Azure AKS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 389 419
Rank change year-on-year +42 +30 -37
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 44 72 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 0.90% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 59 59
10th Percentile £390 £438 £418
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £625
90th Percentile £611 £619 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,468 8,036 9,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.31% 33.24% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,861 5,955 7,234
10th Percentile £213 £240 £206
25th Percentile £375 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 239 293
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.80 £13.15
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.52 £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.72 £24.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% +28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £59.95 £75.00 £54.85
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 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
South East -1 16 £450 -12.62% 14
Midlands +30 7 £607 +12.93% 3
West Midlands - 7 £607 - 2
Wales +23 6 £500 -23.08%
North of England +17 5 £475 - 9
South West +19 4 £500 -18.37% 2
Yorkshire +12 3 £475 -7.32% 2
Scotland +21 2 - - 5
East of England +11 2 £400 -17.95% 1
Northern Ireland +7 2 - - 1
North West +14 1 £525 +10.53% 6
North East - 1 £413 - 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:

Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (38.64%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (15.91%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (15.91%) AWS
4 6 (13.64%) Azure App Service
4 6 (13.64%) PaaS
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (11.36%) GCP
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.82%) GitHub
7 3 (6.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (4.55%) Azure API Management
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.55%) IaaS
8 2 (4.55%) Serverless
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.27%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) DNS
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
1 1 (2.27%) HTTP
1 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (29.55%) Redis
2 4 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (9.09%) GIS
3 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.27%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.27%) MySQL
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.36%) GitLab
3 4 (9.09%) Git
4 2 (4.55%) Maven
4 2 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (4.55%) Snyk
4 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.27%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.27%) Gradle
5 1 (2.27%) gulp
5 1 (2.27%) Hudson
5 1 (2.27%) Spinnaker
5 1 (2.27%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.27%) Legal
2 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (15.91%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Angular Developer
3 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) GIS Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
4 4 (9.09%) WSO2 Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) C# Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Senior
6 2 (4.55%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Administrator
6 2 (4.55%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) .NET
2 9 (20.45%) Node.js
3 6 (13.64%) RESTful
4 5 (11.36%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.09%) Celery
5 4 (9.09%) Django
5 4 (9.09%) GeoPandas
5 4 (9.09%) OpenLayers
5 4 (9.09%) PostGIS
5 4 (9.09%) React
6 2 (4.55%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
6 2 (4.55%) Flask
6 2 (4.55%) JSON
6 2 (4.55%) OAuth
7 1 (2.27%) Blazor
7 1 (2.27%) CSS3
7 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.27%) HTML5
7 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.64%) NHS
3 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (11.36%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.55%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.27%) Replication
6 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) DevOps
2 16 (36.36%) Microservices
3 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (22.73%) Agile
4 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (18.18%) API Management
7 5 (11.36%) Critical Thinking
7 5 (11.36%) User Experience
7 5 (11.36%) UX Design
8 4 (9.09%) Scrum
8 4 (9.09%) Test Automation
9 3 (6.82%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (6.82%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (6.82%) Data Protection
9 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (6.82%) Platform Engineering
10 2 (4.55%) Interactive Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) TypeScript
2 12 (27.27%) SQL
3 11 (25.00%) C#
4 9 (20.45%) Python
5 8 (18.18%) Bicep
6 4 (9.09%) Bash
6 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.82%) Groovy
7 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
8 2 (4.55%) Java
9 1 (2.27%) Go
9 1 (2.27%) PHP
9 1 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 10 (22.73%) Terraform
3 3 (6.82%) Ansible
3 3 (6.82%) Argo
3 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.55%) Grafana
4 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.27%) Istio
5 1 (2.27%) linkerd
5 1 (2.27%) Puppet
5 1 (2.27%) SELinux
5 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) WSO2
3 2 (4.55%) VMware
4 1 (2.27%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.27%) Dataiku
4 1 (2.27%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.27%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.27%) Zscaler