Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in Edinburgh is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - -
Scotland median annual salary £100,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 847 1,466 2,033
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 95.88% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 422 1,036 1,188
10th Percentile £29,550 £32,625 £36,306
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in Edinburgh

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Hitachi