Azure AKS Contracts

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 390 429
Rank change year-on-year -86 +39 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 108 328 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.57% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 1.56% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 232 338
10th Percentile £413 £463 £450
25th Percentile £469 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £611 £688 £688
90th Percentile £675 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £66.45 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £67.13 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £68.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.58% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £70.13 -
90th Percentile - £70.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,861 21,047 33,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.57% 36.74% 38.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,856 15,234 24,645
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 335 407
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.44
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £68.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS.

Hourly rate trend for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England -72 85 £533 -11.25% 69
London -50 54 £550 -15.38% 33
Work from Home +6 36 £500 -13.04% 49
UK excluding London +25 34 £500 -6.98% 35
South East +9 10 £450 -12.62% 16
Midlands +28 8 £607 +12.93% 4
West Midlands - 8 £607 - 2
Wales +24 6 £500 -23.08% 2
North of England +12 4 £475 -13.64% 7
South West +10 4 £500 -18.37% 5
Yorkshire +3 2 £475 -13.64% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
North West +10 1 £525 -2.33% 4
North East - 1 £413 -

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 102 (94.44%) Azure
2 46 (42.59%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (26.85%) Azure Service Bus
4 23 (21.30%) AWS
5 19 (17.59%) Serverless
6 18 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (15.74%) Azure App Service
8 16 (14.81%) PaaS
9 15 (13.89%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (12.04%) Azure Functions
10 13 (12.04%) GitHub
11 11 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (9.26%) Azure Event Grid
13 9 (8.33%) GCP
14 5 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 4 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (3.70%) Entra ID
15 4 (3.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) DNS
1 2 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) DHCP
2 1 (0.93%) IPv4
2 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.93%) LAN
2 1 (0.93%) Network Security
2 1 (0.93%) VPN
2 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (7.41%) Redis
5 6 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.70%) GIS
6 4 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.85%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.85%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.85%) MySQL
7 2 (1.85%) Power BI
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.93%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (11.11%) Git
2 10 (9.26%) JMeter
3 9 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 9 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.56%) GitLab
5 2 (1.85%) JIRA
5 2 (1.85%) Snyk
5 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) Hudson
6 1 (0.93%) Maven
6 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.93%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.93%) TestCafe
6 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.74%) Finance
3 7 (6.48%) Banking
4 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Advertising
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Electronics
7 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Marketing
7 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (31.48%) Azure Engineer
2 33 (30.56%) Developer
3 20 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.96%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (12.04%) .NET Developer
6 10 (9.26%) Senior
7 9 (8.33%) C# Developer
7 9 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Azure Developer
9 6 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
9 6 (5.56%) Lead
10 5 (4.63%) Angular Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) GIS Developer
11 4 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (3.70%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (28.70%) .NET
2 21 (19.44%) Kafka
3 17 (15.74%) React
4 15 (13.89%) Node.js
5 12 (11.11%) YAML
6 11 (10.19%) .NET Core
7 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.63%) RESTful
8 4 (3.70%) ARM Templates
8 4 (3.70%) Celery
8 4 (3.70%) Django
8 4 (3.70%) GeoPandas
8 4 (3.70%) OpenLayers
8 4 (3.70%) PostGIS
9 2 (1.85%) ADO
9 2 (1.85%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.85%) Flask
10 1 (0.93%) CSS
10 1 (0.93%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.26%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.48%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.48%) Machine to Machine
4 6 (5.56%) NHS
5 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) IoT
8 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.93%) PKI
8 1 (0.93%) Replication
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 31 (28.70%) Linux
2 8 (7.41%) Windows
3 5 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.93%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (59.26%) DevOps
2 37 (34.26%) CI/CD
3 28 (25.93%) Agile
4 27 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (22.22%) Microservices
6 20 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
6 20 (18.52%) Test Automation
7 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (10.19%) Containerisation
8 11 (10.19%) Scrum
9 10 (9.26%) Critical Thinking
9 10 (9.26%) Software Engineering
9 10 (9.26%) User Experience
9 10 (9.26%) UX Design
10 8 (7.41%) API Management
10 8 (7.41%) Architectural Design
11 7 (6.48%) Event-Driven
11 7 (6.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (6.48%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (5.56%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.63%) Python
2 30 (27.78%) C#
3 29 (26.85%) SQL
4 15 (13.89%) Bicep
5 14 (12.96%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.04%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.41%) T-SQL
8 7 (6.48%) Java
9 6 (5.56%) Bash
10 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
10 5 (4.63%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.78%) Groovy
12 1 (0.93%) C
12 1 (0.93%) C++
12 1 (0.93%) Go
12 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.48%) SC Cleared
1 7 (6.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.70%) Degree
5 3 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) MCSA
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.26%) QA
2 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (31.48%) Docker
2 4 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (68.52%) Kubernetes
2 46 (42.59%) Terraform
3 12 (11.11%) Argo
4 10 (9.26%) Grafana
5 9 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.63%) Ansible
7 1 (0.93%) Consul
7 1 (0.93%) Istio
7 1 (0.93%) linkerd
7 1 (0.93%) Nessus
7 1 (0.93%) Packer
7 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.93%) Puppet
7 1 (0.93%) SELinux
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (23.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.56%) WSO2
3 4 (3.70%) VMware
4 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.85%) Databricks
5 2 (1.85%) Informatica
5 2 (1.85%) New Relic
5 2 (1.85%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.93%) Citrix
6 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.93%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) HP
6 1 (0.93%) IBM
6 1 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.93%) TOWER Software