Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in the South East

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 173 203
Rank change year-on-year +40 +30 +54
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 25 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.72% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 0.61% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 7
10th Percentile - £613 £500
25th Percentile £413 £625 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +6.12% +16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £649
90th Percentile £588 - £680
England median daily rate £510 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -15.00% +4.35% -8.00%

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 1,020 1,155 1,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.53% 24.88% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 805 1,128
10th Percentile £204 £300 £212
25th Percentile £365 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +4.37%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £672 £713
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 26 53
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £16.37
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £18.82 £33.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -43.82% +3.72% +58.64%
75th Percentile £31.54 £59.85 £62.50
90th Percentile £50.65 £64.73 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% -9.09% +53.49%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure AKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure AKS

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +31 21 £425 -29.17% 3
Berkshire +28 21 £425 - 1
Surrey +13 4 £575 -11.54%
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (76.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (48.00%) Azure Storage
4 9 (36.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (36.00%) IaaS
4 9 (36.00%) PaaS
5 7 (28.00%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (24.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (16.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (12.00%) Azure Table
8 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
8 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (4.00%) GitHub
9 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (4.00%) Twilio
9 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) SMS
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (12.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (12.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (44.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 11 (44.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (44.00%) Site Engineer
2 11 (44.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) ADO
2 5 (20.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (12.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (12.00%) PyTorch
3 3 (12.00%) scikit-learn
3 3 (12.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (4.00%) Express.js
4 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.00%) FHIR
4 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.00%) LangChain
4 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (48.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (16.00%) MLOps
5 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.00%) Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Identity Management
6 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Log Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) SQL
2 9 (36.00%) Bicep
3 7 (28.00%) Python
4 5 (20.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) Bash
5 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (12.00%) R
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (4.00%) HL7
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (92.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (52.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.00%) Grafana
3 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks