Azure AKS Contracts in the City of London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 108 123
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +57
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 15 15 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.82% 0.71% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 1.70% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 11
10th Percentile £461 £576 £525
25th Percentile £533 £619 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +8.33% -3.61%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £751 - £725
Central London median daily rate £545 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -16.15% +8.33% -

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 773 884 1,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.43% 41.58% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 617 932
10th Percentile £363 £363 £301
25th Percentile £461 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £589
Median % change year-on-year - -6.58% +2.39%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 10
10th Percentile £24.02 - £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £12.75 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £27.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.87% -60.00% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 - £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £40.95 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +28.33% -48.57% +26.51%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the City of London

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the City of London

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the City of London

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (33.33%) Serverless
5 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
5 4 (26.67%) PaaS
6 3 (20.00%) GitHub
6 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (20.00%) IaaS
6 3 (20.00%) SaaS
7 2 (13.33%) AWS
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (13.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) git-flow
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Advertising
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Architect
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) NumPy
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
3 2 (13.33%) OpenID
3 2 (13.33%) Pandas
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
4 1 (6.67%) ADO
4 1 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) Reinsurance
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) API Management
3 4 (26.67%) Cost Management
3 4 (26.67%) Observability
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (20.00%) High Availability
4 3 (20.00%) Log Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (13.33%) ITSM
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Service Management
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Bicep
2 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Terraform
2 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
3 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (13.33%) Istio
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (6.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Meraki
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.67%) OpenAI