Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in the South West

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 124 132
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +39
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 6 5 26
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.28% 0.21% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 0.72% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 23
10th Percentile £503 - £500
25th Percentile £564 £563 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £695 £588 £619
90th Percentile - - £775
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -14.56%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 681 696 948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.53% 28.99% 30.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 440 731
10th Percentile £220 £261 £264
25th Percentile £372 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £670
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 32 48
10th Percentile - £20.37 £13.25
25th Percentile - £30.00 £14.58
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +171.84% -55.41%
75th Percentile £35.51 - £66.38
90th Percentile £66.90 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in the South West

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the South West over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the South West

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Bristol - 3 £680 -
Wiltshire - 3 - - 6
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) ARM Templates
2 2 (33.33%) Express.js
2 2 (33.33%) Next.js
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Security Operations
2 4 (66.67%) RBAC
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) API Management
4 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bicep
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CISM
2 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
1 3 (50.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat