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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 50 54
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 34 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.21% 2.72% 2.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.00% 25.00% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 20
10th Percentile £350 £257 £434
25th Percentile £409 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% +7.52%
75th Percentile £563 £525 £634
90th Percentile £686 £538 -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 85 72 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.53% 10.89% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 46 80
10th Percentile £402 £191 £206
25th Percentile £450 £334 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £497 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.66% +7.46% -3.04%
75th Percentile £608 £525 £578
90th Percentile £670 £548 £646
Scotland median daily rate £450 £496 £450
% change year-on-year -9.27% +10.22% -7.69%
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 9 July 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 (11.76%) Apache
1 4 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 3 (8.82%) nginx
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Azure
3 13 (38.24%) GCP
4 10 (29.41%) GitHub
5 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (26.47%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (20.59%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (17.65%) Amazon S3
7 6 (17.65%) Apigee
7 6 (17.65%) Azure AKS
7 6 (17.65%) Serverless
8 5 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (11.76%) Cloud Run
9 4 (11.76%) Dagster
10 3 (8.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (8.82%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Network Security
2 5 (14.71%) HTTP
3 1 (2.94%) DNS
3 1 (2.94%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) BigQuery
1 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
1 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.94%) DataStage
3 1 (2.94%) Db2
3 1 (2.94%) Looker
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) Power Query
3 1 (2.94%) Redis
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
2 9 (26.47%) GitLab
3 4 (11.76%) MLflow
4 3 (8.82%) Git
4 3 (8.82%) JIRA
4 3 (8.82%) Snyk
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.94%) webpack
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
5 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Front Office
6 1 (2.94%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Python Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Security Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Design Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Data Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Developer
5 3 (8.82%) GCP Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) REST
2 6 (17.65%) AWS CDK
2 6 (17.65%) OAuth
3 5 (14.71%) JWT
4 4 (11.76%) boto
4 4 (11.76%) FastAPI
4 4 (11.76%) Hugging Face
4 4 (11.76%) NumPy
4 4 (11.76%) OpenCV
4 4 (11.76%) Pandas
4 4 (11.76%) PyTorch
4 4 (11.76%) SLSA
4 4 (11.76%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (8.82%) LangChain
5 3 (8.82%) LangGraph
5 3 (8.82%) Quarkus
5 3 (8.82%) Spring
5 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
6 2 (5.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) CI/CD
2 20 (58.82%) DevOps
2 20 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (55.88%) Containerisation
4 16 (47.06%) AI
5 12 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (32.35%) Microservices
7 10 (29.41%) Workflow
8 9 (26.47%) Agile
9 8 (23.53%) LLM
9 8 (23.53%) Machine Learning
9 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (20.59%) Observability
10 7 (20.59%) Scrum
10 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
11 6 (17.65%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (17.65%) Integration Patterns
11 6 (17.65%) Kanban
11 6 (17.65%) Pair Programming
11 6 (17.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) Bash
3 5 (14.71%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.82%) SQL
5 2 (5.88%) Bicep
5 2 (5.88%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) C#
6 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) CISM
1 3 (8.82%) CISSP
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
1 3 (8.82%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) RHCE
3 1 (2.94%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (11.76%) NIST
3 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Terraform
2 9 (26.47%) Grafana
3 5 (14.71%) Istio
3 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.82%) Ansible
4 3 (8.82%) Argo
5 2 (5.88%) linkerd
6 1 (2.94%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.94%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Google
2 3 (8.82%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (8.82%) Black Duck
2 3 (8.82%) Checkmarx
2 3 (8.82%) Tenable
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.94%) F5
4 1 (2.94%) New Relic
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk