Azure AKS Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 714 532 627
Rank change year-on-year -182 +95 -102
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 195 475 805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.50% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 1.17% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 159 247 334
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £65,000 £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 £106,250
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 36,095 40,721 82,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.39% 43.02% 48.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,995 27,249 41,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -186 169 £82,500 -2.94% 55
Work from Home +8 106 £82,500 -2.94% 40
London -44 105 £90,000 - 25
UK excluding London -124 71 £70,000 - 27
North of England +3 32 £67,500 +3.85% 8
Yorkshire +41 20 £67,500 -3.57% 2
South East -33 13 £97,500 +39.29% 10
North West -9 11 £42,500 -19.05% 6
Midlands -21 10 £83,750 +19.64% 3
West Midlands -18 8 £83,750 +15.52% 3
Scotland -73 4 £100,000 +63.93% 1
Wales +5 3 £42,500 -8.03%
East of England -10 3 £70,000 -
North East -11 3 £80,000 +23.08%
South West -35 3 £72,500 -9.38% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -22 2 - -

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 (0.51%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.51%) Confluence
1 1 (0.51%) nginx
1 1 (0.51%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 179 (91.79%) Azure
2 77 (39.49%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (29.74%) AWS
4 51 (26.15%) Serverless
5 41 (21.03%) Amazon EKS
5 41 (21.03%) PaaS
6 38 (19.49%) GitHub
7 35 (17.95%) Entra ID
7 35 (17.95%) IaaS
8 34 (17.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 33 (16.92%) SaaS
10 31 (15.90%) Azure Functions
10 31 (15.90%) GCP
11 30 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (14.87%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (12.31%) Amazon S3
14 23 (11.79%) Akamai
15 22 (11.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (10.77%) AWS Fargate
16 21 (10.77%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.28%) Firewall
2 11 (5.64%) Network Security
3 9 (4.62%) DNS
4 7 (3.59%) IPv4
4 7 (3.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.41%) SQL Server
2 27 (13.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (9.74%) MongoDB
5 16 (8.21%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.69%) MySQL
7 13 (6.67%) Redis
8 12 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (6.15%) MariaDB
9 11 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (5.13%) Relational Database
11 9 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (3.59%) Data Lake
14 4 (2.05%) RDBMS
15 3 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
16 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
16 1 (0.51%) Big Data
16 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
16 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (13.85%) Git
2 25 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.62%) GitLab
4 7 (3.59%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.59%) MLflow
4 7 (3.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (3.08%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.54%) JIRA
8 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.03%) JMeter
8 2 (1.03%) Maven
8 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.51%) Gatling
9 1 (0.51%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.51%) Moq
9 1 (0.51%) NUnit
9 1 (0.51%) Snyk
9 1 (0.51%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.51%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (26.15%) Finance
2 37 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.72%) Automotive
4 16 (8.21%) Health Technology
4 16 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.15%) Banking
6 9 (4.62%) Tech for Good
7 8 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.10%) Retail
8 7 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.08%) Games
9 6 (3.08%) Retail Banking
10 5 (2.56%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.54%) French Language
11 3 (1.54%) Law
12 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Marketing
13 1 (0.51%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 63 (32.31%) Azure Engineer
2 36 (18.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (18.46%) Lead
3 35 (17.95%) Architect
4 31 (15.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 31 (15.90%) Platform Engineer
5 30 (15.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 24 (12.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (10.77%) Azure Architect
8 20 (10.26%) Cloud Architect
9 19 (9.74%) Senior
10 18 (9.23%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (8.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 13 (6.67%) Site Engineer
12 13 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (6.15%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (6.15%) Technical Architect
14 11 (5.64%) Developer
15 10 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 10 (5.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.59%) .NET
2 31 (15.90%) ARM Templates
3 20 (10.26%) JSON
4 16 (8.21%) RESTful
5 15 (7.69%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.15%) .NET Framework
6 12 (6.15%) Entity Framework
6 12 (6.15%) XML
7 11 (5.64%) ASP.NET
7 11 (5.64%) CSS
7 11 (5.64%) HTML
7 11 (5.64%) OAuth
8 10 (5.13%) Razor View Engine
9 9 (4.62%) YAML
10 8 (4.10%) ASP.NET 2.0
10 8 (4.10%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (4.10%) HTML5
10 8 (4.10%) Middleware
10 8 (4.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.72%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.64%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (4.62%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.56%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.05%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.03%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.51%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.51%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.51%) IoT
11 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.51%) NHS
11 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.28%) Linux
1 22 (11.28%) Windows
2 3 (1.54%) Unix
3 2 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (74.87%) DevOps
2 68 (34.87%) CI/CD
3 66 (33.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (27.18%) Agile
5 51 (26.15%) Containerisation
6 49 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (20.51%) DevSecOps
8 35 (17.95%) Cloud Security
8 35 (17.95%) Platform Engineering
9 32 (16.41%) Microservices
10 30 (15.38%) Mentoring
11 27 (13.85%) Identity Access Management
11 27 (13.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (13.85%) Software Engineering
12 24 (12.31%) API Management
13 22 (11.28%) Analytics
13 22 (11.28%) Design Patterns
14 21 (10.77%) Architectural Design
14 21 (10.77%) Configuration Management
15 20 (10.26%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 74 (37.95%) SQL
2 53 (27.18%) Python
3 48 (24.62%) PowerShell
4 31 (15.90%) C#
5 30 (15.38%) Bash
5 30 (15.38%) Java
6 26 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 21 (10.77%) Go
8 15 (7.69%) T-SQL
9 14 (7.18%) Bicep
10 9 (4.62%) Groovy
10 9 (4.62%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (4.10%) TypeScript
12 7 (3.59%) PHP
12 7 (3.59%) Ruby
13 2 (1.03%) C++
13 2 (1.03%) Scala
14 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (19.49%) Azure Certification
2 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (7.18%) Degree
4 11 (5.64%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.10%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.54%) CISSP
9 2 (1.03%) CISA
9 2 (1.03%) CISM
10 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.51%) CCSK
10 1 (0.51%) CCSP
10 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.10%) NIST
3 7 (3.59%) SLA
4 6 (3.08%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.03%) QA
7 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 74 (37.95%) Docker
2 29 (14.87%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (12.82%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.51%) HDFS
5 1 (0.51%) LXC
Systems Management
1 162 (83.08%) Kubernetes
2 114 (58.46%) Terraform
3 27 (13.85%) Ansible
4 20 (10.26%) Grafana
4 20 (10.26%) Prometheus
5 15 (7.69%) Progress Chef
6 14 (7.18%) Puppet
7 11 (5.64%) Istio
8 7 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (3.08%) Packer
10 5 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.54%) Argo
12 2 (1.03%) Kibana
12 2 (1.03%) logstash
13 1 (0.51%) Anchore
Vendors
1 78 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.79%) ForgeRock
3 16 (8.21%) Oracle
3 16 (8.21%) Sitecore
4 10 (5.13%) Google
5 8 (4.10%) Databricks
6 7 (3.59%) New Relic
6 7 (3.59%) SaltStack
6 7 (3.59%) Zscaler
7 6 (3.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.03%) Splunk
8 2 (1.03%) VMware
9 1 (0.51%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.51%) BMC
9 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.51%) Informatica
9 1 (0.51%) Remedy