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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 28 43
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +23
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 36 39 35
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.08% 6.15% 4.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 54.55% 54.17% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 22
10th Percentile £380 £463 £426
25th Percentile £423 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.48% +3.05%
75th Percentile £534 £528 £537
90th Percentile £558 £546 £572
Scotland median daily rate £425 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.37% -8.65%

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 66 72 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.31% 11.36% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 78
10th Percentile £403 £415 £204
25th Percentile £450 £468 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -8.16%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £513
90th Percentile £624 £550 £579
Scotland median daily rate £437 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -12.60% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.55
25th Percentile - - £21.91
Median hourly rate - - £24.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.46%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year -36.36% +127.46% -57.54%

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 23 September 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 (5.56%) Apache
1 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) AWS
2 12 (33.33%) Azure
3 9 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (25.00%) GCP
4 8 (22.22%) Azure AKS
4 8 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (16.67%) Apigee
6 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
6 5 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (13.89%) Serverless
7 4 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (11.11%) GitHub
8 3 (8.33%) Cloud Run
8 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (8.33%) Vertex AI
8 3 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) HTTP
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.78%) DHCP
3 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.78%) DataStage
4 1 (2.78%) Db2
4 1 (2.78%) Looker
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) MySQL
4 1 (2.78%) Power Query
4 1 (2.78%) Redis
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) GitLab
2 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.11%) Git
4 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.56%) MLflow
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 6 (16.67%) Banking
4 5 (13.89%) Finance
5 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Retail
6 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Front Office
7 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) GCP Architect
5 2 (5.56%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (41.67%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) REST
3 5 (13.89%) OAuth
4 4 (11.11%) AWS CDK
4 4 (11.11%) LangGraph
5 3 (8.33%) .NET
5 3 (8.33%) JWT
5 3 (8.33%) LangChain
5 3 (8.33%) OpenID
5 3 (8.33%) YAML
6 2 (5.56%) boto
6 2 (5.56%) Node.js
6 2 (5.56%) NumPy
6 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
6 2 (5.56%) OpenCV
6 2 (5.56%) Pandas
6 2 (5.56%) React
6 2 (5.56%) Spring
6 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (52.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (69.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (55.56%) DevOps
4 18 (50.00%) AI
5 16 (44.44%) Containerisation
6 15 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (38.89%) Agile
8 12 (33.33%) Observability
9 11 (30.56%) LLM
9 11 (30.56%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
11 8 (22.22%) Mentoring
11 8 (22.22%) Workflow
12 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
12 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (16.67%) Data Protection
13 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
13 6 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
13 6 (16.67%) Microservices
13 6 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) Python
2 7 (19.44%) Bash
3 6 (16.67%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.33%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) Go
4 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.33%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.56%) Bicep
6 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (2.78%) RHCE
3 1 (2.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Grafana
2 5 (13.89%) Prometheus
3 4 (11.11%) Istio
4 3 (8.33%) Ansible
4 3 (8.33%) Argo
5 2 (5.56%) linkerd
6 1 (2.78%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.78%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Google
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) New Relic
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
51 Kubernetes jobs in Edinburgh