Azure AKS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure AKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure AKS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 308 324
Rank change year-on-year +76 +16 +38
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 72 37 155
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 0.24% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 0.67% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 27 126
10th Percentile £370 £400 £463
25th Percentile £409 £425 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £650
90th Percentile £660 £630 £755
UK median daily rate £464 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -9.56% -14.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.45
25th Percentile - - £67.13
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £70.13
90th Percentile - - £70.95
UK median hourly rate - - £68.50

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure AKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure AKS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Azure AKS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 63 (87.50%) Azure
2 28 (38.89%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (27.78%) Azure Sentinel
3 20 (27.78%) Serverless
4 14 (19.44%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (19.44%) GitHub
5 11 (15.28%) AWS
5 11 (15.28%) Entra ID
6 9 (12.50%) Azure Functions
7 8 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (9.72%) PaaS
8 7 (9.72%) SaaS
9 6 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (8.33%) GCP
10 5 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.94%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) Network Security
2 8 (11.11%) Firewall
3 4 (5.56%) DNS
4 2 (2.78%) FTP
4 2 (2.78%) HTTP
4 2 (2.78%) SMTP
4 2 (2.78%) SSL
4 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (6.94%) Redis
3 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.78%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.78%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.39%) Big Data
5 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.39%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.39%) MySQL
5 1 (1.39%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.94%) GitLab
3 4 (5.56%) Git
4 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.39%) git-flow
4 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.39%) Spinnaker
4 1 (1.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (20.83%) Finance
2 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Electronics
5 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.78%) Marketing
5 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.39%) Advertising
6 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) Azure Engineer
1 21 (29.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (19.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 9 (12.50%) Architect
4 8 (11.11%) Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Backend Developer
6 5 (6.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Python Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Python Software Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Senior
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Architect
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
7 4 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Site Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) Kafka
2 9 (12.50%) .NET
3 8 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (11.11%) REST
4 7 (9.72%) ARM Templates
5 6 (8.33%) OAuth
6 5 (6.94%) JSON
6 5 (6.94%) NumPy
6 5 (6.94%) OAuth2
6 5 (6.94%) OpenID
6 5 (6.94%) Pandas
6 5 (6.94%) RESTful
6 5 (6.94%) YAML
7 4 (5.56%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (4.17%) Prisma
9 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.78%) FastAPI
10 1 (1.39%) .NET Core
10 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 5 (6.94%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.17%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.39%) IoT
7 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Linux
2 7 (9.72%) Windows
3 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (1.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (56.94%) DevOps
2 40 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 25 (34.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (27.78%) Agile
5 17 (23.61%) Containerisation
6 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (19.44%) Static Application Security Testing
7 13 (18.06%) Cost Management
8 12 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 12 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 12 (16.67%) Microservices
9 11 (15.28%) Software Engineering
10 10 (13.89%) Application Security
10 10 (13.89%) DevSecOps
10 10 (13.89%) Observability
11 9 (12.50%) Scrum
12 8 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (9.72%) GitOps
14 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
14 6 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.78%) Bicep
1 20 (27.78%) Python
2 18 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 9 (12.50%) C#
4 7 (9.72%) Java
4 7 (9.72%) SQL
5 6 (8.33%) Bash
6 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.78%) Groovy
9 2 (2.78%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.39%) Go
10 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (5.56%) OCP
3 4 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.78%) Degree
5 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.17%) GDPR
2 3 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (16.67%) Docker
2 5 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (76.39%) Kubernetes
2 37 (51.39%) Terraform
3 8 (11.11%) Ansible
3 8 (11.11%) Grafana
4 6 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.17%) Argo
6 1 (1.39%) Istio
6 1 (1.39%) Kibana
6 1 (1.39%) logstash
6 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft
1 10 (13.89%) Qualys
2 3 (4.17%) Google
3 2 (2.78%) SAP
3 2 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (1.39%) Databricks
4 1 (1.39%) IBM
4 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.39%) Veritas
4 1 (1.39%) VMware