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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 29 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 73 102 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.10% 6.80% 10.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 60.33% 56.67% 71.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52 68 134
10th Percentile £48,850 £56,219 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,938 £63,250 £56,352
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £70,576 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% +1.62% -0.79%
75th Percentile £94,083 £91,934 £77,715
90th Percentile £146,300 £104,125 £84,717
Scotland median annual salary £74,870 £70,576 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.08% +4.56% -0.20%

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 121 180 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.43% 11.99% 15.08%
Number of salaries quoted 88 132 181
10th Percentile £49,750 £33,325 £44,033
25th Percentile £55,938 £56,219 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,085 £70,000 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% +3.50% +4.05%
75th Percentile £95,868 £82,125 £77,715
90th Percentile £140,677 £92,443 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £74,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +14.62% +4.00% +2.16%

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 13 May 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 1 (1.37%) nginx
1 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (42.47%) GCP
2 27 (36.99%) AWS
3 20 (27.40%) Azure
4 10 (13.70%) OpenShift
5 4 (5.48%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.48%) Google Analytics
5 4 (5.48%) Serverless
6 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.74%) Apigee
7 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.74%) SaaS
7 2 (2.74%) Sentry
7 2 (2.74%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) Internet
2 2 (2.74%) VPN
3 1 (1.37%) DNS
3 1 (1.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.37%) Firewall
3 1 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (12.33%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.96%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.48%) MySQL
6 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.74%) Big Data
7 2 (2.74%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (27.40%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.70%) Maven
3 9 (12.33%) Git
4 8 (10.96%) GitLab
5 7 (9.59%) JUnit
6 5 (6.85%) Selenium
6 5 (6.85%) TeamCity
6 5 (6.85%) TestNG
6 5 (6.85%) webpack
7 3 (4.11%) Fiddler
7 3 (4.11%) Postman
7 3 (4.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (46.58%) Finance
2 33 (45.21%) Banking
3 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
4 11 (15.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.85%) Games
6 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (31.51%) Software Engineer
2 16 (21.92%) Senior
3 13 (17.81%) Lead
3 13 (17.81%) Senior Software Engineer
4 12 (16.44%) Architect
4 12 (16.44%) Developer
5 11 (15.07%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (10.96%) Android Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) .NET Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (5.48%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.29%) React
2 16 (21.92%) RESTful
2 16 (21.92%) Spring
3 15 (20.55%) Spring Boot
4 12 (16.44%) REST
5 8 (10.96%) Android Jetpack
5 8 (10.96%) Jetpack Compose
6 7 (9.59%) .NET
6 7 (9.59%) .NET Framework
6 7 (9.59%) Kafka
7 6 (8.22%) ASP.NET
7 6 (8.22%) HTML
8 5 (6.85%) CSS
8 5 (6.85%) JWT
8 5 (6.85%) OAuth
8 5 (6.85%) OAuth2
8 5 (6.85%) Redux
8 5 (6.85%) Web Services
9 4 (5.48%) .NET Core
9 4 (5.48%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.55%) Mobile App
2 11 (15.07%) Private Cloud
2 11 (15.07%) Public Cloud
3 10 (13.70%) Product Ownership
4 8 (10.96%) Online Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Virtual Team
5 6 (8.22%) Data Structures
6 5 (6.85%) Algorithms
6 5 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.74%) IVR
8 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.74%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.74%) Replication
8 2 (2.74%) Wiki
9 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.37%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.18%) Linux
2 8 (10.96%) Android
3 4 (5.48%) VMS
4 3 (4.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (53.42%) DevOps
2 37 (50.68%) Microservices
3 35 (47.95%) CI/CD
3 35 (47.95%) Test Automation
4 32 (43.84%) Software Engineering
5 29 (39.73%) Agile
6 28 (38.36%) TDD
7 23 (31.51%) Roadmaps
8 19 (26.03%) Containerisation
9 17 (23.29%) Customer Experience
10 15 (20.55%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (20.55%) Pair Programming
11 13 (17.81%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (15.07%) Architectural Patterns
12 11 (15.07%) Unit Testing
13 10 (13.70%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (13.70%) Translating Business Requirements
14 9 (12.33%) User Experience
15 8 (10.96%) Line Management
15 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.21%) Java
2 31 (42.47%) JavaScript
3 19 (26.03%) Python
4 9 (12.33%) SQL
5 8 (10.96%) Kotlin
6 7 (9.59%) C#
6 7 (9.59%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.48%) C
7 4 (5.48%) C++
7 4 (5.48%) Go
8 1 (1.37%) Bash
8 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (4.11%) Degree
2 1 (1.37%) CCNA
2 1 (1.37%) CCNP
2 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) GDPR
2 2 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 45 (61.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (23.29%) Terraform
2 3 (4.11%) Grafana
2 3 (4.11%) Puppet
3 2 (2.74%) Istio
3 2 (2.74%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.37%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (15.07%) Google
2 4 (5.48%) Adobe
2 4 (5.48%) Tealium
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle
4 2 (2.74%) Databricks
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.74%) New Relic
5 1 (1.37%) F5
5 1 (1.37%) Planview