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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 62 48
Rank change year-on-year +19 -14 -11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 86 63 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.03% 3.04% 4.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.39% 27.75% 27.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 56 68
10th Percentile £360 £400 £425
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -16.36% -2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £661
90th Percentile £611 £634 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.36% -8.33% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.55
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £67.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +17.04% -6.90% +49.93%

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 224 227 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.10% 10.94% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 169 315
10th Percentile £202 £200 £260
25th Percentile £402 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +9.06% -8.63% -6.19%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £550
90th Percentile £589 £634 £638
UK median daily rate £510 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -1.54% -5.82% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £16.00 £19.49
25th Percentile £52.50 £17.37 £21.36
Median hourly rate £55.00 £20.08 £39.59
Median % change year-on-year +173.97% -49.29% -12.31%
75th Percentile £57.50 £22.35 £58.75
90th Percentile - £23.45 £59.65
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.43% -43.48% +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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +12 68 £500 +11.11% 188
Edinburgh +1 17 £500 -3.85% 110
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 4 (4.65%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.16%) Mule
2 1 (1.16%) nginx
2 1 (1.16%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 50 (58.14%) AWS
2 34 (39.53%) Azure
3 21 (24.42%) OpenShift
4 15 (17.44%) GitHub
5 14 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (12.79%) Amazon S3
7 10 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (9.30%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.98%) Cohesity
10 6 (6.98%) GCP
10 6 (6.98%) SaaS
11 5 (5.81%) Serverless
12 4 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.65%) Slack
13 3 (3.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (3.49%) Datadog
13 3 (3.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.30%) SAN
2 7 (8.14%) NAS
3 3 (3.49%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.33%) Firewall
4 2 (2.33%) Network Security
4 2 (2.33%) VPN
5 1 (1.16%) AMQP
5 1 (1.16%) DNS
5 1 (1.16%) DSL
5 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.16%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.79%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.63%) KDB
2 10 (11.63%) Kdb+
3 9 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.81%) MySQL
6 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.49%) CockroachDB
7 3 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.49%) MariaDB
7 3 (3.49%) NewSQL
7 3 (3.49%) OLTP
7 3 (3.49%) Redis
8 2 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.33%) Big Data
8 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.16%) DB2
9 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.16%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 34 (39.53%) Git
2 29 (33.72%) Jenkins
3 15 (17.44%) Bitbucket
4 14 (16.28%) JIRA
5 10 (11.63%) IntelliJ
5 10 (11.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (10.47%) PyCharm
6 9 (10.47%) Visual Studio
7 6 (6.98%) GitLab
7 6 (6.98%) JUnit
7 6 (6.98%) Maven
8 4 (4.65%) Artifactory
8 4 (4.65%) Gradle
8 4 (4.65%) Mockito
8 4 (4.65%) Terragrunt
9 2 (2.33%) Selenium
9 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.16%) Gatling
10 1 (1.16%) Postman
10 1 (1.16%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 32 (37.21%) Finance
3 18 (20.93%) Banking
4 13 (15.12%) Investment Banking
5 11 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (9.30%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Legal
9 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.16%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 32 (37.21%) Developer
2 20 (23.26%) Python Developer
3 18 (20.93%) Senior
4 17 (19.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (16.28%) Senior Developer
6 11 (12.79%) Python Engineer
7 10 (11.63%) C++ Developer
7 10 (11.63%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 10 (11.63%) Linux Developer
7 10 (11.63%) Senior C++ Developer
7 10 (11.63%) Senior Python Developer
8 8 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (8.14%) Java Developer
9 7 (8.14%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (5.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Applications Support
11 4 (4.65%) Architect
11 4 (4.65%) Database Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.95%) OAuth
2 9 (10.47%) Kafka
2 9 (10.47%) RESTful
2 9 (10.47%) Spring
3 8 (9.30%) Loki
3 8 (9.30%) Spring Boot
4 7 (8.14%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.81%) FastAPI
5 5 (5.81%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.81%) OpenID
5 5 (5.81%) React
5 5 (5.81%) SAML
6 4 (4.65%) .NET
6 4 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.49%) Middleware
7 3 (3.49%) pytest
7 3 (3.49%) REST
7 3 (3.49%) Swagger
8 2 (2.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (11.63%) Public Cloud
3 9 (10.47%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.81%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.81%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.33%) Equities
7 2 (2.33%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.33%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.33%) Market Risk
7 2 (2.33%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.16%) Clustering
8 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.16%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 44 (51.16%) Linux
2 34 (39.53%) Windows
3 15 (17.44%) Unix
4 8 (9.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.49%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.16%) AIX
7 1 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (63.95%) CI/CD
2 47 (54.65%) Agile
3 44 (51.16%) DevOps
4 32 (37.21%) SDLC
5 26 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 20 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (22.09%) Test Automation
8 16 (18.60%) Observability
9 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (15.12%) Data Protection
10 13 (15.12%) Microservices
10 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
11 12 (13.95%) Task Automation
12 11 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (11.63%) Configuration Management
13 10 (11.63%) Data Science
14 9 (10.47%) High Availability
15 8 (9.30%) Build Automation
15 8 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
15 8 (9.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (74.42%) Python
2 32 (37.21%) Java
3 15 (17.44%) TypeScript
4 13 (15.12%) C#
5 12 (13.95%) C++
5 12 (13.95%) SQL
6 7 (8.14%) Go
7 6 (6.98%) Bash
8 4 (4.65%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.65%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.49%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (3.49%) Groovy
9 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.33%) Perl
11 1 (1.16%) Bicep
11 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.16%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 6 (6.98%) Degree
2 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.16%) OCP
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) DICOM
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) HL7
3 1 (1.16%) ISO 13485
3 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (43.02%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.16%) GPFS
5 1 (1.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 36 (41.86%) Terraform
2 24 (27.91%) Ansible
3 14 (16.28%) Grafana
4 11 (12.79%) Prometheus
5 7 (8.14%) NetBackup
5 7 (8.14%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (4.65%) Argo
6 4 (4.65%) Istio
7 3 (3.49%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.33%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.33%) Podman
8 2 (2.33%) RSA Archer
8 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.16%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.16%) Kibana
9 1 (1.16%) linkerd
9 1 (1.16%) Puppet
9 1 (1.16%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 13 (15.12%) Splunk
1 13 (15.12%) Veritas
2 8 (9.30%) Oracle
3 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.81%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.81%) VMware
5 4 (4.65%) ForgeRock
6 3 (3.49%) Google
6 3 (3.49%) Netskope
6 3 (3.49%) Proofpoint
6 3 (3.49%) Symantec
7 2 (2.33%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.33%) IBM
8 1 (1.16%) Brocade
8 1 (1.16%) EMC
8 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.16%) NetApp
8 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.16%) Sybase
8 1 (1.16%) Workday