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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 27 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 79 118 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.52% 7.67% 10.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 59.85% 58.13% 69.64%
Number of salaries quoted 59 80 151
10th Percentile £48,750 £56,219 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £65,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,569 £70,576 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% +4.35% -3.38%
75th Percentile £97,500 £91,934 £77,715
90th Percentile £146,300 £119,125 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £74,935 £70,576 £67,000
% change year-on-year +6.18% +5.34% -4.29%

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 132 203 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.24% 13.20% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 98 151 203
10th Percentile £49,450 £33,000 £44,033
25th Percentile £55,313 £56,219 £54,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,085 £70,000 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% +3.50% +4.05%
75th Percentile £97,605 £82,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £140,677 £98,474 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £74,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.62% - +8.33%

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 26 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 (2.53%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (41.77%) GCP
2 29 (36.71%) AWS
3 22 (27.85%) Azure
4 9 (11.39%) OpenShift
5 4 (5.06%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.06%) Google Analytics
5 4 (5.06%) Serverless
6 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.53%) Apigee
7 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.53%) SaaS
7 2 (2.53%) Sentry
7 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.13%) Internet
2 2 (2.53%) VPN
3 1 (1.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.19%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (13.92%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.13%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.86%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.06%) MySQL
7 3 (3.80%) Big Data
8 2 (2.53%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (27.85%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.92%) Git
3 10 (12.66%) Maven
4 7 (8.86%) GitLab
4 7 (8.86%) JUnit
4 7 (8.86%) Selenium
4 7 (8.86%) webpack
5 5 (6.33%) TeamCity
5 5 (6.33%) TestNG
6 3 (3.80%) Fiddler
6 3 (3.80%) Postman
6 3 (3.80%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.53%) JIRA
7 2 (2.53%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.27%) MLflow
General
1 40 (50.63%) Finance
2 39 (49.37%) Banking
3 17 (21.52%) Social Skills
4 11 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.33%) Games
6 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (34.18%) Software Engineer
2 19 (24.05%) Senior
3 15 (18.99%) Lead
3 15 (18.99%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (15.19%) Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Architect
5 11 (13.92%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (10.13%) Android Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Java Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Test Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (5.06%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.32%) Spring
2 19 (24.05%) React
2 19 (24.05%) Spring Boot
3 16 (20.25%) RESTful
4 14 (17.72%) REST
5 9 (11.39%) Kafka
6 8 (10.13%) Android Jetpack
6 8 (10.13%) HTML
6 8 (10.13%) Jetpack Compose
7 7 (8.86%) .NET
7 7 (8.86%) .NET Framework
7 7 (8.86%) CSS
7 7 (8.86%) Redux
8 6 (7.59%) ASP.NET
8 6 (7.59%) JSON
9 5 (6.33%) JWT
9 5 (6.33%) OAuth
9 5 (6.33%) OAuth2
9 5 (6.33%) Web Services
10 4 (5.06%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.99%) Mobile App
2 12 (15.19%) Private Cloud
3 10 (12.66%) Product Ownership
3 10 (12.66%) Public Cloud
4 8 (10.13%) Online Banking
4 8 (10.13%) Virtual Team
5 6 (7.59%) Data Structures
6 5 (6.33%) Algorithms
6 5 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.53%) IVR
8 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.53%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.53%) Replication
8 2 (2.53%) Wiki
9 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.27%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.72%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Android
3 4 (5.06%) VMS
4 3 (3.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (55.70%) DevOps
2 43 (54.43%) Microservices
3 39 (49.37%) CI/CD
4 38 (48.10%) Software Engineering
5 36 (45.57%) Test Automation
6 33 (41.77%) Agile
7 32 (40.51%) TDD
8 24 (30.38%) Roadmaps
9 22 (27.85%) Containerisation
10 19 (24.05%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (24.05%) Customer Experience
11 17 (21.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (21.52%) Pair Programming
12 13 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (16.46%) Unit Testing
13 12 (15.19%) BDD
13 12 (15.19%) Translating Business Requirements
14 11 (13.92%) Architectural Patterns
14 11 (13.92%) Mentoring
15 9 (11.39%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 39 (49.37%) Java
2 33 (41.77%) JavaScript
3 20 (25.32%) Python
4 11 (13.92%) SQL
5 8 (10.13%) Kotlin
6 7 (8.86%) C#
6 7 (8.86%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.59%) Go
8 4 (5.06%) C
8 4 (5.06%) C++
9 1 (1.27%) Bash
9 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (3.80%) Degree
2 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) GDPR
2 2 (2.53%) QA
System Software
1 50 (63.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (20.25%) Terraform
2 3 (3.80%) Grafana
2 3 (3.80%) Puppet
3 2 (2.53%) Istio
3 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.27%) Argo
4 1 (1.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 12 (15.19%) Google
2 4 (5.06%) Adobe
2 4 (5.06%) Tealium
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle
4 2 (2.53%) Databricks
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.53%) New Relic
5 1 (1.27%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.27%) Planview