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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 55 53
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 32 16 24
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.02% 2.46% 2.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.00% 23.19% 21.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 19
10th Percentile £350 £231 £433
25th Percentile £406 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +8.56%
75th Percentile £638 £528 £634
90th Percentile £686 £538 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 80 69 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.05% 10.62% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 44 78
10th Percentile £395 £190 £204
25th Percentile £431 £293 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £497 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.66% +10.44% -6.05%
75th Percentile £623 £528 £584
90th Percentile £675 £549 £647
Scotland median daily rate £458 £491 £450
% change year-on-year -6.72% +9.06% -8.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - - £17.37
Median hourly rate - - £20.08
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.57%
75th Percentile - - £22.35
90th Percentile - - £23.45
Scotland median hourly rate £24.25 £55.00 £20.08
% change year-on-year -55.91% +173.97% -49.29%

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 29 June 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) nginx
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) AWS
2 14 (43.75%) GCP
3 13 (40.63%) Azure
4 10 (31.25%) GitHub
5 9 (28.13%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (18.75%) Amazon S3
7 6 (18.75%) Apigee
7 6 (18.75%) Azure AKS
7 6 (18.75%) Serverless
8 5 (15.63%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (12.50%) Cloud Run
9 4 (12.50%) Dagster
10 3 (9.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (9.38%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Network Security
2 5 (15.63%) HTTP
3 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) BigQuery
1 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) DataStage
3 1 (3.13%) Db2
3 1 (3.13%) Looker
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 9 (28.13%) GitLab
3 4 (12.50%) MLflow
4 3 (9.38%) Git
4 3 (9.38%) JIRA
4 3 (9.38%) Snyk
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.38%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 2 (6.25%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Front Office
7 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Python Engineer
1 6 (18.75%) Security Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Design Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) GCP Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) REST
2 6 (18.75%) AWS CDK
2 6 (18.75%) OAuth
3 5 (15.63%) JWT
4 4 (12.50%) boto
4 4 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 4 (12.50%) Hugging Face
4 4 (12.50%) NumPy
4 4 (12.50%) OpenCV
4 4 (12.50%) Pandas
4 4 (12.50%) PyTorch
4 4 (12.50%) SLSA
4 4 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (9.38%) LangChain
5 3 (9.38%) LangGraph
5 3 (9.38%) Quarkus
5 3 (9.38%) Spring
5 3 (9.38%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.25%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 5 (15.63%) Algorithms
3 4 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) PKI
6 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
6 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 18 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (53.13%) Containerisation
3 17 (53.13%) DevOps
4 15 (46.88%) AI
5 12 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (34.38%) Microservices
7 9 (28.13%) Agile
7 9 (28.13%) Workflow
8 8 (25.00%) LLM
8 8 (25.00%) Machine Learning
9 7 (21.88%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (21.88%) Scrum
9 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
10 6 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
10 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 6 (18.75%) Pair Programming
10 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (18.75%) TDD
11 5 (15.63%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) Bash
3 5 (15.63%) Java
4 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.25%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) CISM
1 3 (9.38%) CISSP
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
1 3 (9.38%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.13%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) NIST
2 3 (9.38%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (43.75%) Terraform
2 7 (21.88%) Grafana
3 5 (15.63%) Istio
4 3 (9.38%) Ansible
4 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.25%) Argo
5 2 (6.25%) linkerd
6 1 (3.13%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Google
2 3 (9.38%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (9.38%) Black Duck
2 3 (9.38%) Checkmarx
2 3 (9.38%) Tenable
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.13%) F5
4 1 (3.13%) New Relic
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Thales