Azure AKS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Azure AKS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure AKS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 140 161
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 -32
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 12 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.45% 0.37% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.30% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 7
10th Percentile £378 £460 £465
25th Percentile £409 £494 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £509 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% -18.56% +9.89%
75th Percentile £475 £533 £659
90th Percentile £543 £592 £694
South East median daily rate £450 £515 £613
% change year-on-year -12.62% -15.92% +11.36%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

Azure AKS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 762 844 1,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.40% 28.74% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 615 841
10th Percentile £275 £300 £183
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.74 £21.49 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.23 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.59% +43.95% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.73 £59.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £24.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -5.24% +16.39% -4.32%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the Thames Valley

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the Thames Valley

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the Thames Valley

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Berkshire -3 11 £450 -11.59%
Oxfordshire - 1 £600 -
Azure AKS
South East

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (66.67%) Redis
2 4 (33.33%) GIS
3 1 (8.33%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) GIS Developer
3 3 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Node.js
2 4 (33.33%) Celery
2 4 (33.33%) Django
2 4 (33.33%) GeoPandas
2 4 (33.33%) OpenLayers
2 4 (33.33%) PostGIS
3 2 (16.67%) Flask
3 2 (16.67%) React
4 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Data Management
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (8.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
1 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 3 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft