Azure AKS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 359 378
Rank change year-on-year +57 +19 +43
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 37 40 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.19% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 0.74% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 58
10th Percentile £350 £383 £446
25th Percentile £413 £413 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £581 £547 £600
90th Percentile £663 £611 £619
UK median daily rate £464 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -9.56% -14.58% -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,099 5,425 7,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.04% 26.14% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 3,831 5,919
10th Percentile £240 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 260 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.62
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.71 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -28.09% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.51 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the UK excluding London

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the UK excluding London

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the UK excluding London

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +54 22 £448 -0.56% 19
North of England +26 7 £490 +3.16% 23
North West +18 5 £532 +1.33% 16
Scotland +16 5 £350 - 6
Midlands +15 3 £450 -25.86% 8
West Midlands +10 2 £450 -25.86% 7
Yorkshire +7 2 £464 -2.26% 6
East of England +29 1 £751 +87.75% 8
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.41%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (83.78%) Azure
2 18 (48.65%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (21.62%) Entra ID
3 8 (21.62%) IaaS
3 8 (21.62%) PaaS
3 8 (21.62%) Serverless
4 7 (18.92%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (18.92%) Azure Storage
5 6 (16.22%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (16.22%) AWS
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (10.81%) GCP
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (8.11%) GitHub
7 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (8.11%) Power Automate
7 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
7 3 (8.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.11%) Redis
4 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.41%) Power BI
4 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Parquet
5 1 (2.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Electronics
5 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (32.43%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (29.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 11 (29.73%) Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Site Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) React Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Backend Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior
8 1 (2.70%) Data Scientist
8 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) ADO
2 6 (16.22%) .NET
3 5 (13.51%) ARM Templates
4 4 (10.81%) .NET Core
4 4 (10.81%) React
4 4 (10.81%) Spring
4 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
5 3 (8.11%) FastAPI
5 3 (8.11%) Node.js
5 3 (8.11%) OAuth
5 3 (8.11%) OpenID
5 3 (8.11%) RESTful
5 3 (8.11%) SAML
5 3 (8.11%) YAML
6 2 (5.41%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.41%) JSON
6 2 (5.41%) Prisma
6 2 (5.41%) REST
7 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.70%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) DevOps
2 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
3 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (32.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 10 (27.03%) Containerisation
5 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (18.92%) Design Patterns
6 6 (16.22%) Code Quality
6 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.51%) Cost Management
8 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (10.81%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (10.81%) Incident Management
8 4 (10.81%) Project Management
9 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning
9 3 (8.11%) Migration
9 3 (8.11%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) SQL
2 14 (37.84%) Python
3 10 (27.03%) Bicep
3 10 (27.03%) Java
4 9 (24.32%) PowerShell
5 8 (21.62%) C#
6 5 (13.51%) Bash
6 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.41%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.70%) Go
8 1 (2.70%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) GDPR
1 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (27.03%) Docker
2 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (86.49%) Kubernetes
2 14 (37.84%) Terraform
3 7 (18.92%) Prometheus
4 6 (16.22%) Grafana
5 3 (8.11%) Ansible
6 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Databricks
3 2 (5.41%) Google
3 2 (5.41%) SAP
3 2 (5.41%) Spotify
4 1 (2.70%) OpenAI