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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 40 58
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 21 28 23
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.42% 4.38% 2.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.63% 28.57% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 16
10th Percentile £513 £381 £443
25th Percentile £525 £479 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £515 £542
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% -4.89% +11.08%
75th Percentile £681 £538 £634
90th Percentile £686 £554 -
Scotland median daily rate £455 £493 £542
% change year-on-year -7.72% -9.05% +3.14%

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 98 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.38% 15.31% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 64 76
10th Percentile £421 £166 £288
25th Percentile £500 £197 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £468 £495
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% -5.45% +3.13%
75th Percentile £644 £527 £600
90th Percentile £686 £548 £641
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £506
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.07% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £21.18 -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £15.10
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year - +44.02% -24.88%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £16.85
90th Percentile - £24.11 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year +128.26% -59.22% +162.75%

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 22 February 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 3 (14.29%) Apache
1 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 9 (42.86%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) Amazon S3
4 7 (33.33%) GCP
4 7 (33.33%) Serverless
5 6 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (28.57%) GitHub
5 6 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (23.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (23.81%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (14.29%) Dagster
8 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
9 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (9.52%) AWS KMS
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Network Security
2 4 (19.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) GitLab
3 3 (14.29%) JIRA
3 3 (14.29%) MLflow
3 3 (14.29%) Snyk
4 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) Liquibase
4 1 (4.76%) Maven
4 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 3 (14.29%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Design Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Python Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) GCP Architect
5 1 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) AWS CDK
1 6 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 5 (23.81%) FastAPI
2 5 (23.81%) Hugging Face
2 5 (23.81%) NumPy
2 5 (23.81%) OpenCV
2 5 (23.81%) Pandas
2 5 (23.81%) REST
2 5 (23.81%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (19.05%) boto
3 4 (19.05%) JWT
3 4 (19.05%) OAuth
3 4 (19.05%) SLSA
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.76%) React
5 1 (4.76%) SpaCy
5 1 (4.76%) Spring
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 6 (28.57%) Algorithms
3 4 (19.05%) Data Structures
4 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
5 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (9.52%) PKI
5 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
5 2 (9.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
6 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
6 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 14 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 13 (61.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 10 (47.62%) DevOps
4 9 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (28.57%) AI
5 6 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 6 (28.57%) Microservices
5 6 (28.57%) OCR
5 6 (28.57%) Pair Programming
6 5 (23.81%) Computer Vision
6 5 (23.81%) Kanban
6 5 (23.81%) LLM
6 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
6 5 (23.81%) Scrum
6 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
6 5 (23.81%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) Go
5 1 (4.76%) Groovy
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) CISM
2 3 (14.29%) CISSP
2 3 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (9.52%) FFIEC
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) NIST
2 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Grafana
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Argo
3 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.76%) Istio
4 1 (4.76%) Karpenter
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (14.29%) Black Duck
1 3 (14.29%) Checkmarx
1 3 (14.29%) Tenable
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Splunk
2 2 (9.52%) Thales
3 1 (4.76%) F5
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat