Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 22 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +23
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 171 134 81
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 7.10% 8.40% 4.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.71% 56.78% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 83 56
10th Percentile £359 £421 £358
25th Percentile £403 £471 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +4.97% -6.11%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £524
90th Percentile £552 £672 £547
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.48% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £66.89
% change year-on-year +4.48% +0.16% -0.55%

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 344 236 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.27% 14.79% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 149 166
10th Percentile £266 £220 £200
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £513
90th Percentile £596 £650 £581
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile - - £20.55
25th Percentile £13.50 £52.50 £21.91
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +127.46% -56.59%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £25.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +152.54% -30.87% -34.25%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Scotland

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kubernetes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kubernetes

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 14 October 2026. 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 +1 130 £425 -22.23% 89
Edinburgh -7 37 £475 -5.00% 31
South Lanarkshire - 2 - -
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 - -
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.26%) Apache
2 5 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.34%) nginx
4 3 (1.75%) Traefik
5 2 (1.17%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.58%) Camunda
6 1 (0.58%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) JBoss
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 95 (55.56%) AWS
2 66 (38.60%) GCP
3 59 (34.50%) Azure
4 28 (16.37%) GitHub
5 25 (14.62%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (9.36%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.77%) Kong
7 15 (8.77%) OpenShift
8 13 (7.60%) Amazon MSK
8 13 (7.60%) Apigee
9 12 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.43%) Serverless
11 10 (5.85%) Azure AKS
12 9 (5.26%) Amazon S3
12 9 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (4.09%) Akamai
13 7 (4.09%) Cloudflare
14 6 (3.51%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.26%) DNS
2 7 (4.09%) HTTP
2 7 (4.09%) SAN
3 6 (3.51%) NAS
4 4 (2.34%) Firewall
4 4 (2.34%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.17%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (1.17%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.17%) Network Security
5 2 (1.17%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.58%) DHCP
6 1 (0.58%) SSH
6 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.85%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.68%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.92%) Flink
5 5 (2.92%) MySQL
5 5 (2.92%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.34%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.34%) Redis
7 3 (1.75%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.17%) Big Data
8 2 (1.17%) DataStage
8 2 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.17%) Looker
8 2 (1.17%) Metadata
8 2 (1.17%) Trino
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.58%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.58%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 30 (17.54%) Git
2 25 (14.62%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.77%) GitLab
4 12 (7.02%) Claude Code
5 9 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.09%) Selenium
7 5 (2.92%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.92%) Postman
7 5 (2.92%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.34%) Appium
8 4 (2.34%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.34%) JUnit
8 4 (2.34%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.75%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.75%) Gradle
9 3 (1.75%) JIRA
9 3 (1.75%) Maven
10 1 (0.58%) Ant
10 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.58%) Mockito
General
1 61 (35.67%) Finance
2 42 (24.56%) Banking
3 33 (19.30%) Social Skills
4 16 (9.36%) Investment Banking
4 16 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.75%) Front Office
7 3 (1.75%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.17%) Law
8 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.17%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.17%) Retail
8 2 (1.17%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.58%) Military
9 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (28.07%) Developer
2 26 (15.20%) Java Developer
2 26 (15.20%) Platform Engineer
3 23 (13.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 17 (9.94%) Senior
6 16 (9.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (8.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Lead
9 11 (6.43%) Architect
9 11 (6.43%) GCP Engineer
10 10 (5.85%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.26%) Python Engineer
12 8 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (3.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 6 (3.51%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 6 (3.51%) Provisioning Engineer
15 5 (2.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (43.27%) Terraform
2 38 (22.22%) Kafka
3 34 (19.88%) REST
4 33 (19.30%) Spring
5 28 (16.37%) Spring Boot
6 26 (15.20%) RESTful
7 23 (13.45%) OAuth
8 21 (12.28%) OAuth2
9 20 (11.70%) OpenID
10 19 (11.11%) React
11 14 (8.19%) JWT
11 14 (8.19%) OpenAPI
12 13 (7.60%) Swagger
13 12 (7.02%) AngularJS
14 11 (6.43%) JPA
15 9 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
16 8 (4.68%) gRPC
16 8 (4.68%) Playwright
16 8 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
17 6 (3.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (40.35%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.45%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (8.77%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (8.19%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (7.02%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (6.43%) Private Cloud
7 7 (4.09%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.51%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.92%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.92%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.92%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.34%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (2.34%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.75%) PKI
11 3 (1.75%) Replication
11 3 (1.75%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.20%) Linux
2 14 (8.19%) Windows
3 13 (7.60%) Unix
4 7 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (66.08%) CI/CD
2 86 (50.29%) DevOps
3 66 (38.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (36.26%) Containerisation
5 50 (29.24%) Platform Engineering
6 46 (26.90%) Observability
7 41 (23.98%) Agile
8 40 (23.39%) AI
9 38 (22.22%) Microservices
10 27 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 24 (14.04%) Data Protection
11 24 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 24 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (13.45%) Test Automation
13 22 (12.87%) Event-Driven
14 18 (10.53%) Code Quality
14 18 (10.53%) Mentoring
14 18 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (9.94%) Machine Learning
16 16 (9.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 86 (50.29%) Python
2 54 (31.58%) Java
3 28 (16.37%) Go
4 25 (14.62%) SQL
5 23 (13.45%) Bash
6 20 (11.70%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.77%) Shell Script
8 14 (8.19%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.68%) C#
10 7 (4.09%) Lua
10 7 (4.09%) Perl
10 7 (4.09%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.17%) Bicep
11 2 (1.17%) C++
11 2 (1.17%) Scala
12 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.58%) Groovy
12 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (9.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.85%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.68%) Degree
4 7 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.09%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.92%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.34%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.58%) RHCE
9 1 (0.58%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.09%) QA
2 6 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.34%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.58%) PSD2
5 1 (0.58%) SEPA
System Software
1 60 (35.09%) Docker
2 6 (3.51%) zsh
3 4 (2.34%) NFS
3 4 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.75%) GPFS
5 2 (1.17%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.17%) Firmware
5 2 (1.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (7.02%) Grafana
2 11 (6.43%) Argo
2 11 (6.43%) Prometheus
3 9 (5.26%) Ansible
4 5 (2.92%) Istio
5 4 (2.34%) HAProxy
6 3 (1.75%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.17%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.17%) Podman
7 2 (1.17%) Puppet
8 1 (0.58%) linkerd
8 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 39 (22.81%) Google
2 16 (9.36%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.85%) Dynatrace
3 10 (5.85%) Splunk
4 8 (4.68%) ForgeRock
5 6 (3.51%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.51%) Oracle
6 5 (2.92%) IBM
6 5 (2.92%) Veritas
7 4 (2.34%) VMware
8 3 (1.75%) Brocade
8 3 (1.75%) EMC
8 3 (1.75%) F5
8 3 (1.75%) NetApp
8 3 (1.75%) Okta
9 2 (1.17%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.17%) Databricks
10 1 (0.58%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.58%) Confluent
10 1 (0.58%) OpenAI