Azure AKS Jobs in England

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure AKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure AKS over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 692 535
Rank change year-on-year +61 -157 +73
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 59 178 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.18% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.56% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 51 137 216
10th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £66,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £103,125 £102,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year +4.62% +4.84% +3.33%

All Cloud 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 14,319 31,933 35,088
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.86% 32.81% 43.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,730 24,914 24,223
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,413 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.73% +0.80%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in England

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in England.

Salary trend for Azure AKS in England

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in England over the 6 months to 22 June 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 22 June 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 +46 38 £93,000 +3.33% 160
North of England +30 10 £65,000 -3.70% 58
North West +13 7 £65,000 +52.94% 28
South East +88 5 £70,000 -28.21% 73
South West +108 3 £57,000 -21.38% 34
Yorkshire +39 3 £65,000 -3.70% 25
Midlands +91 1 £67,500 -3.57% 31
West Midlands +58 1 £67,500 -3.57% 20
East of England +45 1 - - 26
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.39%) IIS
1 2 (3.39%) nginx
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 58 (98.31%) Azure
2 16 (27.12%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (18.64%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (16.95%) Serverless
5 9 (15.25%) Azure Functions
6 8 (13.56%) Entra ID
7 7 (11.86%) AWS
7 7 (11.86%) GitHub
7 7 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (8.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (8.47%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (8.47%) SaaS
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (6.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (6.78%) PaaS
11 3 (5.08%) GCP
11 3 (5.08%) IaaS
12 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.81%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) Network Security
3 1 (1.69%) DAB
3 1 (1.69%) Internet
3 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.69%) Big Data
4 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.17%) Git
3 5 (8.47%) GitLab
4 3 (5.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (5.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.69%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (23.73%) Finance
2 7 (11.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.47%) Law
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Front Office
6 1 (1.69%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Military
6 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (27.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Senior
6 7 (11.86%) Architect
7 6 (10.17%) Azure Architect
8 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (6.78%) Developer
9 4 (6.78%) Lead
9 4 (6.78%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) AWS Architect
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes Architect
10 3 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) ARM Templates
2 9 (15.25%) .NET
3 5 (8.47%) .NET Core
3 5 (8.47%) React
4 4 (6.78%) Node.js
5 3 (5.08%) Loki
6 2 (3.39%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.39%) Bootstrap
6 2 (3.39%) JSON
6 2 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.39%) Redux
7 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.69%) Electron
7 1 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (1.69%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.69%) REST
7 1 (1.69%) XML
7 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
1 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.08%) Derivative
2 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.69%) IoT
4 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.51%) Windows
2 13 (22.03%) Windows Server
3 10 (16.95%) Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.69%) VMS
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (59.32%) DevOps
2 29 (49.15%) CI/CD
3 23 (38.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (28.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (16.95%) Agile
5 10 (16.95%) Fintech
5 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
6 9 (15.25%) Microservices
7 8 (13.56%) Containerisation
8 7 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (8.47%) Analytics
9 5 (8.47%) RBAC
9 5 (8.47%) Scrum
10 4 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (6.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (6.78%) Data Protection
10 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (6.78%) Migration
10 4 (6.78%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) PowerShell
2 18 (30.51%) Python
3 9 (15.25%) Bicep
4 8 (13.56%) Bash
5 7 (11.86%) C#
6 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.17%) SQL
7 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.39%) Java
9 1 (1.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.78%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.69%) MCSA
4 1 (1.69%) MCSE
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) SLA
2 2 (3.39%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (40.68%) Docker
2 9 (15.25%) Active Directory
3 7 (11.86%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (8.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (77.97%) Kubernetes
2 32 (54.24%) Terraform
3 10 (16.95%) Ansible
3 10 (16.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (16.95%) Prometheus
4 9 (15.25%) SCCM
5 8 (13.56%) Grafana
6 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
6 3 (5.08%) Puppet
7 1 (1.69%) Istio
7 1 (1.69%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.95%) Palo Alto
3 6 (10.17%) VMware
4 5 (8.47%) Citrix
5 3 (5.08%) Cisco
6 2 (3.39%) Databricks
7 1 (1.69%) DataCore
7 1 (1.69%) EMC
7 1 (1.69%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.69%) Google
7 1 (1.69%) NetApp
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle
7 1 (1.69%) Red Hat