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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 77 127 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.92% 8.48% 10.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 57.89% 61.95% 67.57%
Number of salaries quoted 57 90 172
10th Percentile £51,024 £56,219 £48,091
25th Percentile £63,250 £65,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,569 £70,576 £67,567
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% +4.45% -5.17%
75th Percentile £108,750 £91,934 £77,715
90th Percentile £146,300 £119,125 £84,056
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 133 205 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.68% 13.68% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 97 155 230
10th Percentile £50,915 £36,250 £39,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,125 £53,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £70,576 £66,786
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% +5.67% +2.75%
75th Percentile £98,474 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £140,677 £98,474 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £74,870 £65,000 £62,706
% change year-on-year +15.18% +3.66% +4.51%

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 1 April 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 (2.60%) Confluence
1 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (44.16%) GCP
2 31 (40.26%) AWS
3 23 (29.87%) Azure
4 9 (11.69%) OpenShift
5 4 (5.19%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.19%) Google Analytics
5 4 (5.19%) Serverless
6 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.90%) Sentry
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (2.60%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (2.60%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.60%) dbt
7 2 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.60%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.99%) Internet
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.99%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.39%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.19%) MySQL
7 3 (3.90%) Big Data
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.60%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 11 (14.29%) Git
3 10 (12.99%) Maven
4 7 (9.09%) GitLab
4 7 (9.09%) JUnit
4 7 (9.09%) Selenium
4 7 (9.09%) webpack
5 5 (6.49%) TeamCity
5 5 (6.49%) TestNG
6 3 (3.90%) Fiddler
6 3 (3.90%) Postman
6 3 (3.90%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.60%) JIRA
7 2 (2.60%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.30%) MLflow
General
1 40 (51.95%) Finance
2 38 (49.35%) Banking
3 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.49%) Games
6 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Legal
8 1 (1.30%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 27 (35.06%) Software Engineer
2 18 (23.38%) Senior
3 15 (19.48%) Lead
4 14 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (14.29%) Architect
5 11 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (10.39%) Android Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Java Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Test Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.68%) React
1 19 (24.68%) Spring
2 18 (23.38%) Spring Boot
3 16 (20.78%) RESTful
4 10 (12.99%) REST
5 9 (11.69%) Kafka
6 8 (10.39%) Android Jetpack
6 8 (10.39%) HTML
6 8 (10.39%) Jetpack Compose
7 7 (9.09%) .NET
7 7 (9.09%) .NET Framework
7 7 (9.09%) CSS
7 7 (9.09%) OAuth
7 7 (9.09%) OAuth2
7 7 (9.09%) Redux
8 6 (7.79%) ASP.NET
8 6 (7.79%) JSON
9 5 (6.49%) JWT
9 5 (6.49%) Web Services
10 4 (5.19%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.48%) Mobile App
2 12 (15.58%) Private Cloud
3 10 (12.99%) Product Ownership
4 9 (11.69%) Public Cloud
5 8 (10.39%) Online Banking
5 8 (10.39%) Virtual Team
6 6 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.60%) IVR
8 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.60%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.60%) Replication
8 2 (2.60%) Wiki
9 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.29%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Android
3 4 (5.19%) Unix
3 4 (5.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (58.44%) DevOps
2 43 (55.84%) Microservices
3 41 (53.25%) CI/CD
4 38 (49.35%) Software Engineering
5 36 (46.75%) Test Automation
6 34 (44.16%) Agile
7 31 (40.26%) TDD
8 26 (33.77%) Roadmaps
9 24 (31.17%) Containerisation
10 21 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (23.38%) Customer Experience
12 17 (22.08%) Pair Programming
13 15 (19.48%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (16.88%) Unit Testing
15 12 (15.58%) Translating Business Requirements
16 11 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
16 11 (14.29%) BDD
17 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
18 9 (11.69%) Mentoring
18 9 (11.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (46.75%) Java
2 30 (38.96%) JavaScript
3 17 (22.08%) Python
4 10 (12.99%) SQL
5 8 (10.39%) C#
5 8 (10.39%) Kotlin
5 8 (10.39%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.09%) Go
7 1 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) Degree
2 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.60%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) GDPR
2 2 (2.60%) QA
System Software
1 48 (62.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (22.08%) Terraform
2 3 (3.90%) Grafana
2 3 (3.90%) Puppet
3 2 (2.60%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (2.60%) Istio
3 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.30%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 14 (18.18%) Google
2 4 (5.19%) Adobe
2 4 (5.19%) Oracle
2 4 (5.19%) Tealium
3 2 (2.60%) Databricks
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.60%) New Relic
3 2 (2.60%) Planview
4 1 (1.30%) Hitachi