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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 117 135
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 +35
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 15 10 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 0.46% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 1.17% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 13
10th Percentile £406 - £403
25th Percentile £455 £520 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -6.09% -7.63%
75th Percentile £666 £560 £675
90th Percentile £751 - £725
Central London median daily rate £545 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +0.93% -6.09% -7.63%

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 762 858 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.39% 39.14% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 612 934
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £460 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £669 £671 £713
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

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 3 May 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
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (40.00%) Serverless
4 5 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (20.00%) PaaS
6 2 (13.33%) AWS
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (13.33%) GCP
6 2 (13.33%) IaaS
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Advertising
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Architect
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Architect
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
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) Kafka
3 3 (20.00%) NumPy
3 3 (20.00%) OAuth
3 3 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (20.00%) OpenID
3 3 (20.00%) Pandas
4 2 (13.33%) ARM Templates
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (13.33%) JSON
4 2 (13.33%) REST
4 2 (13.33%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (6.67%) Bootstrap
5 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
5 1 (6.67%) React
5 1 (6.67%) YAML
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
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) GitOps
4 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (26.67%) API Management
5 4 (26.67%) Cost Management
5 4 (26.67%) Microservices
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Observability
6 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Quantitative Finance
7 2 (13.33%) Agile
7 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 2 (13.33%) ITSM
7 2 (13.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Bicep
2 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (26.67%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (66.67%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks