Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.08% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £466 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile £601 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £725 £400
% change year-on-year -24.14% +81.25% -42.86%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 94 89 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.16% 27.55% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 50 30
10th Percentile £301 £329 £160
25th Percentile £391 £355 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.65% +7.65%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £613
90th Percentile £673 £652 £702
East of England median daily rate £483 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +7.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 24
10th Percentile £16.00 - -
25th Percentile £19.81 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £15.83
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +35.61% +2.10%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £20.00
90th Percentile - - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £37.25 £21.46 £18.00
% change year-on-year +73.58% +19.22% +9.09%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in Cambridgeshire

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 12 £550 - 1
Azure AKS
East of England

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) PaaS
3 10 (83.33%) GitHub
3 10 (83.33%) GitHub Copilot
4 9 (75.00%) Azure Functions
4 9 (75.00%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Data Science Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) RESTful
2 11 (91.67%) .NET
3 10 (83.33%) PyTorch
3 10 (83.33%) Semantic Kernel
3 10 (83.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (8.33%) Pandas
4 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (83.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) AI
1 12 (100.00%) API Management
1 12 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 11 (91.67%) Agile
3 10 (83.33%) LLM
3 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (83.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 10 (83.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 10 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
4 9 (75.00%) API Design
4 9 (75.00%) Deep Learning
5 8 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (41.67%) Scrum
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (25.00%) Data Science
7 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
7 3 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
7 3 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) MCP
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) EU AI Act
2 9 (75.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (83.33%) Foundry