Kubernetes Contracts in Edinburgh

Kubernetes (k8s)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 44 65
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 -36
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 33 30 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.05% 3.66% 2.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.21% 25.00% 17.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 19
10th Percentile £463 £425 £395
25th Percentile £472 £489 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.67% -10.55%
75th Percentile £525 £566 £515
90th Percentile £538 £634 £578
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £503
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.57% -8.55%

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 73 120 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.16% 14.63% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 75 119
10th Percentile £413 £203 £239
25th Percentile £463 £340 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.63% -6.19%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £534
90th Percentile £544 £634 £574
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%
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 £57.50
% change year-on-year +127.46% -57.95% +224.49%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Edinburgh

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) nginx
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) Azure
3 9 (27.27%) Serverless
4 8 (24.24%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (21.21%) Amazon S3
5 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) OpenShift
6 6 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (15.15%) GCP
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (12.12%) GitHub
9 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (6.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (6.06%) CloudFront
10 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
11 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) VPN
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (9.09%) InfluxDB
2 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Redis
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.03%) CockroachDB
4 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.03%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.03%) MySQL
4 1 (3.03%) NewSQL
4 1 (3.03%) OLTP
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.03%) Power Query
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
3 4 (12.12%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) Liquibase
5 2 (6.06%) JIRA
5 2 (6.06%) Subversion
5 2 (6.06%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.03%) Postman
6 1 (3.03%) Selenium
6 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
3 7 (21.21%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Site Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) AWS CDK
1 5 (15.15%) OAuth
2 4 (12.12%) REST
2 4 (12.12%) RESTful
3 3 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (6.06%) .NET
4 2 (6.06%) FastAPI
4 2 (6.06%) PyTorch
4 2 (6.06%) YAML
5 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.03%) FHIR
5 1 (3.03%) Hugging Face
5 1 (3.03%) JSON
5 1 (3.03%) JWT
5 1 (3.03%) LangChain
5 1 (3.03%) LangGraph
5 1 (3.03%) NumPy
5 1 (3.03%) OpenID
5 1 (3.03%) SAML
5 1 (3.03%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (39.39%) Linux
2 9 (27.27%) Unix
3 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (6.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) Agile
2 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
3 21 (63.64%) DevOps
4 16 (48.48%) Containerisation
5 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
7 7 (21.21%) Observability
7 7 (21.21%) Scrum
7 7 (21.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
8 6 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (18.18%) Microservices
8 6 (18.18%) Software Delivery
9 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (15.15%) Network Load Balancing
10 4 (12.12%) Change Management
10 4 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (12.12%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) Bash
3 8 (24.24%) Shell Script
4 7 (21.21%) Java
5 5 (15.15%) Go
5 5 (15.15%) Perl
5 5 (15.15%) SQL
6 3 (9.09%) Groovy
6 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.06%) C++
7 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.03%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (3.03%) Bicep
8 1 (3.03%) C#
8 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 4 (12.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) OCP
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) DICOM
2 1 (3.03%) HL7
2 1 (3.03%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 20 (60.61%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) KVM
Systems Management
1 18 (54.55%) Ansible
2 17 (51.52%) Grafana
2 17 (51.52%) Terraform
3 12 (36.36%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (9.09%) HAProxy
6 2 (6.06%) Fluentd
6 2 (6.06%) linkerd
6 2 (6.06%) Nagios
6 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (3.03%) Kibana
7 1 (3.03%) Kustomize
7 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) ForgeRock
2 4 (12.12%) Dynatrace
2 4 (12.12%) Google
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) Red Hat
2 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 3 (9.09%) Commvault
4 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.03%) Ping Identity