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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 27 42
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 36 39 35
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.34% 6.30% 4.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.70% 53.42% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 21
10th Percentile £380 £463 £425
25th Percentile £406 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.52%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £534
90th Percentile £553 £547 £544
Scotland median daily rate £425 £513 £480
% change year-on-year -17.07% +6.88% -5.98%

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 71 73 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.53% 11.79% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 45 74
10th Percentile £404 £432 £200
25th Percentile £425 £475 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -6.05%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £513
90th Percentile £620 £550 £557
Scotland median daily rate £430 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -14.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.55
25th Percentile - - £21.91
Median hourly rate - - £24.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.46%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year -36.36% +127.46% -56.59%

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 11 October 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 1 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.78%) nginx
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 22 (61.11%) AWS
2 11 (30.56%) Azure
3 10 (27.78%) GCP
4 8 (22.22%) Azure AKS
5 7 (19.44%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (16.67%) Apigee
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (13.89%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (13.89%) GitHub
8 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (8.33%) Cloud Run
9 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (8.33%) Serverless
9 3 (8.33%) Vertex AI
10 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) DNS
1 2 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (2.78%) DHCP
2 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.56%) MySQL
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.78%) DataStage
4 1 (2.78%) Db2
4 1 (2.78%) Looker
4 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Power Query
4 1 (2.78%) Redis
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) GitLab
2 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.89%) Git
4 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.78%) JUnit
5 1 (2.78%) MLflow
5 1 (2.78%) Mockito
5 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 11 (30.56%) Public Sector
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Banking
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Front Office
6 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) GCP Architect
5 2 (5.56%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (38.89%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) REST
3 4 (11.11%) LangGraph
3 4 (11.11%) OAuth
4 3 (8.33%) .NET
4 3 (8.33%) AWS CDK
4 3 (8.33%) JWT
4 3 (8.33%) LangChain
4 3 (8.33%) Node.js
4 3 (8.33%) OpenID
4 3 (8.33%) React
4 3 (8.33%) Spring
4 3 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.33%) YAML
5 2 (5.56%) A2A Protocol
5 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.56%) Kafka
5 2 (5.56%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 24 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (52.78%) DevOps
4 18 (50.00%) AI
5 16 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (38.89%) Agile
6 14 (38.89%) Containerisation
7 13 (36.11%) Observability
8 11 (30.56%) LLM
8 11 (30.56%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
10 9 (25.00%) Mentoring
11 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (19.44%) Decision-Making
12 7 (19.44%) Microservices
12 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
12 7 (19.44%) Workflow
13 6 (16.67%) Community of Practice
13 6 (16.67%) Technical Debt
13 6 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) Python
2 7 (19.44%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) Bash
4 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
5 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.33%) C#
6 3 (8.33%) SQL
7 2 (5.56%) Bicep
7 2 (5.56%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (2.78%) RHCE
3 1 (2.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Grafana
2 4 (11.11%) Istio
2 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.33%) Argo
4 2 (5.56%) Ansible
5 1 (2.78%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.78%) linkerd
5 1 (2.78%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Google
2 3 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) New Relic
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
36 Kubernetes jobs in Edinburgh