Azure AKS Contracts in the South East

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 134 191 193
Rank change year-on-year +57 +2 +55
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 25 14 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 0.25% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 1.02% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 26
10th Percentile £406 £384 £450
25th Percentile £410 £414 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -12.62% -15.92%
75th Percentile £588 £531 £550
90th Percentile £610 £653 £588
England median daily rate £476 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.33% -12.50% -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the South East

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the South East

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the South East

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +53 22 £425 -5.56% 2
Berkshire +42 22 £425 -5.56% 2
Surrey +19 3 £575 -11.54% 3
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (8.00%) Apache
1 2 (8.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) Serverless
4 7 (28.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (24.00%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (24.00%) Azure Storage
5 6 (24.00%) IaaS
5 6 (24.00%) PaaS
6 5 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (16.00%) Azure Functions
8 3 (12.00%) Azure API Management
8 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (12.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (12.00%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Table
9 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
9 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (16.00%) Redis
4 2 (8.00%) Big Data
4 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (8.00%) Power BI
5 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
1 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Electronics
3 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.00%) Marketing
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Site Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Azure Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Backend Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) React Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
7 2 (8.00%) Consultant
7 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Node.js Developer
8 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Consultant
8 1 (4.00%) Data Scientist
8 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) ADO
2 5 (20.00%) RESTful
3 4 (16.00%) .NET
3 4 (16.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (16.00%) GraphQL
3 4 (16.00%) Node.js
3 4 (16.00%) Prisma
3 4 (16.00%) React
4 3 (12.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (12.00%) OAuth
4 3 (12.00%) OpenID
4 3 (12.00%) SAML
5 2 (8.00%) PyTorch
5 2 (8.00%) REST
5 2 (8.00%) scikit-learn
5 2 (8.00%) TensorFlow
5 2 (8.00%) YAML
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.00%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) IoT
3 1 (4.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (24.00%) Cost Management
6 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
7 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 5 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (16.00%) API Design
8 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (16.00%) Code Quality
8 4 (16.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven
8 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (16.00%) Front End Development
8 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
8 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (16.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 9 (36.00%) Python
3 8 (32.00%) Bicep
4 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (24.00%) C#
6 4 (16.00%) Bash
6 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (8.00%) Java
7 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (8.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (84.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (36.00%) Terraform
3 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) Spotify