.14%) Data Science
6 15 (21.43%) Agile
6 15 (21.43%) Data Protection
7 14 (20.00%) Observability
8 13 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.71%) Data Deduplication
10 10 (14.29%) Build Automation
10 10 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 10 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 9 (12.86%) Task Automation
12 7 (10.00%) ITIL
12 7 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
12 7 (10.00%) Security Hardening
13 6 (8.57%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (87.14%) Python
2 16 (22.86%) C++
3 12 (17.14%) Java
4 7 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.57%) C#
5 6 (8.57%) R
5 6 (8.57%) SQL
6 5 (7.14%) Perl
7 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.86%) Bash
8 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.43%) Degree
2 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (52.86%) Docker
2 5 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.43%) Firmware
5 1 (1.43%) GPFS
5 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 17 (24.29%) Terraform
2 14 (20.00%) Ansible
3 11 (15.71%) NetBackup
3 11 (15.71%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (11.43%) Grafana
5 7 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.29%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.86%) Podman
7 2 (2.86%) RSA Archer
8 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.43%) Puppet
8 1 (1.43%) SCCM
8 1 (1.43%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) Veritas
2 9 (12.86%) Splunk
3 6 (8.57%) VMware
4 4 (5.71%) Oracle
5 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.29%) Netskope
5 3 (4.29%) Proofpoint
5 3 (4.29%) Symantec
6 1 (1.43%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.43%) Brocade
6 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.43%) EMC
6 1 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (1.43%) NetApp
6 1 (1.43%) Sybase
6 1 (1.43%) Workday