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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 49 36
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 +21
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 69 147 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.22% 5.45% 6.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.06% 28.54% 43.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 79 149
10th Percentile £401 £425 £463
25th Percentile £434 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -2.22% +10.02%
75th Percentile £569 £662 £675
90th Percentile £634 £740 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £610
% change year-on-year -10.20% +0.41% +10.91%
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 £67.25 £72.50 £48.31
% change year-on-year -7.24% +50.06% +1.71%

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 255 515 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.89% 19.10% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 346 344
10th Percentile £200 £237 £325
25th Percentile £370 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.84% -7.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £552 £550 £588
90th Percentile £628 £650 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.49 £34.18
25th Percentile £17.37 £21.36 £41.38
Median hourly rate £20.08 £39.59 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% -11.68% -32.60%
75th Percentile £22.35 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £23.45 £59.65 £49.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

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 2 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 2 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 -14 43 £453 -29.36% 13
Edinburgh +9 20 £515 +5.64% 12
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 (14.49%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (14.49%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) SAS
3 1 (1.45%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 55 (79.71%) AWS
2 30 (43.48%) OpenShift
3 29 (42.03%) Azure
4 13 (18.84%) Amazon S3
4 13 (18.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (18.84%) GCP
5 12 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (17.39%) Serverless
6 10 (14.49%) Snowflake
7 6 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 6 (8.70%) Textract
8 5 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (7.25%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.90%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.90%) Rekognition
10 1 (1.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (1.45%) IaaS
10 1 (1.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) SAN
2 6 (8.70%) Firewall
2 6 (8.70%) NAS
3 2 (2.90%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (2.90%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.14%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (10.14%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.35%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.90%) DB2
5 2 (2.90%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.90%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 16 (23.19%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.49%) Artifactory
2 10 (14.49%) Git
3 9 (13.04%) JIRA
3 9 (13.04%) Maven
4 8 (11.59%) Gradle
5 6 (8.70%) GitLab
6 2 (2.90%) Capybara
6 2 (2.90%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.90%) Selenium
6 2 (2.90%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.45%) Gatling
7 1 (1.45%) JMeter
7 1 (1.45%) Mockito
7 1 (1.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (18.84%) Banking
1 13 (18.84%) Public Sector
2 10 (14.49%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Finance
4 4 (5.80%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Developer
2 17 (24.64%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) Java Developer
5 12 (17.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (13.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) Python Engineer
7 8 (11.59%) Snowflake Engineer
8 7 (10.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Automation Developer
9 5 (7.25%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Site Manager
9 5 (7.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Site Reliability Manager
10 4 (5.80%) Backend Developer
10 4 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
11 3 (4.35%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) Kafka
2 13 (18.84%) Spring Boot
3 12 (17.39%) AWS CDK
4 11 (15.94%) RESTful
4 11 (15.94%) Spring
5 8 (11.59%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (11.59%) OpenTracing
6 5 (7.25%) REST
7 4 (5.80%) PyTorch
7 4 (5.80%) React
7 4 (5.80%) SpaCy
8 3 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.90%) Flash
9 2 (2.90%) Gherkin
9 2 (2.90%) POSIX
9 2 (2.90%) WebKit
10 1 (1.45%) CSS
10 1 (1.45%) Spring Cloud
10 1 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (17.39%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.90%) NVMe
6 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (39.13%) Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Windows
3 11 (15.94%) Unix
4 9 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (8.70%) Ubuntu
6 5 (7.25%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.90%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.03%) DevOps
2 25 (36.23%) CI/CD
3 22 (31.88%) Agile
4 14 (20.29%) MLOps
4 14 (20.29%) Test Automation
5 13 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (18.84%) Observability
5 13 (18.84%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (18.84%) Scrum
5 13 (18.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (17.39%) Computer Science
6 12 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (17.39%) Microservices
7 11 (15.94%) GitOps
7 11 (15.94%) SDLC
8 10 (14.49%) Data Engineering
8 10 (14.49%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (14.49%) Data Protection
8 10 (14.49%) DataOps
8 10 (14.49%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (65.22%) Python
2 33 (47.83%) Java
3 19 (27.54%) Scala
4 14 (20.29%) Bash
5 12 (17.39%) Groovy
6 10 (14.49%) Ruby
7 9 (13.04%) Kotlin
8 7 (10.14%) Shell Script
9 6 (8.70%) TypeScript
10 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
10 5 (7.25%) Perl
11 4 (5.80%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (55.07%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) GPFS
2 2 (2.90%) NFS
3 1 (1.45%) KVM
3 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (43.48%) Terraform
2 23 (33.33%) Grafana
3 18 (26.09%) Ansible
4 15 (21.74%) Prometheus
5 8 (11.59%) Zipkin
6 6 (8.70%) Kibana
7 3 (4.35%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.90%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 1 (1.45%) Argo
9 1 (1.45%) Istio
9 1 (1.45%) Nagios
9 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.45%) Puppet
9 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Databricks
2 5 (7.25%) Splunk
2 5 (7.25%) Veritas
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.90%) Brocade
4 2 (2.90%) EMC
4 2 (2.90%) Google
4 2 (2.90%) IBM
4 2 (2.90%) NetApp
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle
4 2 (2.90%) Sybase
5 1 (1.45%) VMware