Kubernetes Contracts in Scotland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 40 45
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +20
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 82 154 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.81% 5.70% 5.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.71% 28.62% 40.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 86 125
10th Percentile £406 £425 £434
25th Percentile £438 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £658 £675
90th Percentile £634 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £41.75
25th Percentile - - £41.89
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year - +30.72% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £49.76
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £70.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -7.86% +37.88% +6.95%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 276 538 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.83% 19.90% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 375 313
10th Percentile £209 £260 £201
25th Percentile £395 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -7.14% +17.06%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £588
90th Percentile £639 £650 £690
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £19.59 £19.49 £34.00
25th Percentile £26.32 £21.36 £41.31
Median hourly rate £37.99 £39.59 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -11.68% -32.09%
75th Percentile £49.21 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £55.68 £59.65 £49.36
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Scotland

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -11 51 £460 -28.40% 14
Edinburgh +10 23 £515 +5.64% 19
West Lothian - 3 £525 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
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 11 (13.41%) Apache Spark
2 10 (12.20%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.88%) SAS
4 2 (2.44%) Confluence
5 1 (1.22%) Apache
5 1 (1.22%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 63 (76.83%) AWS
2 36 (43.90%) OpenShift
3 33 (40.24%) Azure
4 16 (19.51%) GCP
5 15 (18.29%) Amazon S3
5 15 (18.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (18.29%) Serverless
6 14 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (12.20%) Snowflake
8 8 (9.76%) Textract
9 6 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (7.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (7.32%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (4.88%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (4.88%) Rekognition
11 2 (2.44%) IaaS
12 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.41%) SAN
2 7 (8.54%) NAS
3 6 (7.32%) Firewall
4 4 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (4.88%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.22%) DHCP
5 1 (1.22%) DNS
5 1 (1.22%) Network Security
5 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.54%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (8.54%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.88%) DB2
4 4 (4.88%) MySQL
5 3 (3.66%) InfluxDB
5 3 (3.66%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.44%) Big Data
6 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.22%) Flink
7 1 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (23.17%) Jenkins
2 12 (14.63%) Git
3 10 (12.20%) Artifactory
3 10 (12.20%) Maven
4 9 (10.98%) Gradle
4 9 (10.98%) JIRA
5 6 (7.32%) GitLab
6 3 (3.66%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.44%) Capybara
7 2 (2.44%) Selenium
7 2 (2.44%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.22%) Gatling
8 1 (1.22%) gulp
8 1 (1.22%) JMeter
8 1 (1.22%) JUnit
8 1 (1.22%) Mockito
8 1 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.22%) Travis CI
General
1 17 (20.73%) Banking
2 16 (19.51%) Public Sector
2 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.98%) Finance
4 7 (8.54%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (32.93%) Developer
2 17 (20.73%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (18.29%) Java Developer
5 14 (17.07%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (14.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (13.41%) Python Engineer
8 9 (10.98%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (10.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 7 (8.54%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (6.10%) Automation Developer
11 5 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (6.10%) Site Manager
11 5 (6.10%) Site Reliability Manager
12 4 (4.88%) Backend Developer
12 4 (4.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (4.88%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.51%) Kafka
2 14 (17.07%) AWS CDK
3 13 (15.85%) Spring
3 13 (15.85%) Spring Boot
4 11 (13.41%) RESTful
5 8 (9.76%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (9.76%) OpenTracing
5 8 (9.76%) REST
6 4 (4.88%) Flash
6 4 (4.88%) POSIX
6 4 (4.88%) PyTorch
6 4 (4.88%) React
6 4 (4.88%) SpaCy
7 3 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.44%) Gherkin
8 2 (2.44%) J2EE
8 2 (2.44%) WebKit
9 1 (1.22%) Apache Camel
9 1 (1.22%) CSS
9 1 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.95%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (14.63%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.10%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.88%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.88%) NVMe
6 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.44%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Clustering
7 1 (1.22%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (36.59%) Linux
2 15 (18.29%) Windows
3 14 (17.07%) Unix
4 11 (13.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (9.76%) Windows Server
6 6 (7.32%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.88%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.46%) DevOps
2 27 (32.93%) Agile
3 26 (31.71%) CI/CD
4 18 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (19.51%) Observability
5 16 (19.51%) Test Automation
6 15 (18.29%) Scrum
7 14 (17.07%) Computer Science
7 14 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (17.07%) MLOps
7 14 (17.07%) SDLC
7 14 (17.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (15.85%) Data Protection
9 12 (14.63%) End-to-End Testing
9 12 (14.63%) GitOps
9 12 (14.63%) Microservices
9 12 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (13.41%) Coaching
10 11 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (13.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (67.07%) Python
2 40 (48.78%) Java
3 19 (23.17%) Scala
4 16 (19.51%) Bash
5 13 (15.85%) Groovy
6 12 (14.63%) Ruby
7 9 (10.98%) Kotlin
7 9 (10.98%) Perl
7 9 (10.98%) TypeScript
8 8 (9.76%) SQL
9 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
9 7 (8.54%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.44%) Go
11 1 (1.22%) C#
11 1 (1.22%) Elixir
11 1 (1.22%) PHP
11 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 45 (54.88%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) GPFS
2 4 (4.88%) NFS
2 4 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.22%) KVM
3 1 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (46.34%) Terraform
2 27 (32.93%) Grafana
3 22 (26.83%) Ansible
4 17 (20.73%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.76%) Zipkin
6 6 (7.32%) Kibana
7 4 (4.88%) NetBackup
7 4 (4.88%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (3.66%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.44%) Puppet
10 1 (1.22%) Argo
10 1 (1.22%) Istio
10 1 (1.22%) Knative
10 1 (1.22%) Nagios
10 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (12.20%) Databricks
2 8 (9.76%) Veritas
3 6 (7.32%) Google
4 5 (6.10%) Splunk
5 4 (4.88%) Brocade
5 4 (4.88%) EMC
5 4 (4.88%) IBM
5 4 (4.88%) NetApp
5 4 (4.88%) Oracle
5 4 (4.88%) Sybase
5 4 (4.88%) VMware
6 3 (3.66%) Microsoft