Azure AKS Contracts in England

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 457 393
Rank change year-on-year +124 -64 +34
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 152 85 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.23% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 0.72% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 58 196
10th Percentile £370 £406 £450
25th Percentile £413 £450 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £605 £611 £688
90th Percentile £681 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £464 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -9.56% -14.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - - £71.00
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.50

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in England

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in England

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in England

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +96 109 £480 -12.73% 49
South East +57 25 £448 -0.56% 22
North of England +22 7 £490 +3.16% 23
North West +21 5 £532 +1.33% 16
Midlands +18 3 £450 -25.86% 10
West Midlands +9 2 £450 -25.86% 9
Yorkshire +8 2 £464 -2.26% 6
East of England +30 1 £751 +87.75% 8
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.92%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 2 (1.32%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.32%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 135 (88.82%) Azure
2 62 (40.79%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (25.66%) Serverless
4 34 (22.37%) Azure Monitor
5 33 (21.71%) Azure Sentinel
6 28 (18.42%) Entra ID
7 27 (17.76%) PaaS
8 21 (13.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (12.50%) GitHub
10 17 (11.18%) Azure Functions
11 16 (10.53%) AWS
11 16 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (9.87%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (8.55%) IaaS
14 12 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (7.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (7.24%) SaaS
16 9 (5.92%) Azure Machine Learning
17 8 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.55%) DNS
2 11 (7.24%) Firewall
3 8 (5.26%) Network Security
4 3 (1.97%) FTP
4 3 (1.97%) HTTP
4 3 (1.97%) SMTP
4 3 (1.97%) SSL
4 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.18%) SQL Server
2 14 (9.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (9.21%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.61%) Big Data
3 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.95%) Power BI
5 5 (3.29%) Apache Hive
5 5 (3.29%) Redis
6 4 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.32%) OLTP
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.66%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (9.21%) Jenkins
2 13 (8.55%) GitLab
3 8 (5.26%) Git
4 5 (3.29%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.32%) JIRA
6 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.66%) Gradle
6 1 (0.66%) Maven
6 1 (0.66%) Selenium
6 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.66%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (32.24%) Finance
2 33 (21.71%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.18%) Banking
4 12 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.63%) Retail
7 4 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.97%) Marketing
9 2 (1.32%) Electronics
9 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.32%) Publishing
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (29.61%) Azure Engineer
2 38 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (16.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 23 (15.13%) Architect
5 15 (9.87%) Developer
6 14 (9.21%) Python Engineer
7 12 (7.89%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 11 (7.24%) Azure Architect
8 11 (7.24%) Site Engineer
8 11 (7.24%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.92%) Python Software Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Senior
11 7 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.95%) Backend Developer
12 6 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) PowerShell Engineer
13 5 (3.29%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.47%) Kafka
2 19 (12.50%) .NET
2 19 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 18 (11.84%) OAuth
3 18 (11.84%) REST
4 17 (11.18%) OpenTelemetry
5 16 (10.53%) OpenID
6 13 (8.55%) OAuth2
7 12 (7.89%) RESTful
8 11 (7.24%) YAML
9 9 (5.92%) JSON
9 9 (5.92%) Node.js
9 9 (5.92%) NumPy
9 9 (5.92%) Pandas
10 8 (5.26%) GraphQL
10 8 (5.26%) React
11 6 (3.95%) ADO
12 5 (3.29%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.29%) Prisma
13 4 (2.63%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.11%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.92%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.61%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.95%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.97%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.32%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.32%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.32%) IoT
9 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.66%) Derivative
10 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.66%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.16%) Linux
2 13 (8.55%) Windows
3 5 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.32%) Solaris
5 1 (0.66%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.66%) SUSE
5 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (62.50%) DevOps
2 78 (51.32%) CI/CD
3 58 (38.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (21.71%) Containerisation
6 31 (20.39%) Agile
7 29 (19.08%) Microservices
8 25 (16.45%) Software Engineering
9 22 (14.47%) Cost Management
10 21 (13.82%) Test Automation
11 20 (13.16%) Observability
11 20 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (11.84%) Analytics
12 18 (11.84%) API Management
12 18 (11.84%) Event-Driven
12 18 (11.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 16 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (9.21%) DevSecOps
14 14 (9.21%) Log Analytics
15 13 (8.55%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (32.89%) Python
2 47 (30.92%) PowerShell
3 40 (26.32%) C#
4 37 (24.34%) Bicep
5 26 (17.11%) JavaScript
6 25 (16.45%) SQL
7 24 (15.79%) Java
8 17 (11.18%) Bash
9 10 (6.58%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (4.61%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.63%) Scala
11 4 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.97%) Go
13 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.32%) R
14 1 (0.66%) Groovy
14 1 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.61%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.95%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.63%) Degree
4 4 (2.63%) OCP
4 4 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (3.29%) GDPR
3 4 (2.63%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.97%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.32%) QA
6 1 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (18.42%) Docker
2 12 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 119 (78.29%) Kubernetes
2 76 (50.00%) Terraform
3 13 (8.55%) Ansible
3 13 (8.55%) Grafana
4 11 (7.24%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.63%) Puppet
5 4 (2.63%) Salt
6 3 (1.97%) Argo
7 1 (0.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 38 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.53%) Databricks
3 11 (7.24%) Cloudera
4 8 (5.26%) Qualys
5 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.32%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.32%) SAP
6 2 (1.32%) Spotify
6 2 (1.32%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.32%) VMware
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco
7 1 (0.66%) Citrix
7 1 (0.66%) IBM
7 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.66%) Remedy
7 1 (0.66%) Sonatype
7 1 (0.66%) Splunk
7 1 (0.66%) Veritas