Azure AKS Contracts in the South East

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 190 244
Rank change year-on-year +8 +54 -34
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 10 23 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.41% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 1.36% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 11
10th Percentile £375 £478 £475
25th Percentile £425 £502 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -14.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £644
90th Percentile £675 £606 £680
England median daily rate £533 £600 £604
% change year-on-year -11.25% -0.62% +15.00%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,313 1,694 2,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 24.03% 30.04% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 898 1,238 1,795
10th Percentile £250 £250 £206
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £629 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 51 57
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.21 £13.03
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +14.29% -2.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £68.13 £24.25
90th Percentile £61.59 £75.00 £55.10
England median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +2.14%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the South East

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the South East

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the South East

Azure AKS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley +13 8 £450 -10.71% 8
Berkshire -9 7 £450 -10.71%
Surrey +9 2 £650 +28.08% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £600 -
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (30.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) GIS
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Spinnaker
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) GIS Developer
3 3 (30.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Celery
1 4 (40.00%) Django
1 4 (40.00%) GeoPandas
1 4 (40.00%) OpenLayers
1 4 (40.00%) PostGIS
2 2 (20.00%) Flask
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Scrum
1 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (10.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft