Azure AKS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 515 501
Rank change year-on-year +50 -14 +45
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 52 65 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.38% 0.54% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 45 46 44
10th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £53,625
25th Percentile £50,750 £61,250 £59,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £74,688
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,615 12,002 11,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.46% 32.21% 37.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,814 6,573 9,550
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £69,106
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in the UK excluding London

Azure AKS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +13 15 £65,000 -3.70% 10
Midlands +26 11 £52,750 -24.64% 4
North West +18 11 £65,000 -3.70% 6
West Midlands +21 9 £51,500 -26.43% 4
South West +13 9 £45,000 -40.00% 4
South East +12 8 £70,000 +3.70% 10
East of England +24 4 £100,000 +25.00%
Scotland - 3 £70,000 - 2
North East - 3 £75,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £57,000 -
Yorkshire -11 1 £68,000 -1.09% 4
Wales - 1 £65,000 -
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (5.77%) nginx
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) IIS
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (88.46%) Azure
2 24 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 13 (25.00%) GitHub
4 12 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
4 12 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (21.15%) AWS
6 10 (19.23%) PaaS
7 9 (17.31%) Entra ID
7 9 (17.31%) IaaS
8 8 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (15.38%) Serverless
9 7 (13.46%) SaaS
10 6 (11.54%) OpenShift
11 5 (9.62%) Azure Functions
11 5 (9.62%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (9.62%) Datadog
12 4 (7.69%) GCP
13 3 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (5.77%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) Firewall
2 2 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) NoSQL
2 5 (9.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
2 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.77%) Redis
4 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.85%) MySQL
5 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.85%) PostHog
6 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.54%) Git
2 6 (11.54%) GitLab
3 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.92%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.77%) Billing
2 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.85%) Aerospace
3 2 (3.85%) Finance
3 2 (3.85%) Health Technology
3 2 (3.85%) Retail
4 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (21.15%) Senior
4 10 (19.23%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Developer
6 6 (11.54%) Lead
6 6 (11.54%) Software Developer
7 5 (9.62%) .NET Software Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Architect
9 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.85%) Azure Architect
10 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) Principal Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (32.69%) .NET
2 12 (23.08%) RESTful
3 10 (19.23%) ARM Templates
4 9 (17.31%) .NET Framework
5 6 (11.54%) .NET Core
6 5 (9.62%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (9.62%) React
7 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.77%) Entity Framework
7 3 (5.77%) Loki
8 2 (3.85%) Hugging Face
8 2 (3.85%) Kafka
8 2 (3.85%) MassTransit
8 2 (3.85%) Next.js
8 2 (3.85%) Node.js
8 2 (3.85%) Nuxt
8 2 (3.85%) Vue
8 2 (3.85%) YAML
9 1 (1.92%) Semantic Kernel
9 1 (1.92%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (36.54%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) IoT
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Windows
3 1 (1.92%) VMS
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 34 (65.38%) DevOps
3 22 (42.31%) Containerisation
4 21 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (26.92%) Agile
6 13 (25.00%) Microservices
6 13 (25.00%) Observability
6 13 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (19.23%) Analytics
8 9 (17.31%) High Availability
8 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
9 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (15.38%) RBAC
10 7 (13.46%) Cloud Security
10 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (13.46%) Scrum
10 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
11 6 (11.54%) DevSecOps
11 6 (11.54%) Event-Driven
11 6 (11.54%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) C#
1 17 (32.69%) Python
2 16 (30.77%) SQL
3 15 (28.85%) Bicep
3 15 (28.85%) PowerShell
4 11 (21.15%) Bash
5 3 (5.77%) Go
5 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.85%) Java
7 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (9.62%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.85%) CCNA
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) MCP
5 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.85%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.92%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (36.54%) Docker
2 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.62%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 27 (51.92%) Terraform
3 6 (11.54%) Grafana
4 5 (9.62%) Ansible
5 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.85%) Rancher
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (7.69%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.85%) VMware
5 1 (1.92%) Dell
5 1 (1.92%) Foundry
5 1 (1.92%) Red Hat