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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 441 383
Rank change year-on-year +100 -58 +44
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 145 95 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.26% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 0.81% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 65 191
10th Percentile £370 £414 £463
25th Percentile £413 £463 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £599 £626 £706
90th Percentile £713 £675 £813
UK median daily rate £471 £537 £600
% change year-on-year -12.30% -10.58% -
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 - £110.00 £68.50
% change year-on-year - +60.58% -

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 9,107 11,765 17,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.58% 32.01% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,242 8,481 12,617
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 319 290
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.01 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.03% -38.94% +62.79%
75th Percentile £36.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.60 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £21.37 £37.00
% change year-on-year +31.02% -42.24% +65.18%

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 31 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 31 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 +88 103 £500 -9.09% 58
South East +59 25 £433 -3.89% 12
North of England +17 6 £466 -6.80% 20
North West +12 4 £514 -8.62% 15
Midlands +8 3 £450 -25.86% 6
Yorkshire +12 2 £464 -2.26% 4
West Midlands +7 2 £450 -25.86% 6
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
East of England - 1 £751 - 4
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 6 (4.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.38%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.38%) Confluence
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 126 (86.90%) Azure
2 62 (42.76%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (26.21%) Serverless
4 37 (25.52%) Azure Monitor
5 31 (21.38%) Entra ID
5 31 (21.38%) PaaS
6 30 (20.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 22 (15.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (14.48%) IaaS
9 19 (13.10%) GitHub
10 16 (11.03%) AWS
11 15 (10.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (9.66%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (9.66%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (9.66%) Azure Storage
13 12 (8.28%) Azure Functions
13 12 (8.28%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (8.28%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (8.28%) SaaS
14 11 (7.59%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.66%) Firewall
2 11 (7.59%) DNS
3 6 (4.14%) SSL
4 4 (2.76%) Network Security
5 3 (2.07%) FTP
5 3 (2.07%) HTTP
5 3 (2.07%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.07%) SMTP
5 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.69%) SMS
6 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (11.03%) SQL Server
3 15 (10.34%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.52%) Power BI
5 4 (2.76%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.76%) Big Data
6 3 (2.07%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.38%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.38%) OLTP
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.69%) Parquet
8 1 (0.69%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.69%) Redis
8 1 (0.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 13 (8.97%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.28%) GitLab
3 9 (6.21%) Git
4 4 (2.76%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.07%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.38%) Gradle
6 2 (1.38%) JIRA
6 2 (1.38%) Maven
6 2 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.69%) git-flow
7 1 (0.69%) Selenium
7 1 (0.69%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (30.34%) Finance
2 32 (22.07%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.72%) Banking
4 10 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Retail
8 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (28.28%) Azure Engineer
2 38 (26.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (16.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 23 (15.86%) Architect
5 18 (12.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 16 (11.03%) Site Engineer
7 15 (10.34%) Azure Architect
8 14 (9.66%) Python Engineer
9 13 (8.97%) Developer
10 11 (7.59%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (6.90%) Software Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Python Software Engineer
12 9 (6.21%) Senior
13 7 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (4.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 6 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
15 5 (3.45%) Azure Developer
15 5 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
15 5 (3.45%) Senior Architect
15 5 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.17%) ARM Templates
2 21 (14.48%) Kafka
2 21 (14.48%) REST
3 19 (13.10%) .NET
4 17 (11.72%) OAuth
5 16 (11.03%) OpenTelemetry
6 15 (10.34%) OpenID
7 13 (8.97%) ADO
8 12 (8.28%) OAuth2
9 10 (6.90%) YAML
10 9 (6.21%) JSON
10 9 (6.21%) React
10 9 (6.21%) RESTful
11 8 (5.52%) Node.js
11 8 (5.52%) NumPy
11 8 (5.52%) Pandas
12 7 (4.83%) .NET Core
13 6 (4.14%) GraphQL
14 4 (2.76%) Azure Blueprints
14 4 (2.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.52%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.83%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (4.83%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.45%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.76%) Reinsurance
8 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.38%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.38%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.38%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.38%) Wiki
10 1 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.69%) IoT
10 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.24%) Linux
2 12 (8.28%) Windows
3 4 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.07%) Solaris
5 1 (0.69%) Android
5 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.69%) SUSE
5 1 (0.69%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (64.14%) DevOps
2 75 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 65 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (22.07%) Agile
6 30 (20.69%) Containerisation
7 29 (20.00%) Microservices
8 28 (19.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 23 (15.86%) Observability
10 22 (15.17%) Software Engineering
11 21 (14.48%) Test Automation
12 20 (13.79%) API Management
12 20 (13.79%) Cost Management
13 17 (11.72%) Analytics
14 15 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
14 15 (10.34%) Log Analytics
15 14 (9.66%) Event-Driven
15 14 (9.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 14 (9.66%) Full-Stack Development
16 13 (8.97%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (35.86%) Python
2 47 (32.41%) PowerShell
3 37 (25.52%) Bicep
3 37 (25.52%) C#
4 31 (21.38%) SQL
5 23 (15.86%) JavaScript
6 20 (13.79%) Java
7 19 (13.10%) Bash
8 8 (5.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.45%) Go
9 5 (3.45%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.76%) Scala
10 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.38%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.38%) Rust
12 1 (0.69%) Groovy
12 1 (0.69%) PHP
12 1 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (7.59%) Azure Certification
1 11 (7.59%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.76%) Degree
4 4 (2.76%) OCP
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (4.14%) GDPR
3 5 (3.45%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.07%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.07%) QA
5 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.69%) HL7
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (17.24%) Docker
2 13 (8.97%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 116 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 82 (56.55%) Terraform
3 16 (11.03%) Ansible
3 16 (11.03%) Grafana
4 14 (9.66%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.45%) Argo
6 4 (2.76%) Puppet
6 4 (2.76%) Salt
7 2 (1.38%) Istio
8 1 (0.69%) Kibana
8 1 (0.69%) Rancher
8 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (28.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.28%) Databricks
3 7 (4.83%) Cloudera
4 4 (2.76%) Google
4 4 (2.76%) Qualys
4 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.07%) Virgin Media
6 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.38%) Spotify
7 1 (0.69%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.69%) IBM
7 1 (0.69%) Remedy
7 1 (0.69%) Sonatype
7 1 (0.69%) Splunk
7 1 (0.69%) Veritas
7 1 (0.69%) VMware