Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 608 603
Rank change year-on-year +58 -5 -37
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 241 78 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.87% 0.49% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 207 68 159
10th Percentile £57,500 £49,625 £57,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,188 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,188 £97,987
90th Percentile £103,500 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,310 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% -3.57% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 27,850 15,969 26,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.92% 31.96% 31.68%
Number of salaries quoted 18,492 11,011 18,724
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,083
25th Percentile £44,222 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure AKS
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 August 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
England +75 226 £70,000 -6.67% 55
UK excluding London +4 131 £69,310 +2.68% 35
Work from Home +36 95 £69,310 +2.68% 29
London +16 85 £85,000 -5.56% 32
South East +15 47 £70,000 - 14
North of England -13 33 £69,310 +10.45% 11
Midlands -12 26 £62,000 -8.15% 3
South West -51 19 £100,000 +51.52% 6
North West +11 18 £69,310 +10.45% 11
East Midlands -11 13 £60,000 +11.11% 1
West Midlands -15 13 £88,000 +10.00% 2
East of England -20 11 £60,000 -27.27% 1
Yorkshire -23 8 £69,310 +98.03%
North East -54 7 £65,576 -12.57%
Scotland -7 2 £60,000 -14.29%
Wales -62 1 £65,000 -

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (2.49%) IIS
2 5 (2.07%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 221 (91.70%) Azure
2 109 (45.23%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (24.07%) Azure Service Bus
4 54 (22.41%) IaaS
5 49 (20.33%) Serverless
6 44 (18.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 40 (16.60%) Azure Functions
8 39 (16.18%) AWS
8 39 (16.18%) Azure Key Vault
9 35 (14.52%) Entra ID
10 33 (13.69%) Azure Monitor
11 31 (12.86%) Azure Storage
12 29 (12.03%) GitHub
13 28 (11.62%) PaaS
13 28 (11.62%) SaaS
14 27 (11.20%) Azure Logic Apps
15 26 (10.79%) Azure Event Grid
16 25 (10.37%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (7.88%) GCP
18 17 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.69%) DNS
2 14 (5.81%) VPN
3 9 (3.73%) Network Security
4 5 (2.07%) Firewall
5 3 (1.24%) WAN
6 2 (0.83%) BGP
6 2 (0.83%) HTTP
7 1 (0.41%) SAN
7 1 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (10.37%) SQL Server
3 23 (9.54%) MongoDB
4 18 (7.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.73%) Redis
6 6 (2.49%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.49%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.66%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.66%) MySQL
8 3 (1.24%) Flink
9 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.41%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 36 (14.94%) GitLab
2 24 (9.96%) Git
3 5 (2.07%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.07%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (1.66%) NUnit
5 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.83%) JUnit
6 2 (0.83%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.83%) MLflow
6 2 (0.83%) Mockito
6 2 (0.83%) MSI
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (20.33%) Finance
2 47 (19.50%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.86%) Law
4 27 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.90%) Aviation
6 5 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.24%) Advertising
7 3 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.24%) Retail
8 2 (0.83%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.83%) Banking
8 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (36.10%) Senior
2 85 (35.27%) Azure Engineer
3 60 (24.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 57 (23.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (13.28%) Architect
5 32 (13.28%) Platform Engineer
6 31 (12.86%) Lead
7 28 (11.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 26 (10.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 24 (9.96%) Azure Architect
9 24 (9.96%) Senior DevOps
9 24 (9.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 22 (9.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 20 (8.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 19 (7.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 17 (7.05%) Developer
14 14 (5.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 13 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (4.56%) Integration Developer
16 11 (4.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (21.99%) .NET
2 18 (7.47%) Node.js
3 17 (7.05%) ARM Templates
3 17 (7.05%) REST
4 15 (6.22%) OAuth
4 15 (6.22%) OAuth2
5 12 (4.98%) .NET Framework
6 11 (4.56%) Kafka
7 10 (4.15%) RESTful
8 9 (3.73%) YAML
9 8 (3.32%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.90%) Entity Framework
10 7 (2.90%) React
11 5 (2.07%) Loki
12 4 (1.66%) Dapper ORM
12 4 (1.66%) JWT
12 4 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
13 3 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
14 2 (0.83%) ActiveMQ
14 2 (0.83%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 61 (25.31%) Cloud Native
2 30 (12.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.32%) AI Agents
4 8 (3.32%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.24%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.41%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.41%) IoT
10 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.09%) Linux
2 35 (14.52%) Windows
3 20 (8.30%) Unix
4 8 (3.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (67.22%) CI/CD
2 159 (65.98%) DevOps
3 128 (53.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (41.49%) Containerisation
5 83 (34.44%) Agile
6 70 (29.05%) Platform Engineering
7 64 (26.56%) Microservices
8 60 (24.90%) Observability
9 59 (24.48%) Mentoring
10 47 (19.50%) Root Cause Analysis
11 44 (18.26%) AI
12 41 (17.01%) Cloud Security
13 40 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (15.77%) Load Balancing
15 36 (14.94%) Coaching
16 35 (14.52%) Migration
17 33 (13.69%) High Availability
18 32 (13.28%) Test Automation
19 29 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
20 28 (11.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (28.63%) PowerShell
2 52 (21.58%) Bicep
2 52 (21.58%) C#
3 48 (19.92%) SQL
4 44 (18.26%) Python
5 23 (9.54%) Java
6 22 (9.13%) Bash
7 15 (6.22%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.22%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.07%) Go
9 3 (1.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (20.33%) Azure Certification
2 34 (14.11%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.56%) Degree
5 9 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.83%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.41%) CCSP
8 1 (0.41%) CEH
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CISM
8 1 (0.41%) CISSP
8 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.41%) GIAC
8 1 (0.41%) GSEC
8 1 (0.41%) IISP
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.15%) QA
2 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.41%) NIST
3 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 63 (26.14%) Docker
2 25 (10.37%) Active Directory
3 19 (7.88%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 164 (68.05%) Kubernetes
2 134 (55.60%) Terraform
3 26 (10.79%) Argo
4 15 (6.22%) Ansible
4 15 (6.22%) Grafana
4 15 (6.22%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.49%) Istio
6 2 (0.83%) Cilium
6 2 (0.83%) Rancher
7 1 (0.41%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.41%) linkerd
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.41%) Packer
7 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 106 (43.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.56%) VMware
3 6 (2.49%) Databricks
4 3 (1.24%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.24%) Google
5 2 (0.83%) Foundry
5 2 (0.83%) Informatica
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle
5 2 (0.83%) Veeam
6 1 (0.41%) Apple
6 1 (0.41%) Cisco
6 1 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.41%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.41%) Meraki
6 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.41%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.41%) OpenText
6 1 (0.41%) SAP
6 1 (0.41%) Splunk
6 1 (0.41%) TIBCO