Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 24 34
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.23% 1.00% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 2.04% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £460
25th Percentile - £688 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +45.00% -
75th Percentile - £763 £525
90th Percentile - - £540
South London median daily rate £500 £725 £500
% change year-on-year -31.03% +45.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 51 49 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 62.96% 49.00% 64.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 78
10th Percentile £461 £380 £367
25th Percentile £479 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -8.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £566 £548 £656
90th Percentile £682 £684 £675
South London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.16% -9.52% -4.55%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Croydon

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI