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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 34 68
Rank change year-on-year +3 +34 -28
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 39 39 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.21% 5.39% 2.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.82% 32.77% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 12
10th Percentile £463 £425 £375
25th Percentile £475 £486 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.20% -7.71%
75th Percentile £525 £533 £551
90th Percentile £547 £543 £586
Scotland median daily rate £513 £494 £550
% change year-on-year +3.74% -10.18% +3.87%

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 89 119 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.17% 16.46% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 68 90
10th Percentile £420 £199 £373
25th Percentile £475 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -5.36% -2.00%
75th Percentile £541 £513 £545
90th Percentile £600 £539 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £22.89 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +29.15% -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £22.89 £55.70
% change year-on-year +140.33% -58.91% +214.33%

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 November 2025.

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 2 (5.13%) Apache
1 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 26 (66.67%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) Serverless
3 13 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 11 (28.21%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (25.64%) Azure
6 9 (23.08%) OpenShift
7 8 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (20.51%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (17.95%) GCP
9 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (7.69%) GitHub
12 3 (7.69%) Textract
13 2 (5.13%) Dagster
14 1 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 1 (2.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) HTTP
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.13%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.56%) CockroachDB
5 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.56%) NewSQL
5 1 (2.56%) OLTP
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.56%) Redis
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.82%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) GitLab
3 4 (10.26%) Liquibase
4 2 (5.13%) JIRA
4 2 (5.13%) Subversion
4 2 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.56%) Maven
5 1 (2.56%) MLflow
5 1 (2.56%) Postman
5 1 (2.56%) Selenium
5 1 (2.56%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Public Sector
3 8 (20.51%) Finance
4 4 (10.26%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Site Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) AWS CDK
2 8 (20.51%) PyTorch
3 7 (17.95%) OAuth
3 7 (17.95%) REST
4 6 (15.38%) RESTful
5 5 (12.82%) FastAPI
6 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (10.26%) Hugging Face
6 4 (10.26%) NumPy
6 4 (10.26%) OpenCV
6 4 (10.26%) Pandas
6 4 (10.26%) SQLAlchemy
7 3 (7.69%) boto
7 3 (7.69%) JWT
7 3 (7.69%) SpaCy
8 2 (5.13%) .NET
9 1 (2.56%) OpenID
9 1 (2.56%) SAML
9 1 (2.56%) Spring
9 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.90%) Linux
2 10 (25.64%) Unix
3 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (87.18%) Agile
2 26 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 22 (56.41%) DevOps
4 21 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (48.72%) Containerisation
6 12 (30.77%) Scrum
7 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
7 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
8 8 (20.51%) Kanban
8 8 (20.51%) Machine Learning
8 8 (20.51%) Microservices
8 8 (20.51%) Software Delivery
9 7 (17.95%) AI
9 7 (17.95%) Observability
10 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (15.38%) OCR
10 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (12.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) Shell Script
3 7 (17.95%) Bash
3 7 (17.95%) Java
4 5 (12.82%) Go
4 5 (12.82%) Perl
4 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.26%) SQL
6 2 (5.13%) C++
6 2 (5.13%) Groovy
7 1 (2.56%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) DICOM
3 1 (2.56%) HL7
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 24 (61.54%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 24 (61.54%) Grafana
2 18 (46.15%) Terraform
3 16 (41.03%) Ansible
4 11 (28.21%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (5.13%) Fluentd
6 2 (5.13%) HAProxy
6 2 (5.13%) Nagios
6 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.56%) Argo
7 1 (2.56%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.56%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.56%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Splunk
2 4 (10.26%) ForgeRock
2 4 (10.26%) Google
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.69%) Commvault
4 2 (5.13%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity