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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 720 532 634
Rank change year-on-year -188 +102 -117
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 191 501 782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 1.18% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 158 255 335
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £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 £100,563 £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 35,668 42,301 80,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.92% 43.20% 48.57%
Number of salaries quoted 26,805 27,789 41,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £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% +8.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 27 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 27 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 -170 165 £82,500 -2.94% 84
Work from Home +14 105 £82,500 -2.94% 52
London -71 104 £90,000 - 47
UK excluding London -115 68 £70,000 - 51
North of England +15 32 £67,500 +3.85% 10
Yorkshire +46 20 £67,500 -3.57% 3
South East -36 13 £97,500 +39.29% 29
North West +2 11 £42,500 -19.05% 7
Midlands -18 9 £97,500 +39.29% 4
West Midlands -2 7 £97,500 +34.48% 3
Scotland -72 4 £100,000 +63.93%
Wales +4 3 £42,500 -8.03% 1
North East -4 3 £80,000 +23.08%
East of England -9 3 £70,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
East Midlands -23 2 - - 1
South West -35 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 (0.52%) Confluence
1 1 (0.52%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 174 (91.10%) Azure
2 75 (39.27%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (29.32%) AWS
4 52 (27.23%) Serverless
5 42 (21.99%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (20.94%) PaaS
7 39 (20.42%) GitHub
8 35 (18.32%) Entra ID
9 34 (17.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 34 (17.80%) IaaS
10 32 (16.75%) SaaS
11 31 (16.23%) Azure Functions
12 30 (15.71%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (15.71%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (14.66%) GCP
14 24 (12.57%) Amazon S3
15 23 (12.04%) Akamai
16 22 (11.52%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (10.99%) AWS Fargate
17 21 (10.99%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.52%) Firewall
2 11 (5.76%) Network Security
3 9 (4.71%) DNS
4 7 (3.66%) IPv4
4 7 (3.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.75%) SQL Server
2 27 (14.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 27 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.42%) MongoDB
4 15 (7.85%) MySQL
4 15 (7.85%) NoSQL
5 13 (6.81%) Redis
6 12 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (6.28%) MariaDB
7 11 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (4.71%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (4.71%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.66%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.09%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.52%) GIS
12 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (14.14%) Git
2 25 (13.09%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.71%) GitLab
4 7 (3.66%) Bitbucket
4 7 (3.66%) MLflow
4 7 (3.66%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (2.62%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.62%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.57%) JIRA
7 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.05%) JMeter
7 2 (1.05%) Maven
7 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) Gatling
8 1 (0.52%) JUnit
8 1 (0.52%) Moq
8 1 (0.52%) NUnit
8 1 (0.52%) Snyk
8 1 (0.52%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 50 (26.18%) Finance
2 36 (18.85%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.90%) Automotive
4 15 (7.85%) Health Technology
4 15 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.76%) Banking
6 10 (5.24%) Tech for Good
7 8 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.19%) Retail
8 7 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.14%) Games
10 5 (2.62%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.62%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.57%) French Language
11 3 (1.57%) Law
12 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Marketing
13 1 (0.52%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 60 (31.41%) Azure Engineer
2 36 (18.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (18.32%) Lead
4 33 (17.28%) Architect
5 31 (16.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 31 (16.23%) Platform Engineer
6 30 (15.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 24 (12.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (10.99%) Azure Architect
9 19 (9.95%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (9.95%) Cloud Architect
9 19 (9.95%) Senior
10 16 (8.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.28%) Lead DevOps
11 12 (6.28%) Site Engineer
11 12 (6.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (6.28%) Technical Architect
12 11 (5.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (5.76%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (24.08%) .NET
2 30 (15.71%) ARM Templates
3 20 (10.47%) JSON
4 16 (8.38%) RESTful
5 15 (7.85%) .NET Core
6 12 (6.28%) .NET Framework
6 12 (6.28%) Entity Framework
6 12 (6.28%) XML
7 11 (5.76%) ASP.NET
7 11 (5.76%) CSS
7 11 (5.76%) HTML
7 11 (5.76%) OAuth
8 10 (5.24%) Razor View Engine
9 9 (4.71%) Middleware
9 9 (4.71%) YAML
10 8 (4.19%) ASP.NET 2.0
10 8 (4.19%) ASP.NET Web API
10 8 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (4.19%) HTML5
10 8 (4.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.28%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.90%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.76%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.71%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.19%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.09%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.52%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.52%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
10 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.04%) Linux
1 23 (12.04%) Windows
2 3 (1.57%) Unix
3 2 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (74.87%) DevOps
2 67 (35.08%) CI/CD
3 63 (32.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (27.23%) Agile
5 51 (26.70%) Containerisation
6 49 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (20.94%) DevSecOps
8 35 (18.32%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (17.28%) Cloud Security
10 30 (15.71%) Microservices
11 29 (15.18%) Mentoring
12 27 (14.14%) Software Engineering
13 26 (13.61%) Identity Access Management
14 25 (13.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 23 (12.04%) API Management
16 22 (11.52%) Design Patterns
17 21 (10.99%) Analytics
17 21 (10.99%) Architectural Design
17 21 (10.99%) Configuration Management
18 20 (10.47%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 73 (38.22%) SQL
2 54 (28.27%) Python
3 49 (25.65%) PowerShell
4 31 (16.23%) Bash
4 31 (16.23%) C#
5 29 (15.18%) Java
6 26 (13.61%) JavaScript
7 21 (10.99%) Go
8 15 (7.85%) T-SQL
9 13 (6.81%) Bicep
10 10 (5.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (4.71%) Groovy
12 8 (4.19%) TypeScript
13 7 (3.66%) PHP
13 7 (3.66%) Ruby
14 2 (1.05%) C++
14 2 (1.05%) Scala
15 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (19.90%) Azure Certification
2 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (7.33%) Degree
4 11 (5.76%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.71%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.57%) CISSP
9 2 (1.05%) CISA
9 2 (1.05%) CISM
10 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.52%) CCSK
10 1 (0.52%) CCSP
10 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.66%) NIST
3 6 (3.14%) ISO 9001
3 6 (3.14%) SLA
4 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.05%) QA
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 71 (37.17%) Docker
2 29 (15.18%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (13.09%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.52%) LXC
Systems Management
1 159 (83.25%) Kubernetes
2 112 (58.64%) Terraform
3 27 (14.14%) Ansible
4 21 (10.99%) Grafana
5 20 (10.47%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.85%) Progress Chef
7 14 (7.33%) Puppet
8 10 (5.24%) Istio
9 7 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (3.14%) Packer
11 5 (2.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.57%) Argo
13 2 (1.05%) Kibana
13 2 (1.05%) logstash
14 1 (0.52%) Anchore
Vendors
1 76 (39.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.04%) ForgeRock
3 17 (8.90%) Oracle
4 16 (8.38%) Sitecore
5 9 (4.71%) Google
6 8 (4.19%) Databricks
7 7 (3.66%) New Relic
7 7 (3.66%) SaltStack
7 7 (3.66%) Zscaler
8 5 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.05%) Splunk
9 2 (1.05%) VMware
10 1 (0.52%) BMC
10 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.52%) Remedy