Azure AKS Contracts in Edinburgh

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Azure AKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure AKS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 70 111
Rank change year-on-year +4 +41 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.16% 0.25% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 0.66% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £350 - £538
% change year-on-year - - +2.38%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

Azure AKS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in Edinburgh

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in Edinburgh

Azure AKS
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power Query
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft