Azure AKS Job Trends in the Midlands

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 228 272
Rank change year-on-year -25 +44 -46
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 23 7 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.13% 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.73% 0.43% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 23 7 5
10th Percentile £55,000 - £51,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £54,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% -22.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £88,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 -
England median annual salary £78,125 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.61% -12.50% +18.52%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,160 1,635 2,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.17% 29.23% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,207 1,292 1,470
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,525 £31,975
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £69,313
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,710 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.52% -7.69% +4.00%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in the Midlands

Azure AKS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
West Midlands -38 14 £88,000 +47.90% 4
East Midlands -27 9 £60,000 +11.11% 11
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (4.35%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (60.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 10 (43.48%) Entra ID
4 7 (30.43%) IaaS
5 6 (26.09%) AWS
6 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (21.74%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (21.74%) Azure Storage
6 5 (21.74%) GCP
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (8.70%) PaaS
7 2 (8.70%) SaaS
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Network Security
1 9 (39.13%) VPN
2 5 (21.74%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) SAN
3 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 8 (34.78%) Law
2 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Azure Architect
2 9 (39.13%) Technical Architect
3 5 (21.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (73.91%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
2 16 (69.57%) Containerisation
2 16 (69.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (47.83%) Cloud Security
3 11 (47.83%) GitOps
4 10 (43.48%) DevSecOps
5 9 (39.13%) Network Virtualisation
5 9 (39.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (34.78%) DevOps
7 7 (30.43%) Observability
8 6 (26.09%) Agile
8 6 (26.09%) Load Balancing
8 6 (26.09%) Roadmaps
9 5 (21.74%) High Availability
9 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
10 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
10 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Bicep
2 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) DV Cleared
3 7 (30.43%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) IISP
4 1 (4.35%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (21.74%) Docker
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (86.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Argo
2 3 (13.04%) Istio
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (39.13%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Databricks