Kubernetes Contracts in Edinburgh

Kubernetes (k8s)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 60 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 -35 +20
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 20 42 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.30% 3.55% 7.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.23% 18.18% 48.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 99
10th Percentile £432 £425 £457
25th Percentile £454 £455 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £512 £719
90th Percentile - £600 £790
Scotland median daily rate £475 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -13.64% -2.22% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - £60.55 £45.14
% change year-on-year - +34.14% -

All Systems Management Skills
Edinburgh

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 104 231 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.95% 19.54% 15.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 165 208
10th Percentile £204 £188 £400
25th Percentile £340 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% -8.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £510 £600
90th Percentile £648 £559 £738
Scotland median daily rate £453 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -6.60% -7.62% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.43 £25.25
25th Percentile £17.37 £19.49 £33.13
Median hourly rate £20.08 £21.26 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -55.24% -
75th Percentile £22.35 £21.47 £48.75
90th Percentile £23.45 £21.59 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.08 £39.59 £44.82
% change year-on-year -49.29% -11.68% -44.84%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) AWS
2 15 (75.00%) OpenShift
3 10 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (35.00%) Amazon S3
4 7 (35.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (35.00%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (35.00%) Serverless
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (15.00%) Textract
7 1 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (40.00%) Maven
3 7 (35.00%) Gradle
4 6 (30.00%) Git
5 4 (20.00%) Artifactory
5 4 (20.00%) GitLab
6 1 (5.00%) Capybara
General
1 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Site Manager
3 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Manager
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Automation Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Developer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (15.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (15.00%) SpaCy
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Windows
3 6 (30.00%) Unix
4 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (45.00%) DevOps
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Application Security
4 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) OWASP
5 5 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.00%) Coaching
7 3 (15.00%) MLOps
7 3 (15.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Python
2 12 (60.00%) Bash
3 10 (50.00%) Groovy
4 9 (45.00%) Ruby
5 7 (35.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (5.00%) Java
7 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Ansible
2 10 (50.00%) Terraform
3 7 (35.00%) Grafana
4 4 (20.00%) Kibana