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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 734 508 623
Rank change year-on-year -226 +115 -115
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 180 564 741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.55% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 1.28% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 150 273 348
10th Percentile £55,875 £57,600 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £106,625
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 35,320 44,215 75,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.85% 42.74% 48.20%
Number of salaries quoted 26,705 29,050 41,939
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,988 £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 £95,600 £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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -183 159 £82,500 -2.94% 65
Work from Home +25 101 £82,500 -2.94% 45
London -75 98 £87,500 -2.78% 35
UK excluding London -141 68 £70,000 - 31
North of England -1 34 £67,500 +3.85% 6
Yorkshire +64 24 £70,000 - 3
South East -13 11 £100,000 +29.03% 13
Midlands -2 9 £97,500 +39.29% 5
North West -8 9 £42,500 -19.05% 3
West Midlands +12 7 £97,500 +34.48% 2
Scotland -73 4 £100,000 +53.85% 2
Wales +13 3 £42,500 -43.33% 2
East of England +8 3 £70,000 -
North East -9 3 £80,000 +23.08%
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -22 2 - - 3
South West -39 1 £75,000 -3.23% 3

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
1 160 (88.89%) Azure
2 75 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (30.00%) Serverless
4 52 (28.89%) AWS
5 43 (23.89%) Amazon EKS
6 37 (20.56%) GitHub
7 35 (19.44%) PaaS
8 34 (18.89%) IaaS
9 33 (18.33%) Entra ID
9 33 (18.33%) SaaS
10 32 (17.78%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (16.67%) Azure Functions
12 28 (15.56%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (13.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 23 (12.78%) Amazon S3
15 22 (12.22%) GCP
16 21 (11.67%) Akamai
16 21 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
17 20 (11.11%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.22%) Firewall
2 10 (5.56%) Network Security
3 8 (4.44%) VPN
4 7 (3.89%) DNS
4 7 (3.89%) IPv4
5 1 (0.56%) BGP
5 1 (0.56%) IPv6
5 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.78%) SQL Server
2 27 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (12.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 15 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (6.67%) MySQL
6 10 (5.56%) Redis
7 9 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.00%) MariaDB
8 8 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.22%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.11%) Power BI
12 1 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 30 (16.67%) Git
2 24 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.44%) GitLab
4 7 (3.89%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.78%) MLflow
7 4 (2.22%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.11%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.11%) JIRA
8 2 (1.11%) JMeter
8 2 (1.11%) Maven
8 2 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.56%) Gatling
9 1 (0.56%) JUnit
9 1 (0.56%) Moq
9 1 (0.56%) NUnit
9 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.56%) Snyk
9 1 (0.56%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (29.44%) Finance
2 28 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 20 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.33%) Automotive
5 13 (7.22%) Health Technology
6 12 (6.67%) Banking
6 12 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.56%) Tech for Good
8 8 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.44%) Retail
9 7 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.33%) Games
11 3 (1.67%) Law
11 3 (1.67%) Marketing
12 2 (1.11%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.11%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.56%) Cantonese Language
13 1 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.56%) Legal
13 1 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 57 (31.67%) Azure Engineer
2 42 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (17.22%) Lead
4 29 (16.11%) Architect
5 28 (15.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 28 (15.56%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (15.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 22 (12.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (11.67%) AWS DevOps
9 20 (11.11%) Azure Architect
10 19 (10.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 16 (8.89%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (7.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (7.78%) Senior
13 12 (6.67%) Technical Architect
14 11 (6.11%) Lead DevOps
15 10 (5.56%) Security Engineer
15 10 (5.56%) Site Engineer
15 10 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (24.44%) .NET
2 28 (15.56%) ARM Templates
3 21 (11.67%) JSON
4 19 (10.56%) .NET Core
5 13 (7.22%) RESTful
5 13 (7.22%) YAML
6 12 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 12 (6.67%) Entity Framework
6 12 (6.67%) Middleware
6 12 (6.67%) XML
7 10 (5.56%) OAuth
7 10 (5.56%) Razor View Engine
8 8 (4.44%) ASP.NET
8 8 (4.44%) ASP.NET 2.0
8 8 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (4.44%) Blazor
8 8 (4.44%) CSS
8 8 (4.44%) HTML
8 8 (4.44%) HTML5
8 8 (4.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.89%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.11%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.89%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.89%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.22%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
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%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.89%) Linux
1 25 (13.89%) Windows
2 3 (1.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (75.00%) DevOps
2 63 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 59 (32.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (28.33%) Containerisation
5 48 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (25.56%) Agile
7 36 (20.00%) DevSecOps
8 34 (18.89%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (16.11%) Cloud Security
10 27 (15.00%) Microservices
11 25 (13.89%) Mentoring
12 24 (13.33%) Configuration Management
12 24 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
13 23 (12.78%) Software Engineering
14 21 (11.67%) API Management
14 21 (11.67%) Design Patterns
15 20 (11.11%) Architectural Design
16 19 (10.56%) Roadmaps
16 19 (10.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 18 (10.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 66 (36.67%) SQL
2 54 (30.00%) Python
3 47 (26.11%) PowerShell
4 33 (18.33%) Bash
5 27 (15.00%) C#
6 24 (13.33%) Java
7 22 (12.22%) JavaScript
8 18 (10.00%) Go
9 13 (7.22%) T-SQL
10 12 (6.67%) Bicep
11 10 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (5.00%) Groovy
13 8 (4.44%) TypeScript
14 7 (3.89%) PHP
14 7 (3.89%) Ruby
15 2 (1.11%) C++
15 2 (1.11%) Scala
16 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (19.44%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.78%) Degree
3 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.78%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.67%) CISSP
8 2 (1.11%) CISA
8 2 (1.11%) CISM
9 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) CCSK
9 1 (0.56%) CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.78%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.22%) NIST
3 4 (2.22%) SLA
4 2 (1.11%) QA
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 64 (35.56%) Docker
2 29 (16.11%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) LXC
5 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 156 (86.67%) Kubernetes
2 106 (58.89%) Terraform
3 24 (13.33%) Grafana
4 22 (12.22%) Ansible
5 19 (10.56%) Prometheus
6 14 (7.78%) Progress Chef
7 13 (7.22%) Istio
7 13 (7.22%) Puppet
8 6 (3.33%) Packer
8 6 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.67%) Argo
11 2 (1.11%) Kibana
11 2 (1.11%) logstash
12 1 (0.56%) Anchore
12 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 70 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.67%) ForgeRock
3 19 (10.56%) Oracle
4 15 (8.33%) Sitecore
5 8 (4.44%) Google
6 7 (3.89%) New Relic
6 7 (3.89%) SaltStack
7 6 (3.33%) Zscaler
8 5 (2.78%) Databricks
9 4 (2.22%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.67%) VMware
11 2 (1.11%) Splunk
12 1 (0.56%) Cisco
12 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.56%) HP
12 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto