Azure AKS Jobs

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Azure AKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure AKS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 602 708 512
Rank change year-on-year +106 -196 +121
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 82 179 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.18% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 0.51% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 69 150 280
10th Percentile £57,300 £52,375 £57,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £103,750 £100,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £110,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,996 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.42% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Top 13 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 30 April 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
England +105 74 £88,750 +7.58% 96
London +55 47 £95,000 +10.14% 37
Work from Home +121 40 £72,500 -12.12% 62
UK excluding London +167 29 £70,996 +1.42% 61
North of England +66 16 £67,500 - 23
Yorkshire +56 10 £67,500 -3.57% 6
North West +30 6 £67,500 +58.82% 16
South West +118 5 £72,500 +20.83% 3
Midlands +55 3 £88,750 -8.97% 10
West Midlands +47 3 £88,750 -8.97% 9
South East +104 2 £105,000 +5.00% 13
Northern Ireland +35 2 - -
Scotland +125 1 - - 5

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 4 (4.88%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.22%) Jetty
3 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 80 (97.56%) Azure
2 24 (29.27%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (23.17%) AWS
4 14 (17.07%) GCP
5 12 (14.63%) Entra ID
6 10 (12.20%) Serverless
7 9 (10.98%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (10.98%) GitHub
8 8 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (9.76%) Azure Functions
8 8 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (8.54%) SaaS
10 6 (7.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (6.10%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (3.66%) Azure App Service
13 3 (3.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (3.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.95%) Firewall
2 9 (10.98%) Network Security
3 4 (4.88%) DAB
4 3 (3.66%) VPN
5 2 (2.44%) DNS
5 2 (2.44%) IPv6
5 2 (2.44%) Multicast
5 2 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.44%) Redis
4 1 (1.22%) Big Data
4 1 (1.22%) Hazelcast
4 1 (1.22%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.22%) MySQL
4 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.76%) GitLab
3 5 (6.10%) Git
4 4 (4.88%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.66%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.66%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.44%) Apache Archiva
6 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.44%) JIRA
6 2 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.44%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.22%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.22%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (1.22%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.22%) JUnit
7 1 (1.22%) NeoLoad
7 1 (1.22%) Selenium
7 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.22%) Travis CI
General
1 21 (25.61%) Finance
2 14 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.41%) Law
4 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.66%) Front Office
4 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Back Office
6 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.22%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.22%) Military
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (36.59%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (29.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (24.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (20.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (19.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 14 (17.07%) Senior
7 13 (15.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (15.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (15.85%) Lead
8 10 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (10.98%) Architect
10 7 (8.54%) Azure Architect
10 7 (8.54%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 7 (8.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (8.54%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (8.54%) Security Engineer
11 5 (6.10%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (6.10%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 4 (4.88%) Kubernetes Architect
13 3 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.41%) Node.js
2 10 (12.20%) React
3 9 (10.98%) ARM Templates
4 8 (9.76%) .NET
5 7 (8.54%) Azure Blueprints
6 5 (6.10%) Bootstrap
6 5 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (6.10%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (6.10%) Redux
7 3 (3.66%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.44%) Blazor
8 2 (2.44%) JSON
8 2 (2.44%) YAML
9 1 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (1.22%) Gherkin
9 1 (1.22%) Memcached
9 1 (1.22%) pytest
9 1 (1.22%) REST
9 1 (1.22%) SAML
9 1 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Security Posture
2 8 (9.76%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.32%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.88%) Derivative
5 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.44%) PKI
6 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.83%) Windows
2 16 (19.51%) Linux
2 16 (19.51%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.76%) VMS
4 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.22%) Solaris
6 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (57.32%) DevOps
2 45 (54.88%) CI/CD
3 40 (48.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (30.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (21.95%) Containerisation
6 16 (19.51%) Mentoring
7 15 (18.29%) Microservices
8 14 (17.07%) Cloud Security
8 14 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (14.63%) Agile
11 10 (12.20%) Fintech
12 9 (10.98%) DevSecOps
12 9 (10.98%) Incident Response
12 9 (10.98%) Migration
13 8 (9.76%) Observability
14 7 (8.54%) Analytics
14 7 (8.54%) Identity Access Management
14 7 (8.54%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.90%) PowerShell
2 31 (37.80%) Python
3 18 (21.95%) Bash
4 11 (13.41%) Bicep
5 9 (10.98%) SQL
6 8 (9.76%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.32%) C#
7 6 (7.32%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.66%) Java
9 1 (1.22%) Go
9 1 (1.22%) Groovy
9 1 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (10.98%) AWS Certification
2 8 (9.76%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 5 (6.10%) CCSP
3 5 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (6.10%) CISSP
4 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.88%) Degree
5 3 (3.66%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.22%) PhD
6 1 (1.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) GDPR
2 6 (7.32%) NIST
2 6 (7.32%) PCI DSS
2 6 (7.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.88%) QA
4 2 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (35.37%) Docker
2 15 (18.29%) Active Directory
3 11 (13.41%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 71 (86.59%) Kubernetes
2 51 (62.20%) Terraform
3 15 (18.29%) Ansible
4 12 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (13.41%) Prometheus
6 9 (10.98%) SCCM
7 7 (8.54%) Grafana
7 7 (8.54%) Istio
8 6 (7.32%) CASB
9 5 (6.10%) linkerd
10 3 (3.66%) NetBackup
11 2 (2.44%) Argo
11 2 (2.44%) Kustomize
12 1 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (1.22%) Automic
12 1 (1.22%) Consul
12 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
12 1 (1.22%) Puppet
12 1 (1.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (30.49%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.63%) VMware
3 10 (12.20%) Palo Alto
4 7 (8.54%) Google
5 6 (7.32%) Citrix
6 4 (4.88%) Cisco
7 3 (3.66%) EMC
7 3 (3.66%) NetApp
8 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.22%) Databricks
9 1 (1.22%) Hitachi
9 1 (1.22%) Meraki
9 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.22%) Veritas