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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 50 34
Rank change year-on-year -7 -16 -7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 110 494 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.92% 7.33% 7.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 52.88% 50.36% 61.39%
Number of salaries quoted 75 107 218
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,686 £49,427
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,576 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% +4.56% -3.57%
75th Percentile £94,389 £91,934 £77,715
90th Percentile £144,051 £105,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -3.23%

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 208 981 606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.42% 14.55% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 133 252 335
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £47,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £93,778 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £111,750 £91,934 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,813 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.02% -11.11% -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 2 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 2 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 79 £79,569 +12.74% 29
Glasgow +26 31 £65,000 -7.14% 40
Lanarkshire - 1 - - 6
Aberdeen - 1 £71,000 - 4
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 3 (2.73%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.82%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.91%) Apache
3 1 (0.91%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (41.82%) AWS
2 38 (34.55%) Azure
2 38 (34.55%) GCP
3 11 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 11 (10.00%) Serverless
4 10 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.27%) GitHub
6 6 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.45%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.64%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.64%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.73%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.73%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.27%) Internet
2 2 (1.82%) VPN
3 1 (0.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.45%) NoSQL
1 17 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.82%) MongoDB
3 11 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (8.18%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.36%) MySQL
6 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.73%) Big Data
7 2 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.82%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.82%) Power BI
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.91%) DB2
8 1 (0.91%) Metadata
8 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (30.91%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.55%) Git
3 14 (12.73%) GitLab
4 13 (11.82%) Maven
5 11 (10.00%) JUnit
6 7 (6.36%) Selenium
6 7 (6.36%) webpack
7 5 (4.55%) TeamCity
7 5 (4.55%) TestNG
8 3 (2.73%) Fiddler
8 3 (2.73%) Gradle
8 3 (2.73%) Postman
8 3 (2.73%) Spinnaker
8 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.82%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.82%) JIRA
9 2 (1.82%) Mockito
9 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (43.64%) Finance
2 44 (40.00%) Banking
3 20 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.55%) Games
7 2 (1.82%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.91%) Front Office
8 1 (0.91%) Legal
8 1 (0.91%) Marketing
8 1 (0.91%) Retail
8 1 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 27 (24.55%) Developer
3 26 (23.64%) Senior
4 18 (16.36%) Senior Software Engineer
5 16 (14.55%) Lead
6 12 (10.91%) Architect
7 11 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (8.18%) Java Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Android Engineer
11 7 (6.36%) Java Engineer
12 6 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (4.55%) Backend Developer
13 5 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
13 5 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.27%) React
2 26 (23.64%) Spring
3 25 (22.73%) Spring Boot
4 21 (19.09%) RESTful
5 17 (15.45%) Kafka
6 15 (13.64%) REST
7 13 (11.82%) .NET
8 10 (9.09%) .NET Framework
8 10 (9.09%) AngularJS
8 10 (9.09%) CSS
9 8 (7.27%) Android Jetpack
9 8 (7.27%) HTML
9 8 (7.27%) Jetpack Compose
10 7 (6.36%) .NET Core
10 7 (6.36%) JWT
10 7 (6.36%) OAuth
10 7 (6.36%) OAuth2
10 7 (6.36%) Redux
11 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET
11 6 (5.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.64%) Mobile App
2 12 (10.91%) Private Cloud
3 11 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 10 (9.09%) Public Cloud
5 8 (7.27%) Data Structures
5 8 (7.27%) Online Banking
5 8 (7.27%) Virtual Team
6 7 (6.36%) Algorithms
6 7 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.73%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.82%) IVR
8 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.82%) Replication
8 2 (1.82%) Wiki
9 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.91%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.45%) Linux
2 8 (7.27%) Android
3 4 (3.64%) VMS
4 3 (2.73%) Unix
5 2 (1.82%) Windows
6 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (54.55%) DevOps
1 60 (54.55%) Microservices
2 57 (51.82%) CI/CD
3 49 (44.55%) Software Engineering
4 44 (40.00%) Agile
5 38 (34.55%) Containerisation
6 36 (32.73%) Test Automation
7 32 (29.09%) TDD
8 28 (25.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (22.73%) Roadmaps
10 22 (20.00%) Customer Experience
11 21 (19.09%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (18.18%) Unit Testing
13 18 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (15.45%) Pair Programming
15 14 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (12.73%) Mentoring
16 12 (10.91%) BDD
16 12 (10.91%) SDLC
16 12 (10.91%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 52 (47.27%) Java
2 36 (32.73%) JavaScript
3 30 (27.27%) Python
4 21 (19.09%) SQL
5 12 (10.91%) C#
6 10 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.27%) Kotlin
8 6 (5.45%) Bash
8 6 (5.45%) Go
9 4 (3.64%) C
9 4 (3.64%) C++
9 4 (3.64%) Scala
10 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.91%) Bicep
11 1 (0.91%) R
11 1 (0.91%) Rust
11 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (3.64%) Degree
2 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) GDPR
3 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (60.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (24.55%) Terraform
2 8 (7.27%) Grafana
3 5 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.73%) Puppet
5 2 (1.82%) Ansible
5 2 (1.82%) Argo
5 2 (1.82%) Istio
5 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.91%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.91%) SCCM
6 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (10.91%) Google
2 6 (5.45%) Databricks
3 5 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.64%) Adobe
4 4 (3.64%) Tealium
5 3 (2.73%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.73%) Oracle
5 3 (2.73%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.82%) New Relic
6 2 (1.82%) Splunk
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco
7 1 (0.91%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.91%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.91%) Planview
7 1 (0.91%) Sybase