Azure AKS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 98 104
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 17 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.11% 0.20% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.05% 0.59% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 15
10th Percentile £403 £493 £440
25th Percentile £406 £538 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +13.64% +7.32%
75th Percentile £518 £644 £575
90th Percentile £589 £648 £578
England median daily rate £505 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -15.83% +4.35% -8.00%

All Cloud Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 557 509 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.48% 33.60% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 351 473
10th Percentile £258 £288 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £619
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £42.37 £16.15 £18.95
25th Percentile £58.29 £20.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £91.69 £21.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +336.62% -1.20% -1.14%
75th Percentile £149.28 £22.00 £28.01
90th Percentile £179.71 - £37.90
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% -9.09% +53.49%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in Yorkshire

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in Yorkshire

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
South Yorkshire -1 15 £441 -29.40%
West Yorkshire -4 2 £700 +24.44% 6
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 15 (88.24%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) Amazon EKS
2 10 (58.82%) GCP
2 10 (58.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 9 (52.94%) AWS
4 8 (47.06%) Entra ID
4 8 (47.06%) SaaS
5 7 (41.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (11.76%) CloudBees
8 2 (11.76%) GitHub
8 2 (11.76%) Serverless
9 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Local Government
4 1 (5.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Business Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Developer
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) SAML
2 7 (41.18%) JSON
2 7 (41.18%) OAuth
2 7 (41.18%) OpenID
3 6 (35.29%) OAuth2
4 5 (29.41%) Hugging Face
4 5 (29.41%) OpenCV
4 5 (29.41%) PyTorch
4 5 (29.41%) Regular Expression
4 5 (29.41%) SpaCy
4 5 (29.41%) TensorFlow
5 1 (5.88%) .NET
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) FHIR
5 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.88%) J2EE
5 1 (5.88%) JPA
5 1 (5.88%) JWT
5 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Onboarding
2 8 (47.06%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Mac OS X
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (47.06%) GAP Analysis
3 8 (47.06%) RBAC
3 8 (47.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (47.06%) Workshop Facilitation
4 7 (41.18%) Identity Management
4 7 (41.18%) Privileged Identity Management
5 6 (35.29%) Agile
5 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (29.41%) Deep Learning
6 5 (29.41%) Generative AI
6 5 (29.41%) Image Processing
6 5 (29.41%) Machine Learning
6 5 (29.41%) Natural Language Processing
6 5 (29.41%) OCR
6 5 (29.41%) Open Source
7 4 (23.53%) KYC
7 4 (23.53%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
3 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) HL7
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
3 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Alibaba
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle