Kubernetes Jobs in Scotland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 51 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 149 482 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.05% 7.21% 7.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 61.07% 50.31% 61.29%
Number of salaries quoted 65 96 201
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,718 £48,091
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £70,576 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% +4.56% -
75th Percentile £93,778 £90,484 £77,715
90th Percentile £146,300 £101,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 244 958 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.27% 14.33% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 119 233 312
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,034 £47,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +4.00% +2.16%
75th Percentile £93,778 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £109,500 £91,934 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025. 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 71 £78,810 +11.67% 24
Glasgow +24 30 £65,000 -7.14% 37
Lanarkshire - 19 - - 3
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 28
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
Fife - 2 - - 1
West Lothian - 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 £71,000 - 1
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
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 49 (32.89%) Confluence
2 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.67%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 95 (63.76%) AWS
2 82 (55.03%) Azure
2 82 (55.03%) GCP
3 12 (8.05%) OpenShift
4 11 (7.38%) Serverless
5 10 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.70%) GitHub
7 6 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.03%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.68%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.68%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.01%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.01%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.37%) Internet
2 2 (1.34%) VPN
3 1 (0.67%) DNS
3 1 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.67%) Firewall
3 1 (0.67%) Network Security
3 1 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (38.93%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.72%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.38%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.70%) MySQL
6 5 (3.36%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.34%) Big Data
8 2 (1.34%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.34%) Power BI
9 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.67%) DB2
9 1 (0.67%) Metadata
9 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 64 (42.95%) GitLab
2 62 (41.61%) Maven
3 54 (36.24%) Selenium
4 51 (34.23%) SonarQube
4 51 (34.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 49 (32.89%) Bitbucket
5 49 (32.89%) Cucumber
5 49 (32.89%) JIRA
6 30 (20.13%) Jenkins
7 14 (9.40%) Git
8 11 (7.38%) JUnit
9 5 (3.36%) TeamCity
9 5 (3.36%) TestNG
9 5 (3.36%) webpack
10 4 (2.68%) Visual Studio
11 3 (2.01%) Fiddler
11 3 (2.01%) Gradle
11 3 (2.01%) Postman
11 3 (2.01%) Spinnaker
12 2 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (58.39%) Finance
2 84 (56.38%) Banking
3 62 (41.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (8.72%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.36%) Games
6 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.67%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.67%) Front Office
7 1 (0.67%) Legal
7 1 (0.67%) Marketing
7 1 (0.67%) Retail
7 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 74 (49.66%) Software Engineer
2 26 (17.45%) Developer
3 22 (14.77%) Senior
4 15 (10.07%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (9.40%) Lead
6 13 (8.72%) Architect
7 11 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (6.04%) Java Developer
9 8 (5.37%) Android Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Backend Developer
10 5 (3.36%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) Test Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) .NET Developer
11 4 (2.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.68%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 4 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (2.68%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (50.34%) React
2 68 (45.64%) Spring
3 65 (43.62%) Spring Boot
4 64 (42.95%) Kafka
5 57 (38.26%) CSS
6 55 (36.91%) HTML
7 54 (36.24%) Hibernate
7 54 (36.24%) Redux
8 52 (34.90%) JPA
9 21 (14.09%) RESTful
10 13 (8.72%) REST
11 12 (8.05%) .NET
12 9 (6.04%) .NET Framework
13 8 (5.37%) Android Jetpack
13 8 (5.37%) AngularJS
13 8 (5.37%) Jetpack Compose
14 7 (4.70%) .NET Core
15 6 (4.03%) ASP.NET
16 5 (3.36%) Entity Framework
16 5 (3.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (40.27%) Product Ownership
2 52 (34.90%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (10.07%) Mobile App
4 11 (7.38%) Private Cloud
4 11 (7.38%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.04%) Virtual Team
6 8 (5.37%) Data Structures
6 8 (5.37%) Online Banking
7 7 (4.70%) Algorithms
7 7 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.01%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.01%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.34%) IVR
9 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.34%) Replication
9 2 (1.34%) Wiki
10 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.67%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.08%) Linux
2 8 (5.37%) Android
3 4 (2.68%) VMS
4 3 (2.01%) Unix
4 3 (2.01%) Windows
5 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (67.79%) DevOps
2 100 (67.11%) Microservices
3 99 (66.44%) CI/CD
4 88 (59.06%) Software Engineering
5 86 (57.72%) Agile
6 82 (55.03%) Test Automation
7 81 (54.36%) Containerisation
8 74 (49.66%) TDD
9 72 (48.32%) Full-Stack Development
10 59 (39.60%) Front End Development
10 59 (39.60%) SDLC
11 55 (36.91%) Clean Code
12 54 (36.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (33.56%) Performance Optimisation
14 24 (16.11%) Roadmaps
15 21 (14.09%) Customer Experience
16 16 (10.74%) Unit Testing
17 15 (10.07%) Pair Programming
18 14 (9.40%) Continuous Integration
18 14 (9.40%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 90 (60.40%) Java
2 83 (55.70%) JavaScript
3 68 (45.64%) SQL
4 30 (20.13%) Python
5 11 (7.38%) C#
6 10 (6.71%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.37%) Kotlin
8 6 (4.03%) Bash
9 5 (3.36%) C
10 4 (2.68%) C++
10 4 (2.68%) Go
11 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.34%) Scala
12 1 (0.67%) Bicep
12 1 (0.67%) R
12 1 (0.67%) Rust
12 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (2.68%) Degree
2 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.34%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.67%) CCNA
3 1 (0.67%) CCNP
3 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (36.91%) QA
2 3 (2.01%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 106 (71.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (20.13%) Terraform
2 8 (5.37%) Grafana
3 5 (3.36%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.01%) Ansible
4 3 (2.01%) Puppet
5 2 (1.34%) Argo
5 2 (1.34%) Istio
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.67%) SCCM
6 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (32.89%) Solace
2 11 (7.38%) Google
3 6 (4.03%) Databricks
4 5 (3.36%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.68%) Adobe
5 4 (2.68%) Tealium
6 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.01%) Oracle
6 3 (2.01%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.34%) New Relic
7 2 (1.34%) Splunk
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco
8 1 (0.67%) F5
8 1 (0.67%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.67%) Planview
8 1 (0.67%) Sybase