Azure AKS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 80 133 140
Rank change year-on-year +53 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 22 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.46% 0.45% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.31% 1.59% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 8
10th Percentile £404 £378 £460
25th Percentile £409 £409 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £509
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -11.59% -18.56%
75th Percentile £569 £475 £533
90th Percentile £633 £543 £592
South East median daily rate £448 £450 £515
% change year-on-year -0.56% -12.62% -15.92%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Berkshire +42 22 £425 -5.56% 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 2 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (68.18%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Serverless
4 6 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (27.27%) Azure Storage
4 6 (27.27%) IaaS
4 6 (27.27%) PaaS
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Functions
5 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
6 3 (13.64%) Azure API Management
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (9.09%) Azure App Service
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Table
7 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (18.18%) Redis
4 2 (9.09%) Big Data
4 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 2 (9.09%) Power BI
5 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Electronics
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Site Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Backend Developer
6 3 (13.64%) React Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Architect
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Architect
7 2 (9.09%) Consultant
7 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
8 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Consultant
8 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Lead
8 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) ADO
2 5 (22.73%) RESTful
3 4 (18.18%) .NET
3 4 (18.18%) .NET Core
3 4 (18.18%) GraphQL
3 4 (18.18%) Node.js
3 4 (18.18%) Prisma
3 4 (18.18%) React
4 3 (13.64%) ARM Templates
4 3 (13.64%) OAuth
4 3 (13.64%) OpenID
4 3 (13.64%) SAML
5 2 (9.09%) PyTorch
5 2 (9.09%) REST
5 2 (9.09%) scikit-learn
5 2 (9.09%) TensorFlow
5 2 (9.09%) YAML
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.55%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) DevOps
2 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 10 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
5 6 (27.27%) Cost Management
5 6 (27.27%) Design Patterns
6 5 (22.73%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (18.18%) API Design
7 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
7 4 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
7 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
7 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) Microservices
8 3 (13.64%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 8 (36.36%) Bicep
4 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
5 6 (27.27%) C#
6 4 (18.18%) Bash
6 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
7 2 (9.09%) Java
7 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 2 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
2 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (81.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Terraform
3 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) SAP
2 2 (9.09%) Spotify