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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 703 526 642
Rank change year-on-year -177 +116 -120
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 186 546 734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 1.26% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 155 264 345
10th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £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 £100,375 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,288 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.41% - +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 35,426 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.72% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,744 28,539 41,573
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 £96,250 £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 8 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 8 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 -199 164 £82,500 -2.94% 59
Work from Home +30 105 £82,500 -2.94% 40
London -67 102 £87,500 -2.78% 30
UK excluding London -135 69 £70,288 +0.41% 28
North of England -3 34 £67,500 +3.85% 5
Yorkshire +59 24 £70,000 - 3
South East -22 12 £97,500 +25.81% 12
North West -14 9 £42,500 -19.05% 2
Midlands -14 9 £97,500 +39.29% 6
West Midlands +4 7 £97,500 +34.48% 3
Scotland -66 4 £100,000 +58.73%
Wales +9 3 £42,500 -43.33% 2
East of England +3 3 £70,000 -
North East -3 3 £80,000 +23.08%
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -23 2 - - 3
South West -38 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 (0.54%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 167 (89.78%) Azure
2 78 (41.94%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (29.57%) AWS
4 54 (29.03%) Serverless
5 43 (23.12%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (20.97%) GitHub
6 39 (20.97%) PaaS
7 37 (19.89%) Entra ID
8 36 (19.35%) IaaS
9 33 (17.74%) SaaS
10 32 (17.20%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (16.67%) Azure Functions
12 29 (15.59%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (15.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 25 (13.44%) GCP
15 24 (12.90%) Amazon S3
16 22 (11.83%) Akamai
16 22 (11.83%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (11.29%) AWS Fargate
17 21 (11.29%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.29%) Firewall
2 10 (5.38%) Network Security
3 8 (4.30%) DNS
4 7 (3.76%) IPv4
4 7 (3.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.20%) SQL Server
2 28 (15.05%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (13.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (9.14%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.06%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.53%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (7.53%) MySQL
7 12 (6.45%) Redis
8 11 (5.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (5.91%) MariaDB
9 10 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (3.23%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.69%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.15%) RDBMS
14 2 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.54%) GIS
15 1 (0.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (16.67%) Git
2 24 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.30%) GitLab
4 7 (3.76%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.23%) MLflow
6 5 (2.69%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.08%) JIRA
8 2 (1.08%) JMeter
8 2 (1.08%) Maven
8 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.54%) Gatling
9 1 (0.54%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.54%) JUnit
9 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.54%) Moq
9 1 (0.54%) NUnit
9 1 (0.54%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (28.49%) Finance
2 28 (15.05%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.60%) Automotive
5 14 (7.53%) Health Technology
6 12 (6.45%) Banking
6 12 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.38%) Tech for Good
8 8 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.30%) Retail
9 7 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.23%) Games
11 3 (1.61%) Law
12 2 (1.08%) Marketing
12 2 (1.08%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.08%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.54%) Cantonese Language
13 1 (0.54%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.54%) Legal
13 1 (0.54%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 61 (32.80%) Azure Engineer
2 42 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (17.74%) Lead
4 30 (16.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 30 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
5 29 (15.59%) Architect
5 29 (15.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 23 (12.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (11.29%) AWS DevOps
8 20 (10.75%) Azure Architect
8 20 (10.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 16 (8.60%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (8.06%) Senior
11 13 (6.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (6.45%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (6.45%) Site Engineer
12 12 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 12 (6.45%) Technical Architect
13 10 (5.38%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (24.73%) .NET
2 30 (16.13%) ARM Templates
3 23 (12.37%) JSON
4 19 (10.22%) .NET Core
5 13 (6.99%) RESTful
5 13 (6.99%) YAML
6 12 (6.45%) .NET Framework
6 12 (6.45%) Entity Framework
6 12 (6.45%) XML
7 11 (5.91%) Middleware
8 10 (5.38%) OAuth
8 10 (5.38%) Razor View Engine
9 9 (4.84%) SAML
10 8 (4.30%) ASP.NET
10 8 (4.30%) ASP.NET 2.0
10 8 (4.30%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (4.30%) Blazor
10 8 (4.30%) CSS
10 8 (4.30%) HTML
10 8 (4.30%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 28 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.14%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.91%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.91%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.30%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.69%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.54%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.54%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.54%) IoT
8 1 (0.54%) NHS
8 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.90%) Linux
1 24 (12.90%) Windows
2 3 (1.61%) Unix
3 2 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (75.27%) DevOps
2 64 (34.41%) CI/CD
3 61 (32.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (27.42%) Containerisation
5 50 (26.88%) Agile
6 49 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (19.89%) DevSecOps
8 36 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (16.13%) Cloud Security
10 29 (15.59%) Microservices
11 27 (14.52%) Mentoring
12 26 (13.98%) Identity Access Management
13 24 (12.90%) Configuration Management
14 23 (12.37%) Design Patterns
14 23 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (12.37%) Software Engineering
15 22 (11.83%) API Management
16 21 (11.29%) Architectural Design
17 20 (10.75%) Analytics
18 19 (10.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.63%) SQL
2 53 (28.49%) Python
3 50 (26.88%) PowerShell
4 35 (18.82%) Bash
5 27 (14.52%) C#
6 25 (13.44%) Java
7 22 (11.83%) JavaScript
8 18 (9.68%) Go
9 14 (7.53%) T-SQL
10 13 (6.99%) Bicep
11 10 (5.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (4.84%) Groovy
13 8 (4.30%) TypeScript
14 7 (3.76%) PHP
14 7 (3.76%) Ruby
15 2 (1.08%) C++
15 2 (1.08%) Scala
16 1 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (19.35%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.53%) Degree
3 12 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.76%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.69%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.61%) CISSP
9 2 (1.08%) CISA
9 2 (1.08%) CISM
10 1 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.54%) CCSK
10 1 (0.54%) CCSP
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.23%) ISO 9001
2 6 (3.23%) SLA
3 4 (2.15%) NIST
4 2 (1.08%) QA
5 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 67 (36.02%) Docker
2 29 (15.59%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (14.52%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.54%) LXC
Systems Management
1 161 (86.56%) Kubernetes
2 109 (58.60%) Terraform
3 24 (12.90%) Ansible
4 23 (12.37%) Grafana
5 19 (10.22%) Prometheus
6 14 (7.53%) Istio
6 14 (7.53%) Progress Chef
7 13 (6.99%) Puppet
8 7 (3.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (3.23%) Packer
9 6 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.61%) Argo
11 2 (1.08%) Kibana
11 2 (1.08%) logstash
12 1 (0.54%) Anchore
Vendors
1 73 (39.25%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.83%) ForgeRock
3 18 (9.68%) Oracle
4 16 (8.60%) Sitecore
5 9 (4.84%) Google
6 7 (3.76%) New Relic
6 7 (3.76%) SaltStack
7 6 (3.23%) Databricks
7 6 (3.23%) Zscaler
8 5 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.08%) Splunk
9 2 (1.08%) VMware
10 1 (0.54%) BMC
10 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.54%) Remedy