Kubernetes Contracts in Scotland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 44 37
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 +23
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 64 146 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.98% 5.45% 6.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.45% 28.57% 42.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 78 154
10th Percentile £400 £425 £463
25th Percentile £434 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -0.90% +8.29%
75th Percentile £539 £663 £674
90th Percentile £634 £741 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £610 £613
% change year-on-year -9.84% -0.41% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £41.15
25th Percentile - - £41.75
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year - +34.14% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £49.56
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £72.50 £48.31
% change year-on-year -6.90% +50.06% +1.77%

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 contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 242 511 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.28% 19.06% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 341 356
10th Percentile £200 £243 £325
25th Percentile £370 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -8.67% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £713
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.55% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.49 £36.20
25th Percentile £17.37 £21.36 £41.75
Median hourly rate £20.08 £39.59 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% -12.31% -32.12%
75th Percentile £22.35 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £23.45 £59.65 £52.62
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +150.00% -44.30%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -19 38 £453 -29.36% 15
Edinburgh +7 20 £515 +6.57% 15
Perthshire - 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
West Lothian - 1 £650 -
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 10 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (15.63%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 53 (82.81%) AWS
2 27 (42.19%) Azure
3 26 (40.63%) OpenShift
4 13 (20.31%) Amazon S3
4 13 (20.31%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (20.31%) GCP
5 12 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (18.75%) Serverless
6 10 (15.63%) Snowflake
7 6 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (9.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (9.38%) Textract
8 5 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (7.81%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (3.13%) Rekognition
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.56%) PaaS
10 1 (1.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
2 4 (6.25%) NAS
2 4 (6.25%) SAN
3 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.94%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.69%) InfluxDB
5 2 (3.13%) MariaDB
5 2 (3.13%) MySQL
6 1 (1.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (23.44%) Jenkins
2 9 (14.06%) Artifactory
2 9 (14.06%) Git
2 9 (14.06%) JIRA
2 9 (14.06%) Maven
3 8 (12.50%) Gradle
4 6 (9.38%) GitLab
5 2 (3.13%) Capybara
5 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.13%) Selenium
5 2 (3.13%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.56%) Gatling
6 1 (1.56%) JMeter
6 1 (1.56%) Mockito
6 1 (1.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
2 10 (15.63%) Banking
3 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Finance
5 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Developer
2 17 (26.56%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (23.44%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (20.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (20.31%) Java Developer
5 12 (18.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (14.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
8 7 (10.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) Automation Developer
9 5 (7.81%) Python Engineer
9 5 (7.81%) Site Manager
9 5 (7.81%) Site Reliability Manager
10 4 (6.25%) Backend Developer
10 4 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) AWS Data Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Java Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) Kafka
2 13 (20.31%) Spring Boot
3 12 (18.75%) AWS CDK
4 11 (17.19%) RESTful
4 11 (17.19%) Spring
5 8 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (12.50%) OpenTracing
6 4 (6.25%) PyTorch
6 4 (6.25%) React
6 4 (6.25%) SpaCy
7 3 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.69%) REST
8 2 (3.13%) Gherkin
8 2 (3.13%) WebKit
9 1 (1.56%) CSS
9 1 (1.56%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.13%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (18.75%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.56%) Clustering
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (35.94%) Linux
2 9 (14.06%) Windows
3 8 (12.50%) Unix
4 7 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (9.38%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.19%) DevOps
2 24 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 22 (34.38%) Agile
4 14 (21.88%) MLOps
4 14 (21.88%) Test Automation
5 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (20.31%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (20.31%) Scrum
6 12 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (18.75%) Microservices
7 11 (17.19%) GitOps
8 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
8 10 (15.63%) Data Engineering
8 10 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (15.63%) DataOps
8 10 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
8 10 (15.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (14.06%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (14.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 40 (62.50%) Python
2 31 (48.44%) Java
3 19 (29.69%) Scala
4 14 (21.88%) Bash
5 12 (18.75%) Groovy
6 10 (15.63%) Ruby
7 9 (14.06%) Kotlin
8 7 (10.94%) Shell Script
9 6 (9.38%) TypeScript
10 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
11 2 (3.13%) Perl
12 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (56.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) KVM
2 1 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (45.31%) Terraform
2 21 (32.81%) Grafana
3 17 (26.56%) Ansible
4 13 (20.31%) Prometheus
5 8 (12.50%) Zipkin
6 6 (9.38%) Kibana
7 2 (3.13%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.56%) Argo
8 1 (1.56%) Istio
8 1 (1.56%) Nagios
8 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.56%) Puppet
8 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Databricks
2 4 (6.25%) Splunk
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) Veritas
5 1 (1.56%) VMware