Kubernetes Jobs in Scotland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 43 33 36
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 193 393 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.76% 7.79% 6.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 57.61% 52.89% 49.36%
Number of salaries quoted 134 309 191
10th Percentile £48,575 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £82,548 £76,385 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,962 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +15.38%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

Kubernetes is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 335 743 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.73% 14.72% 13.47%
Number of salaries quoted 240 460 400
10th Percentile £36,925 £38,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,540 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.23% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,250
90th Percentile £96,614 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +2 145 £70,576 +8.58% 12
Glasgow +4 43 £67,000 +9.39% 20
West Lothian - 3 £56,250 -
Lanarkshire +14 1 £75,000 +20.00% 8
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 15 (7.77%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.11%) Confluence
3 2 (1.04%) Jetty
3 2 (1.04%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 81 (41.97%) AWS
2 71 (36.79%) Azure
2 71 (36.79%) GCP
3 45 (23.32%) SaaS
4 26 (13.47%) PaaS
5 23 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (9.33%) OpenShift
7 15 (7.77%) GitHub
8 14 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (7.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 14 (7.25%) IaaS
9 12 (6.22%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (4.66%) Google Docs
10 9 (4.66%) Lucidchart
10 9 (4.66%) Miro
10 9 (4.66%) Slack
11 8 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.15%) Serverless
12 7 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.70%) VPN
2 10 (5.18%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.15%) Firewall
4 7 (3.63%) DNS
5 6 (3.11%) DHCP
5 6 (3.11%) HTTP
5 6 (3.11%) Network Security
6 2 (1.04%) Internet
7 1 (0.52%) DAB
7 1 (0.52%) DSL
7 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (18.13%) Big Data
2 17 (8.81%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.77%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (6.74%) Redis
5 12 (6.22%) BigQuery
6 10 (5.18%) Hadoop
6 10 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.66%) Data Lake
7 9 (4.66%) Scylla
8 7 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.59%) InfluxDB
9 5 (2.59%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.07%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.07%) MySQL
10 4 (2.07%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.04%) Flink
11 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (37.31%) Jenkins
2 30 (15.54%) Git
3 24 (12.44%) Maven
4 19 (9.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (5.18%) JIRA
5 10 (5.18%) Spinnaker
6 9 (4.66%) JUnit
6 9 (4.66%) SonarQube
7 8 (4.15%) Gradle
8 6 (3.11%) Selenium
9 5 (2.59%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.59%) GitLab
10 4 (2.07%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.55%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (1.55%) Mockito
11 3 (1.55%) Subversion
12 2 (1.04%) Gatling
12 2 (1.04%) LoadRunner
12 2 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (1.04%) Travis CI
General
1 105 (54.40%) Finance
2 93 (48.19%) Banking
3 50 (25.91%) Social Skills
4 37 (19.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (12.95%) Legal
6 16 (8.29%) Retail Banking
7 11 (5.70%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.15%) Aerospace
8 8 (4.15%) Law
9 7 (3.63%) Retail
10 6 (3.11%) Marketing
11 5 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (2.07%) Games
12 4 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.55%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.52%) Advertising
15 1 (0.52%) Electronics
15 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 48 (24.87%) Software Engineer
2 41 (21.24%) Senior
3 36 (18.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (17.10%) Architect
5 26 (13.47%) Solutions Architect
6 24 (12.44%) Developer
7 23 (11.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (9.33%) Lead
9 17 (8.81%) Security Engineer
10 14 (7.25%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (6.74%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 13 (6.74%) Java Developer
12 12 (6.22%) Lead Software Engineer
13 11 (5.70%) Senior Developer
14 10 (5.18%) Principal Software Engineer
15 8 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
16 7 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 7 (3.63%) Python Developer
16 7 (3.63%) Senior Java Developer
16 7 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (32.12%) Kafka
2 52 (26.94%) Spring Boot
3 43 (22.28%) Spring
4 25 (12.95%) React
5 21 (10.88%) REST
6 17 (8.81%) JSON
7 13 (6.74%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.70%) RESTful
8 11 (5.70%) Web Services
9 9 (4.66%) GraphQL
9 9 (4.66%) Hibernate
9 9 (4.66%) Node.js
10 7 (3.63%) AWS CDK
11 6 (3.11%) Jest
11 6 (3.11%) JWT
11 6 (3.11%) LDAP
11 6 (3.11%) OpenID
12 5 (2.59%) .NET
12 5 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.69%) Public Cloud
2 24 (12.44%) Blockchain
3 21 (10.88%) Product Ownership
4 20 (10.36%) Robotics
5 17 (8.81%) Algorithms
5 17 (8.81%) Cloud Native
6 13 (6.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 12 (6.22%) Data Structures
8 8 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (3.63%) Mainframe
10 6 (3.11%) Virtual Team
11 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.04%) Online Banking
13 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
14 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (19.17%) Linux
2 26 (13.47%) Windows
3 21 (10.88%) Unix
4 8 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.15%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.63%) Mac OS
6 6 (3.11%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.07%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.52%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (72.54%) Agile
2 99 (51.30%) DevOps
3 68 (35.23%) Microservices
4 64 (33.16%) Software Engineering
5 63 (32.64%) CI/CD
6 48 (24.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (24.35%) SDLC
8 38 (19.69%) Technical Leadership
9 35 (18.13%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (16.58%) Continuous Integration
12 30 (15.54%) Mentoring
12 30 (15.54%) Roadmaps
13 29 (15.03%) API Design
14 28 (14.51%) Containerisation
15 27 (13.99%) Systems Thinking
16 25 (12.95%) Open Source
17 24 (12.44%) Architectural Patterns
18 22 (11.40%) Artificial Intelligence
18 22 (11.40%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 102 (52.85%) Java
2 98 (50.78%) Python
3 46 (23.83%) Bash
4 31 (16.06%) SQL
5 28 (14.51%) PowerShell
6 25 (12.95%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.36%) Groovy
8 17 (8.81%) Shell Script
9 16 (8.29%) Scala
10 15 (7.77%) Go
11 12 (6.22%) TypeScript
12 9 (4.66%) Ruby
13 5 (2.59%) C#
14 3 (1.55%) Bicep
15 2 (1.04%) C++
15 2 (1.04%) Perl
15 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.52%) C
16 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (6.22%) AWS Certification
2 10 (5.18%) Degree
3 8 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.11%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.11%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.07%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.07%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.07%) OCP
5 4 (2.07%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.52%) GIAC
6 1 (0.52%) OSCP
6 1 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.84%) SEPA
2 6 (3.11%) ISO 20022
3 3 (1.55%) QA
4 2 (1.04%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 107 (55.44%) Docker
2 12 (6.22%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.11%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (41.45%) Terraform
2 42 (21.76%) Ansible
3 14 (7.25%) Puppet
4 13 (6.74%) Istio
5 8 (4.15%) Grafana
6 7 (3.63%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.11%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.07%) Kibana
8 4 (2.07%) Rancher
8 4 (2.07%) vRealize
8 4 (2.07%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (1.55%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.04%) logstash
11 1 (0.52%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 40 (20.73%) Google
2 14 (7.25%) Dell
3 12 (6.22%) Oracle
4 9 (4.66%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.15%) Splunk
6 7 (3.63%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.11%) VMware
7 6 (3.11%) Zscaler
8 5 (2.59%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.07%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.07%) IBM
10 3 (1.55%) Adobe
11 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.04%) Veracode
12 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.52%) Cognos
12 1 (0.52%) Databricks
12 1 (0.52%) SAP
12 1 (0.52%) StreamSets
12 1 (0.52%) Sybase