linkerd Contract Job Trends in Scotland

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UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring linkerd skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing linkerd 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.058% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £503 £725 £450
% change year-on-year -30.69% +61.11% -30.77%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

linkerd 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 219 262 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.78% 15.92% 12.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 173 193
10th Percentile £250 £190 £280
25th Percentile £358 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £468 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% -2.60% -1.84%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £600
90th Percentile £675 £575 £659
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £39.50 £21.18 £19.59
25th Percentile £46.25 £22.50 £26.32
Median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £37.99
Median % change year-on-year +128.26% -39.45% -32.47%
75th Percentile £56.40 £24.00 £49.21
90th Percentile £58.91 £24.11 £55.68
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -47.83%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

linkerd job vacancy trend in Scotland

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Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing linkerd

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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 linkerd within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 April 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
Edinburgh - 1 £450 - 1
linkerd
UK

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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 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform