Azure AKS Job Trends in Scotland

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 - 193
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 2 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.072% - 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% - 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £59,500
25th Percentile £67,500 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £95,217
90th Percentile - - £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -9.68% +9.81% -11.78%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 728 903 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.35% 35.23% 41.20%
Number of salaries quoted 268 435 740
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,833
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,875 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in Scotland

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Edinburgh - 2 £70,000 -
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft