Azure AKS Contracts in Berkshire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 106 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Azure AKS 17 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.44% 0.24% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.87% 0.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 0
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £413 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 -
75th Percentile £460 £450 -
90th Percentile £488 - -
South East median daily rate £425 £625 £614
% change year-on-year -32.00% +1.83% +6.74%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 439 454 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.20% 26.83% 29.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 315 365
10th Percentile £350 £363 £340
25th Percentile £447 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £663
90th Percentile £664 £667 £719
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 13
10th Percentile - £19.74 £16.92
25th Percentile £14.75 £31.13 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +21.43% +66.47%
75th Percentile £32.12 £60.44 £64.50
90th Percentile £40.13 £61.44 £77.75
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -37.27% +9.09% +37.50%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in Berkshire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure AKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in Berkshire

Azure AKS
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham - 15 £425 - 1
Reading +23 2 £363 -14.71%
Azure AKS
South East

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (88.24%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (64.71%) Azure Storage
4 8 (47.06%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (47.06%) IaaS
4 8 (47.06%) PaaS
5 7 (41.18%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (17.65%) Azure Table
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
6 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
7 2 (11.76%) Azure App Service
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.88%) Twilio
8 1 (5.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (17.65%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (5.88%) Finance
1 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 10 (58.82%) Azure Engineer
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (58.82%) Site Engineer
1 10 (58.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
2 1 (5.88%) Consultant
2 1 (5.88%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) ADO
2 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) .NET Core
2 4 (23.53%) ARM Templates
3 2 (11.76%) PyTorch
3 2 (11.76%) REST
3 2 (11.76%) scikit-learn
3 2 (11.76%) TensorFlow
4 1 (5.88%) Express.js
4 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.88%) FHIR
4 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.88%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) DevOps
2 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 14 (82.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Incident Management
5 5 (29.41%) Observability
6 4 (23.53%) Identity Management
7 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) MLOps
7 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.76%) Budgeting
8 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
8 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (11.76%) Cost Management
8 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
8 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
8 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) Bicep
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
4 4 (23.53%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) Bash
6 2 (11.76%) R
7 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) HL7
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (23.53%) Grafana
5 2 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft