Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 64 54
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +43
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 4 2 21
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.56% 0.30% 2.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 0.63% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 19
10th Percentile - £481 £475
25th Percentile - £509 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £609 £700
90th Percentile - £634 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £700 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +24.44% +2.27% +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 338 319 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 47.27% 48.19% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 223 251
10th Percentile £350 £315 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £600
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £29.10 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £33.38 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £41.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -33.87% +188.37%
75th Percentile £28.75 £69.07 -
90th Percentile - £85.61 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Leeds

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) FHIR
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Brio
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle