Azure AKS Contracts in London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 288 357
Rank change year-on-year -58 +69 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 54 213 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.81% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 2.08% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 135 179
10th Percentile £475 £463 £475
25th Percentile £513 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £700
90th Percentile £768 £825 £757
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
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 London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,795 10,239 15,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.43% 38.99% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,005 7,493 11,935
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £767
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 84 85
10th Percentile £17.16 £20.00 £19.75
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.88 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +23.46% +8.00%
75th Percentile £38.44 £75.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £88.30 £79.20
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.40
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.93% +1.06%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in London

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in London

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in London

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Central London +11 10 £540 -8.09% 2
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.85%) Confluence
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 50 (92.59%) Azure
2 21 (38.89%) Azure Service Bus
3 20 (37.04%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (31.48%) AWS
5 14 (25.93%) Serverless
6 11 (20.37%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (20.37%) Azure Functions
7 10 (18.52%) GitHub
8 9 (16.67%) Azure App Service
8 9 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
8 9 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (11.11%) GCP
10 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (5.56%) PaaS
11 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DHCP
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) IPv4
1 1 (1.85%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.85%) LAN
1 1 (1.85%) VPN
1 1 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.70%) Power BI
4 2 (3.70%) Redis
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.85%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) JMeter
2 9 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 4 (7.41%) Git
4 2 (3.70%) GitLab
4 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.70%) JIRA
5 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.85%) TestCafe
5 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (31.48%) Finance
2 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Banking
4 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Advertising
7 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Electronics
7 1 (1.85%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Marketing
7 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (40.74%) Azure Engineer
2 14 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior
6 5 (9.26%) .NET Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Lead
8 3 (5.56%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (37.04%) Kafka
2 15 (27.78%) .NET
3 13 (24.07%) Node.js
4 9 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 9 (16.67%) React
5 8 (14.81%) YAML
6 2 (3.70%) ADO
7 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.85%) LDAP
7 1 (1.85%) PySpark
7 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Machine to Machine
2 6 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.04%) Linux
2 7 (12.96%) Windows
3 6 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.85%) Unix
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (53.70%) DevOps
2 21 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.93%) Agile
3 14 (25.93%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (20.37%) Microservices
5 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 7 (12.96%) Architectural Design
6 7 (12.96%) Containerisation
6 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (12.96%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven
7 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 4 (7.41%) Asset Management
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (5.56%) Clean Code
9 3 (5.56%) Cloud Security
9 3 (5.56%) Developer Relations
9 3 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) Python
2 11 (20.37%) C#
3 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
4 7 (12.96%) SQL
5 5 (9.26%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.41%) Java
6 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.56%) Bash
7 3 (5.56%) Groovy
7 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.85%) C
9 1 (1.85%) C++
9 1 (1.85%) Go
9 1 (1.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Degree
2 3 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) MCSA
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (37.04%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 30 (55.56%) Terraform
3 9 (16.67%) Argo
4 6 (11.11%) Grafana
5 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.70%) Ansible
7 1 (1.85%) Consul
7 1 (1.85%) Nessus
7 1 (1.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.70%) Databricks
3 2 (3.70%) Informatica
3 2 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.85%) Citrix
4 1 (1.85%) Confluent
4 1 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) HP
4 1 (1.85%) IBM
4 1 (1.85%) New Relic
4 1 (1.85%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.85%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.85%) TOWER Software