Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 109 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 7 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.37% 0.25% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £459 - -
25th Percentile £474 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.53% - -
75th Percentile £525 £509 -
90th Percentile £540 £526 -
UK median daily rate £541 £471 £525
% change year-on-year +15.04% -10.38% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 749 617 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.97% 38.90% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 420 510
10th Percentile £313 £307 £226
25th Percentile £400 £408 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £460
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +2.17% -3.16%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £589 £634
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £12.74 £17.31 £15.94
25th Percentile £13.97 £20.65 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.72 £23.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +38.24% -71.92%
75th Percentile £55.63 £25.10 £19.57
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.07 £34.48
UK median hourly rate £36.36 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +32.20% +28.69% -38.94%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Scotland

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure AKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in Scotland

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +8 5 £500 +42.71% 3
Edinburgh -2 2 - - 1
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) ScriptRunner
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Architect
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Information Security
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Runbook
6 1 (14.29%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Istio
3 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft