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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 37 58
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 38 35 23
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.32% 5.27% 2.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.71% 33.33% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 12
10th Percentile £463 £425 £375
25th Percentile £475 £488 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £504
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +2.18% -1.18%
75th Percentile £525 £536 £578
90th Percentile £548 £553 £588
Scotland median daily rate £511 £494 £550
% change year-on-year +3.54% -10.23% +4.76%

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 85 105 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.14% 15.81% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 57 91
10th Percentile £458 £165 £373
25th Percentile £475 £390 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -5.80% -
75th Percentile £549 £513 £550
90th Percentile £625 £538 £625
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £509
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.59% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £58.20
% change year-on-year +128.26% -60.48% +228.44%

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 5 December 2025.

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 (5.26%) Apache
1 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 26 (68.42%) AWS
2 14 (36.84%) Amazon S3
3 13 (34.21%) Serverless
4 10 (26.32%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (23.68%) OpenShift
6 8 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (21.05%) Azure
7 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (18.42%) GCP
8 6 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (7.89%) GitHub
10 3 (7.89%) Textract
11 2 (5.26%) Dagster
12 1 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (2.63%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) HTTP
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) VPN
3 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.26%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.63%) CockroachDB
5 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.63%) NewSQL
5 1 (2.63%) OLTP
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.63%) Redis
5 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.16%) GitLab
3 4 (10.53%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) Liquibase
4 2 (5.26%) JIRA
4 2 (5.26%) Subversion
4 2 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.63%) Maven
5 1 (2.63%) MLflow
5 1 (2.63%) webpack
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Public Sector
3 7 (18.42%) Finance
4 5 (13.16%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Site Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
5 3 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Python Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) AWS CDK
2 8 (21.05%) PyTorch
3 7 (18.42%) OAuth
3 7 (18.42%) REST
4 6 (15.79%) RESTful
5 5 (13.16%) FastAPI
6 4 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (10.53%) Hugging Face
6 4 (10.53%) NumPy
6 4 (10.53%) OpenCV
6 4 (10.53%) Pandas
6 4 (10.53%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (7.89%) boto
7 3 (7.89%) JWT
7 3 (7.89%) SpaCy
8 1 (2.63%) FHIR
8 1 (2.63%) Jest
8 1 (2.63%) LangChain
8 1 (2.63%) LangGraph
8 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.89%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (36.84%) Linux
2 10 (26.32%) Unix
3 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) Agile
2 25 (65.79%) CI/CD
3 21 (55.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (52.63%) DevOps
5 18 (47.37%) Containerisation
6 11 (28.95%) Scrum
7 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
8 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
9 8 (21.05%) Kanban
9 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning
9 8 (21.05%) Microservices
9 8 (21.05%) Software Delivery
10 7 (18.42%) AI
10 7 (18.42%) Observability
11 6 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (15.79%) OCR
11 6 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) Shell Script
3 7 (18.42%) Bash
3 7 (18.42%) Java
4 5 (13.16%) Go
4 5 (13.16%) Perl
4 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.89%) Groovy
5 3 (7.89%) SQL
6 2 (5.26%) C++
6 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.63%) DICOM
3 1 (2.63%) HL7
3 1 (2.63%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 24 (63.16%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) KVM
Systems Management
1 24 (63.16%) Grafana
2 18 (47.37%) Terraform
3 16 (42.11%) Ansible
4 11 (28.95%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (5.26%) Fluentd
6 2 (5.26%) HAProxy
6 2 (5.26%) Nagios
6 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.63%) Argo
7 1 (2.63%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.63%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.63%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Splunk
2 4 (10.53%) Google
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.89%) Commvault
3 3 (7.89%) ForgeRock
4 2 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.63%) IBM
5 1 (2.63%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.63%) Ping Identity