Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.58% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £454 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - -
75th Percentile £560 - -
90th Percentile £592 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -15.38%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 255 196 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.75% 26.92% 36.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 109 238
10th Percentile £301 £248 £213
25th Percentile £363 £356 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £450 £452
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -0.33% -8.79%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £530
90th Percentile £625 £620 £616
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 22
10th Percentile £17.91 £14.91 £12.08
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.00 £13.04
Median hourly rate £21.39 £29.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +75.76% +6.45%
75th Percentile - £43.51 £59.69
90th Percentile - £50.40 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure AKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the East Midlands

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Derbyshire - 2 £413 - 1
Leicestershire - 1 £575 - 5
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 4
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) Express.js
1 1 (20.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (40.00%) Cost Management
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Service Management
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Product Management
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow