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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 49 46
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +28
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 32 19 29
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.92% 2.97% 3.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.65% 28.36% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 21
10th Percentile £350 £211 £425
25th Percentile £392 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £494 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% -3.19% +6.47%
75th Percentile £558 £525 £634
90th Percentile £603 £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 67 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.42% 10.47% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 44 82
10th Percentile £400 £190 £209
25th Percentile £450 £248 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £477 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% +3.14% -3.04%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £584
90th Percentile £650 £544 £650
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 £35.00 £55.00 £20.08
% change year-on-year -36.36% +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 18 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.38%) nginx
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) AWS
2 13 (40.63%) GCP
3 12 (37.50%) Azure
4 7 (21.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (21.88%) Azure AKS
4 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) GitHub
5 6 (18.75%) Amazon S3
5 6 (18.75%) Apigee
5 6 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (18.75%) Serverless
6 5 (15.63%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (12.50%) Cloud Run
7 4 (12.50%) Dagster
8 3 (9.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) HTTP
2 4 (12.50%) Network Security
3 2 (6.25%) DNS
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
4 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) BigQuery
1 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) DataStage
3 1 (3.13%) Db2
3 1 (3.13%) Looker
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) Power Query
3 1 (3.13%) Redis
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) GitLab
3 4 (12.50%) MLflow
4 3 (9.38%) Git
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) Snyk
5 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
4 2 (6.25%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Front Office
5 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Python Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Cloud 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%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Cloud 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%) 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%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
6 2 (6.25%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 4 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) CI/CD
2 21 (65.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (56.25%) DevOps
4 16 (50.00%) AI
4 16 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (31.25%) Workflow
6 9 (28.13%) Agile
7 8 (25.00%) LLM
7 8 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 8 (25.00%) Microservices
7 8 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (21.88%) Observability
8 7 (21.88%) Scrum
9 6 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
9 6 (18.75%) Kanban
9 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
9 6 (18.75%) Migration
9 6 (18.75%) Pair Programming
9 6 (18.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 9 (28.13%) Bash
3 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 5 (15.63%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) SQL
6 2 (6.25%) Bicep
6 2 (6.25%) Go
7 1 (3.13%) C#
7 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) CISM
2 1 (3.13%) CISSP
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) RHCE
2 1 (3.13%) RHCSA
2 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) NIST
3 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (50.00%) Terraform
2 9 (28.13%) Grafana
3 5 (15.63%) Istio
3 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.38%) Ansible
4 3 (9.38%) Argo
5 2 (6.25%) linkerd
6 1 (3.13%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.13%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Google
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (3.13%) Black Duck
4 1 (3.13%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.13%) F5
4 1 (3.13%) New Relic
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Tenable