Azure AKS Job Trends in England

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 523 671
Rank change year-on-year 0 +148 -204
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 150 76 150
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.56% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 129 64 125
10th Percentile £52,400 £60,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £68,438 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £88,750 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +7.58% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £106,563 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £87,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +6.06% +2.75%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,806 13,677 29,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.06% 37.34% 36.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12,861 10,200 24,163
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in England

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in England over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in England

Azure AKS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the England region over the 6 months to 11 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +7 62 £92,500 -2.63% 30
North of England -51 29 £65,576 -2.85% 17
North West -14 23 £65,000 -3.70% 11
South West -37 18 £55,000 -24.14% 5
South East -28 17 £70,000 -33.33% 12
Midlands -36 11 £60,000 -32.39% 6
East Midlands - 7 £60,000 - 5
East of England - 7 £60,000 - 6
West Midlands -13 4 £35,866 -59.59% 1
Yorkshire -62 3 £69,310 +2.68% 2
North East - 3 £65,576 - 4
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 128 (85.33%) Azure
2 55 (36.67%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (24.00%) Entra ID
4 34 (22.67%) Azure Monitor
5 29 (19.33%) GitHub
6 27 (18.00%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (18.00%) IaaS
7 26 (17.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 25 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 22 (14.67%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (14.67%) PaaS
10 20 (13.33%) Serverless
11 19 (12.67%) Azure Storage
12 17 (11.33%) AWS
13 16 (10.67%) Azure Functions
13 16 (10.67%) Datadog
13 16 (10.67%) SaaS
14 15 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (9.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (18.00%) Firewall
2 16 (10.67%) VPN
3 13 (8.67%) DNS
4 12 (8.00%) WAN
5 4 (2.67%) Network Security
6 1 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 12 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 10 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.67%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.67%) MySQL
6 4 (2.67%) Power BI
7 2 (1.33%) PostHog
7 2 (1.33%) Redis
7 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (11.33%) GitLab
2 16 (10.67%) Git
3 8 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (19.33%) Finance
2 23 (15.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.33%) Law
4 9 (6.00%) Billing
5 8 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.00%) Retail
7 2 (1.33%) Advertising
8 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (36.67%) Azure Engineer
2 46 (30.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 40 (26.67%) Senior
4 32 (21.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (14.67%) .NET Software Engineer
5 22 (14.67%) Software Engineer
6 19 (12.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 18 (12.00%) Lead
8 17 (11.33%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 17 (11.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.67%) Developer
11 9 (6.00%) Architect
12 7 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.00%) Azure Architect
13 6 (4.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (27.33%) .NET
2 28 (18.67%) .NET Framework
3 19 (12.67%) RESTful
4 17 (11.33%) Entity Framework
4 17 (11.33%) OAuth
5 16 (10.67%) REST
6 15 (10.00%) .NET Core
7 13 (8.67%) YAML
8 12 (8.00%) ADO
8 12 (8.00%) SAML
9 11 (7.33%) Dapper ORM
10 8 (5.33%) ARM Templates
10 8 (5.33%) React
11 4 (2.67%) Node.js
11 4 (2.67%) OAuth2
12 3 (2.00%) Kafka
12 3 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (2.00%) TensorFlow
13 2 (1.33%) Loki
13 2 (1.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (2.67%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.33%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.33%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.67%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.67%) Replication
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.33%) Linux
2 14 (9.33%) VMS
3 10 (6.67%) Windows
4 3 (2.00%) Unix
4 3 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.33%) Debian
5 2 (1.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (62.00%) DevOps
2 91 (60.67%) CI/CD
3 76 (50.67%) Containerisation
4 64 (42.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (37.33%) Agile
6 41 (27.33%) Observability
7 29 (19.33%) High Availability
7 29 (19.33%) Software Engineering
8 24 (16.00%) Analytics
9 23 (15.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (15.33%) Microservices
10 22 (14.67%) Cost Management
10 22 (14.67%) Mentoring
11 19 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (12.67%) Identity Management
11 19 (12.67%) RBAC
11 19 (12.67%) Test Automation
12 18 (12.00%) Log Analytics
12 18 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (11.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.67%) SQL
2 40 (26.67%) C#
3 31 (20.67%) PowerShell
4 27 (18.00%) Python
5 19 (12.67%) Bicep
6 13 (8.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (6.67%) Bash
7 10 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.00%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.67%) Java
10 4 (2.67%) Go
11 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (18.00%) Azure Certification
2 9 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.67%) CCSP
6 1 (0.67%) CEH
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.67%) CISM
6 1 (0.67%) CISSP
6 1 (0.67%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.67%) Degree
6 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.67%) GIAC
6 1 (0.67%) GSEC
6 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (8.67%) SOC 2
3 12 (8.00%) GDPR
4 3 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.33%) NIST
5 2 (1.33%) QA
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.67%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 38 (25.33%) Docker
2 21 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 98 (65.33%) Kubernetes
2 73 (48.67%) Terraform
3 28 (18.67%) Ansible
4 8 (5.33%) Grafana
5 5 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.67%) logstash
6 4 (2.67%) Rancher
7 3 (2.00%) Argo
7 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.00%) Palo Alto
2 12 (8.00%) Zscaler
3 5 (3.33%) Informatica
3 5 (3.33%) Oracle
4 3 (2.00%) Databricks
4 3 (2.00%) Foundry
4 3 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (1.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.67%) Apple
6 1 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.67%) Dell
6 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.67%) Splunk
6 1 (0.67%) VMware