Kubernetes Contracts in Scotland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 38 58 42
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 91 74 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.60% 3.34% 5.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.72% 26.62% 28.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 63 95
10th Percentile £350 £401 £425
25th Percentile £413 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £623 £667
90th Percentile £551 £642 £728
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% -11.43% +32.36%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 235 278 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.46% 12.54% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 194 406
10th Percentile £198 £246 £260
25th Percentile £399 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -2.96% -2.10%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £576 £654 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £21.18 £19.59 £21.47
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.32 £30.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.99 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.45% -32.47% +25.50%
75th Percentile £24.00 £49.21 £58.75
90th Percentile £24.11 £55.68 £59.65
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
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 Kubernetes within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Glasgow +14 70 £468 +2.41% 33
Edinburgh +3 18 £525 -3.67% 28
Lanarkshire - 1 £525 - 2
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (6.59%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.10%) nginx
2 1 (1.10%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 41 (45.05%) AWS
2 32 (35.16%) Azure
3 27 (29.67%) OpenShift
4 19 (20.88%) Amazon S3
5 14 (15.38%) GitHub
6 12 (13.19%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (10.99%) Serverless
8 9 (9.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 7 (7.69%) PaaS
11 6 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (6.59%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (6.59%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 6 (6.59%) Cohesity
11 6 (6.59%) Route 53
11 6 (6.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) SAN
2 11 (12.09%) NAS
3 5 (5.49%) Firewall
4 4 (4.40%) Network Security
4 4 (4.40%) VPN
5 1 (1.10%) DNS
5 1 (1.10%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.10%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.48%) KDB
1 15 (16.48%) Kdb+
2 6 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.59%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.20%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.20%) MariaDB
4 2 (2.20%) MySQL
4 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.10%) DB2
5 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.10%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.10%) Redis
5 1 (1.10%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (30.77%) Git
2 25 (27.47%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.99%) Bitbucket
4 9 (9.89%) JIRA
5 4 (4.40%) Artifactory
5 4 (4.40%) GitLab
6 1 (1.10%) Gatling
6 1 (1.10%) Gradle
6 1 (1.10%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.10%) JMeter
6 1 (1.10%) JUnit
6 1 (1.10%) Maven
6 1 (1.10%) PyCharm
6 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (43.96%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.97%) Banking
3 27 (29.67%) Finance
4 26 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 18 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Legal
9 2 (2.20%) Front Office
9 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (54.95%) Developer
2 32 (35.16%) Python Developer
3 16 (17.58%) Senior
4 14 (15.38%) C++ Developer
5 13 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 11 (12.09%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 11 (12.09%) Linux Developer
6 11 (12.09%) Senior C++ Developer
6 11 (12.09%) Senior Python Developer
7 9 (9.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Applications Support
10 4 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Lead
11 3 (3.30%) NetBackup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.69%) AWS CDK
1 7 (7.69%) Spring
2 6 (6.59%) Loki
2 6 (6.59%) Spring Boot
3 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
3 5 (5.49%) React
4 4 (4.40%) .NET
4 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.30%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.30%) Middleware
5 3 (3.30%) pytest
5 3 (3.30%) RESTful
6 2 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (2.20%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.20%) REST
6 2 (2.20%) Spring Security
6 2 (2.20%) Swagger
7 1 (1.10%) JSON
7 1 (1.10%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.37%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.49%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.40%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.10%) NVMe
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (51.65%) Linux
1 47 (51.65%) Windows
2 20 (21.98%) Unix
3 12 (13.19%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.30%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.20%) AIX
6 2 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.10%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.95%) CI/CD
2 36 (39.56%) Containerisation
3 31 (34.07%) SDLC
4 28 (30.77%) DevOps
5 27 (29.67%) Agile
6 19 (20.88%) Data Science
7 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (17.58%) Observability
8 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (16.48%) Data Protection
9 15 (16.48%) Test Automation
10 12 (13.19%) Software Engineering
11 11 (12.09%) Data Deduplication
12 10 (10.99%) Build Automation
12 10 (10.99%) Decision-Making
12 10 (10.99%) Task Automation
13 7 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (7.69%) Investment Management
13 7 (7.69%) Penetration Testing
13 7 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 78 (85.71%) Python
2 16 (17.58%) C++
3 15 (16.48%) Java
4 13 (14.29%) Bash
5 12 (13.19%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.99%) C#
7 7 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.69%) SQL
8 6 (6.59%) Perl
8 6 (6.59%) R
9 4 (4.40%) Groovy
9 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.30%) Go
11 1 (1.10%) Bicep
11 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
1 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.20%) Degree
1 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
1 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.10%) OCP
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (1.10%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
2 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (48.35%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.10%) Firmware
5 1 (1.10%) GPFS
5 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.10%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (24.18%) Ansible
2 20 (21.98%) Terraform
3 12 (13.19%) Grafana
4 11 (12.09%) NetBackup
4 11 (12.09%) Oracle RMAN
5 9 (9.89%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.49%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.30%) Kibana
8 2 (2.20%) Podman
8 2 (2.20%) Puppet
8 2 (2.20%) RSA Archer
9 1 (1.10%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.10%) Istio
9 1 (1.10%) linkerd
9 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.10%) SCCM
9 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.10%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 17 (18.68%) Veritas
2 10 (10.99%) Splunk
3 6 (6.59%) VMware
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.49%) Oracle
5 3 (3.30%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.30%) Google
5 3 (3.30%) Netskope
5 3 (3.30%) Proofpoint
5 3 (3.30%) Symantec
6 2 (2.20%) IBM
6 2 (2.20%) Imperva
7 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.10%) Brocade
7 1 (1.10%) EMC
7 1 (1.10%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.10%) NetApp
7 1 (1.10%) Okta
7 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.10%) Sybase