Azure AKS Contracts in the South West

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 164 165
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 -28
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 4 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.17% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.48% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £355 £523 £545
25th Percentile £400 £538 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £638
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -3.92% +34.21%
75th Percentile £525 £813 £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 809 1,256 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.35% 34.64% 30.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 1,015 851
10th Percentile £200 £288 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £592
90th Percentile £688 £713 £658
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 55 25
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £14.50 £50.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.00% +100.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £52.36
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the South West

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the South West

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the South West

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Gloucestershire - 2 £500 -
Bristol +17 1 £350 -36.36% 2
Devon - 1 - -
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Snyk
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) Blazor
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) GitOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft