Azure AKS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 319 365
Rank change year-on-year +12 +46 -29
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 36 147 280
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.60% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.67% 1.51% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 120 209
10th Percentile £394 £463 £425
25th Percentile £450 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £660
90th Percentile £595 £756 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £68.50 -
% change year-on-year +60.58% - -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,717 18,221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.48% 39.48% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,207 13,616
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Azure AKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure AKS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Azure AKS over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 35 (97.22%) Azure
2 18 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (19.44%) AWS
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (13.89%) PaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (11.11%) Serverless
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Functions
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.56%) Azure App Service
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (5.56%) GCP
7 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (13.89%) Redis
4 4 (11.11%) GIS
5 2 (5.56%) Power BI
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) GitLab
1 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Snyk
3 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.78%) JMeter
4 1 (2.78%) Maven
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Developer
2 12 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) .NET Developer
3 7 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Developer
6 4 (11.11%) GIS Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) C# Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Full Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (8.33%) React Developer
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Security Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Lead
8 2 (5.56%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) .NET
2 7 (19.44%) React
3 6 (16.67%) YAML
4 4 (11.11%) Celery
4 4 (11.11%) Django
4 4 (11.11%) GeoPandas
4 4 (11.11%) Node.js
4 4 (11.11%) OpenLayers
4 4 (11.11%) PostGIS
5 3 (8.33%) Kafka
6 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
6 2 (5.56%) Flask
7 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) DevOps
2 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 11 (30.56%) Agile
4 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (22.22%) Microservices
4 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (13.89%) Full Stack Development
7 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 4 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
7 4 (11.11%) High Availability
7 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (11.11%) Scrum
7 4 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 4 (11.11%) User Experience
7 4 (11.11%) UX Design
8 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
9 2 (5.56%) Code Quality
9 2 (5.56%) Interactive Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) Python
2 7 (19.44%) Bicep
2 7 (19.44%) C#
2 7 (19.44%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.56%) Java
6 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) Groovy
7 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (47.22%) Kubernetes
2 13 (36.11%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) Argo
4 2 (5.56%) Grafana
4 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Ansible
5 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.78%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) VMware
3 2 (5.56%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Informatica
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.78%) Confluent
4 1 (2.78%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.78%) Zscaler