Azure AKS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 312 348
Rank change year-on-year +2 +36 -16
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 39 154 284
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.62% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 1.56% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 127 211
10th Percentile £409 £463 £425
25th Percentile £444 £511 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £647
90th Percentile £685 £752 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £68.50 -
% change year-on-year +60.58% - -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,410 9,864 18,360
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.33% 39.48% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,895 7,280 13,732
10th Percentile £350 £368 £375
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £639
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 127 178
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +42.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.73%

Azure AKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure AKS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure AKS.

Azure AKS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure AKS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Azure AKS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 38 (97.44%) Azure
2 19 (48.72%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (20.51%) AWS
4 7 (17.95%) PaaS
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (12.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (10.26%) Serverless
8 3 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Functions
8 3 (7.69%) GitHub
8 3 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.13%) Azure App Service
9 2 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (5.13%) GCP
9 2 (5.13%) IaaS
9 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (15.38%) Redis
3 4 (10.26%) GIS
4 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.13%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.56%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) GitLab
3 3 (7.69%) Git
4 2 (5.13%) Maven
4 2 (5.13%) Snyk
4 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.56%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.56%) Gradle
5 1 (2.56%) gulp
5 1 (2.56%) JMeter
5 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.56%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Electronics
4 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing
4 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Developer
2 12 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) .NET Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Senior
6 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Architect
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Developer
7 4 (10.26%) GIS Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Security Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 3 (7.69%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) .NET
2 7 (17.95%) React
2 7 (17.95%) YAML
3 4 (10.26%) Celery
3 4 (10.26%) Django
3 4 (10.26%) GeoPandas
3 4 (10.26%) Node.js
3 4 (10.26%) OpenLayers
3 4 (10.26%) PostGIS
4 3 (7.69%) Kafka
5 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.13%) Flask
6 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.56%) Machine to Machine
6 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Windows
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) DevOps
2 15 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 11 (28.21%) Agile
4 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (25.64%) Microservices
5 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
6 6 (15.38%) User Experience
7 5 (12.82%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.26%) Critical Thinking
8 4 (10.26%) High Availability
8 4 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (10.26%) Scrum
8 4 (10.26%) Unit Testing
8 4 (10.26%) UX Design
9 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (7.69%) Data Protection
9 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (7.69%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) C#
3 7 (17.95%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
4 6 (15.38%) Bicep
5 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.69%) Java
6 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.13%) Groovy
7 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.13%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.56%) Bash
8 1 (2.56%) Go
8 1 (2.56%) PHP
8 1 (2.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 13 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) Argo
3 3 (7.69%) Grafana
3 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.56%) Puppet
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 3 (7.69%) VMware
3 2 (5.13%) Databricks
3 2 (5.13%) Informatica
4 1 (2.56%) Confluent
4 1 (2.56%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.56%) Zscaler