Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 0.66% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £505 - -

All Cloud Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 23 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 21.71% 23.00% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 58
10th Percentile £372 £180 £288
25th Percentile £425 £216 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £385 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.75% -14.44% +7.14%
75th Percentile £563 £501 £530
90th Percentile £625 £560 £575
East Midlands median daily rate £436 £450 £453
% change year-on-year -3.11% -0.66% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £12.30
25th Percentile £20.25 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.42%
75th Percentile £20.75 - £15.00
90th Percentile - - £20.25
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £29.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -26.24% +75.76% +6.45%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Leicester - 1 £575 - 3
Azure AKS
East Midlands

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks