Azure AKS Contracts in the North of England

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 159 181 200
Rank change year-on-year +22 +19 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 7 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.084% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.28% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 19
10th Percentile £438 £418 £450
25th Percentile £459 £434 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £543 £513 £600
90th Percentile £663 £528 -
England median daily rate £476 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.33% -12.50% -

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
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 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 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
North West +21 5 £532 +1.33% 16
Yorkshire +8 2 £464 -2.26% 6
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 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) CloudBees
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) B2C
5 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (28.57%) OO
5 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
5 2 (28.57%) Product Backlog
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI