Kubernetes Jobs in Edinburgh

Kubernetes (k8s)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 76 131 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.21% 9.63% 11.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.33% 66.50% 65.68%
Number of salaries quoted 55 89 187
10th Percentile £51,091 £55,112 £45,735
25th Percentile £63,500 £62,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,576 £66,786
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% +5.67% -7.88%
75th Percentile £108,750 £91,934 £77,715
90th Percentile £146,300 £119,500 £81,000
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £70,576 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.27% +8.58% -7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
Edinburgh

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 151 197 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.33% 14.47% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 101 148 247
10th Percentile £46,306 £41,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,063 £53,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £70,576 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% +8.58% -
75th Percentile £93,778 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £140,677 £105,750 £84,056
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +3.79%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.63%) Confluence
1 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.05%) AWS
2 29 (38.16%) GCP
3 25 (32.89%) Azure
4 9 (11.84%) OpenShift
5 5 (6.58%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.58%) Serverless
6 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.95%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.95%) Sentry
7 3 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (2.63%) dbt
8 2 (2.63%) Pulumi
8 2 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.16%) Internet
2 2 (2.63%) Firewall
2 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.21%) MongoDB
2 7 (9.21%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.95%) Big Data
7 2 (2.63%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.63%) MySQL
7 2 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.16%) Git
3 9 (11.84%) GitLab
4 8 (10.53%) Maven
5 6 (7.89%) Selenium
6 5 (6.58%) TeamCity
6 5 (6.58%) webpack
7 4 (5.26%) JUnit
7 4 (5.26%) TestNG
8 3 (3.95%) Fiddler
8 3 (3.95%) Postman
8 3 (3.95%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.63%) JIRA
10 1 (1.32%) MLflow
General
1 38 (50.00%) Finance
2 34 (44.74%) Banking
3 20 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.58%) Games
6 3 (3.95%) Legal
7 1 (1.32%) Automotive
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Software Engineer
2 17 (22.37%) Lead
3 14 (18.42%) Senior
4 12 (15.79%) Architect
4 12 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (13.16%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (10.53%) Android Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Java Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) .NET Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Principal Software Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.00%) React
2 18 (23.68%) Spring Boot
3 17 (22.37%) Spring
4 13 (17.11%) RESTful
5 11 (14.47%) Kafka
6 9 (11.84%) REST
7 8 (10.53%) Android Jetpack
7 8 (10.53%) HTML
7 8 (10.53%) Jetpack Compose
8 7 (9.21%) .NET
8 7 (9.21%) .NET Framework
8 7 (9.21%) CSS
8 7 (9.21%) OAuth
8 7 (9.21%) OAuth2
9 6 (7.89%) ASP.NET
9 6 (7.89%) JSON
10 5 (6.58%) JWT
10 5 (6.58%) Redux
10 5 (6.58%) Web Services
11 4 (5.26%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Mobile App
2 11 (14.47%) Private Cloud
3 9 (11.84%) Product Ownership
3 9 (11.84%) Virtual Team
4 8 (10.53%) Online Banking
5 6 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (7.89%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.63%) IVR
7 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.63%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.63%) Replication
7 2 (2.63%) Wiki
8 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Android
1 8 (10.53%) Linux
2 4 (5.26%) VMS
3 2 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (60.53%) DevOps
2 43 (56.58%) Microservices
3 41 (53.95%) CI/CD
4 35 (46.05%) Agile
4 35 (46.05%) Software Engineering
5 30 (39.47%) Test Automation
6 29 (38.16%) TDD
7 25 (32.89%) Containerisation
7 25 (32.89%) Roadmaps
8 21 (27.63%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (21.05%) Customer Experience
11 15 (19.74%) Pair Programming
12 13 (17.11%) Unit Testing
13 12 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (14.47%) Architectural Patterns
14 11 (14.47%) Mentoring
15 10 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (13.16%) Translating Business Requirements
16 9 (11.84%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.74%) Java
2 26 (34.21%) JavaScript
3 13 (17.11%) Python
4 10 (13.16%) SQL
5 8 (10.53%) C#
5 8 (10.53%) Kotlin
5 8 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.58%) Go
7 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (3.95%) Degree
2 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 50 (65.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (21.05%) Terraform
2 3 (3.95%) Grafana
3 2 (2.63%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.63%) Puppet
4 1 (1.32%) Ansible
4 1 (1.32%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Google
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle
3 2 (2.63%) Adobe
3 2 (2.63%) Databricks
3 2 (2.63%) New Relic
3 2 (2.63%) Planview
3 2 (2.63%) Tealium
4 1 (1.32%) Hitachi
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft