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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 52 53
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 25 16 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.38% 2.54% 2.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.71% 22.54% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 20
10th Percentile £350 £259 £434
25th Percentile £397 £475 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% +1.94% +5.64%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £634
90th Percentile £686 £550 £635
Scotland median daily rate £440 £500 £487
% change year-on-year -12.10% +2.67% -11.45%

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 70 71 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.46% 11.29% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 52 74
10th Percentile £365 £165 £214
25th Percentile £444 £231 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +4.71% -0.31%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £600
90th Percentile £675 £552 £649
Scotland median daily rate £450 £474 £463
% change year-on-year -5.01% +2.43% -5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £22.65 -
25th Percentile - £22.88 £15.10
Median hourly rate - £23.50 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year - +47.15% -24.88%
75th Percentile - £23.88 £16.85
90th Percentile - £23.95 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.50 £37.99
% change year-on-year +123.40% -38.13% -4.04%

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 21 May 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 4 (16.00%) Apache
1 4 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) GCP
3 10 (40.00%) Azure
4 8 (32.00%) GitHub
4 8 (32.00%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (20.00%) Serverless
7 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (16.00%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (16.00%) Dagster
8 2 (8.00%) Apigee
8 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (8.00%) AWS KMS
8 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) HTTP
1 5 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (8.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) DB2
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (32.00%) GitLab
3 4 (16.00%) MLflow
4 3 (12.00%) JIRA
4 3 (12.00%) Snyk
5 1 (4.00%) Git
5 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Security Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Design Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Python Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Apigee Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Security Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) GCP Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) Migration Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) REST
2 6 (24.00%) OAuth
3 5 (20.00%) JWT
4 4 (16.00%) AWS CDK
4 4 (16.00%) boto
4 4 (16.00%) FastAPI
4 4 (16.00%) Hugging Face
4 4 (16.00%) NumPy
4 4 (16.00%) OpenCV
4 4 (16.00%) Pandas
4 4 (16.00%) PyTorch
4 4 (16.00%) SLSA
4 4 (16.00%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (12.00%) Quarkus
5 3 (12.00%) Spring
5 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (8.00%) JAX-RS
6 2 (8.00%) OpenID
7 1 (4.00%) Node.js
7 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (24.00%) Algorithms
3 4 (16.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (8.00%) PKI
5 2 (8.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 15 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (52.00%) DevOps
4 9 (36.00%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (32.00%) AI
5 8 (32.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (32.00%) Microservices
6 6 (24.00%) Agile
6 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (24.00%) Pair Programming
6 6 (24.00%) TDD
7 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (20.00%) LLM
7 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 5 (20.00%) Scrum
7 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) Go
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) Groovy
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) CISM
1 3 (12.00%) CISSP
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
1 3 (12.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (8.00%) FFIEC
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) NIST
2 3 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Terraform
2 6 (24.00%) Ansible
2 6 (24.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) linkerd
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.00%) Argo
4 1 (4.00%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (12.00%) Black Duck
1 3 (12.00%) Checkmarx
1 3 (12.00%) Google
1 3 (12.00%) Tenable
2 2 (8.00%) Thales
3 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.00%) F5
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat