AKS salary: $186K median
The median advertised AKS salary is $186K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $160K to $252K: counted from 36 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range: about $89 an hour or $15,458 a month. A tenth of the postings offer $288K or more. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
Check an offer against these figuresAll AKS jobs
$186Kmedian advertised salary
$160K – $252Kmiddle half of roles
$203Kaverage advertised salary
36roles counted
AKS salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸California | $203K | 20 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $187K | 34 |
Skills that pay more for AKS roles
| Skill | Median with it | Above the median | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Networking protocols | $288K | +$102K | 5 |
| Machine Learning | $288K | +$102K | 5 |
| Cloud security | $248K | +$63K | 6 |
| Incident response | $223K | +$38K | 10 |
| GKE | $220K | +$34K | 20 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Lambda | $288K | 3 |
| True Anomaly | $150K | 3 |
Highest-paying open AKS roles
All AKS jobs- Staff Software Engineer - Managed KubernetesLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$314K - $465KHybridLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLinux
- Senior Software Engineer - Managed KubernetesLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$230K - $346KHybridSeniorGoPythonMachine Learning
- Cloud Security LeadReplit · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$250K - $325KHybridLead and abovePythonTerraformGCP
- VP, EngineeringYugabyte · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA$280K - $310KLead and abovePythonJavaPostgreSQL
- Senior Staff Site Reliability EngineerFivetran · 🇺🇸Oakland, California, United States, AMER$232K - $290KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Security Engineer, Product & Production InfrastructureWiz · 🇺🇸Remote - USA$207K - $283KRemoteGoPythonTerraform
- Forward Deployed Engineering, PortworxPure Storage · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New Yo…$230K - $282KLinuxCI/CDKubernetes
- Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud InfrastructureMesh · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, New York, NY$246K - $282KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure FoundationsTemporal · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$170K - $278KRemoteLead and aboveGoTerraformGCP
- Senior Security Software Engineer, Infrastructure SecurityRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$234K - $269KSeniorLinuxKubernetesInfrastructure as code
- Associate General CounselDaymark Health · 🇺🇸Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, or Remote$225K - $260KRemoteDriver's licenseAKSIncident response
- Staff Platform EngineerGemini · 🇺🇸New York, New York; Miami, Florida; Remote (USA)$168K - $240KRemoteLead and aboveRustGoPython
- Staff Engineer - Container SecurityIllumio · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California - HQ$196K - $235KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure FoundationsTemporal · 🇺🇸United States (Remote)$141K - $231KRemoteSeniorGoTerraformGCP
- Senior DevOps EngineerSandboxaq · 🇺🇸United States$122K - $228KRemoteSeniorPythonDockerTerraform
- Senior DevOps EngineerTrue Anomaly · 🇺🇸Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA$150K - $225KSeniorPythonDockerTerraform
- Principal Cloud EngineerUnum · 🇺🇸Portland, Maine, USA; Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA$109K - $224KLead and abovePythonTerraformGCP
- Sr Software Engineer, InfrastructureDatabricks · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$160K - $220KSeniorPythonDockerTerraform
- Senior Solutions Support Engineer - US EastWiz · 🇺🇸Remote - USA$150K - $205KRemoteSeniorPythonJavaScriptJava
- Cloud & Platform Engineering ManagerJFrog · 🇺🇸Atlanta$180K - $200KTerraformGCPAzure
Questions about AKS pay
- What is the average AKS salary?
- $203K a year on average and $186K at the median, across 36 open AKS postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $160K to $252K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest AKS pay?
- Lambda ($288K), True Anomaly ($150K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Is an aks a high-paying job?
- The median AKS posting advertises $186K a year, more than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 7% above the middle of the market.
- How much can you earn as an aks?
- A tenth of the postings offer $288K a year or more; the highest open AKS role advertises up to $465K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
- What is the AKS salary per hour and per month?
- The median of $186K a year is about $89 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $15,458 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $77 to $121 an hour.
- Which skills pay more for AKS roles?
- Postings that ask for Networking protocols (+$102K, 5 postings), Machine Learning (+$102K, 5 postings), Cloud security (+$63K, 6 postings) advertise more than the $186K median of all AKS postings with pay.
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for AKS roles at companies is $186K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $160K to $252K. Counted from 36 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Jobs Every Hour, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/aks/
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