Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Kubernetes (k8s)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 45 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 19 20 21
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.80% 3.25% 2.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.36% 24.39% 25.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 15
10th Percentile £350 £293 £441
25th Percentile £419 £475 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% -2.78% +13.68%
75th Percentile £681 £538 £634
90th Percentile £686 £557 £640
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £524
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.49% +0.24%

All Systems Management Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 67 82 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.88% 13.31% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 57 59
10th Percentile £407 £162 £350
25th Percentile £438 £197 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £479 £510
Median % change year-on-year +14.82% -6.08% +6.47%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £634
90th Percentile £686 £556 £690
Scotland median daily rate £470 £468 £493
% change year-on-year +0.53% -5.17% +1.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £21.18 -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £15.10
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year - +44.02% -25.60%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £16.85
90th Percentile - £24.11 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £37.99
% change year-on-year +128.26% -39.45% -32.47%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 7 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (15.79%) Confluence
2 2 (10.53%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) GCP
4 6 (31.58%) GitHub
4 6 (31.58%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon S3
5 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (21.05%) Serverless
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (15.79%) Dagster
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
8 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Network Security
2 3 (15.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Jenkins
2 7 (36.84%) GitLab
3 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) MLflow
3 3 (15.79%) Snyk
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Security Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Design Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Python Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) GCP Architect
5 1 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) REST
2 4 (21.05%) SLSA
3 3 (15.79%) AWS CDK
3 3 (15.79%) boto
3 3 (15.79%) FastAPI
3 3 (15.79%) Hugging Face
3 3 (15.79%) JWT
3 3 (15.79%) NumPy
3 3 (15.79%) OAuth
3 3 (15.79%) OpenCV
3 3 (15.79%) Pandas
3 3 (15.79%) PyTorch
3 3 (15.79%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (10.53%) JAX-RS
4 2 (10.53%) Quarkus
4 2 (10.53%) Spring
4 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (26.32%) Algorithms
3 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
3 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (10.53%) PKI
4 2 (10.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
2 12 (63.16%) Containerisation
3 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (47.37%) DevOps
5 8 (42.11%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (36.84%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (31.58%) Microservices
8 5 (26.32%) Agile
8 5 (26.32%) AI
8 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
8 5 (26.32%) Pair Programming
8 5 (26.32%) TDD
9 4 (21.05%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 4 (21.05%) Interactive Application Security Testing
9 4 (21.05%) OWASP
9 4 (21.05%) SDLC
9 4 (21.05%) Security Testing
9 4 (21.05%) Static Application Security Testing
9 4 (21.05%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Bash
3 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) Groovy
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CISM
1 3 (15.79%) CISSP
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (10.53%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) NIST
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 6 (31.58%) Ansible
2 6 (31.58%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Argo
3 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.26%) Istio
4 1 (5.26%) Karpenter
4 1 (5.26%) linkerd
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (15.79%) Black Duck
1 3 (15.79%) Checkmarx
1 3 (15.79%) Tenable
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Thales
3 1 (5.26%) F5
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk