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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 484 563
Rank change year-on-year -6 +79 -105
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 454 617 894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.59% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.37% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 188 298 314
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £72,023
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +11.08% +2.89%
75th Percentile £97,500 £104,063 £92,500
90th Percentile £109,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% - +8.33%

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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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 £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -46 344 £77,500 -8.82% 57
UK excluding London +86 294 £77,500 +19.23% 29
Work from Home +69 193 £76,250 -1.61% 41
London -18 168 £82,500 -15.38% 30
Scotland +10 83 £65,000 - 2
South East +42 82 £82,500 +32.00% 7
North of England +65 73 £62,500 -7.41% 8
North West +44 67 £60,000 -4.00% 6
South West +3 23 £60,000 -15.79% 6
Midlands +14 15 £58,500 -10.00% 3
East Midlands -4 13 £50,000 -23.08%
East of England -30 8 £42,500 -46.88% 2
Northern Ireland +36 7 - - 2
Yorkshire +79 5 £75,000 +7.14%
Wales - 4 - -
West Midlands +22 2 £66,750 +2.69% 3
North East -6 1 £75,000 +15.38% 2

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 96 (21.15%) Apache Spark
2 80 (17.62%) Apache
3 52 (11.45%) OpenStack
4 46 (10.13%) WebLogic
5 21 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (2.20%) JBoss
6 10 (2.20%) Red Hat Fuse
7 5 (1.10%) Confluence
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.22%) CMS
9 1 (0.22%) nginx
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (10.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 444 (97.80%) AWS
2 219 (48.24%) Serverless
3 170 (37.44%) Amazon ECS
4 164 (36.12%) Azure
5 160 (35.24%) AWS Lambda
6 127 (27.97%) Amazon SQS
7 125 (27.53%) Amazon S3
8 104 (22.91%) Amazon EC2
9 75 (16.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 62 (13.66%) GCP
11 60 (13.22%) Route 53
12 59 (13.00%) Amazon ECR
13 56 (12.33%) IBM Cloud
13 56 (12.33%) OCI
14 55 (12.11%) Amazon EMR
15 47 (10.35%) GitHub
16 44 (9.69%) Azure AKS
17 36 (7.93%) OpenShift
18 30 (6.61%) CloudFront
19 29 (6.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 51 (11.23%) DNS
2 49 (10.79%) TCP/IP
3 46 (10.13%) BGP
3 46 (10.13%) SSL
4 24 (5.29%) AMQP
5 13 (2.86%) Firewall
6 3 (0.66%) HTTP
6 3 (0.66%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) VPN
7 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (34.80%) Amazon RDS
2 102 (22.47%) NoSQL
3 99 (21.81%) Relational Database
4 91 (20.04%) Hadoop
5 79 (17.40%) Big Data
6 74 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (13.44%) RDBMS
8 53 (11.67%) Electronic Patient Records
9 49 (10.79%) Oracle Database
10 31 (6.83%) SQL Server
11 26 (5.73%) Amazon Aurora
12 24 (5.29%) Cloudera CDH
12 24 (5.29%) DynamoDB
13 16 (3.52%) Apache Hive
13 16 (3.52%) HBase
13 16 (3.52%) MongoDB
14 14 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (2.20%) DB2
16 6 (1.32%) MySQL
17 3 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 114 (25.11%) Git
2 108 (23.79%) Jenkins
3 28 (6.17%) GitLab
4 19 (4.19%) Bitbucket
5 16 (3.52%) TeamCity
6 14 (3.08%) JUnit
7 11 (2.42%) JIRA
8 9 (1.98%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.76%) git-flow
10 7 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
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 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.44%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.22%) IntelliJ
14 1 (0.22%) Mocha
General
1 156 (34.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 118 (25.99%) Finance
3 107 (23.57%) Public Sector
4 105 (23.13%) Law
5 102 (22.47%) Social Skills
6 67 (14.76%) Legal
7 24 (5.29%) Aerospace
8 21 (4.63%) Retail
9 18 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (3.74%) Banking
11 14 (3.08%) Automotive
12 8 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.32%) Games
13 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Marketing
15 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.22%) Back Office
16 1 (0.22%) Cantonese Language
16 1 (0.22%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 141 (31.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 117 (25.77%) Software Engineer
3 108 (23.79%) AWS Engineer
4 88 (19.38%) Senior
5 84 (18.50%) Developer
6 79 (17.40%) Lead
7 63 (13.88%) AWS DevOps
8 59 (13.00%) Java Developer
9 58 (12.78%) Senior DevOps
9 58 (12.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 52 (11.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 51 (11.23%) AWS Software Engineer
11 51 (11.23%) Big Data Engineer
11 51 (11.23%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 51 (11.23%) Scala Engineer
11 51 (11.23%) Scala Software Engineer
12 48 (10.57%) Architect
13 47 (10.35%) Lead Architect
14 46 (10.13%) Java Engineer
14 46 (10.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (29.74%) Spring Boot
2 113 (24.89%) Spring
3 106 (23.35%) REST
4 86 (18.94%) RabbitMQ
5 73 (16.08%) Node.js
6 71 (15.64%) AngularJS
7 68 (14.98%) Elastic Stack
8 60 (13.22%) React
9 48 (10.57%) Apache Camel
9 48 (10.57%) Web Services
10 34 (7.49%) JSON
11 33 (7.27%) .NET
12 32 (7.05%) XML
13 24 (5.29%) gRPC
13 24 (5.29%) Material-UI
13 24 (5.29%) OpenAPI
13 24 (5.29%) Swagger
14 21 (4.63%) JPA
15 15 (3.30%) RESTful
16 14 (3.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.78%) Blockchain
2 56 (12.33%) e-Learning
2 56 (12.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (11.67%) Public Cloud
4 51 (11.23%) Algorithms
4 51 (11.23%) Cloud Native
5 49 (10.79%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (10.13%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (3.30%) Blog
8 14 (3.08%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.64%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.20%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.98%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.76%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.54%) Client/Server
14 4 (0.88%) Credit Risk
14 4 (0.88%) Hedge funds
14 4 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 138 (30.40%) Linux
2 71 (15.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (8.59%) Windows
4 25 (5.51%) CentOS
4 25 (5.51%) Ubuntu
5 24 (5.29%) Debian
5 24 (5.29%) Unix
6 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (67.62%) Agile
2 229 (50.44%) DevOps
3 206 (45.37%) CI/CD
4 150 (33.04%) Microservices
5 147 (32.38%) Containerisation
6 141 (31.06%) Scrum
7 140 (30.84%) Kanban
7 140 (30.84%) Software Engineering
8 135 (29.74%) SDLC
9 107 (23.57%) Test Automation
10 90 (19.82%) Artificial Intelligence
11 89 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
12 87 (19.16%) Mentoring
13 83 (18.28%) Collaborative Working
14 73 (16.08%) Actionable Insight
15 71 (15.64%) Open Source
15 71 (15.64%) Risk Management
16 70 (15.42%) Operational Stability
17 69 (15.20%) Migration
18 68 (14.98%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 219 (48.24%) Java
2 164 (36.12%) Python
3 131 (28.85%) SQL
4 105 (23.13%) JavaScript
5 51 (11.23%) Scala
6 30 (6.61%) Bash
7 29 (6.39%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.74%) Go
9 11 (2.42%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.76%) C#
10 8 (1.76%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.54%) Groovy
11 7 (1.54%) PHP
12 6 (1.32%) Ruby
13 5 (1.10%) Perl
14 3 (0.66%) C
14 3 (0.66%) Swift
15 2 (0.44%) C++
15 2 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 143 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 138 (30.40%) SC Cleared
3 85 (18.72%) AWS Certification
4 62 (13.66%) Azure Certification
5 56 (12.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.96%) Degree
8 14 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.22%) MCSA
13 1 (0.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.76%) QA
2 5 (1.10%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.22%) GDPR
3 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 143 (31.50%) Docker
2 33 (7.27%) Hyper-V
3 18 (3.96%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (3.52%) HDFS
6 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 281 (61.89%) Kubernetes
2 236 (51.98%) Terraform
3 115 (25.33%) Ansible
4 78 (17.18%) Prometheus
5 35 (7.71%) Grafana
6 34 (7.49%) Puppet
7 12 (2.64%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.10%) Argo
9 5 (1.10%) Packer
10 4 (0.88%) Kibana
10 4 (0.88%) Rancher
11 3 (0.66%) Consul
12 1 (0.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 86 (18.94%) Oracle
2 82 (18.06%) Red Hat
3 66 (14.54%) Dynatrace
4 58 (12.78%) IBM
5 46 (10.13%) Sparx
6 42 (9.25%) WSO2
7 36 (7.93%) Google
8 24 (5.29%) SaltStack
9 20 (4.41%) ForgeRock
10 17 (3.74%) Databricks
11 16 (3.52%) Cloudera
12 14 (3.08%) Sitecore
13 10 (2.20%) Sybase
14 9 (1.98%) Microsoft
15 8 (1.76%) Facebook
15 8 (1.76%) McAfee
16 7 (1.54%) Splunk
16 7 (1.54%) VMware
17 6 (1.32%) Atlassian
17 6 (1.32%) Zscaler