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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 53 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 31 17 24
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.89% 2.61% 2.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.27% 23.94% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 19
10th Percentile £350 £231 £433
25th Percentile £392 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -3.85% +8.56%
75th Percentile £586 £528 £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 81 71 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.18% 10.91% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 45 79
10th Percentile £400 £191 £205
25th Percentile £438 £308 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £494 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% +9.78% -6.05%
75th Percentile £620 £525 £581
90th Percentile £675 £548 £647
Scotland median daily rate £450 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -8.63%
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 5 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 (12.90%) Apache
1 4 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.68%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) nginx
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) AWS
2 13 (41.94%) GCP
3 12 (38.71%) Azure
4 10 (32.26%) GitHub
5 9 (29.03%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (22.58%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (19.35%) Amazon S3
7 6 (19.35%) Apigee
7 6 (19.35%) Azure AKS
7 6 (19.35%) Serverless
8 5 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (12.90%) Cloud Run
9 4 (12.90%) Dagster
10 3 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (9.68%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Network Security
2 5 (16.13%) HTTP
3 1 (3.23%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
1 3 (9.68%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) DataStage
3 1 (3.23%) Db2
3 1 (3.23%) Looker
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 9 (29.03%) GitLab
3 4 (12.90%) MLflow
4 3 (9.68%) Git
4 3 (9.68%) JIRA
4 3 (9.68%) Snyk
5 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.45%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 2 (6.45%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Front Office
6 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Python Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Architect
2 5 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Security Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Design Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) GCP Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) REST
2 6 (19.35%) AWS CDK
2 6 (19.35%) OAuth
3 5 (16.13%) JWT
4 4 (12.90%) boto
4 4 (12.90%) FastAPI
4 4 (12.90%) Hugging Face
4 4 (12.90%) NumPy
4 4 (12.90%) OpenCV
4 4 (12.90%) Pandas
4 4 (12.90%) PyTorch
4 4 (12.90%) SLSA
4 4 (12.90%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (9.68%) LangChain
5 3 (9.68%) LangGraph
5 3 (9.68%) Quarkus
5 3 (9.68%) Spring
5 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.45%) JAX-RS
6 2 (6.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
2 4 (12.90%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
2 17 (54.84%) Containerisation
2 17 (54.84%) DevOps
2 17 (54.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (48.39%) AI
4 12 (38.71%) Technical Leadership
5 11 (35.48%) Microservices
6 9 (29.03%) Agile
6 9 (29.03%) Workflow
7 8 (25.81%) LLM
7 8 (25.81%) Machine Learning
8 7 (22.58%) Scrum
8 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
9 6 (19.35%) Architectural Patterns
9 6 (19.35%) Integration Patterns
9 6 (19.35%) Pair Programming
9 6 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (19.35%) TDD
10 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
10 5 (16.13%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) Bash
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) Go
5 2 (6.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) CISM
1 3 (9.68%) CISSP
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
1 3 (9.68%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) NIST
2 3 (9.68%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) Terraform
2 7 (22.58%) Grafana
3 5 (16.13%) Istio
4 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.45%) Ansible
5 2 (6.45%) Argo
5 2 (6.45%) linkerd
6 1 (3.23%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Google
2 3 (9.68%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (9.68%) Black Duck
2 3 (9.68%) Checkmarx
2 3 (9.68%) Tenable
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.23%) F5
4 1 (3.23%) New Relic
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk