Azure AKS Contracts in Central London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 133 170
Rank change year-on-year +13 +37 -14
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 10 43 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.41% 1.12% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 2.90% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 21
10th Percentile - £403 £504
25th Percentile £520 £521 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £623
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -7.63% +6.87%
75th Percentile £560 £675 £645
90th Percentile - £725 £750
London median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 960 1,481 1,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.57% 38.42% 43.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 1,007 1,594
10th Percentile £350 £313 £388
25th Percentile £430 £456 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £679
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £24.20 -
25th Percentile £17.39 £35.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +379.16% -26.58%
75th Percentile £24.56 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £33.98 - £47.78
London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.25 £37.25
% change year-on-year -37.89% +8.05% +4.93%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in Central London

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in Central London

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London +17 10 £540 -6.09% 2
Azure AKS
London

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub
3 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (50.00%) Serverless
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 5 (50.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
2 5 (50.00%) Node.js
2 5 (50.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) API Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) C#
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (90.00%) Terraform
3 5 (50.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft