Azure AKS Contracts in London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Azure AKS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure AKS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 304 356
Rank change year-on-year -39 +52 -21
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 51 206 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.76% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 1.95% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 131 176
10th Percentile £473 £463 £475
25th Percentile £513 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £700
90th Percentile £768 £800 £750
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
London

Azure AKS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,678 10,550 16,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.70% 39.01% 41.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,925 7,702 12,100
10th Percentile £341 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £781 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 90 86
10th Percentile £17.78 £20.00 £16.08
25th Percentile £21.06 £24.63 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +5.50%
75th Percentile £38.28 £70.00 £61.44
90th Percentile £62.13 £88.30 £79.13
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in London

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in London

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in London

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Central London +6 10 £540 -11.84% 2
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.96%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 48 (94.12%) Azure
2 20 (39.22%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (37.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 16 (31.37%) AWS
5 14 (27.45%) Serverless
6 11 (21.57%) Azure Functions
7 10 (19.61%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (19.61%) GitHub
8 9 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (13.73%) Azure App Service
9 7 (13.73%) Azure Event Grid
10 6 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (11.76%) GCP
11 4 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (5.88%) PaaS
13 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) DHCP
1 1 (1.96%) DNS
1 1 (1.96%) Firewall
1 1 (1.96%) IPv4
1 1 (1.96%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.96%) LAN
1 1 (1.96%) VPN
1 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) NoSQL
1 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.88%) Redis
4 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.92%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.92%) MySQL
4 2 (3.92%) Power BI
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Cypress.io
1 9 (17.65%) JMeter
2 5 (9.80%) Git
3 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.92%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.96%) GitLab
5 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 15 (29.41%) Finance
2 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Banking
4 3 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Advertising
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Electronics
6 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) Azure Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Senior
6 5 (9.80%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) .NET Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Azure Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Security Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Software Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (35.29%) Kafka
2 13 (25.49%) .NET
3 12 (23.53%) Node.js
4 9 (17.65%) .NET Core
4 9 (17.65%) React
5 8 (15.69%) YAML
6 2 (3.92%) ADO
7 1 (1.96%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.96%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Machine to Machine
2 6 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.84%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) PKI
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (37.25%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 6 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (54.90%) DevOps
2 21 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 15 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
4 14 (27.45%) Agile
5 10 (19.61%) Microservices
6 9 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (13.73%) Architectural Design
8 7 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (9.80%) Containerisation
9 5 (9.80%) Event-Driven
9 5 (9.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.80%) Test Automation
10 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 3 (5.88%) Asset Management
11 3 (5.88%) Cloud Security
11 3 (5.88%) Developer Relations
11 3 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (43.14%) Python
2 11 (21.57%) C#
3 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 7 (13.73%) SQL
5 4 (7.84%) Java
5 4 (7.84%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.88%) Bash
6 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.92%) Groovy
7 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.96%) C
8 1 (1.96%) C++
8 1 (1.96%) Go
8 1 (1.96%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.96%) MCSA
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (37.25%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (82.35%) Kubernetes
2 30 (58.82%) Terraform
3 9 (17.65%) Argo
4 6 (11.76%) Grafana
5 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.88%) Ansible
7 1 (1.96%) Consul
7 1 (1.96%) Nessus
7 1 (1.96%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.92%) Databricks
3 2 (3.92%) New Relic
3 2 (3.92%) VMware
4 1 (1.96%) Citrix
4 1 (1.96%) Confluent
4 1 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.96%) Google
4 1 (1.96%) HP
4 1 (1.96%) IBM
4 1 (1.96%) Informatica
4 1 (1.96%) SAP
4 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.96%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.96%) TOWER Software