Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 0.90% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 98 37 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 44.34% 33.94% 36.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 30 28
10th Percentile £331 £352 £283
25th Percentile £384 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £423 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -4.94% -11.00%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £483
90th Percentile £575 £556 £518
Northamptonshire median daily rate £447 £435 £445
% change year-on-year +2.88% -2.36% -8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Median hourly rate - £14.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £14.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -20.99%

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Rust
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft