Azure AKS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure AKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure AKS over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 372 418
Rank change year-on-year +17 +46 -24
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 36 64 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 0.86% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 56 57
10th Percentile £378 £450 £423
25th Percentile £444 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £680
90th Percentile £673 £625 £725
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.33% - +13.74%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure AKS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,443 7,420 9,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.58% 32.68% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,805 5,468 7,398
10th Percentile £220 £240 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 212 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £27.10 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -29.26% +41.96% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the UK excluding London

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the UK excluding London

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the UK excluding London

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +10 10 £525 -4.55% 10
Midlands +23 8 £607 +27.79% 7
West Midlands - 8 £607 - 6
North of England +11 7 £500 -6.98% 12
Wales - 6 £500 -
Yorkshire -8 4 £475 -13.64% 2
South West +4 3 £500 -18.37% 8
North West +8 2 £563 +7.14% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £413 - 1
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (88.89%) Azure
2 16 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (25.00%) AWS
4 6 (16.67%) Azure App Service
4 6 (16.67%) PaaS
5 5 (13.89%) Serverless
6 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (11.11%) IaaS
7 3 (8.33%) GCP
7 3 (8.33%) GitHub
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (13.89%) Redis
2 4 (11.11%) GIS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) GitLab
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) Snyk
2 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Hudson
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
3 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.78%) Spinnaker
3 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Developer
2 9 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Angular Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) GIS Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 4 (11.11%) WSO2 Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) .NET
2 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
2 5 (13.89%) RESTful
3 4 (11.11%) Celery
3 4 (11.11%) Django
3 4 (11.11%) GeoPandas
3 4 (11.11%) OpenLayers
3 4 (11.11%) PostGIS
4 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.56%) Flask
4 2 (5.56%) Node.js
4 2 (5.56%) React
5 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.78%) JSON
5 1 (2.78%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) NHS
1 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (13.89%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) DevOps
2 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (19.44%) API Management
5 6 (16.67%) Agile
5 6 (16.67%) Microservices
6 5 (13.89%) Critical Thinking
6 5 (13.89%) User Experience
6 5 (13.89%) UX Design
7 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (8.33%) Containerisation
8 3 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (5.56%) Continuous Deployment
9 2 (5.56%) Full Stack Development
9 2 (5.56%) GitOps
9 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (5.56%) Insurtech
9 2 (5.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) Bicep
1 10 (27.78%) Python
1 10 (27.78%) SQL
2 6 (16.67%) C#
3 5 (13.89%) Java
3 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
3 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
System Software
1 13 (36.11%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (27.78%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) Argo
4 2 (5.56%) Ansible
4 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Grafana
5 1 (2.78%) Istio
5 1 (2.78%) linkerd
5 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.78%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) SELinux
5 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) WSO2
3 2 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) Confluent
4 1 (2.78%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.78%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.78%) Skytap
4 1 (2.78%) Zscaler