Azure AKS Job Trends in Manchester

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 141 151
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 +72
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 10 16 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.34% 0.60% 0.078%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 1.58% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 2
10th Percentile £52,000 £45,375 £60,250
25th Percentile £57,250 £60,375 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% -13.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,227 £69,375
90th Percentile £69,500 £89,200 £69,750
North West median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.89% -1.85% -15.63%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,157 1,013 1,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 39.87% 38.18% 41.56%
Number of salaries quoted 613 573 921
10th Percentile £29,550 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Manchester

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in Manchester

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
1 5 (50.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) RESTful
2 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) High Availability
2 7 (70.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 5 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
5 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) C#
3 4 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) Bicep
4 2 (20.00%) Go
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Rancher
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Dell
2 1 (10.00%) VMware