Strong prospects of rehabilitation have saved Canberra's "barefoot bandit" from a sentence behind bars for the armed robbery of a northside service station.

Jake Miller, 29, will instead serve a 30-month jail sentence in the community via an intensive corrections order, which includes an order to complete 250 hours of community service.

Justice Chrissa Loukas-Karlsson, in handing down sentence, said the punishment would allow Miller to continue in his job as a concreter, as employment played in important role in an offender's long-term prospects of rehabilitation.

Miller pleaded guilty in the ACT Supreme Court to aggravated robbery for the armed robbery of the Holt 7-Eleven in January last year.