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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 400 438
Rank change year-on-year -58 +38 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure AKS 117 308 486
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.55% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% 1.51% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 215 337
10th Percentile £413 £463 £463
25th Percentile £472 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £700
90th Percentile £675 £813 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.30% +3.41%
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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 14 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 1 June 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 -76 94 £550 -8.33% 56
London -36 62 £550 -15.38% 25
UK excluding London +16 37 £500 -9.09% 28
Work from Home +23 36 £500 -14.53% 41
South East +2 11 £450 -17.24% 10
Midlands +29 8 £607 +15.62% 3
West Midlands - 8 £607 - 3
North of England +6 7 £500 -4.76% 8
Wales - 6 £500 -
Yorkshire +6 4 £475 -7.32% 2
South West +3 3 £500 -18.37% 5
North West +15 2 £563 +7.14% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
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 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 109 (93.16%) Azure
2 49 (41.88%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (28.21%) Azure Service Bus
4 24 (20.51%) AWS
5 22 (18.80%) Azure App Service
6 21 (17.95%) Serverless
7 20 (17.09%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (16.24%) PaaS
9 16 (13.68%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (11.97%) Azure Event Grid
10 14 (11.97%) Azure Functions
11 13 (11.11%) GitHub
12 11 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (8.55%) GCP
14 7 (5.98%) IaaS
15 6 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
16 5 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
16 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
17 4 (3.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) DNS
1 2 (1.71%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) DHCP
2 1 (0.85%) IPv4
2 1 (0.85%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.85%) LAN
2 1 (0.85%) Network Security
2 1 (0.85%) VPN
2 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.24%) SQL Server
2 15 (12.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (9.40%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.84%) Redis
6 4 (3.42%) GIS
6 4 (3.42%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.56%) Power BI
8 2 (1.71%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.71%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.71%) MySQL
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.85%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Git
1 11 (9.40%) JMeter
2 9 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 9 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.84%) GitLab
4 3 (2.56%) JIRA
5 2 (1.71%) Snyk
5 2 (1.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.71%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.71%) TestCafe
5 2 (1.71%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.85%) Hudson
6 1 (0.85%) Maven
6 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.85%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.24%) Finance
3 12 (10.26%) Banking
4 7 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Advertising
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Electronics
8 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Marketing
8 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (31.62%) Developer
2 35 (29.91%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (12.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 15 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (11.97%) .NET Developer
6 9 (7.69%) C# Developer
7 8 (6.84%) Azure Developer
7 8 (6.84%) Senior
8 7 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Lead
9 6 (5.13%) Architect
9 6 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
10 5 (4.27%) Angular Developer
10 5 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Azure Architect
11 4 (3.42%) GIS Developer
11 4 (3.42%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (3.42%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (28.21%) .NET
2 26 (22.22%) Kafka
3 17 (14.53%) React
4 16 (13.68%) Node.js
5 12 (10.26%) .NET Core
6 11 (9.40%) YAML
7 5 (4.27%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.27%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.27%) RESTful
8 4 (3.42%) Celery
8 4 (3.42%) Django
8 4 (3.42%) GeoPandas
8 4 (3.42%) OpenLayers
8 4 (3.42%) PostGIS
9 2 (1.71%) ADO
9 2 (1.71%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (1.71%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.71%) Flask
9 2 (1.71%) PySpark
9 2 (1.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.40%) Public Cloud
3 7 (5.98%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.98%) Machine to Machine
4 6 (5.13%) NHS
5 4 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) PKI
8 1 (0.85%) Replication
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.35%) Linux
2 7 (5.98%) Windows
3 4 (3.42%) Unix
4 3 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (58.12%) DevOps
2 38 (32.48%) CI/CD
3 33 (28.21%) Agile
4 32 (27.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (23.93%) Microservices
6 23 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (17.95%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (17.09%) Test Automation
9 13 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 11 (9.40%) Scrum
11 10 (8.55%) Architectural Design
11 10 (8.55%) Critical Thinking
11 10 (8.55%) User Experience
11 10 (8.55%) UX Design
12 9 (7.69%) Event-Driven
12 9 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (7.69%) Software Engineering
13 8 (6.84%) API Management
13 8 (6.84%) Technical Leadership
14 7 (5.98%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.35%) SQL
2 31 (26.50%) C#
2 31 (26.50%) Python
3 16 (13.68%) Bicep
4 15 (12.82%) TypeScript
5 12 (10.26%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.84%) Java
6 8 (6.84%) Shell Script
6 8 (6.84%) T-SQL
7 7 (5.98%) Bash
8 6 (5.13%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.42%) Groovy
10 1 (0.85%) C
10 1 (0.85%) C++
10 1 (0.85%) Go
10 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (5.98%) Azure Certification
1 7 (5.98%) Degree
2 6 (5.13%) Master's Degree
2 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.85%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.55%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) GDPR
2 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (32.48%) Docker
2 5 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.71%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 81 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 50 (42.74%) Terraform
3 12 (10.26%) Argo
4 11 (9.40%) Grafana
5 9 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 6 (5.13%) Ansible
7 1 (0.85%) Consul
7 1 (0.85%) Istio
7 1 (0.85%) linkerd
7 1 (0.85%) Nessus
7 1 (0.85%) Packer
7 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.85%) Puppet
7 1 (0.85%) SELinux
7 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (26.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.13%) WSO2
3 5 (4.27%) Informatica
3 5 (4.27%) VMware
4 2 (1.71%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.71%) Confluent
4 2 (1.71%) Databricks
4 2 (1.71%) Google
4 2 (1.71%) New Relic
4 2 (1.71%) Splunk
5 1 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.85%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.85%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.85%) Skytap
5 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.85%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.85%) TOWER Software
5 1 (0.85%) Zscaler