Azure AKS Contracts in Scotland

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 129 159 164
Rank change year-on-year +30 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 2 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.091% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.58% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £516 £505
25th Percentile - £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +2.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile - £547 £550
90th Percentile - £549 £556
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 742 1,032 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.62% 36.10% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 772 778
10th Percentile £256 £250 £287
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £661 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.83
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in Scotland

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend 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 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
Edinburgh +40 2 - - 2
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) npm
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) gulp
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (50.00%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform