Azure AKS Jobs with Work from Home Options

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 518 605
Rank change year-on-year +34 +87 -177
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 102 145 254
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 0.73% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 84 120 185
10th Percentile £52,750 £60,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,763 £71,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £71,547
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +18.80% +5.99%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £133,944 £105,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +15.38%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,552 19,880 36,267
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.25% 47.81% 52.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,904 14,556 21,788
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,000 £37,491
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

Azure AKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure AKS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure AKS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure AKS.

Azure AKS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure AKS over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Azure AKS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure AKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (0.98%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 85 (83.33%) Azure
2 36 (35.29%) AWS
3 33 (32.35%) Serverless
4 31 (30.39%) GitHub
5 30 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (25.49%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (25.49%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (24.51%) SaaS
8 21 (20.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 20 (19.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (17.65%) Amazon S3
11 17 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (16.67%) Azure Functions
12 15 (14.71%) Akamai
12 15 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (14.71%) AWS Fargate
12 15 (14.71%) Cloudflare
12 15 (14.71%) CloudFront
13 13 (12.75%) PaaS
14 12 (11.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) Firewall
2 5 (4.90%) IPv4
2 5 (4.90%) VPN
3 3 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (15.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (13.73%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (11.76%) SQL Server
5 11 (10.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (9.80%) MongoDB
6 10 (9.80%) MySQL
6 10 (9.80%) Redis
7 9 (8.82%) MariaDB
8 6 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (4.90%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.98%) GIS
10 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (20.59%) Git
2 10 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.86%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (4.90%) MLflow
5 2 (1.96%) GitLab
5 2 (1.96%) JIRA
5 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.98%) Gatling
6 1 (0.98%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.98%) JUnit
6 1 (0.98%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 28 (27.45%) Finance
2 15 (14.71%) Automotive
3 14 (13.73%) Health Technology
4 10 (9.80%) Tech for Good
5 9 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (7.84%) Banking
7 7 (6.86%) Retail
8 5 (4.90%) Social Skills
9 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.94%) Law
11 2 (1.96%) Marketing
12 1 (0.98%) Cantonese Language
12 1 (0.98%) Games
12 1 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 38 (37.25%) Azure Engineer
2 32 (31.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (21.57%) Lead
4 21 (20.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 21 (20.59%) Platform Engineer
5 20 (19.61%) AWS DevOps
5 20 (19.61%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 14 (13.73%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (12.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 13 (12.75%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (12.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (10.78%) Lead DevOps
9 10 (9.80%) Security Engineer
9 10 (9.80%) Senior
10 7 (6.86%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Architect
12 5 (4.90%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Data Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.41%) .NET
2 15 (14.71%) ARM Templates
3 11 (10.78%) Middleware
4 10 (9.80%) .NET Core
5 9 (8.82%) JSON
6 5 (4.90%) PySpark
7 4 (3.92%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.92%) Entity Framework
7 4 (3.92%) Node.js
7 4 (3.92%) React
7 4 (3.92%) YAML
8 3 (2.94%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.96%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (1.96%) SAML
10 1 (0.98%) NumPy
10 1 (0.98%) REST
10 1 (0.98%) RESTful
10 1 (0.98%) SQLAlchemy
10 1 (0.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Mobile App
2 10 (9.80%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (9.80%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.86%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.69%) Linux
2 15 (14.71%) Windows
3 3 (2.94%) Unix
4 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (62.75%) DevOps
2 31 (30.39%) CI/CD
3 30 (29.41%) Containerisation
3 30 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (24.51%) DevSecOps
5 22 (21.57%) Agile
6 21 (20.59%) Microservices
6 21 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (15.69%) Architectural Design
9 15 (14.71%) Content Management
9 15 (14.71%) Digital Content Management
9 15 (14.71%) Performance Monitoring
10 14 (13.73%) Software Engineering
11 13 (12.75%) Configuration Management
12 12 (11.76%) Analytics
12 12 (11.76%) Application Security
13 11 (10.78%) Change Management
13 11 (10.78%) Mentoring
13 11 (10.78%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 36 (35.29%) SQL
2 30 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 29 (28.43%) Python
4 28 (27.45%) Bash
5 24 (23.53%) Java
6 17 (16.67%) C#
7 13 (12.75%) JavaScript
8 11 (10.78%) Go
9 10 (9.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (8.82%) Groovy
11 7 (6.86%) PHP
11 7 (6.86%) Ruby
11 7 (6.86%) TypeScript
12 5 (4.90%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.96%) Scala
14 1 (0.98%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (13.73%) Azure Certification
2 8 (7.84%) Degree
3 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.96%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 38 (37.25%) Docker
2 15 (14.71%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (6.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 92 (90.20%) Kubernetes
2 61 (59.80%) Terraform
3 18 (17.65%) Grafana
4 10 (9.80%) Ansible
5 8 (7.84%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.86%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.86%) Puppet
7 6 (5.88%) Istio
8 2 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.98%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (30.39%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.71%) ForgeRock
2 15 (14.71%) Sitecore
3 12 (11.76%) Oracle
4 7 (6.86%) New Relic
4 7 (6.86%) SaltStack
5 5 (4.90%) Databricks
5 5 (4.90%) Google
6 2 (1.96%) VMware
7 1 (0.98%) Dynatrace