Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
Scotland > Glasgow

As of 13 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in Glasgow.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 10 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.32% - 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% - 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.38%
Scotland median daily rate - - £700
% change year-on-year - - +9.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 708 680 850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 90.07% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 458 575
10th Percentile £245 £256 £325
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -10.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £622
90th Percentile £625 £656 £700
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +0.89% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 16
10th Percentile £17.98 £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £22.39 £16.75 £14.63
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +10.55% +18.13%
75th Percentile £38.04 £24.18 £19.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £37.70 £41.00
Scotland median hourly rate £24.62 £20.94 £19.50
% change year-on-year +17.57% +7.38% +10.05%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) Python
4 4 (40.00%) Azure
4 4 (40.00%) Terraform
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Ansible
5 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (30.00%) OO
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (20.00%) C#
6 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Git
6 2 (20.00%) GitHub
6 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
6 2 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
6 2 (20.00%) JIRA
6 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (20.00%) PyCharm
6 2 (20.00%) SDLC

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NewSQL
1 1 (10.00%) OLTP
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) PyCharm
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OpenID
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (10.00%) Generative AI
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) ANSI SQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CISM
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk