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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 40 57
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 19 29 24
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.03% 4.43% 2.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.03% 29.00% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 16
10th Percentile £503 £403 £443
25th Percentile £531 £482 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £519 £542
Median % change year-on-year +19.90% -4.20% +12.05%
75th Percentile £683 £538 £634
90th Percentile £686 £553 -
Scotland median daily rate £437 £500 £542
% change year-on-year -12.60% -7.66% +3.14%

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 73 100 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.64% 15.27% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 67 68
10th Percentile £414 £170 £275
25th Percentile £485 £199 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £477 £506
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -5.73% +5.64%
75th Percentile £644 £536 £616
90th Percentile £686 £551 £646
Scotland median daily rate £500 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +7.58% -7.05% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £21.18 -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £15.10
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year - +44.02% -25.60%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £16.85
90th Percentile - £24.11 -
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year +128.26% -59.22% +47.12%

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 1 March 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 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (15.79%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (31.58%) GCP
4 6 (31.58%) GitHub
4 6 (31.58%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (26.32%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (26.32%) Serverless
6 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) Dagster
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
9 1 (5.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Network Security
2 4 (21.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (36.84%) GitLab
3 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) MLflow
3 3 (15.79%) Snyk
4 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) Maven
4 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Security Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Design Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Python Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) GCP Architect
5 1 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) AWS CDK
1 5 (26.32%) FastAPI
1 5 (26.32%) Hugging Face
1 5 (26.32%) NumPy
1 5 (26.32%) OpenCV
1 5 (26.32%) Pandas
1 5 (26.32%) PyTorch
1 5 (26.32%) SQLAlchemy
2 4 (21.05%) boto
2 4 (21.05%) JWT
2 4 (21.05%) OAuth
2 4 (21.05%) REST
2 4 (21.05%) SLSA
3 1 (5.26%) Jest
3 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (31.58%) Algorithms
3 4 (21.05%) Data Structures
4 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
5 2 (10.53%) PKI
5 2 (10.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
1 13 (68.42%) Containerisation
2 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (47.37%) DevOps
4 8 (42.11%) Agile
4 8 (42.11%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (31.58%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (31.58%) Pair Programming
6 5 (26.32%) AI
6 5 (26.32%) Computer Vision
6 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (26.32%) LLM
6 5 (26.32%) Machine Learning
6 5 (26.32%) Microservices
6 5 (26.32%) OCR
6 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
6 5 (26.32%) TDD
7 4 (21.05%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Interactive Application Security Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Groovy
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CISM
1 3 (15.79%) CISSP
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (10.53%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) NIST
2 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Grafana
3 5 (26.32%) Ansible
4 2 (10.53%) Argo
4 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.26%) Istio
5 1 (5.26%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (15.79%) Black Duck
1 3 (15.79%) Checkmarx
1 3 (15.79%) Tenable
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Thales
3 1 (5.26%) F5
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk