Hybrid/Remote Azure AKS Job Trends

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Azure AKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 401 472
Rank change year-on-year +67 +71 +8
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 84 26 113
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 0.44% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 72 24 85
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,800 £51,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -15.63% -
75th Percentile £79,688 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £91,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +9.09% +3.13%

All Cloud Computing 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 7,530 5,874 14,578
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.72% 38.26% 42.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,265 4,270 12,120
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,103
25th Percentile £45,748 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%

Azure AKS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure AKS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure AKS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Azure AKS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure AKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure AKS

Azure AKS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure AKS over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Azure AKS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure AKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.38%) IIS
2 1 (1.19%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 80 (95.24%) Azure
2 52 (61.90%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (29.76%) IaaS
4 23 (27.38%) Entra ID
5 21 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 21 (25.00%) PaaS
6 20 (23.81%) AWS
7 19 (22.62%) Serverless
8 17 (20.24%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (19.05%) Azure Functions
10 13 (15.48%) SaaS
11 9 (10.71%) GitHub
12 6 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (5.95%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (5.95%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (4.76%) Datadog
14 4 (4.76%) GCP
14 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.71%) Firewall
2 2 (2.38%) DNS
2 2 (2.38%) WAN
3 1 (1.19%) BGP
3 1 (1.19%) SAN
3 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.24%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 9 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.95%) Redis
6 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (23.81%) GitLab
2 4 (4.76%) Git
3 2 (2.38%) MSI
4 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.90%) Finance
4 8 (9.52%) Billing
5 3 (3.57%) Advertising
5 3 (3.57%) Aviation
5 3 (3.57%) Retail
6 2 (2.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (39.29%) Senior
2 27 (32.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (19.05%) Senior DevOps
4 16 (19.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 12 (14.29%) Lead
6 10 (11.90%) .NET Software Engineer
6 10 (11.90%) Architect
6 10 (11.90%) Software Engineer
7 9 (10.71%) Azure Architect
8 8 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 7 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (7.14%) Developer
10 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
11 5 (5.95%) Consultant
11 5 (5.95%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.00%) .NET
2 14 (16.67%) Node.js
3 11 (13.10%) ARM Templates
4 10 (11.90%) RESTful
5 7 (8.33%) .NET Framework
6 6 (7.14%) YAML
7 4 (4.76%) Kafka
7 4 (4.76%) React
8 3 (3.57%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.38%) ADO
9 2 (2.38%) Django
9 2 (2.38%) FastAPI
10 1 (1.19%) Entity Framework
10 1 (1.19%) Loki
10 1 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (1.19%) React Native
10 1 (1.19%) REST
10 1 (1.19%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.57%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) Clustering
6 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.19%) IoT
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (28.57%) Linux
2 15 (17.86%) Windows
3 14 (16.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.19%) CentOS
4 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (84.52%) DevOps
2 70 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 46 (54.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (42.86%) Agile
4 36 (42.86%) Microservices
5 26 (30.95%) Mentoring
6 23 (27.38%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (25.00%) Coaching
7 21 (25.00%) Observability
7 21 (25.00%) Scrum
8 20 (23.81%) Test Automation
9 18 (21.43%) Containerisation
9 18 (21.43%) Cost Management
10 16 (19.05%) AI
11 15 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (16.67%) Migration
13 12 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (13.10%) Cloud Security
15 10 (11.90%) Event-Driven
15 10 (11.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.19%) Bicep
1 22 (26.19%) C#
2 18 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 18 (21.43%) Python
3 16 (19.05%) SQL
4 15 (17.86%) Bash
5 14 (16.67%) Java
6 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Azure Certification
2 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) Degree
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.19%) IISP
4 1 (1.19%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 25 (29.76%) Docker
2 9 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (65.48%) Terraform
2 41 (48.81%) Kubernetes
3 18 (21.43%) Argo
4 8 (9.52%) Grafana
5 7 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.95%) Ansible
7 4 (4.76%) Istio
8 1 (1.19%) Cilium
8 1 (1.19%) linkerd
Vendors
1 29 (34.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.38%) Apple
3 1 (1.19%) Foundry
3 1 (1.19%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (1.19%) Splunk