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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 721 529 637
Rank change year-on-year -192 +108 -111
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 189 513 745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.52% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 1.20% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 155 258 331
10th Percentile £54,750 £57,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £100,967 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 35,439 42,907 78,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.11% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,676 28,199 41,290
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
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 19 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 19 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 -183 165 £82,500 -2.94% 70
London -71 105 £88,750 -1.39% 34
Work from Home +22 102 £82,500 -2.94% 50
UK excluding London -113 67 £70,000 - 37
North of England +11 33 £67,500 +3.85% 7
Yorkshire +60 22 £68,750 -1.79% 3
South East -46 11 £100,000 +37.93% 18
North West -7 10 £40,000 -23.81% 4
Midlands -11 9 £97,500 +39.29% 4
West Midlands +9 7 £97,500 +34.48% 2
Scotland -78 4 £100,000 +58.73%
Wales +3 3 £42,500 -29.87% 2
North East -3 3 £80,000 +23.08%
East of England -8 3 £70,000 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -18 2 - - 2
South West -20 1 £75,000 -6.25% 5

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 (0.53%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 171 (90.48%) Azure
2 77 (40.74%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (29.63%) AWS
4 53 (28.04%) Serverless
5 43 (22.75%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (22.22%) PaaS
7 40 (21.16%) GitHub
8 38 (20.11%) Entra ID
9 37 (19.58%) IaaS
10 33 (17.46%) SaaS
11 31 (16.40%) AWS Lambda
11 31 (16.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 31 (16.40%) Azure Functions
12 30 (15.87%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (14.29%) GCP
14 24 (12.70%) Amazon S3
15 23 (12.17%) Akamai
16 22 (11.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
17 21 (11.11%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.64%) Firewall
2 10 (5.29%) Network Security
3 8 (4.23%) DNS
4 7 (3.70%) IPv4
4 7 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.93%) SQL Server
2 28 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (9.52%) MongoDB
5 15 (7.94%) MySQL
5 15 (7.94%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (6.88%) Redis
7 12 (6.35%) MariaDB
8 10 (5.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (3.70%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.17%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.12%) RDBMS
13 2 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.53%) GIS
14 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (15.34%) Git
2 25 (13.23%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.76%) GitLab
4 7 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (3.17%) MLflow
6 5 (2.65%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.65%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.06%) JIRA
7 2 (1.06%) JMeter
7 2 (1.06%) Maven
7 2 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.53%) Gatling
8 1 (0.53%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.53%) JUnit
8 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.53%) NUnit
8 1 (0.53%) Snyk
8 1 (0.53%) Sourcetree
General
1 52 (27.51%) Finance
2 33 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.47%) Automotive
5 14 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.88%) Health Technology
7 12 (6.35%) Banking
8 9 (4.76%) Tech for Good
9 8 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.23%) Retail
10 7 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (3.17%) Games
12 4 (2.12%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.12%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.59%) Law
14 2 (1.06%) French Language
14 2 (1.06%) Marketing
15 1 (0.53%) Cantonese Language
15 1 (0.53%) Legal
15 1 (0.53%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 61 (32.28%) Azure Engineer
2 39 (20.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (17.99%) Lead
4 32 (16.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 32 (16.93%) Platform Engineer
5 31 (16.40%) Architect
5 31 (16.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 24 (12.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (10.58%) AWS DevOps
7 20 (10.58%) Azure Architect
8 18 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 18 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
9 17 (8.99%) Senior
10 12 (6.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (6.35%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (6.35%) Site Engineer
10 12 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 12 (6.35%) Technical Architect
11 10 (5.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (24.34%) .NET
2 30 (15.87%) ARM Templates
3 21 (11.11%) JSON
4 17 (8.99%) .NET Core
5 15 (7.94%) RESTful
6 12 (6.35%) .NET Framework
6 12 (6.35%) Entity Framework
6 12 (6.35%) XML
7 11 (5.82%) OAuth
7 11 (5.82%) YAML
8 10 (5.29%) ASP.NET
8 10 (5.29%) CSS
8 10 (5.29%) HTML
8 10 (5.29%) Middleware
8 10 (5.29%) Razor View Engine
8 10 (5.29%) SAML
9 8 (4.23%) ASP.NET 2.0
9 8 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (4.23%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.99%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.82%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.76%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.70%) Private Cloud
7 7 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.65%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.53%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.53%) IoT
11 1 (0.53%) NHS
11 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.70%) Linux
1 24 (12.70%) Windows
2 3 (1.59%) Unix
3 2 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (76.19%) DevOps
2 65 (34.39%) CI/CD
3 62 (32.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (28.04%) Agile
5 51 (26.98%) Containerisation
6 49 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (20.11%) DevSecOps
7 38 (20.11%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (16.93%) Cloud Security
9 29 (15.34%) Identity Access Management
9 29 (15.34%) Microservices
10 28 (14.81%) Mentoring
11 25 (13.23%) Design Patterns
11 25 (13.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 25 (13.23%) Software Engineering
12 23 (12.17%) Configuration Management
13 22 (11.64%) API Management
14 21 (11.11%) Architectural Design
15 20 (10.58%) Analytics
16 19 (10.05%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.10%) SQL
2 54 (28.57%) Python
3 49 (25.93%) PowerShell
4 34 (17.99%) Bash
5 29 (15.34%) C#
6 27 (14.29%) Java
7 24 (12.70%) JavaScript
8 20 (10.58%) Go
9 14 (7.41%) T-SQL
10 13 (6.88%) Bicep
11 9 (4.76%) Groovy
11 9 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (4.23%) TypeScript
13 7 (3.70%) PHP
13 7 (3.70%) Ruby
14 2 (1.06%) C++
14 2 (1.06%) Scala
15 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (19.58%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.41%) Degree
3 13 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (5.29%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.23%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.70%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.59%) CISSP
9 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.06%) CISA
9 2 (1.06%) CISM
10 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.53%) CCSK
10 1 (0.53%) CCSP
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.17%) ISO 9001
2 6 (3.17%) NIST
2 6 (3.17%) SLA
3 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.06%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 72 (38.10%) Docker
2 29 (15.34%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (14.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.53%) LXC
Systems Management
1 160 (84.66%) Kubernetes
2 112 (59.26%) Terraform
3 27 (14.29%) Ansible
4 22 (11.64%) Grafana
5 20 (10.58%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.94%) Progress Chef
7 14 (7.41%) Puppet
8 12 (6.35%) Istio
9 8 (4.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (3.17%) Packer
12 3 (1.59%) Argo
13 2 (1.06%) Kibana
13 2 (1.06%) logstash
14 1 (0.53%) Anchore
Vendors
1 75 (39.68%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.17%) ForgeRock
3 18 (9.52%) Oracle
4 16 (8.47%) Sitecore
5 9 (4.76%) Google
6 7 (3.70%) New Relic
6 7 (3.70%) SaltStack
6 7 (3.70%) Zscaler
7 6 (3.17%) Databricks
8 5 (2.65%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.06%) Splunk
9 2 (1.06%) VMware
10 1 (0.53%) BMC
10 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.53%) Remedy