Kubernetes Contracts in Scotland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 43 46
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 74 159 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.33% 5.59% 5.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.81% 28.86% 39.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 94 122
10th Percentile £405 £425 £425
25th Percentile £440 £456 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% -0.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £668 £667
90th Percentile £644 £730 £786
UK median daily rate £550 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.83% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £41.75
25th Percentile - - £41.89
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year - +30.72% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £49.76
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £70.00 £52.89
% change year-on-year -11.43% +32.36% +11.34%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

Kubernetes is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 276 551 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.40% 19.36% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 391 320
10th Percentile £259 £260 £204
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -1.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £552 £588
90th Percentile £651 £650 £681
UK median daily rate £515 £570 £563
% change year-on-year -9.65% +1.33% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £19.59 £21.47 £34.00
25th Percentile £26.32 £30.00 £41.31
Median hourly rate £37.99 £56.25 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -32.47% +25.50% -32.09%
75th Percentile £49.21 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £55.68 £59.65 £49.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -23.17%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 -16 46 £457 -29.77% 21
Edinburgh +2 21 £545 +14.74% 20
West Lothian - 3 £525 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
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 10 (13.51%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (9.46%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.41%) SAS
4 2 (2.70%) Confluence
5 1 (1.35%) Apache
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.35%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 54 (72.97%) AWS
2 32 (43.24%) OpenShift
3 27 (36.49%) Azure
4 12 (16.22%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (14.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (14.86%) Serverless
6 10 (13.51%) Amazon S3
6 10 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (13.51%) Snowflake
7 9 (12.16%) GCP
8 6 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 6 (8.11%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (5.41%) Rekognition
10 4 (5.41%) Textract
11 2 (2.70%) IaaS
12 1 (1.35%) npm
12 1 (1.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.86%) SAN
2 7 (9.46%) NAS
3 6 (8.11%) Firewall
4 5 (6.76%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (6.76%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.35%) DHCP
5 1 (1.35%) DNS
5 1 (1.35%) Network Security
5 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.46%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.76%) DB2
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.41%) MySQL
4 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.05%) Big Data
5 3 (4.05%) InfluxDB
5 3 (4.05%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.35%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.35%) Flink
7 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.35%) HBase
7 1 (1.35%) Redis
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (27.03%) Jenkins
2 13 (17.57%) Git
3 11 (14.86%) Artifactory
4 10 (13.51%) Maven
5 9 (12.16%) Gradle
6 6 (8.11%) GitLab
7 4 (5.41%) JIRA
8 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.70%) Capybara
9 2 (2.70%) Selenium
9 2 (2.70%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.35%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.35%) Gatling
10 1 (1.35%) gulp
10 1 (1.35%) JMeter
10 1 (1.35%) JUnit
10 1 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (1.35%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.35%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Banking
3 13 (17.57%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.81%) Investment Banking
5 7 (9.46%) Finance
6 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (21.62%) Developer
2 16 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (18.92%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (16.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 11 (14.86%) Python Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (12.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (9.46%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 7 (9.46%) Java Developer
8 7 (9.46%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Site Manager
9 5 (6.76%) Site Reliability Manager
10 4 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Site Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) AWS CDK
2 9 (12.16%) Kafka
2 9 (12.16%) REST
3 7 (9.46%) RESTful
4 6 (8.11%) Spring
4 6 (8.11%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (5.41%) Flash
6 4 (5.41%) OpenTracing
6 4 (5.41%) POSIX
7 3 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.70%) Gherkin
8 2 (2.70%) J2EE
8 2 (2.70%) React
8 2 (2.70%) WebKit
9 1 (1.35%) Apache Camel
9 1 (1.35%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.35%) Middleware
9 1 (1.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.27%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.76%) Client/Server
3 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.76%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.41%) NVMe
5 2 (2.70%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.35%) Clustering
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (44.59%) Linux
2 15 (20.27%) Unix
2 15 (20.27%) Windows
3 11 (14.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (12.16%) Windows Server
5 6 (8.11%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.41%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.30%) DevOps
2 25 (33.78%) CI/CD
3 19 (25.68%) Agile
4 17 (22.97%) Observability
5 16 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (21.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 14 (18.92%) Computer Science
7 13 (17.57%) Data Protection
7 13 (17.57%) Test Automation
8 12 (16.22%) Containerisation
8 12 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (16.22%) GitOps
8 12 (16.22%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (14.86%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (13.51%) Data Engineering
10 10 (13.51%) DataOps
10 10 (13.51%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (13.51%) MLOps
10 10 (13.51%) SDLC
11 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 54 (72.97%) Python
2 33 (44.59%) Java
3 16 (21.62%) Bash
4 15 (20.27%) Scala
5 14 (18.92%) Groovy
6 12 (16.22%) Ruby
7 9 (12.16%) Perl
7 9 (12.16%) SQL
8 8 (10.81%) Shell Script
9 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
10 5 (6.76%) Kotlin
10 5 (6.76%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.70%) Go
11 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.35%) C#
12 1 (1.35%) Elixir
12 1 (1.35%) PHP
12 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.35%) BC Cleared
3 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 36 (48.65%) Docker
2 4 (5.41%) GPFS
2 4 (5.41%) NFS
2 4 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.35%) HDFS
3 1 (1.35%) KVM
3 1 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (51.35%) Terraform
2 22 (29.73%) Ansible
3 20 (27.03%) Grafana
4 14 (18.92%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.11%) Kibana
6 4 (5.41%) NetBackup
6 4 (5.41%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 4 (5.41%) Zipkin
7 3 (4.05%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.70%) Puppet
9 1 (1.35%) Argo
9 1 (1.35%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (1.35%) Istio
9 1 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.35%) Knative
9 1 (1.35%) Nagios
9 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) Databricks
2 8 (10.81%) Veritas
3 7 (9.46%) Google
4 5 (6.76%) Oracle
5 4 (5.41%) Brocade
5 4 (5.41%) EMC
5 4 (5.41%) IBM
5 4 (5.41%) NetApp
5 4 (5.41%) Sybase
5 4 (5.41%) VMware
6 3 (4.05%) Splunk
7 2 (2.70%) Microsoft