Azure AKS Contracts in England

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure AKS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure AKS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 453 392 423
Rank change year-on-year -61 +31 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 85 279 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.55% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 1.51% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 196 264
10th Percentile £406 £450 £450
25th Percentile £450 £509 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £611 £688 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £68.50 -

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure AKS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,769 18,488 27,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.83% 36.63% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,478 13,522 20,053
10th Percentile £290 £325 £339
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 311 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in England

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in England

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in England

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
London -39 51 £550 -12.00% 33
South East +4 13 £450 -12.62% 14
Midlands +31 7 £607 +12.93% 4
West Midlands - 7 £607 - 2
North of England +17 5 £475 - 7
South West +13 4 £500 -18.37% 2
Yorkshire +9 3 £475 -13.64% 2
North West +21 1 £525 +10.53% 4
East of England +8 1 £400 -17.95% 1
North East - 1 £413 - 1
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.18%) Confluence
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.18%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 82 (96.47%) Azure
2 38 (44.71%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (27.06%) Azure Service Bus
4 22 (25.88%) AWS
5 16 (18.82%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (18.82%) Serverless
6 13 (15.29%) Azure App Service
6 13 (15.29%) GitHub
7 12 (14.12%) Azure Functions
8 11 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (12.94%) PaaS
9 10 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (11.76%) GCP
10 8 (9.41%) Azure Event Grid
11 6 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (4.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (4.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (4.71%) IaaS
13 3 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (3.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) DNS
1 2 (2.35%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) DHCP
2 1 (1.18%) IPv4
2 1 (1.18%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.18%) LAN
2 1 (1.18%) Network Security
2 1 (1.18%) VPN
2 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (14.12%) Redis
2 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.71%) GIS
5 3 (3.53%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.35%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.35%) MySQL
6 2 (2.35%) Power BI
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.18%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.18%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.59%) Cypress.io
2 9 (10.59%) Git
2 9 (10.59%) JMeter
3 5 (5.88%) GitLab
4 2 (2.35%) Snyk
4 2 (2.35%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.18%) Hudson
5 1 (1.18%) JIRA
5 1 (1.18%) Maven
5 1 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.18%) Spinnaker
5 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.65%) Finance
3 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (3.53%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.18%) Advertising
7 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Electronics
7 1 (1.18%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.18%) Legal
7 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (32.94%) Azure Engineer
2 23 (27.06%) Developer
3 18 (21.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (15.29%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (14.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 11 (12.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (11.76%) Senior
8 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) C# Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Angular Developer
10 5 (5.88%) Azure Developer
10 5 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) .NET Developer
11 4 (4.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.71%) GIS Developer
12 3 (3.53%) Security Engineer
12 3 (3.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.53%) .NET
2 19 (22.35%) Kafka
3 18 (21.18%) Node.js
4 12 (14.12%) React
5 10 (11.76%) .NET Core
6 8 (9.41%) YAML
7 5 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.88%) RESTful
8 4 (4.71%) Celery
8 4 (4.71%) Django
8 4 (4.71%) GeoPandas
8 4 (4.71%) OpenLayers
8 4 (4.71%) PostGIS
9 2 (2.35%) ADO
9 2 (2.35%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.35%) Flask
10 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET
10 1 (1.18%) CSS3
10 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.18%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.24%) Machine to Machine
2 7 (8.24%) Public Cloud
3 6 (7.06%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.71%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.71%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.18%) IoT
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.18%) PKI
7 1 (1.18%) Replication
7 1 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.41%) Linux
2 10 (11.76%) Windows
3 7 (8.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.82%) DevOps
2 31 (36.47%) CI/CD
3 22 (25.88%) Agile
3 22 (25.88%) Microservices
4 19 (22.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (22.35%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (15.29%) Containerisation
6 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 10 (11.76%) Test Automation
8 8 (9.41%) Architectural Design
9 7 (8.24%) Event-Driven
9 7 (8.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (8.24%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (7.06%) Scrum
11 5 (5.88%) Critical Thinking
11 5 (5.88%) User Experience
11 5 (5.88%) UX Design
12 4 (4.71%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.29%) Python
2 21 (24.71%) C#
3 20 (23.53%) SQL
4 13 (15.29%) PowerShell
5 12 (14.12%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.41%) Bicep
7 5 (5.88%) Bash
7 5 (5.88%) Java
7 5 (5.88%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.71%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.53%) Groovy
10 1 (1.18%) C
10 1 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (1.18%) Go
10 1 (1.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (8.24%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.24%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.53%) Degree
4 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.18%) MCSA
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (27.06%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (68.24%) Kubernetes
2 39 (45.88%) Terraform
3 12 (14.12%) Argo
4 7 (8.24%) Grafana
4 7 (8.24%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.88%) Ansible
6 1 (1.18%) Consul
6 1 (1.18%) Istio
6 1 (1.18%) linkerd
6 1 (1.18%) Nessus
6 1 (1.18%) Packer
6 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.18%) Puppet
6 1 (1.18%) SELinux
6 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.71%) VMware
4 2 (2.35%) Databricks
4 2 (2.35%) New Relic
5 1 (1.18%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.18%) Citrix
5 1 (1.18%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.18%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.18%) Google
5 1 (1.18%) HP
5 1 (1.18%) IBM
5 1 (1.18%) Informatica
5 1 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle
5 1 (1.18%) SAP
5 1 (1.18%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.18%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.18%) Zscaler