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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 401 431
Rank change year-on-year -84 +30 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 107 342 498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.58% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 1.57% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 239 338
10th Percentile £411 £463 £450
25th Percentile £450 £511 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £611 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £790 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £68.50 -
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 13,935 21,778 34,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 36.82% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,726 24,913
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 £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 351 422
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.42
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Top 15 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 4 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 -76 81 £533 -11.25% 58
London -53 51 £550 -13.73% 30
Work from Home +17 39 £500 -9.09% 37
UK excluding London +32 35 £500 -4.76% 27
South East +3 10 £450 -12.62% 13
Midlands +33 7 £607 +12.93% 3
West Midlands - 7 £607 - 2
Wales +20 6 £500 -23.08% 1
South West +21 4 £500 -18.37% 3
North of England +10 4 £475 - 6
Scotland +36 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland +6 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +6 2 £475 -13.64% 3
North West +17 1 £525 +10.53% 3
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 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.87%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 102 (95.33%) Azure
2 44 (41.12%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (24.30%) Azure Service Bus
4 24 (22.43%) AWS
5 21 (19.63%) Amazon EKS
6 19 (17.76%) Serverless
7 18 (16.82%) PaaS
8 14 (13.08%) Azure App Service
8 14 (13.08%) Azure Functions
9 13 (12.15%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (12.15%) GitHub
10 11 (10.28%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (8.41%) GCP
12 8 (7.48%) Azure Event Grid
12 8 (7.48%) IaaS
13 6 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (3.74%) Azure Machine Learning
15 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
15 3 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.87%) DNS
1 2 (1.87%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) DHCP
2 1 (0.93%) HTTP
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 12 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (11.21%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (7.48%) Redis
3 6 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.74%) GIS
5 3 (2.80%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.87%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.87%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.87%) MySQL
6 2 (1.87%) Power BI
6 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.93%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Git
2 10 (9.35%) JMeter
3 9 (8.41%) Cypress.io
3 9 (8.41%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.54%) GitLab
5 2 (1.87%) JIRA
5 2 (1.87%) Maven
5 2 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.87%) Snyk
5 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.93%) Gradle
6 1 (0.93%) Hudson
6 1 (0.93%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.93%) TestCafe
6 1 (0.93%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.95%) Finance
3 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.61%) Banking
4 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.80%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.87%) 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%) Legal
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Marketing
7 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (28.97%) Developer
2 29 (27.10%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (17.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (12.15%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 11 (10.28%) .NET Developer
6 11 (10.28%) Senior
7 10 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (8.41%) C# Developer
9 7 (6.54%) Architect
10 6 (5.61%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.67%) Angular Developer
11 5 (4.67%) Azure Architect
11 5 (4.67%) Azure Developer
11 5 (4.67%) Lead
11 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (26.17%) .NET
2 19 (17.76%) Kafka
3 18 (16.82%) React
4 15 (14.02%) Node.js
5 13 (12.15%) YAML
6 11 (10.28%) .NET Core
7 6 (5.61%) RESTful
8 5 (4.67%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.74%) Celery
9 4 (3.74%) Django
9 4 (3.74%) GeoPandas
9 4 (3.74%) OpenLayers
9 4 (3.74%) PostGIS
10 3 (2.80%) ARM Templates
11 2 (1.87%) ADO
11 2 (1.87%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (1.87%) Flask
11 2 (1.87%) JSON
11 2 (1.87%) OAuth
11 2 (1.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.08%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.28%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.54%) Machine to Machine
5 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.61%) NHS
6 5 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.67%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.74%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.80%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.93%) IoT
10 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.93%) PKI
10 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (26.17%) Linux
2 9 (8.41%) Windows
3 7 (6.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (61.68%) DevOps
2 38 (35.51%) CI/CD
3 28 (26.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (25.23%) Agile
4 27 (25.23%) Microservices
5 19 (17.76%) Platform Engineering
5 19 (17.76%) Test Automation
6 18 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.08%) User Experience
8 10 (9.35%) Containerisation
8 10 (9.35%) Critical Thinking
8 10 (9.35%) Software Engineering
8 10 (9.35%) UX Design
9 9 (8.41%) API Management
9 9 (8.41%) Data Protection
9 9 (8.41%) Scrum
10 8 (7.48%) Architectural Design
11 7 (6.54%) Cloud Security
11 7 (6.54%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (5.61%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 34 (31.78%) Python
2 31 (28.97%) C#
3 25 (23.36%) SQL
4 15 (14.02%) TypeScript
5 13 (12.15%) Bicep
5 13 (12.15%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.48%) T-SQL
7 7 (6.54%) Java
7 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.67%) Bash
9 4 (3.74%) Groovy
9 4 (3.74%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.87%) Go
11 1 (0.93%) C
11 1 (0.93%) C++
11 1 (0.93%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) Ruby
11 1 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
1 7 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.67%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.80%) Degree
4 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) MCSA
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.35%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 33 (30.84%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (69.16%) Kubernetes
2 43 (40.19%) Terraform
3 12 (11.21%) Argo
4 10 (9.35%) Grafana
5 9 (8.41%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.67%) Ansible
7 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.93%) Consul
8 1 (0.93%) Istio
8 1 (0.93%) linkerd
8 1 (0.93%) Nessus
8 1 (0.93%) Packer
8 1 (0.93%) Puppet
8 1 (0.93%) SELinux
8 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.61%) WSO2
3 5 (4.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.74%) VMware
5 2 (1.87%) Databricks
5 2 (1.87%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
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%) Informatica
6 1 (0.93%) New Relic
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.93%) TOWER Software