Kubernetes Contracts in Edinburgh

Kubernetes (k8s)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 54 62
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -34
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 16 24 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.45% 2.75% 3.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.86% 21.62% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 25
10th Percentile £231 £433 £405
25th Percentile £463 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £479
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.56% -12.91%
75th Percentile £528 £634 £508
90th Percentile £538 - £560
Scotland median daily rate £500 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +8.70% -16.36% -2.00%

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 70 111 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.72% 12.71% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 78 163
10th Percentile £191 £204 £229
25th Percentile £308 £340 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -6.05% -8.76%
75th Percentile £525 £584 £510
90th Percentile £548 £647 £558
Scotland median daily rate £491 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +9.06% -8.63% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £16.00 £18.43
25th Percentile - £17.37 £19.49
Median hourly rate - £20.08 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year - -5.57% -55.24%
75th Percentile - £22.35 £21.47
90th Percentile - £23.45 £21.59
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £20.08 £39.59
% change year-on-year +173.97% -49.29% -12.31%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (12.50%) Apigee
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (12.50%) CloudFront
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (6.25%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Route 53
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
1 1 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) CockroachDB
3 1 (6.25%) InfluxDB
3 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) NewSQL
3 1 (6.25%) OLTP
3 1 (6.25%) Power Query
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.25%) Postman
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Front Office
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Angular Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Unix Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) OAuth
3 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Security
3 2 (12.50%) Swagger
3 2 (12.50%) YAML
4 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (6.25%) FHIR
4 1 (6.25%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) Loki
4 1 (6.25%) SAML
4 1 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) AIX
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (43.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) Fintech
5 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) API Design
6 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (12.50%) High Availability
6 2 (12.50%) Microservices
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (12.50%) SDLC
6 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 1 (6.25%) Health Informatics
7 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Groovy
3 3 (18.75%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) OCP
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) DICOM
1 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) HL7
1 1 (6.25%) ISO 13485
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Ansible
2 5 (31.25%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
4 1 (6.25%) Kibana
4 1 (6.25%) linkerd
4 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) ForgeRock
2 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
3 2 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk