Azure AKS Contracts in Reading

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 48 80 79
Rank change year-on-year +32 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 12 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 0.92% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.97% 2.98% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 5
10th Percentile £380 £375 £455
25th Percentile £409 £408 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £450 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -11.42% +1.60%
75th Percentile £578 £463 £515
90th Percentile £663 £475 £540
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £509
% change year-on-year -5.56% -11.59% -18.56%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 369 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.67% 30.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 275 247
10th Percentile £343 £381 £413
25th Percentile £444 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £33.82 £56.50 £38.59
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.58 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £58.30 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -22.78% +211.34%
75th Percentile £65.14 £59.95 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.37 £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in Reading

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in Reading

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in Reading

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Serverless
3 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Functions
5 3 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
7 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (8.33%) GitHub
7 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Redis
3 2 (16.67%) Big Data
3 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Electronics
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (16.67%) React Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 4 (33.33%) Node.js
1 4 (33.33%) Prisma
1 4 (33.33%) RESTful
2 3 (25.00%) React
3 2 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 2 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 2 (16.67%) TensorFlow
3 2 (16.67%) YAML
4 1 (8.33%) ADO
4 1 (8.33%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Cost Management
5 4 (33.33%) API Design
5 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 4 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Front End Development
5 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (33.33%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 2 (16.67%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 3 (25.00%) Bicep
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) R
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
1 2 (16.67%) Spotify