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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 33 47
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 +23
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 31 35 27
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.10% 5.61% 3.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.44% 54.69% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 16
10th Percentile £350 £463 £425
25th Percentile £375 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +4.62%
75th Percentile £519 £525 £538
90th Percentile £558 £542 £581
Scotland median daily rate £430 £500 £471
% change year-on-year -14.00% +6.10% -6.31%

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 64 64 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.47% 10.26% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 37 74
10th Percentile £359 £413 £202
25th Percentile £439 £463 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% -6.05%
75th Percentile £597 £525 £528
90th Percentile £622 £545 £600
Scotland median daily rate £437 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -12.60% +11.11% -9.73%
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% -57.95%

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 29 August 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 2 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.45%) nginx
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) GCP
3 8 (25.81%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (22.58%) Azure AKS
4 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (19.35%) Apigee
6 5 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
6 5 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (16.13%) Serverless
7 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (12.90%) GitHub
8 3 (9.68%) Cloud Run
8 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (9.68%) Vertex AI
8 3 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) HTTP
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) DHCP
3 1 (3.23%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
2 3 (9.68%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.23%) DataStage
4 1 (3.23%) Db2
4 1 (3.23%) Looker
4 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.23%) MySQL
4 1 (3.23%) Power Query
4 1 (3.23%) Redis
4 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) Git
2 4 (12.90%) GitLab
3 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.45%) MLflow
4 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Banking
3 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.68%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.45%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 2 (6.45%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Front Office
6 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (12.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Python Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) GCP Architect
5 2 (6.45%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (48.39%) Terraform
2 8 (25.81%) REST
3 5 (16.13%) OAuth
4 4 (12.90%) AWS CDK
4 4 (12.90%) LangGraph
4 4 (12.90%) Spring
4 4 (12.90%) Spring Boot
5 3 (9.68%) JWT
5 3 (9.68%) LangChain
5 3 (9.68%) OpenID
5 3 (9.68%) Quarkus
6 2 (6.45%) boto
6 2 (6.45%) JAX-RS
6 2 (6.45%) Node.js
6 2 (6.45%) NumPy
6 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
6 2 (6.45%) OpenCV
6 2 (6.45%) Pandas
6 2 (6.45%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (6.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.45%) AI Agents
4 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Windows
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) CI/CD
2 19 (61.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (58.06%) DevOps
4 15 (48.39%) AI
5 14 (45.16%) Containerisation
6 9 (29.03%) Agile
6 9 (29.03%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (25.81%) Microservices
7 8 (25.81%) Workflow
8 7 (22.58%) Machine Learning
8 7 (22.58%) Observability
9 6 (19.35%) Integration Patterns
9 6 (19.35%) LLM
9 6 (19.35%) Migration
9 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (16.13%) API Development
10 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
10 5 (16.13%) Scrum
11 4 (12.90%) Data Science
11 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) Bash
3 6 (19.35%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.68%) Go
4 3 (9.68%) SQL
5 2 (6.45%) Bicep
5 2 (6.45%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.23%) RHCE
3 1 (3.23%) RHCSA
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Grafana
2 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.90%) Istio
4 3 (9.68%) Ansible
4 3 (9.68%) Argo
5 2 (6.45%) linkerd
6 1 (3.23%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.23%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Google
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) New Relic
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat