Azure AKS Job Trends in Hampshire

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 - 184
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 6 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.17% - 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% - 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £68,125 - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 - £100,000
75th Percentile £79,375 - £107,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £105,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +7.69% +39.29%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 627 416 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.27% 26.46% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 461 305 1,036
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £34,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,749 £87,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £54,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% +8.50% -11.50%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Farnborough - 6 £73,750 - 2
Azure AKS
South East

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
1 6 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft