Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 37 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.40% 0.75% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.49% 2.44% -
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 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £525 £575 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 89 41 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 31.12% 30.60% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 30 40
10th Percentile £163 £185 £284
25th Percentile £199 £431 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £523 £530 £591
90th Percentile £656 £545 £726
East Midlands median daily rate £437 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -2.94% +2.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £12.95 - £10.59
25th Percentile £13.02 - £16.63
Median hourly rate £13.25 £12.92 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -27.05% -33.12%
75th Percentile £13.47 - £26.50
90th Percentile £16.75 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.48 £14.80 £17.17
% change year-on-year -2.16% -13.83% +10.77%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. 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
Nottingham -10 4 £525 -8.70% 4
Azure AKS
East Midlands

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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