Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 3.92% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +43.75% -20.00% +19.05%

All Cloud Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 43 21 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 42.16% 25.00% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 17 21
10th Percentile £525 £147 £163
25th Percentile £563 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £313
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% +28.00% -34.21%
75th Percentile £700 £550 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £495 £475
% change year-on-year +4.04% +4.21% -4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.57%
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £33.74 £18.50
% change year-on-year -11.07% +82.35% +12.12%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Datadog
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 4 (100.00%) npm
1 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 4 (100.00%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 4 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Gradle
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) Snyk
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 4 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 4 (100.00%) webpack
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Private Cloud
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%) Continuous Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Podman
1 4 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Puppet
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk