Azure AKS Contracts in the West Midlands

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 105 - 154
Rank change year-on-year - - -27
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 7 0 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% - 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% - 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 15
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £527 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.14%
75th Percentile £611 - £588
90th Percentile - - £625
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 467 917 1,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.94% 38.48% 34.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 648 896
10th Percentile £213 £297 £223
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.04% +13.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 17
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.54 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.99 £15.98 £15.04
Median hourly rate £24.25 £20.24 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% +15.66% +9.38%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £25.31 £23.75
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the West Midlands

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the West Midlands

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the West Midlands

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire - 5 £607 -
Birmingham - 1 £400 - 2
Coventry - 1 £450 -
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Azure App Service
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Hudson
1 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Angular Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) AngularJS
2 5 (71.43%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) User Experience
3 5 (71.43%) UX Design
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) A/B Testing
5 1 (14.29%) API Management
5 1 (14.29%) B2C
5 1 (14.29%) Canary Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
5 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bicep
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Argo
1 1 (14.29%) Istio
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) linkerd
1 1 (14.29%) SELinux
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat