Azure AKS Jobs in the North West

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 244 254
Rank change year-on-year -25 +10 +50
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 6 18 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.079% 0.20% 0.097%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.65% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6 18 4
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £52,125
25th Percentile £41,063 £39,375 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £61,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -5.00% -13.33%
75th Percentile £68,438 £82,500 £71,875
90th Percentile £94,375 £85,200 £75,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -

All Cloud 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 1,532 2,787 2,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.15% 31.62% 39.53%
Number of salaries quoted 927 1,889 1,715
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the North West

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the North West.

Salary trend for Azure AKS in the North West

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the North West over the 6 months to 4 August 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 4 August 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 +26 3 £67,500 +9.31% 9
Lancashire - 3 £40,000 - 5
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
4 2 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security
5 1 (16.67%) Operations Management
5 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft