Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 53 66
Rank change year-on-year -20 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.32% 0.38% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 1.16% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £541 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £641 £475 £425
90th Percentile £669 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £450 £607
% change year-on-year +27.78% -25.86% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 283 172 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.40% 32.89% 27.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 136 161
10th Percentile £284 £190 £250
25th Percentile £402 £364 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £451
% change year-on-year -3.00% +10.99% -9.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £33.00 - £14.08
25th Percentile £45.00 £56.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +125.96% +28.46%
75th Percentile £76.13 £60.63 £26.50
90th Percentile £76.80 - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.38 £18.07 £24.25
% change year-on-year +90.29% -25.51% +19.81%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in Birmingham

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (33.33%) Loki
1 1 (33.33%) OpenCV
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) Regular Expression
1 1 (33.33%) SpaCy
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) KYC
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) OCR
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) New Relic