Azure AKS Contracts in England

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure AKS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure AKS over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 390 438
Rank change year-on-year -70 +48 -13
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 81 284 403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.57% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 1.56% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 197 267
10th Percentile £425 £450 £458
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £611 £688 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £71.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £68.50 -

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure AKS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,751 18,255 27,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 36.55% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,494 13,351 20,143
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 309 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%
75th Percentile £32.31 £65.75 £42.88
90th Percentile £61.72 £78.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 -34 51 £550 -15.38% 35
South East +3 10 £450 -12.62% 13
Midlands +33 7 £607 +12.93% 5
West Midlands - 7 £607 - 2
South West +21 4 £500 -18.37% 3
North of England +15 4 £475 -7.32% 6
Yorkshire +5 2 £475 -13.64% 3
North West +24 1 £525 +10.53% 3
North East - 1 £413 -
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 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.23%) Confluence
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.23%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 76 (93.83%) Azure
2 36 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (28.40%) AWS
3 23 (28.40%) Azure Service Bus
4 17 (20.99%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (20.99%) Serverless
5 13 (16.05%) Azure App Service
5 13 (16.05%) GitHub
6 12 (14.81%) Azure Functions
7 11 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (13.58%) PaaS
8 9 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (11.11%) GCP
9 8 (9.88%) Azure Event Grid
10 6 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.94%) IaaS
12 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) DNS
1 2 (2.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) DHCP
2 1 (1.23%) IPv4
2 1 (1.23%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.23%) LAN
2 1 (1.23%) Network Security
2 1 (1.23%) VPN
2 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.64%) Redis
3 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.94%) GIS
5 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.47%) Power BI
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.23%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.23%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.23%) MySQL
6 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) JMeter
2 9 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 8 (9.88%) Git
3 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.41%) GitLab
5 2 (2.47%) JIRA
5 2 (2.47%) Snyk
5 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.23%) Hudson
6 1 (1.23%) Maven
6 1 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.23%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.23%) TestCafe
6 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Finance
3 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.41%) Banking
4 3 (3.70%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Advertising
6 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Electronics
6 1 (1.23%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.23%) Legal
6 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.23%) Marketing
6 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 21 (25.93%) Developer
3 18 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (14.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 12 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (12.35%) Senior
6 6 (7.41%) C# Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) .NET Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Angular Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Azure Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) GIS Developer
9 3 (3.70%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.93%) .NET
2 19 (23.46%) Kafka
3 15 (18.52%) Node.js
4 13 (16.05%) React
5 10 (12.35%) .NET Core
6 9 (11.11%) YAML
7 5 (6.17%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.17%) RESTful
8 4 (4.94%) Celery
8 4 (4.94%) Django
8 4 (4.94%) GeoPandas
8 4 (4.94%) OpenLayers
8 4 (4.94%) PostGIS
9 2 (2.47%) ADO
9 2 (2.47%) Flask
10 1 (1.23%) CSS3
10 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.23%) HTML5
10 1 (1.23%) PySpark
10 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.64%) Machine to Machine
2 7 (8.64%) Public Cloud
3 6 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.94%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.23%) IoT
7 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.23%) PKI
7 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.23%) Replication
7 1 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 25 (30.86%) Linux
2 9 (11.11%) Windows
3 7 (8.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (60.49%) DevOps
2 31 (38.27%) CI/CD
3 21 (25.93%) Agile
4 18 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (22.22%) Microservices
4 18 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 10 (12.35%) Software Engineering
7 9 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 8 (9.88%) Architectural Design
9 7 (8.64%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (7.41%) Critical Thinking
10 6 (7.41%) Event-Driven
10 6 (7.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (7.41%) Scrum
10 6 (7.41%) User Experience
10 6 (7.41%) UX Design
11 4 (4.94%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.27%) Python
2 22 (27.16%) C#
3 18 (22.22%) SQL
4 12 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 10 (12.35%) TypeScript
6 9 (11.11%) Bicep
7 6 (7.41%) Java
8 5 (6.17%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.17%) T-SQL
9 4 (4.94%) Bash
9 4 (4.94%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.70%) Groovy
11 1 (1.23%) C
11 1 (1.23%) C++
11 1 (1.23%) Go
11 1 (1.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.17%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.70%) Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.23%) MCSA
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) QA
2 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (28.40%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 56 (69.14%) Kubernetes
2 38 (46.91%) Terraform
3 12 (14.81%) Argo
4 7 (8.64%) Grafana
5 6 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.94%) Ansible
7 1 (1.23%) Consul
7 1 (1.23%) Istio
7 1 (1.23%) linkerd
7 1 (1.23%) Nessus
7 1 (1.23%) Packer
7 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.23%) Puppet
7 1 (1.23%) SELinux
7 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.94%) VMware
4 2 (2.47%) Databricks
5 1 (1.23%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.23%) Citrix
5 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.23%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.23%) Google
5 1 (1.23%) HP
5 1 (1.23%) IBM
5 1 (1.23%) Informatica
5 1 (1.23%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.23%) New Relic
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle
5 1 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.23%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.23%) Zscaler