Kubernetes Job Trends in Scotland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 41 46
Rank change year-on-year -63 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 35 104 480
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.09% 5.39% 7.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.73% 58.10% 50.58%
Number of salaries quoted 18 75 117
10th Percentile £43,100 £49,750 £50,686
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,283 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -20.96% +6.27% +8.58%
75th Percentile £67,500 £94,389 £91,934
90th Percentile £69,500 £140,677 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 154 179 949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.81% 9.27% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 59 130 259
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £32,900
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,774 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.86% +15.18% +3.66%
75th Percentile £68,125 £93,778 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £109,125 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Scotland

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

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 10 April 2026. 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 -37 22 £60,000 -24.59% 6
South Ayrshire - 7 £46,000 -
Glasgow -35 5 £62,500 - 6
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Azure
2 14 (40.00%) GitHub
3 11 (31.43%) Datadog
4 10 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (25.71%) AWS
6 8 (22.86%) GCP
7 7 (20.00%) IaaS
8 4 (11.43%) Cloud Run
9 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.71%) Apigee
9 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (5.71%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.71%) PaaS
9 2 (5.71%) Serverless
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) ATM
1 7 (20.00%) Multicast
1 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (20.00%) tcpdump
1 7 (20.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.71%) MySQL
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) JMeter
2 1 (2.86%) Locust
2 1 (2.86%) MLflow
General
1 20 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 7 (20.00%) Automotive
4 6 (17.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (17.14%) Spanish Language
5 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Development Engineer
1 10 (28.57%) Senior
2 8 (22.86%) Senior Development Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Associate Director
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.71%) IT Director
6 2 (5.71%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) .NET
2 10 (28.57%) ADO
3 4 (11.43%) React
4 3 (8.57%) Kafka
4 3 (8.57%) Node.js
4 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CDK
5 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.71%) JPA
5 2 (5.71%) REST
5 2 (5.71%) Spring
6 1 (2.86%) CSS
6 1 (2.86%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.86%) Hugging Face
6 1 (2.86%) JWT
6 1 (2.86%) NestJS
6 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.86%) Pandas
6 1 (2.86%) pytest
6 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 10 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Linux
2 7 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) DevOps
2 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 20 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (45.71%) Observability
4 14 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 13 (37.14%) Containerisation
5 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (31.43%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (28.57%) Asset Management
7 10 (28.57%) Brown Bag Session
7 10 (28.57%) Coaching
7 10 (28.57%) Code Quality
8 9 (25.71%) Agile
9 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (20.00%) Integration Testing
10 7 (20.00%) Machine Learning
10 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 7 (20.00%) Validation
11 6 (17.14%) Microservices
11 6 (17.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.43%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.71%) CISM
2 2 (5.71%) CISSP
2 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.71%) GxP
2 2 (5.71%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (68.57%) Docker
2 7 (20.00%) KVM
2 7 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (54.29%) Terraform
2 12 (34.29%) Grafana
3 10 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 7 (20.00%) Ansible
4 7 (20.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) VMware
2 6 (17.14%) Google
3 4 (11.43%) Pega
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.86%) Cisco
5 1 (2.86%) Meraki