Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Luton

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 3.27% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £600 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 56 10 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 36.60% 12.20% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 4 17
10th Percentile £331 - £263
25th Percentile £413 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £550
90th Percentile £600 £570 £620
Bedfordshire median daily rate £528 £500 £413
% change year-on-year +5.63% +21.21% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile - £57.50 -
25th Percentile - £61.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £67.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.05% +87.14%
75th Percentile £78.00 £73.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.50 -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £60.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.05% +177.37%

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Application Security
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Programming
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft