Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Reading

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £425 - -

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 245 355 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 41.32% 32.07% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 253 271
10th Percentile £400 £383 £400
25th Percentile £467 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +5.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £664 £669 £719
Berkshire median daily rate £517 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -10.09% +2.22% +10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile - £31.63 £24.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £47.03 £35.17
Median hourly rate £15.50 £60.83 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.52% +10.60% +144.44%
75th Percentile £16.25 £63.81 £67.85
90th Percentile £31.70 £67.21 £74.65
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £58.17 £45.00
% change year-on-year -67.56% +29.27% +114.03%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Twilio
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform