Azure AKS Job Trends in the North West

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 188 177
Rank change year-on-year +18 -11 +100
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 11 19 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.37% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 1.16% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 5
10th Percentile £52,000 £46,250 £61,000
25th Percentile £59,875 £60,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £70,938 £78,943 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,000 £76,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -15.63%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,748 1,644 1,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.58% 31.62% 38.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,000 930 1,294
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,872 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,140 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in the North West

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the North West over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in the North West

Azure AKS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Manchester +17 9 £65,000 -3.70% 14
Merseyside - 2 £77,500 - 3
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (18.18%) nginx
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Storage
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
2 2 (18.18%) Sentry
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) NoSQL
2 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
3 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (18.18%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) PostHog
3 2 (18.18%) Redis
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) .NET Software Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
1 4 (36.36%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
1 6 (54.55%) .NET Framework
1 6 (54.55%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) ARM Templates
2 2 (18.18%) Entity Framework
2 2 (18.18%) Loki
2 2 (18.18%) MassTransit
2 2 (18.18%) Next.js
2 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (18.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Microservices
3 6 (54.55%) Clean Code
3 6 (54.55%) High Availability
3 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Observability
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) Software Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) Bicep
4 2 (18.18%) Go
4 2 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Rancher
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) VMware