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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 31 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 -12 +21
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 64 46 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.45% 5.64% 10.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.12% 42.99% 46.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 42 46
10th Percentile £350 £400 £456
25th Percentile £408 £413 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £453 £641
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -29.36% +10.32%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £676
90th Percentile £550 £623 £750
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
Scotland median hourly rate - - £60.55
% change year-on-year - - +34.14%

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 133 107 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 17.57% 13.13% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 84 123
10th Percentile £350 £200 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £453 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -17.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £555 £541 £650
90th Percentile £582 £613 £723
Scotland median daily rate £475 £457 £488
% change year-on-year +4.05% -6.36% -7.14%
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 - £20.08 £39.59
% change year-on-year - -49.29% -11.04%

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 29 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 2 (3.13%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.56%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 24 (37.50%) AWS
2 19 (29.69%) OpenShift
3 18 (28.13%) Azure
4 9 (14.06%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (14.06%) GitHub
5 8 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.38%) Cohesity
7 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.69%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.69%) GCP
8 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.13%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (3.13%) PaaS
9 2 (3.13%) SaaS
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.06%) SAN
2 8 (12.50%) NAS
3 3 (4.69%) Network Security
3 3 (4.69%) VPN
4 2 (3.13%) Firewall
5 1 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.56%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.56%) KDB
1 17 (26.56%) Kdb+
2 8 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.69%) MySQL
4 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.56%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.56%) DB2
6 1 (1.56%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.56%) NewSQL
6 1 (1.56%) OLTP
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 23 (35.94%) Git
2 19 (29.69%) Jenkins
3 9 (14.06%) Bitbucket
4 8 (12.50%) JIRA
5 6 (9.38%) JUnit
5 6 (9.38%) Maven
6 4 (6.25%) Gradle
6 4 (6.25%) Mockito
7 3 (4.69%) IntelliJ
7 3 (4.69%) PyCharm
7 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio
7 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (3.13%) GitLab
8 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.56%) Gatling
9 1 (1.56%) JMeter
General
1 34 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 24 (37.50%) Banking
3 23 (35.94%) Investment Banking
4 18 (28.13%) Finance
5 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.13%) Legal
9 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (60.94%) Developer
2 26 (40.63%) Python Developer
3 16 (25.00%) C++ Developer
3 16 (25.00%) Senior
4 15 (23.44%) Senior Developer
5 13 (20.31%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
5 13 (20.31%) Linux Developer
5 13 (20.31%) Senior C++ Developer
5 13 (20.31%) Senior Python Developer
6 9 (14.06%) Java Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Python Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Applications Support
10 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) NetBackup Engineer
11 2 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
11 2 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 2 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Support
11 2 (3.13%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) Spring
2 7 (10.94%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
3 5 (7.81%) Loki
3 5 (7.81%) React
4 3 (4.69%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.69%) Kafka
4 3 (4.69%) Middleware
4 3 (4.69%) OAuth
4 3 (4.69%) pytest
4 3 (4.69%) RESTful
5 2 (3.13%) CSS
5 2 (3.13%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.13%) JAX-RS
5 2 (3.13%) JAX-WS
5 2 (3.13%) JPA
5 2 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.13%) Spring MVC
6 1 (1.56%) OpenID
6 1 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.69%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (7.81%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.69%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.69%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.56%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 39 (60.94%) Linux
1 39 (60.94%) Windows
2 15 (23.44%) Unix
3 9 (14.06%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.56%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.13%) CI/CD
2 30 (46.88%) SDLC
3 23 (35.94%) Containerisation
4 22 (34.38%) DevOps
5 19 (29.69%) Agile
6 16 (25.00%) Data Science
7 13 (20.31%) Data Protection
8 12 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (18.75%) Observability
8 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (17.19%) Test Automation
10 9 (14.06%) Task Automation
11 8 (12.50%) Build Automation
11 8 (12.50%) Data Deduplication
12 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (10.94%) Decision-Making
12 7 (10.94%) ITIL
13 6 (9.38%) Software Engineering
14 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 5 (7.81%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (79.69%) Python
2 17 (26.56%) C++
3 15 (23.44%) Java
4 7 (10.94%) SQL
5 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.25%) C#
7 3 (4.69%) Perl
7 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.13%) Bash
8 2 (3.13%) Go
8 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.13%) R
9 1 (1.56%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.56%) Degree
1 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
1 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 35 (54.69%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.56%) GPFS
5 1 (1.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (25.00%) Terraform
2 11 (17.19%) Ansible
3 8 (12.50%) Grafana
3 8 (12.50%) NetBackup
3 8 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (9.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.13%) Podman
5 2 (3.13%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.56%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 14 (21.88%) Veritas
2 10 (15.63%) Splunk
3 6 (9.38%) Oracle
4 5 (7.81%) VMware
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.69%) Netskope
5 3 (4.69%) Proofpoint
5 3 (4.69%) Symantec
6 2 (3.13%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.56%) Brocade
7 1 (1.56%) EMC
7 1 (1.56%) Google
7 1 (1.56%) IBM
7 1 (1.56%) NetApp
7 1 (1.56%) Sybase
7 1 (1.56%) Workday