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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 35 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 +25 -6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 35 32 20
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.66% 5.27% 2.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.33% 32.99% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 12
10th Percentile £475 £440 £412
25th Percentile £489 £487 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £504
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +3.17% +0.80%
75th Percentile £560 £538 £599
90th Percentile £686 £550 £634
Scotland median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +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 89 97 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.40% 15.98% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 62 72
10th Percentile £448 £176 £364
25th Percentile £478 £243 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £487
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -1.70% +0.31%
75th Percentile £625 £532 £550
90th Percentile £686 £543 £633
Scotland median daily rate £500 £465 £513
% change year-on-year +7.53% -9.27% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £23.00 £58.20
% change year-on-year +139.13% -60.48% +219.17%

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 29 January 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 (11.43%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) nginx
3 1 (2.86%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) AWS
2 14 (40.00%) Azure
3 12 (34.29%) Amazon S3
4 10 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 8 (22.86%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (22.86%) GitHub
5 8 (22.86%) Serverless
6 7 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (17.14%) GCP
7 6 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (17.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (8.57%) Textract
10 2 (5.71%) AWS KMS
10 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) HTTP
2 2 (5.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (11.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.71%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.86%) GitLab
3 5 (14.29%) JIRA
4 4 (11.43%) Git
5 3 (8.57%) Snyk
6 2 (5.71%) Subversion
6 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.86%) Liquibase
7 1 (2.86%) Maven
7 1 (2.86%) MLflow
7 1 (2.86%) webpack
General
1 11 (31.43%) Public Sector
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Security Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Design Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) GCP Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) AWS CDK
2 6 (17.14%) PyTorch
3 4 (11.43%) SLSA
4 3 (8.57%) FastAPI
4 3 (8.57%) Hugging Face
4 3 (8.57%) NumPy
4 3 (8.57%) OpenCV
4 3 (8.57%) Pandas
4 3 (8.57%) REST
4 3 (8.57%) SpaCy
4 3 (8.57%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (5.71%) boto
5 2 (5.71%) JWT
5 2 (5.71%) OAuth
5 2 (5.71%) RESTful
6 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.86%) React
6 1 (2.86%) Spring
6 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.71%) PKI
4 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Linux
2 10 (28.57%) Unix
3 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) CI/CD
2 25 (71.43%) Agile
3 20 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (54.29%) DevOps
5 17 (48.57%) Containerisation
6 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (25.71%) Scrum
8 8 (22.86%) Microservices
8 8 (22.86%) Software Delivery
8 8 (22.86%) Software Engineering
8 8 (22.86%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (22.86%) Test Automation
9 7 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (20.00%) Kanban
10 6 (17.14%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (17.14%) Machine Learning
10 6 (17.14%) Observability
11 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) Python
2 10 (28.57%) Bash
3 8 (22.86%) Shell Script
4 5 (14.29%) Perl
5 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
5 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.57%) Java
7 2 (5.71%) C++
7 2 (5.71%) Go
8 1 (2.86%) Groovy
8 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) CISM
2 3 (8.57%) CISSP
2 3 (8.57%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.71%) FFIEC
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) NIST
2 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 21 (60.00%) Docker
2 4 (11.43%) KVM
3 2 (5.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (54.29%) Grafana
2 17 (48.57%) Terraform
3 16 (45.71%) Ansible
4 7 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (5.71%) Argo
6 2 (5.71%) Fluentd
6 2 (5.71%) HAProxy
6 2 (5.71%) Nagios
6 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.86%) Istio
7 1 (2.86%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.86%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (8.57%) Black Duck
3 3 (8.57%) Checkmarx
3 3 (8.57%) Commvault
3 3 (8.57%) Tenable
4 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.71%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) Splunk
4 2 (5.71%) Thales
5 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.86%) F5
5 1 (2.86%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.86%) Ping Identity