Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 69 80
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +30
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 2 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.26% 0.23% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.61% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
10th Percentile - £481 £475
25th Percentile - £509 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% +2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile - £609 £575
90th Percentile - £634 £591
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -26.00% +13.64% +10.00%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 323 326 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 42.72% 37.91% 31.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 232 317
10th Percentile £313 £312 £350
25th Percentile £394 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £548 £556 £600
90th Percentile £602 £662 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -5.15% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £42.37 - -
25th Percentile £58.29 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £149.28 - -
90th Percentile £179.71 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 £21.00 £21.26
% change year-on-year +336.62% -1.20% -1.14%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in West Yorkshire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Leeds -2 2 £700 +24.44% 5
Azure AKS
Yorkshire

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle