Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.42% - 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% - 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £450
75th Percentile £538 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 422 81 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.91% 30.11% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 62 74
10th Percentile £336 £271 £186
25th Percentile £413 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% +3.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £587
90th Percentile £633 £649 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -70.00%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 February 2026. 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
Sheffield - 4 £513 - 1
Azure AKS
Yorkshire

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 4 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 4 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 4 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Image Processing
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (100.00%) OCR
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) KYC
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft