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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 482 527
Rank change year-on-year +107 +45 +76
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 40 101 150
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.30% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.67% 0.69% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 38 84 125
10th Percentile £52,200 £51,625 £60,000
25th Percentile £62,813 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% -2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £107,500 £128,250
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% - +10.00%

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 5,983 14,643 20,250
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.05% 43.28% 47.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,636 11,983 14,847
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,662 £37,999
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +1.28%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £109,375 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%

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 4 May 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 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 39 (97.50%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) SaaS
4 5 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 5 (12.50%) Serverless
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (10.00%) GCP
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.00%) Azure App Service
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) Network Security
2 4 (10.00%) DAB
3 3 (7.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) GitLab
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 10 (25.00%) Law
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
3 14 (35.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 11 (27.50%) Lead
4 11 (27.50%) Senior
5 7 (17.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) Security Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
10 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Node.js
1 10 (25.00%) React
2 5 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 5 (12.50%) Bootstrap
2 5 (12.50%) Redux
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (5.00%) .NET
4 2 (5.00%) Blazor
4 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.50%) Loki
5 1 (2.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) VMS
2 3 (7.50%) Windows
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) DevOps
1 20 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (42.50%) CI/CD
3 14 (35.00%) Mentoring
4 12 (30.00%) Microservices
5 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.00%) Incident Response
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) Task Automation
8 5 (12.50%) User Experience
9 4 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (10.00%) Change Management
9 4 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (10.00%) Incident Management
9 4 (10.00%) Migration
9 4 (10.00%) Security Architecture
9 4 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) PowerShell
3 11 (27.50%) Bash
4 9 (22.50%) Bicep
5 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.50%) CCSP
2 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.50%) CISSP
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) PhD
3 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) GDPR
1 3 (7.50%) NIST
1 3 (7.50%) PCI DSS
1 3 (7.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
2 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (55.00%) Terraform
3 5 (12.50%) Ansible
3 5 (12.50%) Grafana
3 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (10.00%) Istio
5 3 (7.50%) CASB
5 3 (7.50%) linkerd
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.00%) NetBackup
7 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) VMware
4 2 (5.00%) EMC
4 2 (5.00%) NetApp
5 1 (2.50%) Citrix