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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 567 543
Rank change year-on-year +56 -24 -77
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 98 108 125
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 0.60% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 83 79 105
10th Percentile £48,750 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £54,875 £64,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -15.63%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £109,500 £103,250 £99,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -12.50%

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 18,592 18,130 18,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.68% 36.56% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,337 10,828 15,884
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,440 £45,026
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,575 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 +56 44 £95,000 -4.04% 50
North of England +9 15 £65,000 -3.70% 48
North West +18 11 £65,000 -3.70% 22
Midlands +30 10 £54,000 -22.86% 41
South West +21 9 £45,000 -40.00% 32
West Midlands +26 8 £51,500 -26.43% 24
South East +16 8 £70,000 +3.70% 59
East of England +22 4 £100,000 +25.00% 28
North East - 3 £75,000 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £57,000 - 14
Yorkshire -3 1 £68,000 -1.09% 22
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 (3.06%) IIS
1 3 (3.06%) nginx
2 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 88 (89.80%) Azure
2 47 (47.96%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (31.63%) GitHub
4 25 (25.51%) Azure Monitor
5 24 (24.49%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (22.45%) PaaS
7 20 (20.41%) Entra ID
8 16 (16.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (15.31%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (15.31%) Serverless
10 14 (14.29%) AWS
11 13 (13.27%) SaaS
12 12 (12.24%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (12.24%) Datadog
13 11 (11.22%) Azure Functions
13 11 (11.22%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (9.18%) Azure Event Grid
15 9 (9.18%) Azure Pipelines
16 8 (8.16%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.29%) Firewall
2 9 (9.18%) VPN
3 7 (7.14%) WAN
4 5 (5.10%) Network Security
5 3 (3.06%) Internet
6 2 (2.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (11.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.12%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.08%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.06%) Redis
8 2 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.04%) MySQL
8 2 (2.04%) PostHog
8 2 (2.04%) Power BI
9 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Git
1 12 (12.24%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.14%) GitLab
3 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.04%) JIRA
4 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.02%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.24%) Finance
3 4 (4.08%) Billing
4 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.06%) Legal
4 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.06%) Retail
5 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.02%) Law
6 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (24.49%) Azure Engineer
2 23 (23.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (20.41%) Architect
4 18 (18.37%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (15.31%) Senior
6 13 (13.27%) Lead
7 12 (12.24%) Azure Architect
7 12 (12.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 12 (12.24%) Technical Architect
8 9 (9.18%) Software Engineer
8 9 (9.18%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (8.16%) Developer
10 7 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (6.12%) Software Developer
12 5 (5.10%) Operations Engineer
12 5 (5.10%) Support Engineer
13 4 (4.08%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.49%) .NET
2 17 (17.35%) ARM Templates
3 15 (15.31%) RESTful
4 11 (11.22%) .NET Framework
4 11 (11.22%) React
5 10 (10.20%) YAML
6 9 (9.18%) .NET Core
7 8 (8.16%) OAuth
8 7 (7.14%) ADO
8 7 (7.14%) SAML
9 5 (5.10%) Entity Framework
9 5 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (4.08%) Kafka
11 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.06%) Loki
11 3 (3.06%) Vue
12 2 (2.04%) Node.js
12 2 (2.04%) REST
12 2 (2.04%) SOAP
12 2 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.04%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.02%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.33%) Linux
2 8 (8.16%) VMS
3 7 (7.14%) Windows
4 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (68.37%) DevOps
2 62 (63.27%) CI/CD
3 41 (41.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (34.69%) Containerisation
5 33 (33.67%) Agile
6 28 (28.57%) Observability
7 22 (22.45%) Mentoring
8 21 (21.43%) Analytics
9 17 (17.35%) RBAC
9 17 (17.35%) Roadmaps
10 16 (16.33%) API Management
10 16 (16.33%) Architectural Patterns
10 16 (16.33%) Microservices
10 16 (16.33%) Software Engineering
11 14 (14.29%) AI
11 14 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 14 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (14.29%) High Availability
11 14 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.73%) SQL
2 29 (29.59%) Python
3 24 (24.49%) C#
4 23 (23.47%) Bicep
5 20 (20.41%) PowerShell
6 16 (16.33%) Bash
7 8 (8.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (7.14%) JavaScript
9 5 (5.10%) Go
10 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.04%) Java
11 2 (2.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (12.24%) Azure Certification
2 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.04%) CCNA
5 2 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.04%) MCP
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (9.18%) GDPR
2 9 (9.18%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.02%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (34.69%) Docker
2 13 (13.27%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (61.22%) Kubernetes
2 49 (50.00%) Terraform
3 14 (14.29%) Ansible
4 9 (9.18%) Grafana
5 6 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.08%) logstash
7 2 (2.04%) Rancher
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (54.08%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.18%) Informatica
2 9 (9.18%) Oracle
3 7 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 7 (7.14%) Zscaler
4 5 (5.10%) Foundry
4 5 (5.10%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (4.08%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.04%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.02%) Databricks
7 1 (1.02%) Dell
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.02%) VMware