Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.11% - 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% - 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 417 91 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 45.33% 33.70% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 72 53
10th Percentile £366 £355 £185
25th Percentile £417 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £521 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +4.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £615 £587
90th Percentile £625 £673 £610
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £521 £431
% change year-on-year -6.57% +20.87% -21.59%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Image Processing
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes