Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.083% - 0.075%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.67%
75th Percentile £675 - £623
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £425 £531 £488
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.97% -5.34%

All Cloud Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 255 213 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.20% 20.66% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 171 203
10th Percentile £238 £356 £381
25th Percentile £375 £413 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% +4.29%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £636
90th Percentile £650 £675 £670
South East median daily rate £480 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -6.80% -1.90% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 15
10th Percentile £12.18 - £19.45
25th Percentile £18.50 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.60%
75th Percentile £27.50 - £40.38
90th Percentile £30.00 - £67.00
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £29.66
% change year-on-year -55.60% +43.29% +42.19%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Basingstoke - 1 £650 -
Azure AKS
South East

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk