Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 105 119
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 +63
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 4 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.52% 0.048%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.68% 1.82% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £556 - -
25th Percentile £560 £345 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -20.00% +16.62%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £525
90th Percentile - £605 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -8.00%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 591 548 730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.42% 28.72% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 364 526
10th Percentile £264 £233 £208
25th Percentile £413 £359 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £688 £687 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.83 £17.58
25th Percentile £34.16 £23.55 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £59.44 £55.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the West Midlands

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure AKS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
Worcestershire - 3 £575 - 1
Shropshire - 1 £558 -
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (75.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Datadog
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (75.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (75.00%) npm
2 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (75.00%) CircleCI
1 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Gradle
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) Snyk
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) YAML
3 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Podman
2 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Consul
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI