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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 50 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 23 16 19
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.14% 2.59% 2.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.38% 23.19% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 16
10th Percentile £350 £259 £443
25th Percentile £397 £475 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% -3.67% +11.79%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £634
90th Percentile £686 £550 £639
Scotland median daily rate £450 £498 £480
% change year-on-year -9.74% +3.75% -12.73%

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 65 69 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.88% 11.17% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 50 68
10th Percentile £355 £159 £224
25th Percentile £431 £205 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £497 £480
Median % change year-on-year +8.15% +3.54% +0.21%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £625
90th Percentile £675 £553 £658
Scotland median daily rate £450 £469 £463
% change year-on-year -4.10% +1.46% -5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £15.10
Median hourly rate - £23.50 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year - +47.15% -25.60%
75th Percentile - £24.05 £16.85
90th Percentile - £24.13 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.50 £37.99
% change year-on-year +123.40% -38.13% -32.47%

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 14 May 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 (17.39%) Apache
1 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.04%) Confluence
2 3 (13.04%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 9 (39.13%) GCP
4 8 (34.78%) GitHub
4 8 (34.78%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (26.09%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
6 5 (21.74%) Serverless
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (17.39%) Dagster
8 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (8.70%) AWS KMS
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
8 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) HTTP
1 5 (21.74%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) DB2
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Jenkins
2 8 (34.78%) GitLab
3 4 (17.39%) MLflow
4 3 (13.04%) JIRA
4 3 (13.04%) Snyk
5 1 (4.35%) Git
5 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Security Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Design Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Python Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) REST
2 5 (21.74%) OAuth
3 4 (17.39%) AWS CDK
3 4 (17.39%) boto
3 4 (17.39%) FastAPI
3 4 (17.39%) Hugging Face
3 4 (17.39%) JWT
3 4 (17.39%) NumPy
3 4 (17.39%) OpenCV
3 4 (17.39%) Pandas
3 4 (17.39%) PyTorch
3 4 (17.39%) SLSA
3 4 (17.39%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (13.04%) Quarkus
4 3 (13.04%) Spring
4 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.70%) JAX-RS
6 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.35%) OpenID
6 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 6 (26.09%) Algorithms
3 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
4 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
5 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (8.70%) PKI
5 2 (8.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 14 (60.87%) Containerisation
2 14 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (52.17%) DevOps
4 8 (34.78%) Architectural Patterns
4 8 (34.78%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (30.43%) AI
5 7 (30.43%) Microservices
6 6 (26.09%) Pair Programming
6 6 (26.09%) TDD
7 5 (21.74%) Agile
7 5 (21.74%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
7 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
8 4 (17.39%) A/B Testing
8 4 (17.39%) Computer Vision
8 4 (17.39%) LLM
8 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
8 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (17.39%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Bash
3 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) SQL
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) CISM
1 3 (13.04%) CISSP
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
1 3 (13.04%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (8.70%) FFIEC
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) NIST
2 3 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Terraform
2 6 (26.09%) Ansible
2 6 (26.09%) Grafana
3 2 (8.70%) linkerd
3 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.35%) Argo
4 1 (4.35%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (13.04%) Black Duck
1 3 (13.04%) Checkmarx
1 3 (13.04%) Google
1 3 (13.04%) Tenable
2 2 (8.70%) Thales
3 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) F5
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat