Azure AKS Contracts in London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 340 296
Rank change year-on-year +96 -44 +49
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 109 51 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.87% 0.29% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.05% 0.76% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 29 131
10th Percentile £366 £473 £463
25th Percentile £409 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £725
90th Percentile £718 £768 £800
England median daily rate £476 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.33% -12.50% -

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Central London +9 15 £545 +0.93% 3
West London - 2 £409 - 1
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 7 (6.42%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 97 (88.99%) Azure
2 43 (39.45%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (25.69%) Serverless
4 27 (24.77%) Azure Sentinel
5 26 (23.85%) Azure Monitor
6 19 (17.43%) Entra ID
7 18 (16.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (15.60%) PaaS
9 16 (14.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 14 (12.84%) Azure Functions
10 14 (12.84%) GitHub
11 13 (11.93%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (11.01%) AWS
13 11 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (6.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (6.42%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (5.50%) SaaS
17 4 (3.67%) Azure Machine Learning
17 4 (3.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.93%) DNS
2 11 (10.09%) Firewall
3 4 (3.67%) Network Security
4 3 (2.75%) FTP
4 3 (2.75%) HTTP
4 3 (2.75%) SMTP
4 3 (2.75%) SSL
4 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.76%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.93%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.59%) Apache Hive
3 5 (4.59%) Big Data
4 4 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.67%) Power BI
5 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.75%) Redis
6 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.83%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.83%) OLTP
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (9.17%) GitLab
2 7 (6.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.59%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.75%) Git
5 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.92%) Gradle
5 1 (0.92%) JIRA
5 1 (0.92%) Maven
5 1 (0.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (38.53%) Finance
2 23 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.76%) Banking
4 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.34%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.67%) Retail
8 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.83%) Publishing
9 1 (0.92%) Advertising
9 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Marketing
9 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (30.28%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (22.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (14.68%) Architect
4 15 (13.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.93%) Python Engineer
6 10 (9.17%) Software Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Azure Architect
7 8 (7.34%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (7.34%) Python Software Engineer
8 7 (6.42%) Developer
9 6 (5.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) PowerShell Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) Senior
9 6 (5.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) Site Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.67%) C# Software Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.18%) Kafka
2 17 (15.60%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (13.76%) OAuth
4 14 (12.84%) ARM Templates
4 14 (12.84%) REST
5 13 (11.93%) .NET
5 13 (11.93%) OAuth2
5 13 (11.93%) OpenID
6 9 (8.26%) NumPy
6 9 (8.26%) Pandas
6 9 (8.26%) RESTful
6 9 (8.26%) YAML
7 8 (7.34%) JSON
8 6 (5.50%) GraphQL
9 5 (4.59%) Node.js
10 4 (3.67%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.67%) React
11 3 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.75%) Spring
11 3 (2.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.35%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.26%) Data Centre
3 7 (6.42%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.67%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.67%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.83%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.83%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.92%) Derivative
8 1 (0.92%) IoT
8 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.60%) Linux
2 12 (11.01%) Windows
3 4 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Android
4 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Solaris
4 1 (0.92%) SUSE
4 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (62.39%) DevOps
2 52 (47.71%) CI/CD
3 47 (43.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (24.77%) Microservices
5 23 (21.10%) Agile
6 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (18.35%) Test Automation
7 19 (17.43%) Software Engineering
8 18 (16.51%) Containerisation
9 15 (13.76%) API Management
9 15 (13.76%) Cost Management
10 14 (12.84%) Analytics
10 14 (12.84%) Observability
11 13 (11.93%) Event-Driven
11 13 (11.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 12 (11.01%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (11.01%) GitOps
13 11 (10.09%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (10.09%) Quantitative Finance
14 10 (9.17%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 38 (34.86%) PowerShell
2 34 (31.19%) Python
3 32 (29.36%) C#
4 27 (24.77%) Bicep
5 21 (19.27%) JavaScript
6 19 (17.43%) Java
7 12 (11.01%) Bash
8 10 (9.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (9.17%) SQL
9 5 (4.59%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.67%) Scala
11 2 (1.83%) Go
11 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (7.34%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.83%) Degree
3 2 (1.83%) OCP
3 2 (1.83%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (3.67%) GDPR
3 3 (2.75%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.75%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.83%) QA
5 1 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (13.76%) Docker
2 7 (6.42%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (75.23%) Kubernetes
2 59 (54.13%) Terraform
3 8 (7.34%) Grafana
4 7 (6.42%) Ansible
5 5 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.67%) Puppet
6 4 (3.67%) Salt
7 3 (2.75%) Argo
8 1 (0.92%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.93%) Databricks
3 11 (10.09%) Cloudera
4 4 (3.67%) Qualys
4 4 (3.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.83%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.92%) Cisco
6 1 (0.92%) Citrix
6 1 (0.92%) IBM
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.92%) Remedy
6 1 (0.92%) Sonatype
6 1 (0.92%) Splunk
6 1 (0.92%) VMware