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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 42 54
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 -16
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 39 36 30
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.33% 4.47% 3.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 46.43% 28.57% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 19
10th Percentile £463 £426 £395
25th Percentile £475 £488 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +1.52% -6.41%
75th Percentile £525 £534 £540
90th Percentile £547 £543 £588
Scotland median daily rate £519 £488 £520
% change year-on-year +6.25% -6.11% -4.59%

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 84 126 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.64% 15.63% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 77 93
10th Percentile £447 £200 £348
25th Percentile £475 £275 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -3.66%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £538
90th Percentile £564 £551 £575
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +36.46% -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £55.70
% change year-on-year +127.46% -56.59% +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 15 October 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
1 2 (5.13%) nginx
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (66.67%) AWS
2 15 (38.46%) Serverless
3 12 (30.77%) Amazon S3
4 11 (28.21%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (28.21%) Azure
5 9 (23.08%) OpenShift
6 8 (20.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (20.51%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (15.38%) GCP
7 6 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (7.69%) GitHub
9 3 (7.69%) Textract
10 2 (5.13%) Dagster
11 1 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 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%) 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
3 4 (10.26%) 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 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Public Sector
3 9 (23.08%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) 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%) FHIR
9 1 (2.56%) SAML
9 1 (2.56%) Spring
9 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) 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
10 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (15.38%) Observability
10 6 (15.38%) OCR
10 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) Shell Script
3 7 (17.95%) Bash
3 7 (17.95%) Java
4 6 (15.38%) Go
5 5 (12.82%) Perl
5 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 4 (10.26%) SQL
7 2 (5.13%) C++
7 2 (5.13%) Groovy
7 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.56%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (2.56%) C#
8 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) AWS Certification
2 5 (12.82%) 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 23 (58.97%) Grafana
2 18 (46.15%) Terraform
3 17 (43.59%) Ansible
4 11 (28.21%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (7.69%) HAProxy
7 2 (5.13%) Fluentd
7 2 (5.13%) linkerd
7 2 (5.13%) Nagios
7 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.56%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) ForgeRock
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
2 4 (10.26%) Splunk
3 3 (7.69%) Commvault
3 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity