Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in Glasgow is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 77 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 6 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.57% 0.54% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 985 695 654
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 94.05% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 433 468
10th Percentile £284 £277 £229
25th Percentile £363 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £581 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +1.65% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 16 25
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.43
25th Percentile £35.00 £16.84 £18.50
Median hourly rate £40.32 £19.90 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +102.61% -51.39% +133.94%
75th Percentile £60.91 £26.21 -
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £60.50
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £19.37 £18.00
% change year-on-year +80.74% +7.58% +1.58%

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 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 20 August 2026, 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 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
4 2 (33.33%) Grafana
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Runbook
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Unix
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Docker
5 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development

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 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Runbook
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Java
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) Grafana
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus