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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 371 422
Rank change year-on-year +11 +51 -42
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 37 60 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 0.80% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 54 56
10th Percentile £381 £450 £416
25th Percentile £425 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.08% +3.18%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £658
90th Percentile £642 £625 £725
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.58% - +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 5,328 7,464 9,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.71% 32.75% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,769 5,495 7,356
10th Percentile £213 £248 £207
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £690 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 224 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.06 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.22 £16.79 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.80 £27.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.92% +36.75% -
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £69.88 £75.50 £63.40
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £37.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -42.24% +65.18% +1.82%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +5 11 £450 -16.28% 11
Midlands +20 8 £607 +15.62% 4
West Midlands - 8 £607 - 3
North of England +7 7 £500 -9.09% 11
Wales - 6 £500 - 1
Yorkshire +1 4 £475 -13.64% 3
South West -3 3 £500 -18.37% 5
North West +15 2 £563 +4.65% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
North East - 1 £413 -
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 34 (91.89%) Azure
2 18 (48.65%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (21.62%) AWS
3 8 (21.62%) PaaS
4 6 (16.22%) Azure App Service
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.81%) IaaS
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.70%) Akamai
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (13.51%) Redis
2 4 (10.81%) GIS
3 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) GitLab
1 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.11%) Git
3 2 (5.41%) Snyk
3 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) Hudson
4 1 (2.70%) Maven
4 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.70%) Spinnaker
4 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Angular Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) GIS Developer
4 4 (10.81%) WSO2 Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) C# Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) .NET
2 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
2 5 (13.51%) RESTful
3 4 (10.81%) Celery
3 4 (10.81%) Django
3 4 (10.81%) GeoPandas
3 4 (10.81%) OpenLayers
3 4 (10.81%) PostGIS
4 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.41%) Flask
4 2 (5.41%) Node.js
4 2 (5.41%) React
5 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.22%) NHS
3 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (13.51%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) Replication
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) DevOps
2 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
3 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.92%) API Management
5 6 (16.22%) Agile
5 6 (16.22%) Microservices
6 5 (13.51%) Critical Thinking
6 5 (13.51%) User Experience
6 5 (13.51%) UX Design
7 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (10.81%) Scrum
8 3 (8.11%) Containerisation
8 3 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (8.11%) Test Automation
9 2 (5.41%) Full Stack Development
9 2 (5.41%) GitOps
9 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (5.41%) Insurtech
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 10 (27.03%) Bicep
3 9 (24.32%) Python
4 8 (21.62%) C#
5 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
5 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 4 (10.81%) Java
7 3 (8.11%) T-SQL
8 2 (5.41%) Bash
9 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
System Software
1 13 (35.14%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (62.16%) Kubernetes
2 10 (27.03%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) Argo
4 2 (5.41%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) Grafana
5 1 (2.70%) Istio
5 1 (2.70%) linkerd
5 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.70%) Puppet
5 1 (2.70%) SELinux
5 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) WSO2
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Confluent
4 1 (2.70%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.70%) Skytap
4 1 (2.70%) Zscaler