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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 723 554 639
Rank change year-on-year -169 +85 -110
Permanent jobs citing Azure AKS 201 436 805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.47% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 1.09% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 160 240 329
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,688 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £100,859 £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 36,452 40,083 83,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.61% 43.06% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 27,130 27,066 41,503
10th Percentile £30,140 £34,182 £33,916
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%
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 9 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 9 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 -149 172 £83,750 +1.52% 68
Work from Home +25 111 £81,250 +1.56% 47
London -89 103 £90,000 - 26
UK excluding London -119 76 £70,000 - 38
North of England -2 32 £67,500 +3.85% 13
Yorkshire +43 20 £67,500 -3.57% 2
South East -7 14 £97,500 +30.00% 10
North West -11 11 £42,500 -19.05% 10
Midlands -37 10 £83,750 +19.64% 6
West Midlands -13 8 £83,750 +15.52% 5
South West -34 7 £72,500 -9.38% 7
Scotland -71 4 £100,000 +63.93%
Wales +9 3 £42,500 -8.03%
North East -16 3 £80,000 +23.08% 1
East of England -20 3 £70,000 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
East Midlands -36 2 - - 1

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 2 (1.00%) Confluence
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.50%) nginx
2 1 (0.50%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 186 (92.54%) Azure
2 77 (38.31%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (29.35%) AWS
4 49 (24.38%) Serverless
5 41 (20.40%) Amazon EKS
5 41 (20.40%) PaaS
6 37 (18.41%) GitHub
7 36 (17.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 34 (16.92%) Entra ID
8 34 (16.92%) IaaS
8 34 (16.92%) SaaS
9 32 (15.92%) GCP
10 31 (15.42%) Azure Functions
11 30 (14.93%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (13.93%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (11.94%) Amazon S3
14 23 (11.44%) Akamai
15 22 (10.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (10.45%) AWS Fargate
16 21 (10.45%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.95%) Firewall
2 11 (5.47%) Network Security
3 9 (4.48%) DNS
4 6 (2.99%) IPv4
4 6 (2.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.42%) SQL Server
2 29 (14.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 25 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (9.45%) MongoDB
5 16 (7.96%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.46%) MySQL
7 13 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.47%) Redis
8 12 (5.97%) MariaDB
8 12 (5.97%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (3.98%) Data Lake
12 7 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.99%) RDBMS
14 3 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.50%) Big Data
15 1 (0.50%) Hadoop
15 1 (0.50%) HBase
15 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 27 (13.43%) Git
2 25 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.48%) GitLab
4 8 (3.98%) MLflow
5 7 (3.48%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.48%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (2.99%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.49%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.99%) JIRA
9 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.00%) JMeter
9 2 (1.00%) Maven
9 2 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.50%) Gatling
10 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.50%) Moq
10 1 (0.50%) NUnit
10 1 (0.50%) Snyk
10 1 (0.50%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (25.87%) Finance
2 42 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.96%) Health Technology
4 17 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.46%) Automotive
4 17 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.97%) Banking
6 8 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.98%) Retail
6 8 (3.98%) Tech for Good
7 7 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.48%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.99%) Games
8 6 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.99%) French Language
10 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Law
11 2 (1.00%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Cantonese Language
12 1 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 66 (32.84%) Azure Engineer
2 37 (18.41%) Architect
3 36 (17.91%) Lead
4 35 (17.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (14.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 30 (14.93%) Platform Engineer
6 29 (14.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 24 (11.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (10.95%) Azure Architect
9 21 (10.45%) Cloud Architect
10 20 (9.95%) Senior
11 17 (8.46%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (8.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 13 (6.47%) Developer
12 13 (6.47%) Site Engineer
12 13 (6.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (5.97%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (5.97%) Technical Architect
14 10 (4.98%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 9 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (23.88%) .NET
2 31 (15.42%) ARM Templates
3 21 (10.45%) JSON
4 18 (8.96%) RESTful
5 15 (7.46%) .NET Core
6 13 (6.47%) ASP.NET
6 13 (6.47%) CSS
6 13 (6.47%) HTML
7 12 (5.97%) .NET Framework
7 12 (5.97%) Entity Framework
7 12 (5.97%) XML
8 11 (5.47%) OAuth
9 10 (4.98%) Razor View Engine
9 10 (4.98%) Web Services
10 9 (4.48%) YAML
11 8 (3.98%) ASP.NET 2.0
11 8 (3.98%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (3.98%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (3.98%) HTML5
11 8 (3.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.46%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.98%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.49%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.99%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.50%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.50%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.50%) IoT
11 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.50%) NHS
11 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.95%) Linux
1 22 (10.95%) Windows
2 3 (1.49%) Unix
3 2 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (73.13%) DevOps
2 68 (33.83%) CI/CD
3 67 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (27.36%) Agile
5 52 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (25.37%) Containerisation
7 40 (19.90%) DevSecOps
8 37 (18.41%) Cloud Security
9 34 (16.92%) Platform Engineering
10 32 (15.92%) Microservices
11 31 (15.42%) Mentoring
12 29 (14.43%) Software Engineering
13 27 (13.43%) Identity Access Management
13 27 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (11.94%) API Management
15 23 (11.44%) Analytics
16 22 (10.95%) Continuous Integration
16 22 (10.95%) Design Patterns
17 21 (10.45%) Architectural Design
17 21 (10.45%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (37.81%) SQL
2 53 (26.37%) Python
3 48 (23.88%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.42%) C#
5 31 (15.42%) Java
6 29 (14.43%) Bash
7 28 (13.93%) JavaScript
8 22 (10.95%) Go
9 16 (7.96%) T-SQL
10 14 (6.97%) Bicep
11 9 (4.48%) Groovy
12 8 (3.98%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (3.98%) TypeScript
13 7 (3.48%) PHP
13 7 (3.48%) Ruby
14 2 (1.00%) C++
14 2 (1.00%) Scala
15 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (19.40%) Azure Certification
2 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (6.47%) Degree
3 13 (6.47%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.97%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.48%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.49%) CISSP
9 2 (1.00%) CISA
9 2 (1.00%) CISM
10 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.50%) CCSK
10 1 (0.50%) CCSP
10 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.50%) MCSA
10 1 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.48%) NIST
3 7 (3.48%) SLA
4 6 (2.99%) ISO 9001
5 5 (2.49%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.00%) QA
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) GDPR
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 76 (37.81%) Docker
2 29 (14.43%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (11.94%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) HDFS
5 1 (0.50%) LXC
Systems Management
1 165 (82.09%) Kubernetes
2 117 (58.21%) Terraform
3 27 (13.43%) Ansible
4 20 (9.95%) Prometheus
5 19 (9.45%) Grafana
6 15 (7.46%) Progress Chef
7 14 (6.97%) Puppet
8 11 (5.47%) Istio
9 7 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.99%) Packer
11 5 (2.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.49%) Argo
13 2 (1.00%) Kibana
13 2 (1.00%) logstash
14 1 (0.50%) Anchore
Vendors
1 77 (38.31%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.44%) ForgeRock
3 16 (7.96%) Oracle
3 16 (7.96%) Sitecore
4 10 (4.98%) Databricks
4 10 (4.98%) Google
5 7 (3.48%) New Relic
5 7 (3.48%) SaltStack
5 7 (3.48%) Zscaler
6 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.00%) Splunk
7 2 (1.00%) VMware
8 1 (0.50%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.50%) BMC
8 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.50%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.50%) Informatica
8 1 (0.50%) Remedy