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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 34 64
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 -11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 35 38 16
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.01% 6.16% 1.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 46.05% 35.85% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 7
10th Percentile £464 £440 £454
25th Percentile £475 £488 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £520 £508
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +2.36% +0.20%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £565
90th Percentile £550 £558 £610
Scotland median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +4.76%

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 76 106 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.06% 17.18% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 63 81
10th Percentile £454 £154 £400
25th Percentile £485 £401 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -4.60% +2.25%
75th Percentile £553 £532 £550
90th Percentile £651 £543 £625
Scotland median daily rate £500 £463 £510
% change year-on-year +8.11% -9.31% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £54.36 £23.00 £58.20
% change year-on-year +136.36% -60.48% +228.44%

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 30 December 2025.

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 2 (5.71%) Apache
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) AWS
2 13 (37.14%) Amazon S3
3 12 (34.29%) Serverless
4 10 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 9 (25.71%) Azure
6 8 (22.86%) GCP
7 7 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (17.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (17.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (17.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (11.43%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (8.57%) GitHub
10 3 (8.57%) Textract
11 2 (5.71%) Dagster
12 1 (2.86%) npm
12 1 (2.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) HTTP
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (11.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.71%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.86%) Redis
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.29%) GitLab
3 4 (11.43%) Git
3 4 (11.43%) Liquibase
4 2 (5.71%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) Subversion
4 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.86%) Maven
5 1 (2.86%) MLflow
5 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 12 (34.29%) Public Sector
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Banking
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Python Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) AWS CDK
2 8 (22.86%) PyTorch
3 7 (20.00%) REST
4 6 (17.14%) RESTful
5 5 (14.29%) FastAPI
6 4 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (11.43%) Hugging Face
6 4 (11.43%) NumPy
6 4 (11.43%) OAuth
6 4 (11.43%) OpenCV
6 4 (11.43%) Pandas
6 4 (11.43%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (8.57%) boto
7 3 (8.57%) JWT
7 3 (8.57%) SpaCy
8 1 (2.86%) LangChain
8 1 (2.86%) LangGraph
8 1 (2.86%) React
8 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) PKI
5 1 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Linux
2 10 (28.57%) Unix
3 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (82.86%) Agile
2 25 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 22 (62.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (51.43%) Containerisation
4 18 (51.43%) DevOps
5 11 (31.43%) Scrum
6 8 (22.86%) Kanban
6 8 (22.86%) Machine Learning
6 8 (22.86%) Microservices
6 8 (22.86%) Software Delivery
6 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
6 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
7 7 (20.00%) AI
7 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (20.00%) Observability
8 6 (17.14%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (17.14%) OCR
8 6 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) Python
2 8 (22.86%) Bash
2 8 (22.86%) Shell Script
3 5 (14.29%) Go
3 5 (14.29%) Java
3 5 (14.29%) Perl
3 5 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.71%) C++
5 2 (5.71%) SQL
6 1 (2.86%) Groovy
6 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (68.57%) Docker
2 4 (11.43%) KVM
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (68.57%) Grafana
2 18 (51.43%) Ansible
2 18 (51.43%) Terraform
3 11 (31.43%) Prometheus
4 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (5.71%) Fluentd
5 2 (5.71%) HAProxy
5 2 (5.71%) Nagios
6 1 (2.86%) Argo
6 1 (2.86%) Karpenter
6 1 (2.86%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.86%) linkerd
6 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 5 (14.29%) Splunk
2 4 (11.43%) Google
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) Commvault
4 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.86%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.86%) Ping Identity
5 1 (2.86%) Thales