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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 47 55
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 29 19 20
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.76% 3.01% 2.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.28% 28.36% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 18
10th Percentile £350 £308 £432
25th Percentile £407 £469 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +1.94% +5.64%
75th Percentile £666 £538 £634
90th Percentile £686 £547 -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -13.64%

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 72 67 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.34% 10.62% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 48 78
10th Percentile £370 £189 £204
25th Percentile £425 £293 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +9.89% -5.01%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £594
90th Percentile £675 £555 £647
Scotland median daily rate £450 £479 £453
% change year-on-year -6.05% +5.74% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - - £17.37
Median hourly rate - - £20.08
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.57%
75th Percentile - - £22.35
90th Percentile - - £23.45
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £20.08
% change year-on-year - - -49.29%

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 5 June 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 4 (13.79%) Apache
1 4 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.34%) Confluence
2 3 (10.34%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 12 (41.38%) GCP
3 8 (27.59%) GitHub
3 8 (27.59%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (24.14%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) Serverless
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
6 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (13.79%) Azure AKS
7 4 (13.79%) Dagster
8 3 (10.34%) Apigee
8 3 (10.34%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (6.90%) AWS KMS
9 2 (6.90%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) HTTP
1 5 (17.24%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.45%) Db2
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 9 (31.03%) GitLab
3 4 (13.79%) MLflow
4 3 (10.34%) JIRA
4 3 (10.34%) Snyk
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.45%) Git
5 1 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Banking
3 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Security Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Python Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Design Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Developer
6 2 (6.90%) GCP Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
7 1 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) REST
2 6 (20.69%) AWS CDK
2 6 (20.69%) OAuth
3 5 (17.24%) JWT
4 4 (13.79%) boto
4 4 (13.79%) FastAPI
4 4 (13.79%) Hugging Face
4 4 (13.79%) NumPy
4 4 (13.79%) OpenCV
4 4 (13.79%) Pandas
4 4 (13.79%) PyTorch
4 4 (13.79%) SLSA
4 4 (13.79%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (10.34%) Quarkus
5 3 (10.34%) Spring
5 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.90%) JAX-RS
6 2 (6.90%) OpenID
7 1 (3.45%) Node.js
7 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (20.69%) Algorithms
3 4 (13.79%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (13.79%) Data Structures
4 3 (10.34%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.90%) PKI
5 2 (6.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) CI/CD
2 17 (58.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (55.17%) Containerisation
4 15 (51.72%) DevOps
5 11 (37.93%) AI
6 10 (34.48%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (31.03%) Microservices
8 8 (27.59%) Agile
8 8 (27.59%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (24.14%) Workflow
10 6 (20.69%) LLM
10 6 (20.69%) Machine Learning
10 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
10 6 (20.69%) Pair Programming
10 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
10 6 (20.69%) TDD
11 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
11 5 (17.24%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.79%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) Go
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) CISM
1 3 (10.34%) CISSP
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
1 3 (10.34%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (6.90%) FFIEC
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) NIST
2 3 (10.34%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (44.83%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Grafana
3 5 (17.24%) Ansible
4 3 (10.34%) Istio
4 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.90%) Argo
5 2 (6.90%) linkerd
5 2 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Google
2 3 (10.34%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (10.34%) Black Duck
2 3 (10.34%) Checkmarx
2 3 (10.34%) Tenable
3 2 (6.90%) Thales
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) New Relic
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk