Azure AKS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 452 466
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +171
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 36 107 135
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 0.80% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 33 87 114
10th Percentile £47,650 £52,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,500 £63,125 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -8.20% +2.23%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £107,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £84,750 £78,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% +5.00% +0.55%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,780 13,292 16,471
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.17% 41.92% 47.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,521 10,509 12,812
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £37,885
25th Percentile £44,250 £45,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,786 £83,813
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -

Azure AKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure AKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure AKS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure AKS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Azure AKS over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

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 4 (11.11%) IIS
1 4 (11.11%) nginx
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 35 (97.22%) Azure
2 16 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (27.78%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (19.44%) Azure Functions
5 7 (19.44%) Serverless
6 6 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (11.11%) AWS
8 4 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (11.11%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (11.11%) Cloudflare
8 4 (11.11%) GitHub
8 4 (11.11%) SaaS
9 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (5.56%) Datadog
10 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
10 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) Internet
2 2 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Law
2 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Banking
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (27.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (8.33%) Site Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Security Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 8 (22.22%) .NET
3 5 (13.89%) Loki
3 5 (13.89%) React
4 4 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 3 (8.33%) Node.js
6 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.56%) Bootstrap
6 2 (5.56%) Redux
7 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.56%) IoT
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 7 (19.44%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) DevOps
2 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (22.22%) Microservices
6 6 (16.67%) Agile
6 6 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.89%) Task Automation
8 4 (11.11%) Analytics
8 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 4 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (11.11%) Load Testing
8 4 (11.11%) RBAC
8 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
9 3 (8.33%) ETL
9 3 (8.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Python
2 13 (36.11%) Bicep
3 10 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 9 (25.00%) Bash
5 6 (16.67%) C#
5 6 (16.67%) SQL
6 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) MCSA
4 1 (2.78%) MCSE
4 1 (2.78%) PhD
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) SLA
2 2 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (41.67%) Docker
2 5 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (72.22%) Kubernetes
2 16 (44.44%) Terraform
3 10 (27.78%) Grafana
3 10 (27.78%) Prometheus
4 4 (11.11%) Ansible
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.78%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) VMware
3 2 (5.56%) Foundry
3 2 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.78%) Citrix
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) DataCore
4 1 (2.78%) EMC
4 1 (2.78%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (2.78%) NetApp
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds