Azure AKS Contracts in the North of England

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 192 218
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 -44
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 4 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.086% 0.37% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 1.01% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 23
10th Percentile £418 £450 £415
25th Percentile £434 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £513 £600 £644
90th Percentile £528 - £735
England median daily rate £540 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,363 2,077 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.25% 36.39% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,552 1,901
10th Percentile £263 £300 £195
25th Percentile £375 £414 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £687 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 36 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.80 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.65% +112.27% -1.32%
75th Percentile £21.69 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £20.97 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -35.08% +51.55% +0.95%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the North of England

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the North of England

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Yorkshire +11 2 £475 -13.64% 3
North West +20 1 £525 +10.53% 2
North East - 1 £413 -
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Akamai
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Extreme Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler