Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Watford

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 1.22% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £600 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26 2 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 31.71% 5.71% 25.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 16
10th Percentile - £414 £341
25th Percentile £406 £416 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -20.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £550 £466 £678
90th Percentile £588 £471 £750
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £568 £500
% change year-on-year -3.17% +13.60% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £17.16 - -
25th Percentile £17.81 - -
Median hourly rate £18.90 - -
75th Percentile £20.97 - -
90th Percentile £22.20 - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £20.31 £22.97 £18.00
% change year-on-year -11.59% +27.61% -72.52%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure AKS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Watford

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CRUD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes