Azure AKS Job Trends in the West Midlands

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 200 173
Rank change year-on-year +35 -27 +95
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 9 6 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.17% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.42% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 3
10th Percentile £34,674 - £53,500
25th Percentile £46,731 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.43% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £70,313 £87,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £91,250 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -15.63%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,044 1,435 1,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.77% 33.40% 37.59%
Number of salaries quoted 883 816 1,144
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.84%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Azure AKS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure AKS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in the West Midlands

Azure AKS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure AKS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Staffordshire - 6 £51,500 - 1
Herefordshire - 2 £92,500 -
Birmingham +24 1 - -
Azure AKS
England

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) GitHub
2 6 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (55.56%) AWS
4 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (44.44%) Datadog
5 3 (33.33%) IaaS
5 3 (33.33%) PaaS
5 3 (33.33%) SaaS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) ARM Templates
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (44.44%) RBAC
2 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (44.44%) Runbook
2 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (11.11%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (11.11%) Coaching
5 1 (11.11%) ITSM
5 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Bicep
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
2 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCNA
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds