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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 484 519
Rank change year-on-year +78 +35 +76
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 39 105 143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.72% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 38 87 118
10th Percentile £52,200 £54,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,525 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% -2.94% +18.80%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £107,500 £134,333
UK median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £83,750
% change year-on-year +6.06% -1.49% +11.67%

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 6,209 14,601 19,859
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.36% 43.24% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,589 11,951 14,546
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £38,000
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% -
75th Percentile £83,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 9 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 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 38 (97.44%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.38%) SaaS
4 5 (12.82%) AWS
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Functions
4 5 (12.82%) Serverless
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (10.26%) GCP
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.13%) Azure App Service
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) Network Security
2 4 (10.26%) DAB
3 3 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) GitLab
1 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 10 (25.64%) Law
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (35.90%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (30.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 11 (28.21%) Lead
4 11 (28.21%) Senior
5 7 (17.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Security Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Site Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (5.13%) Developer
10 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) Node.js
1 10 (25.64%) React
2 5 (12.82%) Bootstrap
2 5 (12.82%) Redux
3 4 (10.26%) ARM Templates
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (5.13%) .NET
5 2 (5.13%) Blazor
5 2 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.56%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Security Posture
2 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) VMS
2 3 (7.69%) Windows
3 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) DevOps
2 18 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (41.03%) CI/CD
4 13 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 12 (30.77%) Microservices
6 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (20.51%) Cloud Security
8 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
9 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
10 5 (12.82%) User Experience
11 4 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (10.26%) Migration
11 4 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (10.26%) Security Architecture
11 4 (10.26%) Task Automation
11 4 (10.26%) Vulnerability Management
12 3 (7.69%) DevSecOps
12 3 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) PowerShell
3 9 (23.08%) Bash
3 9 (23.08%) Bicep
4 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.69%) CCSP
2 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.69%) CISSP
3 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) GDPR
1 3 (7.69%) NIST
1 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 3 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.13%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (89.74%) Kubernetes
2 20 (51.28%) Terraform
3 5 (12.82%) Grafana
3 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
4 4 (10.26%) Ansible
4 4 (10.26%) Istio
5 3 (7.69%) CASB
5 3 (7.69%) linkerd
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) VMware
4 2 (5.13%) EMC
4 2 (5.13%) NetApp
5 1 (2.56%) Citrix