Azure AKS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 690 577
Rank change year-on-year +127 -113 -14
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 28 67 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.094% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.28% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 25 52 79
10th Percentile £54,600 £37,875 £53,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,813 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £81,250 £97,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £105,000 £104,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +3.13% +6.67%

All Cloud 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 8,936 23,571 22,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.42% 32.91% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,043 17,431 13,624
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,298 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the UK excluding London

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure AKS in the UK excluding London

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 May 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
North of England +32 16 £67,500 - 20
Yorkshire +58 9 £67,500 -1.82% 7
North West -11 7 £67,500 +68.75% 12
South West +107 5 £72,500 -3.33% 5
West Midlands +57 4 £85,000 -12.82% 5
Midlands +54 4 £85,000 -12.82% 5
South East +80 2 £105,000 +5.00% 30
Scotland +123 1 - - 8
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (21.43%) SaaS
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (10.71%) IaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure App Service
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (7.14%) PaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) DAB
2 3 (10.71%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.71%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.57%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.57%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (35.71%) Law
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 10 (35.71%) Azure Engineer
1 10 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (35.71%) Lead
2 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (3.57%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) Node.js
2 10 (35.71%) React
3 5 (17.86%) Bootstrap
3 5 (17.86%) Redux
4 3 (10.71%) .NET
5 1 (3.57%) Blazor
5 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Solaris
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) DevOps
1 13 (46.43%) Mentoring
2 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) Microservices
4 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
6 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) User Experience
8 4 (14.29%) Agile
8 4 (14.29%) Migration
8 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (10.71%) Observability
9 3 (10.71%) Scrum
10 2 (7.14%) DevSecOps
10 2 (7.14%) GitOps
10 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (7.14%) RBAC
10 2 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
1 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
2 5 (17.86%) Bicep
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 24 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.14%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) Automic
5 1 (3.57%) Consul
5 1 (3.57%) Istio
5 1 (3.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Hitachi
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.57%) Veritas
2 1 (3.57%) VMware