Azure AKS Contracts in the City of London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 125 170
Rank change year-on-year +12 +45 -19
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 13 42 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.60% 1.20% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 3.11% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 11
10th Percentile £552 £405 £504
25th Percentile £599 £525 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £623
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -3.61% +3.75%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £639
90th Percentile - £725 £645
Central London median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 860 1,351 1,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.02% 38.73% 42.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 883 1,416
10th Percentile £363 £313 £381
25th Percentile £447 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.96% +4.35% +7.48%
75th Percentile £653 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -7.76% +0.87% +7.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 7
10th Percentile £12.75 £30.45 £13.88
25th Percentile £14.88 £47.50 £14.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.73% +211.32% +17.78%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £53.75
90th Percentile £38.63 - £91.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +98.53% +47.99%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the City of London

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the City of London

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the City of London

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Functions
3 5 (38.46%) GitHub
3 5 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (38.46%) Serverless
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
5 3 (23.08%) Azure App Service
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Cypress.io
1 5 (38.46%) JMeter
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Kafka
2 6 (46.15%) React
3 5 (38.46%) Node.js
4 3 (23.08%) .NET
4 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
5 1 (7.69%) CSS
5 1 (7.69%) CSS3
5 1 (7.69%) HTML
5 1 (7.69%) HTML5
5 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Architectural Design
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
6 2 (15.38%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) API Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
7 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
7 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.69%) Microservices
7 1 (7.69%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 10 (76.92%) Terraform
3 5 (38.46%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft