Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.98% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £580 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £751 -
% change year-on-year -26.76% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 107 99 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.05% 29.38% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 68 54
10th Percentile £193 £413 £258
25th Percentile £406 £472 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £638
90th Percentile £713 £675 £709
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 1
10th Percentile £17.16 - -
25th Percentile £17.81 £16.95 -
Median hourly rate £18.90 £21.28 £14.41
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +47.68% -76.94%
75th Percentile £21.01 £26.41 -
90th Percentile £22.28 £31.64 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.72 £18.31 £16.30
% change year-on-year +18.60% +12.33% -25.91%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in Hertfordshire

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 5 June 2026. 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
Watford - 7 £550 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £650 - 1
Azure AKS
East of England

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (50.00%) Serverless
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
5 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (12.50%) Datadog
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (12.50%) TimescaleDB
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Python Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Science
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) AI
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform