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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 652 605 652
Rank change year-on-year -47 +47 -134
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 191 296 770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.37% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.65% 0.87% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 164 204 321
10th Percentile £54,500 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
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 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 29,506 33,998 84,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.65% 42.13% 47.94%
Number of salaries quoted 21,274 25,227 42,049
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure AKS in the UK

Azure AKS
Top 14 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 26 July 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 -52 169 £80,000 +6.67% 15
Work from Home +18 97 £70,000 -6.67% 10
London +9 93 £95,000 +11.76% 3
UK excluding London -58 75 £70,000 - 13
North of England +4 35 £67,500 +3.85% 3
South East +10 21 £90,000 +24.14% 4
North West +3 19 £61,750 -5.00% 3
Yorkshire +45 16 £67,500 +1.89%
South West -6 9 £72,500 -4.92%
East of England -7 4 £75,000 - 2
Midlands -26 4 £45,000 -35.71% 3
West Midlands -9 3 £45,000 -37.93% 3
Scotland -48 2 £100,000 +53.85% 1
East Midlands -27 1 - -

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 5 (2.62%) nginx
2 4 (2.09%) IIS
3 3 (1.57%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 187 (97.91%) Azure
2 75 (39.27%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (27.23%) AWS
4 38 (19.90%) Serverless
5 36 (18.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 35 (18.32%) Amazon EKS
7 33 (17.28%) PaaS
8 32 (16.75%) GitHub
9 31 (16.23%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (15.71%) Azure Functions
11 27 (14.14%) Azure Service Bus
12 26 (13.61%) SaaS
13 25 (13.09%) Entra ID
13 25 (13.09%) IaaS
14 24 (12.57%) Akamai
15 23 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
15 23 (12.04%) GCP
16 21 (10.99%) Amazon S3
16 21 (10.99%) AWS Fargate
16 21 (10.99%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.38%) Firewall
2 11 (5.76%) DNS
3 8 (4.19%) Network Security
4 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.52%) IPv4
5 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.80%) SQL Server
2 32 (16.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (8.38%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (8.38%) NoSQL
4 14 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.33%) Relational Database
5 13 (6.81%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.71%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.14%) MySQL
7 6 (3.14%) Redis
8 5 (2.62%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.05%) Power BI
10 1 (0.52%) Big Data
10 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.52%) HBase
10 1 (0.52%) Metadata
10 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.52%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 30 (15.71%) Git
2 20 (10.47%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.24%) GitLab
4 9 (4.71%) MLflow
4 9 (4.71%) Octopus Deploy
5 8 (4.19%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.66%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.62%) JIRA
8 3 (1.57%) Maven
9 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.52%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.52%) JMeter
9 1 (0.52%) Moq
9 1 (0.52%) NUnit
9 1 (0.52%) Snyk
9 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.52%) Sourcetree
General
1 52 (27.23%) Finance
2 48 (25.13%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.90%) Automotive
4 16 (8.38%) Health Technology
5 13 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.76%) Banking
7 8 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.66%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.66%) Retail Banking
9 6 (3.14%) Games
10 5 (2.62%) Retail
11 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.09%) French Language
11 4 (2.09%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.05%) Marketing
14 1 (0.52%) Cantonese Language
14 1 (0.52%) Digital Healthcare
14 1 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 71 (37.17%) Azure Engineer
2 34 (17.80%) Lead
3 31 (16.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (15.71%) Architect
5 22 (11.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (10.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 21 (10.99%) Senior
7 20 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (9.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 19 (9.95%) Developer
9 18 (9.42%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 17 (8.90%) Azure Architect
11 16 (8.38%) Site Engineer
11 16 (8.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 13 (6.81%) .NET Developer
12 13 (6.81%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (6.81%) Full Stack Developer
13 12 (6.28%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (6.28%) Technical Architect
14 11 (5.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (30.37%) .NET
2 24 (12.57%) ARM Templates
3 18 (9.42%) JSON
4 17 (8.90%) ASP.NET
4 17 (8.90%) CSS
4 17 (8.90%) HTML
4 17 (8.90%) RESTful
5 15 (7.85%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.28%) .NET Framework
6 12 (6.28%) Entity Framework
7 11 (5.76%) Loki
8 10 (5.24%) Razor View Engine
8 10 (5.24%) Web Services
9 9 (4.71%) ASP.NET Core
9 9 (4.71%) PySpark
9 9 (4.71%) YAML
10 8 (4.19%) Blazor
10 8 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (4.19%) HTML5
10 8 (4.19%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.80%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.90%) Mobile App
3 14 (7.33%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.09%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.05%) Derivative
10 1 (0.52%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.52%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.57%) Linux
2 23 (12.04%) Windows
3 4 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (69.11%) DevOps
2 64 (33.51%) CI/CD
3 59 (30.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (22.51%) Agile
6 38 (19.90%) Containerisation
7 37 (19.37%) Microservices
8 35 (18.32%) DevSecOps
9 28 (14.66%) Mentoring
10 26 (13.61%) Cloud Security
10 26 (13.61%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (13.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 26 (13.61%) Software Engineering
11 25 (13.09%) Identity Access Management
11 25 (13.09%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (10.99%) Test Automation
13 20 (10.47%) Architectural Design
13 20 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (9.95%) Analytics
14 19 (9.95%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 75 (39.27%) SQL
2 45 (23.56%) PowerShell
3 44 (23.04%) Python
4 32 (16.75%) C#
5 25 (13.09%) Java
6 24 (12.57%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.47%) Bicep
8 18 (9.42%) Go
9 17 (8.90%) Bash
9 17 (8.90%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.09%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.05%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Groovy
12 1 (0.52%) Rust
12 1 (0.52%) Scala
12 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (14.66%) Azure Certification
2 18 (9.42%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (5.24%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.14%) Degree
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.05%) CISA
7 2 (1.05%) CISM
7 2 (1.05%) CISSP
7 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.05%) MCSA
7 2 (1.05%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.71%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.71%) NIST
3 8 (4.19%) SLA
4 6 (3.14%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.05%) GDPR
5 2 (1.05%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.05%) QA
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 71 (37.17%) Docker
2 33 (17.28%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (7.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 154 (80.63%) Kubernetes
2 101 (52.88%) Terraform
3 22 (11.52%) Ansible
4 19 (9.95%) Prometheus
5 14 (7.33%) Grafana
6 11 (5.76%) Istio
7 9 (4.71%) Packer
7 9 (4.71%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.19%) Puppet
8 8 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.05%) Argo
11 1 (0.52%) Anchore
Vendors
1 72 (37.70%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.57%) ForgeRock
3 16 (8.38%) Sitecore
4 14 (7.33%) Databricks
5 13 (6.81%) Oracle
6 8 (4.19%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.66%) Google
7 7 (3.66%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.09%) VMware
9 2 (1.05%) Cisco
9 2 (1.05%) Citrix
9 2 (1.05%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.52%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.52%) BMC
10 1 (0.52%) Informatica
10 1 (0.52%) Remedy