Kubernetes Contracts in Glasgow

Kubernetes (k8s)
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 19 42
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 44 92 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.43% 10.35% 4.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.31% 46.94% 36.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 46 38
10th Percentile £400 £456 £471
25th Percentile £413 £531 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £641 £581
Median % change year-on-year -29.36% +10.32% +10.71%
75th Percentile £534 £676 £650
90th Percentile £623 £750 £673
Scotland median daily rate £475 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -13.64% -2.48% +10.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.55 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £60.55 £45.14
% change year-on-year - +34.14% -

All Systems Management Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 104 196 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.82% 22.05% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 123 94
10th Percentile £200 £400 £239
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +4.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £579
90th Percentile £613 £723 £651
Scotland median daily rate £453 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -7.08% -7.14% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.08 £39.59 £44.50
% change year-on-year -49.29% -11.04% -32.58%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Glasgow

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Glasgow

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Glasgow over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Glasgow

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 10 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (22.73%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) SAS
3 1 (2.27%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 34 (77.27%) AWS
2 26 (59.09%) Azure
3 13 (29.55%) GCP
4 11 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 10 (22.73%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.55%) Serverless
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.27%) Rekognition
8 1 (2.27%) Route 53
8 1 (2.27%) Slack
8 1 (2.27%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) SAN
2 6 (13.64%) NAS
3 2 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (4.55%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.55%) DB2
3 2 (4.55%) MariaDB
3 2 (4.55%) MySQL
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.27%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) JIRA
2 5 (11.36%) Artifactory
3 4 (9.09%) Git
3 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.55%) Selenium
4 2 (4.55%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.27%) Gatling
5 1 (2.27%) GitLab
5 1 (2.27%) JMeter
5 1 (2.27%) Mockito
5 1 (2.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (27.27%) Banking
2 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 4 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Developer
2 13 (29.55%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.45%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) Snowflake Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (15.91%) Python Engineer
6 6 (13.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Backend Developer
9 3 (6.82%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Java Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.82%) Kafka
2 11 (25.00%) RESTful
2 11 (25.00%) Spring
2 11 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 8 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (18.18%) OpenTracing
4 5 (11.36%) REST
5 2 (4.55%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.55%) Flash
5 2 (4.55%) Gherkin
5 2 (4.55%) POSIX
5 2 (4.55%) React
6 1 (2.27%) CSS
6 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.27%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.91%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (27.27%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.55%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.55%) NVMe
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Linux
2 5 (11.36%) Unix
2 5 (11.36%) Windows
2 5 (11.36%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.55%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.91%) DevOps
2 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 12 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 12 (27.27%) Microservices
4 11 (25.00%) Agile
4 11 (25.00%) GitOps
4 11 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (25.00%) SDLC
4 11 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 10 (22.73%) Data Engineering
5 10 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (22.73%) DataOps
5 10 (22.73%) End-to-End Testing
5 10 (22.73%) MLOps
5 10 (22.73%) Observability
6 8 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (18.18%) Scrum
6 8 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (13.64%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (68.18%) Java
2 25 (56.82%) Python
3 19 (43.18%) Scala
4 9 (20.45%) Kotlin
5 5 (11.36%) Perl
6 4 (9.09%) SQL
7 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.27%) Bash
8 1 (2.27%) Groovy
8 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (61.36%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) GPFS
2 2 (4.55%) NFS
Systems Management
1 20 (45.45%) Terraform
2 15 (34.09%) Prometheus
3 13 (29.55%) Grafana
4 8 (18.18%) Zipkin
5 5 (11.36%) Ansible
6 3 (6.82%) NetBackup
7 2 (4.55%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (2.27%) Argo
8 1 (2.27%) Istio
8 1 (2.27%) Kibana
8 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Databricks
2 5 (11.36%) Splunk
2 5 (11.36%) Veritas
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.55%) Brocade
4 2 (4.55%) EMC
4 2 (4.55%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) IBM
4 2 (4.55%) NetApp
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) Sybase