Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 94 100
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 1 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.077% 0.13% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.72% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £534
25th Percentile £503 £663 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £725 £545
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% +33.03% -22.14%
75th Percentile £508 £788 £550
90th Percentile - - £560
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -8.00%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 352 277 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.04% 18.21% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 162 319
10th Percentile £220 £213 £189
25th Percentile £407 £291 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £420 £470
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% -10.64% -6.00%
75th Percentile £579 £552 £588
90th Percentile £688 £636 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 29
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £16.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.11% -18.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £46.18 £21.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £26.55 £71.71
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the East of England

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Essex - 1 £505 -
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft