Azure AKS Contracts

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 379 433
Rank change year-on-year -88 +54 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 109 333 490
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.58% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 1.59% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 237 337
10th Percentile £413 £463 £450
25th Percentile £469 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £611 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £545
% change year-on-year -6.98% -1.38% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £66.45 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £67.13 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £68.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.58% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £70.13 -
90th Percentile - £70.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,826 20,933 33,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.49% 36.75% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,828 15,157 24,567
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 336 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £36.16 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
% change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS.

Hourly rate trend for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England -63 85 £533 -11.25% 63
London -41 54 £550 -15.38% 26
Work from Home +7 37 £500 -13.04% 46
UK excluding London +26 35 £500 -6.98% 34
South East 0 10 £450 -12.62% 15
Midlands +32 8 £607 +12.93% 4
West Midlands - 8 £607 - 2
Wales +23 6 £500 -23.08% 2
South West +8 4 £500 -18.37% 5
North of England +8 4 £475 -13.64% 7
Yorkshire -1 2 £475 -13.64% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
Scotland +29 1 - -
North West +15 1 £525 -2.33% 4
North East - 1 £413 -

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 103 (94.50%) Azure
2 47 (43.12%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (26.61%) Azure Service Bus
4 23 (21.10%) AWS
5 19 (17.43%) Serverless
6 18 (16.51%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (15.60%) Azure App Service
8 16 (14.68%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (14.68%) PaaS
9 13 (11.93%) Azure Functions
9 13 (11.93%) GitHub
10 11 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (9.17%) Azure Event Grid
12 9 (8.26%) GCP
13 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (3.67%) Azure Key Vault
14 4 (3.67%) Entra ID
14 4 (3.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) DNS
1 2 (1.83%) Firewall
2 1 (0.92%) DHCP
2 1 (0.92%) IPv4
2 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.92%) LAN
2 1 (0.92%) Network Security
2 1 (0.92%) VPN
2 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 12 (11.01%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (8.26%) Redis
5 6 (5.50%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.67%) GIS
8 3 (2.75%) MariaDB
8 3 (2.75%) MySQL
9 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.83%) Power BI
10 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.92%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.92%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Git
2 10 (9.17%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.17%) JMeter
3 9 (8.26%) Cypress.io
4 6 (5.50%) GitLab
5 2 (1.83%) JIRA
5 2 (1.83%) Maven
5 2 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.83%) Snyk
5 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.83%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.92%) Gradle
6 1 (0.92%) gulp
6 1 (0.92%) Hudson
6 1 (0.92%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.92%) TestCafe
6 1 (0.92%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.92%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.60%) Finance
3 7 (6.42%) Banking
4 6 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Advertising
8 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Electronics
8 1 (0.92%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.92%) Marketing
8 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (31.19%) Azure Engineer
2 33 (30.28%) Developer
3 21 (19.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.84%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (11.93%) .NET Developer
6 10 (9.17%) Senior
7 9 (8.26%) C# Developer
7 9 (8.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.42%) Azure Developer
9 6 (5.50%) Full Stack Developer
9 6 (5.50%) Lead
10 5 (4.59%) Angular Developer
10 5 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) GIS Developer
11 4 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (3.67%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (28.44%) .NET
2 21 (19.27%) Kafka
3 17 (15.60%) React
4 15 (13.76%) Node.js
5 12 (11.01%) YAML
6 11 (10.09%) .NET Core
7 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.59%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.59%) RESTful
8 4 (3.67%) Celery
8 4 (3.67%) Django
8 4 (3.67%) GeoPandas
8 4 (3.67%) OpenLayers
8 4 (3.67%) PostGIS
9 2 (1.83%) ADO
9 2 (1.83%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.83%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.83%) Flask
10 1 (0.92%) HTML5
10 1 (0.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.17%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.42%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.42%) Machine to Machine
4 6 (5.50%) NHS
5 4 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.75%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.92%) IoT
8 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.92%) PKI
8 1 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (28.44%) Linux
2 8 (7.34%) Windows
3 5 (4.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Unix
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (59.63%) DevOps
2 38 (34.86%) CI/CD
3 28 (25.69%) Agile
3 28 (25.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (22.02%) Microservices
5 20 (18.35%) Platform Engineering
5 20 (18.35%) Test Automation
6 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (10.09%) Containerisation
7 11 (10.09%) Scrum
8 10 (9.17%) Critical Thinking
8 10 (9.17%) Software Engineering
8 10 (9.17%) User Experience
8 10 (9.17%) UX Design
9 8 (7.34%) API Management
9 8 (7.34%) Architectural Design
10 7 (6.42%) Event-Driven
10 7 (6.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (6.42%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (5.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.28%) Python
2 31 (28.44%) C#
3 30 (27.52%) SQL
4 15 (13.76%) Bicep
4 15 (13.76%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.84%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.34%) Java
6 8 (7.34%) T-SQL
7 7 (6.42%) Bash
8 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.59%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.67%) Groovy
11 2 (1.83%) Go
12 1 (0.92%) C
12 1 (0.92%) C++
12 1 (0.92%) PHP
12 1 (0.92%) Ruby
12 1 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
1 7 (6.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.50%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.67%) Degree
5 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.92%) MCSA
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 35 (32.11%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.83%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 75 (68.81%) Kubernetes
2 47 (43.12%) Terraform
3 12 (11.01%) Argo
4 11 (10.09%) Grafana
5 10 (9.17%) Prometheus
6 6 (5.50%) Ansible
7 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.92%) Consul
8 1 (0.92%) Istio
8 1 (0.92%) linkerd
8 1 (0.92%) Nessus
8 1 (0.92%) Packer
8 1 (0.92%) Puppet
8 1 (0.92%) SELinux
8 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) WSO2
3 4 (3.67%) VMware
4 3 (2.75%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.83%) Databricks
5 2 (1.83%) Informatica
5 2 (1.83%) New Relic
5 2 (1.83%) Splunk
6 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.92%) Confluent
6 1 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.92%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.92%) Google
6 1 (0.92%) HP
6 1 (0.92%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.92%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.92%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.92%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.92%) Zscaler