Karpenter Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Karpenter
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Karpenter skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Karpenter 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.062% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - £625 -

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

Karpenter 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 272 285 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.94% 15.74% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 178 180
10th Percentile £276 £194 £363
25th Percentile £425 £350 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £513 £575
90th Percentile £650 £554 £639
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £20.55 £36.36
25th Percentile £52.50 £21.91 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -56.59% +214.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £72.60
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £36.17 £51.25
% change year-on-year -28.11% -29.43% +105.00%

Karpenter
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Karpenter within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 1 - - 1
Karpenter
UK

Karpenter
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk