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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 615 684 512
Rank change year-on-year +69 -172 +105
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 64 166 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.18% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.46% 0.54% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 55 134 227
10th Percentile £59,550 £56,250 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,313 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -1.47% +13.33%
75th Percentile £103,125 £102,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £110,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +3.13% +6.67%

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 14,050 30,881 37,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.49% 34.38% 43.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9,440 24,362 24,827
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +41 41 £91,000 +1.11% 58
North of England +19 13 £67,500 - 20
North West -2 7 £67,500 +58.82% 15
Yorkshire +42 6 £67,500 - 4
South West +114 3 £72,500 -3.33% 3
Midlands +59 3 £76,250 -21.79% 6
West Midlands +52 3 £76,250 -21.79% 6
South East +67 2 £105,000 +7.69% 12
East of England +48 1 - - 4
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 1 (1.56%) Confluence
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 63 (98.44%) Azure
2 16 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (17.19%) AWS
4 9 (14.06%) SaaS
5 8 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 8 (12.50%) GitHub
5 8 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (10.94%) GCP
6 7 (10.94%) Serverless
7 6 (9.38%) Azure Functions
7 6 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (7.81%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (6.25%) PaaS
10 3 (4.69%) IaaS
11 2 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.56%) Firewall
2 6 (9.38%) Network Security
3 3 (4.69%) DAB
4 1 (1.56%) Internet
4 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.56%) Big Data
1 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.25%) GitLab
2 4 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (4.69%) Git
3 3 (4.69%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.56%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (1.56%) JIRA
5 1 (1.56%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.56%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (26.56%) Finance
2 9 (14.06%) Law
3 7 (10.94%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
2 17 (26.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (21.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (18.75%) Senior
5 11 (17.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (14.06%) Lead
8 7 (10.94%) Architect
9 6 (9.38%) Azure Architect
10 5 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (6.25%) Security Engineer
11 4 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes Architect
12 3 (4.69%) Site Engineer
12 3 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) Node.js
1 8 (12.50%) React
2 7 (10.94%) ARM Templates
3 4 (6.25%) .NET
3 4 (6.25%) Bootstrap
3 4 (6.25%) Redux
4 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (3.13%) JSON
4 2 (3.13%) YAML
5 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.56%) Electron
5 1 (1.56%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.56%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.56%) Loki
5 1 (1.56%) REST
5 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (6.25%) Security Posture
2 3 (4.69%) Derivative
2 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.56%) Windows
2 13 (20.31%) Windows Server
3 9 (14.06%) Linux
4 3 (4.69%) VMS
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (54.69%) DevOps
2 32 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 26 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (29.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 10 (15.63%) Containerisation
6 10 (15.63%) Fintech
6 10 (15.63%) Microservices
7 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 7 (10.94%) Agile
9 7 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (9.38%) Incident Response
10 6 (9.38%) RBAC
11 5 (7.81%) Analytics
11 5 (7.81%) Migration
11 5 (7.81%) Scrum
11 5 (7.81%) User Experience
12 4 (6.25%) DevSecOps
12 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 18 (28.13%) Python
3 8 (12.50%) Bash
4 6 (9.38%) Bicep
5 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.25%) C#
6 4 (6.25%) SQL
7 2 (3.13%) Java
8 1 (1.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) AWS Certification
2 5 (7.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (7.81%) Azure Certification
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (3.13%) CCSP
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.13%) CISSP
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.56%) MCSA
6 1 (1.56%) MCSE
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) SLA
2 3 (4.69%) GDPR
2 3 (4.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.13%) NIST
3 2 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 22 (34.38%) Docker
2 10 (15.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (10.94%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (84.38%) Kubernetes
2 37 (57.81%) Terraform
3 10 (15.63%) Ansible
3 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (14.06%) SCCM
5 7 (10.94%) Prometheus
6 6 (9.38%) Grafana
7 3 (4.69%) Istio
7 3 (4.69%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.69%) Puppet
8 2 (3.13%) CASB
8 2 (3.13%) linkerd
9 1 (1.56%) Automic
9 1 (1.56%) Consul
9 1 (1.56%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.63%) Palo Alto
3 7 (10.94%) VMware
4 5 (7.81%) Citrix
5 3 (4.69%) Cisco
5 3 (4.69%) Google
6 1 (1.56%) Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) DataCore
6 1 (1.56%) EMC
6 1 (1.56%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.56%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.56%) Meraki
6 1 (1.56%) NetApp
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow