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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 385 420
Rank change year-on-year -66 +35 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 95 264 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 1.54% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 182 276
10th Percentile £416 £463 £469
25th Percentile £475 £513 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.64% +15.09%
75th Percentile £635 £725 £701
90th Percentile £675 £824 £750
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.58% - +13.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £68.50 -
% change year-on-year +60.58% - -

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 11,938 17,125 27,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.98% 36.26% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 12,562 20,170
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 287 319
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.98
25th Percentile £16.00 £19.46 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £43.13 £70.00 £44.40
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.00
% change year-on-year -45.64% +79.77% +0.64%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -44 63 £550 -15.38% 27
South East +4 12 £500 -8.05% 10
Midlands +27 8 £607 +27.79% 7
West Midlands - 8 £607 - 6
North of England +2 7 £500 -4.76% 13
Yorkshire +3 4 £475 -7.32% 2
South West +11 3 £500 -18.37% 8
North West +13 2 £563 +7.14% 10
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 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.05%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.05%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 85 (89.47%) Azure
2 41 (43.16%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (30.53%) Azure Service Bus
4 25 (26.32%) AWS
5 22 (23.16%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (22.11%) Serverless
7 20 (21.05%) Azure App Service
8 14 (14.74%) Azure Event Grid
9 13 (13.68%) Azure Functions
9 13 (13.68%) GitHub
9 13 (13.68%) PaaS
10 11 (11.58%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (11.58%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (10.53%) GCP
12 7 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (7.37%) IaaS
13 6 (6.32%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
15 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) DNS
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.05%) DHCP
2 1 (1.05%) IPv4
2 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.05%) LAN
2 1 (1.05%) Network Security
2 1 (1.05%) VPN
2 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (11.58%) NoSQL
4 10 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (7.37%) Redis
6 4 (4.21%) GIS
7 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.16%) Power BI
8 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.11%) MySQL
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.05%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) JMeter
2 10 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.47%) Cypress.io
4 8 (8.42%) Git
4 8 (8.42%) GitLab
5 3 (3.16%) JIRA
6 2 (2.11%) Snyk
6 2 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.11%) TestCafe
6 2 (2.11%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.05%) Hudson
7 1 (1.05%) Maven
7 1 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.05%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.05%) Finance
3 12 (12.63%) Banking
4 7 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Advertising
8 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Electronics
8 1 (1.05%) Front Office
8 1 (1.05%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.05%) Marketing
8 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (28.42%) Developer
3 22 (23.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (16.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 14 (14.74%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Senior
7 7 (7.37%) .NET Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Azure Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Angular Developer
9 5 (5.26%) C# Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Azure Architect
10 4 (4.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) GIS Developer
10 4 (4.21%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.21%) Lead
11 3 (3.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (27.37%) Kafka
2 25 (26.32%) .NET
3 15 (15.79%) Node.js
4 13 (13.68%) React
5 11 (11.58%) .NET Core
6 7 (7.37%) YAML
7 5 (5.26%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.26%) RESTful
8 4 (4.21%) ARM Templates
8 4 (4.21%) Celery
8 4 (4.21%) Django
8 4 (4.21%) GeoPandas
8 4 (4.21%) OpenLayers
8 4 (4.21%) PostGIS
9 3 (3.16%) ADO
10 2 (2.11%) Flask
10 2 (2.11%) PySpark
10 2 (2.11%) REST
11 1 (1.05%) CSS3
11 1 (1.05%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.37%) Machine to Machine
2 7 (7.37%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.05%) PKI
7 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.05%) Replication
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 27 (28.42%) Linux
2 7 (7.37%) Windows
3 4 (4.21%) Unix
4 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.05%) VMS
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (58.95%) DevOps
2 35 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 28 (29.47%) Agile
4 26 (27.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (23.16%) Microservices
6 20 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.63%) Containerisation
8 12 (12.63%) Test Automation
9 10 (10.53%) Architectural Design
10 9 (9.47%) Event-Driven
10 9 (9.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 9 (9.47%) Software Engineering
11 8 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (7.37%) TDD
13 6 (6.32%) Computer Science
13 6 (6.32%) Critical Thinking
13 6 (6.32%) Scrum
13 6 (6.32%) User Experience
13 6 (6.32%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.63%) Python
2 25 (26.32%) SQL
3 22 (23.16%) C#
4 12 (12.63%) PowerShell
5 11 (11.58%) Bicep
6 10 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 9 (9.47%) Java
8 8 (8.42%) Bash
8 8 (8.42%) Shell Script
9 6 (6.32%) JavaScript
10 5 (5.26%) Groovy
10 5 (5.26%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.05%) C
11 1 (1.05%) C++
11 1 (1.05%) Go
11 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (7.37%) Azure Certification
1 7 (7.37%) Degree
2 6 (6.32%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.05%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) GDPR
2 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (32.63%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (69.47%) Kubernetes
2 47 (49.47%) Terraform
3 12 (12.63%) Argo
4 9 (9.47%) Grafana
5 7 (7.37%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.32%) Ansible
7 1 (1.05%) Consul
7 1 (1.05%) Istio
7 1 (1.05%) linkerd
7 1 (1.05%) Nessus
7 1 (1.05%) Packer
7 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.05%) Puppet
7 1 (1.05%) SELinux
7 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.26%) Informatica
2 5 (5.26%) VMware
3 3 (3.16%) Databricks
4 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.11%) Confluent
4 2 (2.11%) Google
4 2 (2.11%) New Relic
5 1 (1.05%) Citrix
5 1 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.05%) HP
5 1 (1.05%) IBM
5 1 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle
5 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.05%) SAP
5 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.05%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.05%) Zscaler