Azure AKS Job Trends in Wales

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 1 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.12% - 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% - 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £42,819
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £59,063
90th Percentile - - £62,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -3.33%

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 165 423 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 19.76% 26.18% 36.11%
Number of salaries quoted 140 323 323
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,486 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £71,313 £65,000 £66,009
90th Percentile £77,625 £74,829 £73,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,559
% change year-on-year - -4.09% +0.09%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in Wales

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
South Wales - 1 £65,000 - 2
Azure AKS
UK

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform