Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 1.63% 0.85% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.80% 2.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £516 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £534 £588 -
90th Percentile £536 - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £525 £575 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 69 40 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 28.05% 34.19% 33.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 29 37
10th Percentile £190 £185 £289
25th Percentile £216 £425 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +13.64% -16.19%
75th Percentile £600 £530 £575
90th Percentile £656 £544 £673
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £350 £500 £440
% change year-on-year -30.00% +13.64% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - £9.60
25th Percentile £12.95 - £14.14
Median hourly rate £13.08 £12.92 £21.86
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -40.88% -17.47%
75th Percentile £13.21 - £26.50
90th Percentile £13.24 - -
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £13.25 £12.92 £17.71
% change year-on-year +2.55% -27.05% -33.12%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Azure AKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (75.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Architect
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (75.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Istio
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Puppet