Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
North West > Manchester
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 | 75 | 95 | 115 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +20 | +20 | +16 |
| Contract jobs citing Azure AKS | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester | 0.43% | 0.066% | 0.16% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 1.05% | 0.18% | 0.41% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 10th Percentile | £445 | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £485 | £513 | £463 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £532 | £525 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +1.33% | +10.53% | -17.39% |
| 75th Percentile | £606 | £538 | £488 |
| 90th Percentile | £708 | - | - |
| North West median daily rate | £532 | £525 | £475 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.33% | +10.53% | -22.45% |
All Cloud Skills
Manchester
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 Manchester.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 380 | 558 | 739 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester | 41.04% | 36.78% | 39.04% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 304 | 440 | 554 |
| 10th Percentile | £313 | £313 | £325 |
| 25th Percentile | £404 | £406 | £425 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £475 | £500 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -5.00% | - | -4.76% |
| 75th Percentile | £567 | £570 | £588 |
| 90th Percentile | £654 | £650 | £650 |
| North West median daily rate | £473 | £487 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | -3.03% | -2.55% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 3 | 13 | 18 |
| 10th Percentile | £36.70 | £18.18 | £20.00 |
| 25th Percentile | £48.25 | £22.25 | £28.44 |
| Median hourly rate | £70.00 | £26.00 | £65.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +169.23% | -60.00% | +271.43% |
| 75th Percentile | £80.63 | £71.87 | £70.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £85.50 | £72.50 | - |
| North West median hourly rate | £28.88 | £16.06 | £37.30 |
| % change year-on-year | +79.79% | -56.94% | +100.62% |
Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester
Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.
Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in Manchester.
Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.
Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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: