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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 38 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 29 32 29
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.75% 4.89% 3.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.73% 43.24% 23.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 18
10th Percentile £350 £463 £425
25th Percentile £375 £469 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +5.64%
75th Percentile £519 £525 £566
90th Percentile £558 £538 £634
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -10.10% +8.70% -16.36%

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 73 74 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.43% 11.31% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 46 80
10th Percentile £375 £360 £200
25th Percentile £450 £463 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +9.59% -4.75%
75th Percentile £597 £534 £543
90th Percentile £644 £546 £635
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £16.46
25th Percentile - - £18.51
Median hourly rate - - £22.23
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.47%
75th Percentile - - £24.18
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £22.23
% change year-on-year -36.36% +147.39% -61.33%

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 2 August 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 2 (6.90%) Apache
1 2 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.90%) nginx
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) GCP
3 10 (34.48%) Azure
4 7 (24.14%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (20.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (20.69%) Apigee
5 6 (20.69%) Azure AKS
5 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
6 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (17.24%) GitHub
6 5 (17.24%) Serverless
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (13.79%) Cloud Run
7 4 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (10.34%) Vertex AI
8 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) HTTP
2 2 (6.90%) DNS
3 1 (3.45%) DHCP
3 1 (3.45%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) BigQuery
2 3 (10.34%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) DataStage
4 1 (3.45%) Db2
4 1 (3.45%) Looker
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) Power Query
4 1 (3.45%) Redis
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) GitLab
3 4 (13.79%) Git
4 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.90%) MLflow
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Banking
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
5 2 (6.90%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 2 (6.90%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Python Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) GCP Architect
5 2 (6.90%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) REST
2 5 (17.24%) OAuth
3 4 (13.79%) AWS CDK
3 4 (13.79%) Spring
3 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.34%) JWT
4 3 (10.34%) LangChain
4 3 (10.34%) LangGraph
4 3 (10.34%) OpenID
4 3 (10.34%) Quarkus
5 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
5 2 (6.90%) boto
5 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
5 2 (6.90%) JAX-RS
5 2 (6.90%) Node.js
5 2 (6.90%) NumPy
5 2 (6.90%) OpenCV
5 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
5 2 (6.90%) React
5 2 (6.90%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
3 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (62.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (55.17%) DevOps
4 14 (48.28%) AI
5 13 (44.83%) Containerisation
6 8 (27.59%) Agile
6 8 (27.59%) Microservices
6 8 (27.59%) Workflow
7 7 (24.14%) Observability
7 7 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (20.69%) Integration Patterns
8 6 (20.69%) LLM
8 6 (20.69%) Machine Learning
8 6 (20.69%) Migration
8 6 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (17.24%) API Development
9 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
9 5 (17.24%) Scrum
10 4 (13.79%) Data Science
10 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) Bash
3 6 (20.69%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.34%) Go
4 3 (10.34%) SQL
5 2 (6.90%) Bicep
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
1 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) RHCE
2 1 (3.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Grafana
3 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
4 4 (13.79%) Istio
5 3 (10.34%) Ansible
5 3 (10.34%) Argo
6 2 (6.90%) linkerd
7 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
7 1 (3.45%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Google
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.45%) New Relic
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat