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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 37 63
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 -6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 22 32 19
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.59% 5.19% 2.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.57% 32.00% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 12
10th Percentile £513 £435 £412
25th Percentile £525 £486 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £526
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -1.05% +5.95%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £634
90th Percentile £686 £551 -
Scotland median daily rate £460 £498 £543
% change year-on-year -7.54% -8.38% -0.37%

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 77 100 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.56% 16.23% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 65 75
10th Percentile £430 £168 £285
25th Percentile £500 £197 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £471 £480
Median % change year-on-year +13.19% -1.88% +0.10%
75th Percentile £644 £525 £578
90th Percentile £686 £541 £641
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £58.20
% change year-on-year +128.26% -60.48% +190.93%

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 12 February 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 (13.64%) Apache
1 3 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (13.64%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Amazon S3
3 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 9 (40.91%) Serverless
4 8 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (27.27%) GCP
6 5 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (22.73%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (22.73%) GitHub
6 5 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (22.73%) OpenShift
7 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (13.64%) Dagster
8 3 (13.64%) Textract
9 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (9.09%) AWS KMS
9 2 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Network Security
2 4 (18.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 7 (31.82%) GitLab
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA
3 3 (13.64%) MLflow
3 3 (13.64%) Snyk
4 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.55%) Git
4 1 (4.55%) Liquibase
4 1 (4.55%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 5 (22.73%) Banking
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Security Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Design Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Automation Developer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) AWS CDK
1 8 (36.36%) PyTorch
2 5 (22.73%) FastAPI
2 5 (22.73%) Hugging Face
2 5 (22.73%) NumPy
2 5 (22.73%) OpenCV
2 5 (22.73%) Pandas
2 5 (22.73%) REST
2 5 (22.73%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (18.18%) boto
3 4 (18.18%) JWT
3 4 (18.18%) OAuth
3 4 (18.18%) SLSA
4 3 (13.64%) SpaCy
5 2 (9.09%) RESTful
6 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.55%) Jest
6 1 (4.55%) React
6 1 (4.55%) Spring
6 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (27.27%) Algorithms
3 4 (18.18%) Data Structures
4 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
5 2 (9.09%) PKI
5 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
5 2 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
6 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) Containerisation
3 12 (54.55%) Agile
4 10 (45.45%) DevOps
4 10 (45.45%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (36.36%) Machine Learning
6 7 (31.82%) AI
6 7 (31.82%) Kanban
6 7 (31.82%) OCR
6 7 (31.82%) Scrum
7 6 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (27.27%) Microservices
7 6 (27.27%) Pair Programming
7 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 6 (27.27%) TDD
8 5 (22.73%) Computer Vision
8 5 (22.73%) LLM
8 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Bash
2 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) Go
4 1 (4.55%) Groovy
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) CISM
2 3 (13.64%) CISSP
2 3 (13.64%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (9.09%) FFIEC
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) NIST
2 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Grafana
2 8 (36.36%) Terraform
3 6 (27.27%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Argo
4 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.55%) Istio
5 1 (4.55%) Karpenter
5 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (13.64%) Black Duck
1 3 (13.64%) Checkmarx
1 3 (13.64%) Tenable
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) Thales
3 1 (4.55%) F5
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat