Azure AKS Contracts in the North West

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 151 162
Rank change year-on-year +17 +11 -33
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 1 3 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.037% 0.095% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.25% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 14
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £513 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -22.45% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £719
90th Percentile - - £746
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 869 1,179 1,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.93% 37.18% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 874 1,075
10th Percentile £284 £313 £213
25th Percentile £384 £419 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £570 £586 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £31.25 £18.84
Median % change year-on-year -48.61% +65.85% +8.45%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.90% +45.24% -2.33%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the North West

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the North West

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Manchester +15 1 £525 +10.53% 4
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft