Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon EKS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 520 543
Rank change year-on-year +23 +23 -64
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 452 518 977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.22% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 180 265 295
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,875 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% -7.14% +12.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon EKS 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 35,563 42,373 79,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.24% 43.02% 48.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,731 27,774 41,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,980
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS.

Salary trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EKS within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 0 350 £82,500 -8.33% 75
UK excluding London +109 293 £77,500 +19.23% 43
Work from Home +42 187 £82,500 -2.94% 44
London +2 169 £82,500 -17.50% 55
South East +25 80 £82,500 +32.00% 25
Scotland +14 80 £46,500 -28.46%
North of England +68 74 £65,000 -7.14% 8
North West +48 68 £60,000 -7.69% 6
South West -6 27 £62,500 -7.41% 3
Midlands +3 15 £58,500 +17.00% 1
East Midlands +6 13 £50,000 +42.86%
Northern Ireland +32 7 - - 3
East of England -31 7 £42,500 -37.04% 2
Yorkshire +66 5 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Wales +11 4 - - 1
West Midlands +8 2 £66,750 +2.69% 1
North East -9 1 £75,000 +15.38%

Amazon EKS
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
1 101 (22.35%) Apache Spark
2 85 (18.81%) Apache
3 49 (10.84%) OpenStack
4 46 (10.18%) WebLogic
5 21 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (2.21%) Red Hat Fuse
7 9 (1.99%) JBoss
8 4 (0.88%) Confluence
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.44%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (10.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 441 (97.57%) AWS
2 215 (47.57%) Serverless
3 171 (37.83%) Amazon ECS
4 165 (36.50%) Azure
5 157 (34.73%) AWS Lambda
6 128 (28.32%) Amazon SQS
7 125 (27.65%) Amazon S3
8 101 (22.35%) Amazon EC2
9 80 (17.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (13.94%) GCP
11 62 (13.72%) Amazon ECR
11 62 (13.72%) Route 53
12 58 (12.83%) IBM Cloud
12 58 (12.83%) OCI
13 55 (12.17%) Amazon EMR
14 44 (9.73%) GitHub
15 42 (9.29%) Azure AKS
16 41 (9.07%) OpenShift
17 30 (6.64%) CloudFront
18 26 (5.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (11.28%) DNS
2 49 (10.84%) TCP/IP
3 46 (10.18%) BGP
3 46 (10.18%) SSL
4 28 (6.19%) AMQP
5 13 (2.88%) Firewall
6 4 (0.88%) HTTP
7 3 (0.66%) Internet
7 3 (0.66%) VPN
8 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (34.07%) Amazon RDS
2 101 (22.35%) NoSQL
3 99 (21.90%) Relational Database
4 95 (21.02%) Hadoop
5 83 (18.36%) Big Data
6 71 (15.71%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (13.94%) RDBMS
8 53 (11.73%) Electronic Patient Records
9 49 (10.84%) Oracle Database
10 31 (6.86%) SQL Server
11 28 (6.19%) Cloudera CDH
12 25 (5.53%) DynamoDB
13 22 (4.87%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (3.54%) Apache Hive
14 16 (3.54%) HBase
14 16 (3.54%) MongoDB
15 12 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (2.65%) DB2
16 6 (1.33%) MySQL
17 4 (0.88%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 109 (24.12%) Git
2 105 (23.23%) Jenkins
3 23 (5.09%) GitLab
4 20 (4.42%) Bitbucket
5 16 (3.54%) TeamCity
6 13 (2.88%) JUnit
7 10 (2.21%) JIRA
8 7 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (1.33%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.11%) git-flow
11 4 (0.88%) JMeter
11 4 (0.88%) Mockito
11 4 (0.88%) Sourcetree
12 3 (0.66%) Maven
12 3 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.22%) Gradle
13 1 (0.22%) IntelliJ
13 1 (0.22%) Mocha
13 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 158 (34.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 114 (25.22%) Finance
3 105 (23.23%) Law
4 102 (22.57%) Public Sector
5 97 (21.46%) Social Skills
6 67 (14.82%) Legal
7 28 (6.19%) Aerospace
8 21 (4.65%) Retail
9 17 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (3.76%) Banking
10 16 (3.54%) Automotive
11 7 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.33%) Games
12 6 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.66%) Marketing
14 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.22%) Back Office
15 1 (0.22%) Cantonese Language
15 1 (0.22%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 138 (30.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 122 (26.99%) Software Engineer
3 102 (22.57%) AWS Engineer
4 89 (19.69%) Senior
5 87 (19.25%) Lead
6 84 (18.58%) Developer
7 60 (13.27%) Senior DevOps
7 60 (13.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 59 (13.05%) AWS DevOps
9 58 (12.83%) Java Developer
10 51 (11.28%) AWS Software Engineer
10 51 (11.28%) Big Data Engineer
10 51 (11.28%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 51 (11.28%) Scala Engineer
10 51 (11.28%) Scala Software Engineer
11 47 (10.40%) Architect
11 47 (10.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 47 (10.40%) Lead Architect
12 46 (10.18%) Java Engineer
12 46 (10.18%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (30.31%) Spring Boot
2 117 (25.88%) Spring
3 108 (23.89%) REST
4 86 (19.03%) RabbitMQ
5 76 (16.81%) Node.js
6 75 (16.59%) AngularJS
7 64 (14.16%) Elastic Stack
8 62 (13.72%) React
9 47 (10.40%) Apache Camel
9 47 (10.40%) Web Services
10 40 (8.85%) .NET
11 33 (7.30%) JSON
12 32 (7.08%) XML
13 28 (6.19%) gRPC
13 28 (6.19%) Material-UI
13 28 (6.19%) OpenAPI
13 28 (6.19%) Swagger
14 21 (4.65%) JPA
15 13 (2.88%) Kafka
15 13 (2.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.83%) Blockchain
1 58 (12.83%) e-Learning
1 58 (12.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 54 (11.95%) Cloud Native
2 54 (11.95%) Public Cloud
3 51 (11.28%) Algorithms
4 47 (10.40%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (10.18%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.54%) Mobile App
7 15 (3.32%) Blog
8 10 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.99%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.55%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.11%) Hedge funds
13 5 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.88%) Credit Risk
14 4 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 137 (30.31%) Linux
2 75 (16.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (7.30%) Windows
4 29 (6.42%) CentOS
4 29 (6.42%) Ubuntu
5 28 (6.19%) Debian
6 24 (5.31%) Unix
7 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (67.92%) Agile
2 225 (49.78%) DevOps
3 200 (44.25%) CI/CD
4 157 (34.73%) Microservices
5 151 (33.41%) Containerisation
6 144 (31.86%) Software Engineering
7 141 (31.19%) Scrum
8 140 (30.97%) Kanban
9 134 (29.65%) SDLC
10 105 (23.23%) Test Automation
11 93 (20.58%) Artificial Intelligence
12 90 (19.91%) Mentoring
13 87 (19.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 84 (18.58%) Collaborative Working
15 74 (16.37%) Open Source
16 73 (16.15%) Actionable Insight
17 71 (15.71%) Migration
17 71 (15.71%) Risk Management
18 70 (15.49%) Operational Stability
18 70 (15.49%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 226 (50.00%) Java
2 164 (36.28%) Python
3 127 (28.10%) SQL
4 106 (23.45%) JavaScript
5 51 (11.28%) Scala
6 25 (5.53%) Bash
6 25 (5.53%) Shell Script
7 18 (3.98%) Go
8 11 (2.43%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.99%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.77%) C#
11 7 (1.55%) Groovy
12 6 (1.33%) PHP
12 6 (1.33%) Ruby
13 4 (0.88%) C
13 4 (0.88%) Perl
14 3 (0.66%) Swift
15 2 (0.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 147 (32.52%) Security Cleared
2 140 (30.97%) SC Cleared
3 84 (18.58%) AWS Certification
4 62 (13.72%) Azure Certification
5 54 (11.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (6.64%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.32%) Degree
8 12 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.33%) QA
2 5 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.22%) GDPR
3 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 140 (30.97%) Docker
2 33 (7.30%) Hyper-V
3 19 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (3.54%) HDFS
5 13 (2.88%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 279 (61.73%) Kubernetes
2 235 (51.99%) Terraform
3 117 (25.88%) Ansible
4 83 (18.36%) Prometheus
5 40 (8.85%) Puppet
6 33 (7.30%) Grafana
7 13 (2.88%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.11%) Argo
9 5 (1.11%) Karpenter
9 5 (1.11%) Rancher
10 4 (0.88%) Kibana
10 4 (0.88%) Packer
11 3 (0.66%) Consul
12 1 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 88 (19.47%) Red Hat
2 85 (18.81%) Oracle
3 68 (15.04%) Dynatrace
4 59 (13.05%) IBM
5 46 (10.18%) Sparx
6 41 (9.07%) WSO2
7 36 (7.96%) Google
8 28 (6.19%) SaltStack
9 23 (5.09%) ForgeRock
10 17 (3.76%) Databricks
11 16 (3.54%) Cloudera
11 16 (3.54%) Sitecore
12 12 (2.65%) Sybase
13 9 (1.99%) Microsoft
14 8 (1.77%) Facebook
14 8 (1.77%) VMware
15 7 (1.55%) Splunk
15 7 (1.55%) Zscaler
16 5 (1.11%) McAfee
17 4 (0.88%) Atlassian