Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure AKS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure AKS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 718 498 642
Rank change year-on-year -220 +144 -115
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 178 587 718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.56% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 1.30% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 149 285 337
10th Percentile £55,500 £57,700 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure AKS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure AKS.

Salary trend for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure AKS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Top 17 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 27 April 2024. 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 -192 158 £82,500 -2.94% 66
Work from Home +40 99 £82,500 -2.94% 45
London -81 97 £87,500 -2.78% 35
UK excluding London -126 68 £70,000 - 34
North of England +4 33 £67,500 +3.85% 8
Yorkshire +72 24 £70,000 - 2
South East -10 11 £100,000 +23.08% 14
Midlands -15 9 £97,500 +39.29% 4
North West -10 8 £45,000 -14.29% 5
West Midlands +17 7 £97,500 +34.48% 2
Scotland -73 4 £100,000 +53.85% 6
Wales +13 3 £42,500 -43.33%
East of England +4 3 £70,000 - 1
North East -4 3 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
South West -16 2 £60,000 -22.58% 2
East Midlands -28 2 - - 2

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (0.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 157 (88.20%) Azure
2 74 (41.57%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (29.78%) Serverless
4 51 (28.65%) AWS
5 44 (24.72%) Amazon EKS
6 37 (20.79%) GitHub
7 34 (19.10%) PaaS
8 33 (18.54%) IaaS
9 32 (17.98%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (17.98%) Entra ID
9 32 (17.98%) SaaS
10 28 (15.73%) Azure Functions
11 27 (15.17%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (13.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 22 (12.36%) Amazon S3
14 21 (11.80%) GCP
15 20 (11.24%) Akamai
15 20 (11.24%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (10.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (10.67%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.92%) Firewall
2 10 (5.62%) Network Security
3 8 (4.49%) VPN
4 7 (3.93%) DNS
4 7 (3.93%) IPv4
5 1 (0.56%) BGP
5 1 (0.56%) IPv6
5 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.10%) SQL Server
2 28 (15.73%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (11.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (8.99%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (8.43%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.43%) NoSQL
6 13 (7.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (6.74%) MySQL
8 10 (5.62%) Redis
9 9 (5.06%) MariaDB
10 8 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.81%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.25%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.25%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.12%) Power BI
14 1 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 30 (16.85%) Git
2 25 (14.04%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.49%) GitLab
3 8 (4.49%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (3.37%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.81%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.25%) MLflow
7 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.12%) Gatling
8 2 (1.12%) JIRA
8 2 (1.12%) JMeter
8 2 (1.12%) JUnit
8 2 (1.12%) LoadRunner
8 2 (1.12%) Maven
9 1 (0.56%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.56%) Moq
9 1 (0.56%) NUnit
9 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (29.78%) Finance
2 28 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.87%) Automotive
5 13 (7.30%) Health Technology
6 12 (6.74%) Banking
7 11 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (5.62%) Tech for Good
9 8 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.49%) Retail
10 7 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (3.37%) Games
12 3 (1.69%) Law
12 3 (1.69%) Marketing
13 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.56%) Advertising
14 1 (0.56%) Cantonese Language
14 1 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.56%) Legal
14 1 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 55 (30.90%) Azure Engineer
2 44 (24.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (16.85%) Lead
4 28 (15.73%) Architect
5 27 (15.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 27 (15.17%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (14.61%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 22 (12.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (11.80%) AWS DevOps
9 20 (11.24%) Azure Architect
9 20 (11.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 15 (8.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (8.43%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (8.43%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (8.43%) Senior
11 12 (6.74%) Technical Architect
12 10 (5.62%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (5.62%) Security Engineer
12 10 (5.62%) Site Engineer
12 10 (5.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (24.16%) .NET
2 30 (16.85%) ARM Templates
3 20 (11.24%) JSON
4 19 (10.67%) .NET Core
5 13 (7.30%) Middleware
5 13 (7.30%) RESTful
5 13 (7.30%) YAML
6 12 (6.74%) .NET Framework
6 12 (6.74%) Entity Framework
6 12 (6.74%) XML
7 10 (5.62%) OAuth
7 10 (5.62%) Razor View Engine
8 8 (4.49%) ASP.NET
8 8 (4.49%) ASP.NET 2.0
8 8 (4.49%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (4.49%) Blazor
8 8 (4.49%) CSS
8 8 (4.49%) HTML
8 8 (4.49%) HTML5
8 8 (4.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.43%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.18%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (4.49%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.25%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.56%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.56%) IoT
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.56%) NHS
9 1 (0.56%) PKI
9 1 (0.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.17%) Linux
1 27 (15.17%) Windows
2 3 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (74.72%) DevOps
2 64 (35.96%) CI/CD
3 57 (32.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (28.65%) Containerisation
5 48 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (26.40%) Agile
7 34 (19.10%) DevSecOps
8 33 (18.54%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (16.29%) Cloud Security
10 27 (15.17%) Microservices
11 25 (14.04%) Identity Access Management
11 25 (14.04%) Mentoring
12 24 (13.48%) Configuration Management
13 23 (12.92%) Design Patterns
13 23 (12.92%) Software Engineering
14 22 (12.36%) API Management
15 21 (11.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 19 (10.67%) Architectural Design
16 19 (10.67%) Roadmaps
17 18 (10.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 66 (37.08%) SQL
2 57 (32.02%) Python
3 48 (26.97%) PowerShell
4 36 (20.22%) Bash
5 27 (15.17%) C#
6 24 (13.48%) Java
7 23 (12.92%) JavaScript
8 19 (10.67%) Go
9 13 (7.30%) Bicep
10 12 (6.74%) T-SQL
11 11 (6.18%) Groovy
12 10 (5.62%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (4.49%) Ruby
13 8 (4.49%) TypeScript
14 7 (3.93%) PHP
15 3 (1.69%) Scala
16 2 (1.12%) C++
17 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (18.54%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.87%) Degree
3 11 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.37%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.81%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.69%) CISSP
8 2 (1.12%) CISA
8 2 (1.12%) CISM
9 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.56%) CCSK
9 1 (0.56%) CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) MCSA
9 1 (0.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.81%) SLA
3 4 (2.25%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.69%) NIST
5 2 (1.12%) QA
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (35.96%) Docker
2 28 (15.73%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (13.48%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) LXC
5 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 156 (87.64%) Kubernetes
2 105 (58.99%) Terraform
3 26 (14.61%) Grafana
4 23 (12.92%) Ansible
5 20 (11.24%) Prometheus
6 15 (8.43%) Progress Chef
7 14 (7.87%) Istio
7 14 (7.87%) Puppet
8 6 (3.37%) Packer
8 6 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.69%) Argo
11 2 (1.12%) Kibana
11 2 (1.12%) logstash
12 1 (0.56%) Anchore
12 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 69 (38.76%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.80%) Oracle
3 20 (11.24%) ForgeRock
4 14 (7.87%) Sitecore
5 8 (4.49%) New Relic
5 8 (4.49%) SaltStack
6 7 (3.93%) Google
7 6 (3.37%) Zscaler
8 5 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.25%) Databricks
10 3 (1.69%) VMware
11 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.12%) Splunk
12 1 (0.56%) Cisco
12 1 (0.56%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (0.56%) HP
12 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto