Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 2 0 18
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.52% - 3.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% - 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £488 - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £525
75th Percentile £513 - £675
90th Percentile - - £775
South West median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -16.00%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 187 158 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 48.95% 39.70% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 94 123
10th Percentile £225 £460 £403
25th Percentile £428 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £647 £688
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -6.76% -2.50% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 15
10th Percentile £31.53 £30.00 £20.55
25th Percentile £31.56 £30.75 £43.63
Median hourly rate £33.76 £33.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -57.69% -18.96%
75th Percentile £35.51 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £35.80 - £80.70
South West median hourly rate £20.69 £67.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -69.36% +200.00% -59.09%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Azure AKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Gloucester - 1 £500 - 2
Azure AKS
South West

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft