Azure AKS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 170 192
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 +21
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 2 9 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.050% 0.26% 0.075%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.82% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £64,375 £56,250 £49,750
25th Percentile £67,188 £57,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% +8.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £79,688 £73,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £82,125 £93,125 £77,250
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,210 1,104 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.18% 32.41% 29.45%
Number of salaries quoted 639 567 961
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £88,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in the Thames Valley

Azure AKS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Buckinghamshire +11 1 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £82,500 - 3
Azure AKS
South East

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft