Kubernetes Contracts in Edinburgh

Kubernetes (k8s)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 52 61
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -22
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 18 20 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.88% 2.45% 3.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.00% 20.83% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 35
10th Percentile £286 £443 £425
25th Percentile £475 £497 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +14.74% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £527
90th Percentile £558 £639 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -8.00% -

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 75 96 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.00% 11.78% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 71 196
10th Percentile £160 £240 £248
25th Percentile £205 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% -8.76%
75th Percentile £538 £634 £523
90th Percentile £560 £688 £559
Scotland median daily rate £474 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -0.26% -2.96% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £21.18 - £21.30
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.10 £21.36
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.97 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +44.02% -25.60% -50.94%
75th Percentile £24.00 £16.85 £21.57
90th Percentile £24.11 - £21.63
Scotland median hourly rate £23.00 £37.99 £56.25
% change year-on-year -39.45% -32.47% +25.50%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 7 (38.89%) Serverless
4 6 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
5 5 (27.78%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (27.78%) OpenShift
6 4 (22.22%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (22.22%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 4 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) PaaS
6 4 (22.22%) Route 53
6 4 (22.22%) SaaS
7 3 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (11.11%) InfluxDB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.56%) MariaDB
5 1 (5.56%) MySQL
5 1 (5.56%) Power Query
5 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) Artifactory
4 2 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Front Office
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) AWS CDK
2 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 3 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
4 2 (11.11%) React
4 2 (11.11%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Security
4 2 (11.11%) Swagger
5 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
5 1 (5.56%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (5.56%) JSON
5 1 (5.56%) Loki
5 1 (5.56%) OpenID
5 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.56%) AIX
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 9 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (27.78%) Kanban
6 4 (22.22%) Microservices
6 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Scrum
6 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 3 (16.67%) Analytics
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (16.67%) Investment Management
8 2 (11.11%) Fintech
8 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
8 2 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (11.11%) Observability
8 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 2 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
4 4 (22.22%) C#
4 4 (22.22%) Groovy
5 2 (11.11%) Go
5 2 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.56%) Bicep
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.56%) Perl
6 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.56%) OCP
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Grafana
3 3 (16.67%) Kibana
3 3 (16.67%) Terraform
4 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
5 1 (5.56%) Istio
5 1 (5.56%) linkerd
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
5 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 2 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.56%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Imperva
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Okta
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk