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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 338 362
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 -33
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 36 127 270
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.53% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.67% 1.34% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 102 202
10th Percentile £398 £463 £426
25th Percentile £450 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £584 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% -2.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £675
90th Percentile £539 £774 £725
UK median daily rate £537 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.58% - +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 5,363 9,483 18,190
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.68% 39.25% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,078 13,604
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 132 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.04
25th Percentile £17.43 £21.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £53.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +34.19% +4.22%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £38.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -43.53% +69.64% +1.82%

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 31 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%) PaaS
4 5 (13.89%) AWS
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Service Bus
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
6 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.56%) Azure App Service
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (5.56%) GCP
7 2 (5.56%) IaaS
8 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
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
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) 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 10 (27.78%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) .NET Developer
4 6 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Azure Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) GIS Developer
7 3 (8.33%) C# Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Full Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) React Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Lead
8 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) .NET
2 7 (19.44%) React
3 4 (11.11%) Celery
3 4 (11.11%) Django
3 4 (11.11%) GeoPandas
3 4 (11.11%) Node.js
3 4 (11.11%) OpenLayers
3 4 (11.11%) PostGIS
3 4 (11.11%) YAML
4 3 (8.33%) Kafka
5 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.56%) Flask
6 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) 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%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Unix
2 1 (2.78%) VMS
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (72.22%) DevOps
2 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 11 (30.56%) Agile
4 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (25.00%) Microservices
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.89%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
8 4 (11.11%) High Availability
8 4 (11.11%) Scrum
8 4 (11.11%) Unit Testing
8 4 (11.11%) User Experience
8 4 (11.11%) UX Design
9 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
10 2 (5.56%) Interactive Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Bicep
1 8 (22.22%) Python
2 7 (19.44%) C#
2 7 (19.44%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.56%) Java
5 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) Groovy
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (47.22%) Kubernetes
2 14 (38.89%) 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 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (5.56%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Informatica
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