Azure AKS Job Trends in the City of London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 152 155
Rank change year-on-year +24 +3 +73
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 5 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.58% 0.51% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £71,100 - £58,500
25th Percentile £76,500 £87,500 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £95,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% +8.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile - £107,500 £91,250
90th Percentile - £121,000 -
Central London median annual salary £130,000 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +36.84% +8.57% -7.89%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

Azure AKS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 866 1,386 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 37.87% 52.52% 51.24%
Number of salaries quoted 681 950 1,340
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure AKS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in the City of London

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure API Management
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Dagster
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
2 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Lead Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DataOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DataOps Leader
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Semantic Kernel
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) API Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (60.00%) Zachman Framework
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) API Management
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (20.00%) DataOps
5 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft