Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 268 315
Rank change year-on-year +1 +47 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 112 105 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 0.70% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.70% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 73 69
10th Percentile £428 £401 £469
25th Percentile £488 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £675
90th Percentile £663 £735 £768
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.69 - -

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 6,309 6,182 7,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.08% 41.20% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,310 4,184 5,296
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £649 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 43 63
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.19
25th Percentile £23.50 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +20.97%
75th Percentile £50.63 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.67 £65.00 £73.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year -8.62% +22.83% +4.93%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in London

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in London

Azure AKS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure AKS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure AKS

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 21 December 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
South London +1 7 £500 -31.03%
Central London -10 7 £650 - 6
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.46%) Apache
2 3 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.89%) Confluence
3 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.89%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 109 (97.32%) Azure
2 65 (58.04%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (34.82%) Serverless
4 33 (29.46%) GitHub
5 32 (28.57%) Entra ID
6 31 (27.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 28 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
8 27 (24.11%) Azure Functions
9 26 (23.21%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (21.43%) Azure Key Vault
11 18 (16.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (13.39%) AWS
12 15 (13.39%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (12.50%) PaaS
14 11 (9.82%) Azure App Service
14 11 (9.82%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (9.82%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (8.04%) Azure Event Grid
17 8 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) Firewall
1 7 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (9.82%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.93%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.46%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.79%) Tableau
8 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.89%) Big Data
8 1 (0.89%) MySQL
8 1 (0.89%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.89%) Power BI
8 1 (0.89%) Redis
8 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (18.75%) Git
2 15 (13.39%) GitLab
3 12 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.25%) JUnit
4 7 (6.25%) Mockito
5 6 (5.36%) Liquibase
6 4 (3.57%) Maven
6 4 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.68%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.79%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.79%) JIRA
8 2 (1.79%) MSBuild
8 2 (1.79%) Postman
8 2 (1.79%) PVCS
8 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.89%) git-flow
9 1 (0.89%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.89%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.21%) Finance
3 20 (17.86%) Banking
4 14 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.36%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.79%) Law
8 2 (1.79%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Billing
9 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.89%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (33.04%) Developer
2 19 (16.96%) Azure Developer
2 19 (16.96%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (15.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (9.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 11 (9.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (8.93%) Architect
5 10 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Java Developer
6 9 (8.04%) Senior
7 8 (7.14%) Database Developer
7 8 (7.14%) Lead
7 8 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Administrator
8 7 (6.25%) Azure Administrator
8 7 (6.25%) Backend Developer
8 7 (6.25%) DBA
8 7 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Site Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.89%) .NET
1 29 (25.89%) Node.js
2 19 (16.96%) React
3 18 (16.07%) AngularJS
4 16 (14.29%) .NET Core
5 15 (13.39%) Spring
6 12 (10.71%) PyTorch
6 12 (10.71%) Spring Boot
6 12 (10.71%) TensorFlow
7 10 (8.93%) RESTful
8 9 (8.04%) REST
9 8 (7.14%) Kafka
10 7 (6.25%) ASP.NET
10 7 (6.25%) WireMock
11 6 (5.36%) ARM Templates
11 6 (5.36%) CSS
11 6 (5.36%) HTML
11 6 (5.36%) Next.js
12 5 (4.46%) Express.js
12 5 (4.46%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 37 (33.04%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.71%) AI Agents
3 10 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.68%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.89%) IoT
8 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.36%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Windows
3 3 (2.68%) VMS
4 2 (1.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (80.36%) DevOps
2 82 (73.21%) CI/CD
3 48 (42.86%) Microservices
4 46 (41.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (33.04%) Agile
6 34 (30.36%) Containerisation
7 27 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (22.32%) AI
9 23 (20.54%) Analytics
10 22 (19.64%) Machine Learning
11 20 (17.86%) Test Automation
12 18 (16.07%) Migration
13 17 (15.18%) RBAC
14 16 (14.29%) API Management
14 16 (14.29%) DevSecOps
15 15 (13.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (12.50%) Data Science
16 14 (12.50%) Event-Driven
16 14 (12.50%) Software Engineering
17 13 (11.61%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 43 (38.39%) Python
2 33 (29.46%) SQL
3 29 (25.89%) Java
4 28 (25.00%) C#
5 24 (21.43%) Bicep
6 17 (15.18%) PowerShell
7 15 (13.39%) Bash
7 15 (13.39%) JavaScript
8 13 (11.61%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.46%) Go
10 4 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (24.11%) Security Cleared
2 25 (22.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.46%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.68%) MCP
5 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.79%) CISSP
5 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.79%) Degree
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.89%) CCSP
6 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.89%) OSCP
6 1 (0.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.04%) QA
2 5 (4.46%) GDPR
2 5 (4.46%) NIST
3 4 (3.57%) EU AI Act
4 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.89%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (34.82%) Docker
2 16 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (63.39%) Kubernetes
2 59 (52.68%) Terraform
3 9 (8.04%) Grafana
4 7 (6.25%) Ansible
4 7 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.46%) Kibana
6 4 (3.57%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.68%) Argo
8 2 (1.79%) Istio
8 2 (1.79%) Opsgenie
8 2 (1.79%) Puppet
9 1 (0.89%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (45.54%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.50%) Databricks
3 13 (11.61%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.57%) Google
4 4 (3.57%) Oracle
4 4 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.57%) TIBCO
5 3 (2.68%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.79%) Avaloq
6 2 (1.79%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.79%) Foundry
6 2 (1.79%) Qualys
6 2 (1.79%) Splunk
7 1 (0.89%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.89%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.89%) Commvault
7 1 (0.89%) Confluent
7 1 (0.89%) Intel
7 1 (0.89%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.89%) Workday