Google Kubernetes Engine Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +41
Contract jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.16% - 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £625
75th Percentile £488 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £460 - £625

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

Google Kubernetes Engine 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 248 281 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.00% 37.02% 39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 169 266
10th Percentile £412 £190 £258
25th Percentile £450 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £472
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.61% -2.73%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £538
90th Percentile £625 £577 £588
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +172.73% +24.15% -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year +77.58% +19.31% -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Google Kubernetes Engine
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform