Azure AKS Contracts in Leeds

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 62 77
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 1 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.18% 0.40% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 1.15% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile - £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +3.29%
75th Percentile - £569 £575
90th Percentile - £618 £576
West Yorkshire median daily rate - £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 278 262 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 49.20% 34.93% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 277
10th Percentile £325 £288 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +1.94%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £600 £638 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.07 - -
25th Percentile £45.03 - -
Median hourly rate £62.40 - -
75th Percentile £82.53 - -
90th Percentile £92.15 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 - -

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in Leeds

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in Leeds

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft