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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 28 42
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 37 39 36
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.34% 6.31% 4.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 51.39% 52.70% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 22
10th Percentile £380 £463 £426
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 £543
Scotland median daily rate £425 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -17.07% +4.97% -6.11%

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 74 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.39% 11.97% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 45 75
10th Percentile £404 £432 £200
25th Percentile £425 £475 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -6.15%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £513
90th Percentile £620 £550 £555
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +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 14 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 (2.70%) Apache
1 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.70%) nginx
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) Azure
3 11 (29.73%) GCP
4 9 (24.32%) Azure AKS
5 7 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (18.92%) Apigee
5 7 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (13.51%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (13.51%) Anthropic Claude
6 5 (13.51%) GitHub
7 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
7 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (10.81%) Cloud Run
7 4 (10.81%) Vertex AI
8 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (8.11%) Serverless
9 2 (5.41%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
1 2 (5.41%) HTTP
1 2 (5.41%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.81%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.41%) DataStage
3 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.41%) Looker
3 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.41%) MySQL
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.70%) Db2
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Power Query
4 1 (2.70%) Redis
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) GitLab
2 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.51%) Git
4 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.70%) JUnit
5 1 (2.70%) MLflow
5 1 (2.70%) Mockito
5 1 (2.70%) webpack
General
1 11 (29.73%) Public Sector
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Banking
3 7 (18.92%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.41%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
5 2 (5.41%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Architect
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Data Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Python Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) GCP Architect
5 2 (5.41%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) Terraform
2 6 (16.22%) REST
3 5 (13.51%) LangGraph
4 4 (10.81%) LangChain
4 4 (10.81%) OAuth
5 3 (8.11%) .NET
5 3 (8.11%) AWS CDK
5 3 (8.11%) JWT
5 3 (8.11%) Node.js
5 3 (8.11%) OpenID
5 3 (8.11%) React
5 3 (8.11%) Spring
5 3 (8.11%) Spring Boot
5 3 (8.11%) YAML
6 2 (5.41%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
6 2 (5.41%) Kafka
6 2 (5.41%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (5.41%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.70%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 21 (56.76%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.22%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (8.11%) AI Agents
3 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) CI/CD
2 24 (64.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (51.35%) AI
3 19 (51.35%) DevOps
4 16 (43.24%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (37.84%) Agile
5 14 (37.84%) Containerisation
6 13 (35.14%) Observability
7 12 (32.43%) LLM
8 11 (29.73%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (27.03%) Software Engineering
10 9 (24.32%) Mentoring
10 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (21.62%) Microservices
11 8 (21.62%) Workflow
12 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
12 7 (18.92%) Integration Patterns
12 7 (18.92%) Machine Learning
12 7 (18.92%) Migration
12 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Python
2 7 (18.92%) Java
3 6 (16.22%) Bash
4 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.11%) C#
6 3 (8.11%) SQL
7 2 (5.41%) Bicep
7 2 (5.41%) Go
8 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (2.70%) RHCE
3 1 (2.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Grafana
1 5 (13.51%) Istio
2 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.11%) Argo
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
5 1 (2.70%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.70%) linkerd
5 1 (2.70%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Google
2 3 (8.11%) Dynatrace
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Splunk
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) New Relic
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat