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 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 560 534 530
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 -52
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 183 667 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% 1.26% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 128 322 372
10th Percentile £55,875 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £78,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,750 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% +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 22,667 52,995 60,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.76% 46.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17,874 35,419 42,381
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,656 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% +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 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 13 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 4 December 2023. 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 -32 145 £78,750 -1.56% 98
UK excluding London +135 107 £80,000 +14.29% 65
Work from Home +161 106 £75,000 - 70
London -26 56 £67,500 -20.59% 53
South East +163 48 £71,250 -10.94% 23
North of England +112 25 £80,000 +14.29% 19
East of England +125 19 £82,500 - 1
Yorkshire +108 18 £81,250 +51.16% 7
Scotland +62 13 £80,000 +23.08% 7
South West +72 8 £52,500 -27.73% 8
North West +70 6 £65,000 -3.70% 10
Wales - 4 £57,500 - 3
North East +31 1 £65,000 -13.33% 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 17 (9.29%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.92%) JBoss
2 9 (4.92%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (3.83%) Apache
4 3 (1.64%) nginx
4 3 (1.64%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.09%) CMS
6 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.55%) Confluence
6 1 (0.55%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 164 (89.62%) AWS
2 96 (52.46%) Serverless
3 66 (36.07%) Amazon ECS
4 60 (32.79%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (29.51%) Azure
6 38 (20.77%) Amazon EC2
7 34 (18.58%) Amazon S3
8 33 (18.03%) GitHub
9 31 (16.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (15.30%) Azure AKS
11 22 (12.02%) OpenShift
12 20 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (9.29%) Route 53
15 15 (8.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (7.65%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (7.65%) GCP
16 14 (7.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 10 (5.46%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.93%) Firewall
2 11 (6.01%) DNS
3 5 (2.73%) AMQP
4 4 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.09%) HTTP
5 2 (1.09%) Network Security
6 1 (0.55%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.55%) SSH
6 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (27.87%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (18.58%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (18.58%) Relational Database
3 18 (9.84%) DynamoDB
3 18 (9.84%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (9.84%) NoSQL
4 17 (9.29%) MySQL
5 11 (6.01%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.46%) Big Data
6 10 (5.46%) Hadoop
6 10 (5.46%) Redis
7 9 (4.92%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (4.37%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.73%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.09%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.09%) HBase
10 2 (1.09%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 84 (45.90%) Jenkins
2 71 (38.80%) Git
3 30 (16.39%) GitLab
4 23 (12.57%) Artifactory
5 22 (12.02%) JIRA
5 22 (12.02%) SonarQube
6 19 (10.38%) Maven
7 13 (7.10%) JUnit
8 12 (6.56%) Cucumber
8 12 (6.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 6 (3.28%) CircleCI
9 6 (3.28%) git-flow
9 6 (3.28%) Gradle
10 4 (2.19%) Selenium
11 3 (1.64%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.64%) JSUnit
11 3 (1.64%) Mocha
12 2 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 40 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.22%) Finance
3 28 (15.30%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.83%) Law
6 4 (2.19%) Banking
6 4 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.19%) Legal
7 2 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Aviation
8 1 (0.55%) Billing
8 1 (0.55%) Games
8 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (33.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (27.32%) Developer
3 46 (25.14%) AWS Engineer
4 36 (19.67%) AWS DevOps
5 33 (18.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (15.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 29 (15.85%) Java Developer
6 29 (15.85%) Senior
7 16 (8.74%) Architect
7 16 (8.74%) Senior Developer
8 12 (6.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.83%) Full Stack Developer
10 7 (3.83%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 6 (3.28%) Applications Developer
11 6 (3.28%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.28%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 6 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (29.51%) REST
2 48 (26.23%) Elastic Stack
3 42 (22.95%) RabbitMQ
4 38 (20.77%) Spring
5 36 (19.67%) Node.js
6 34 (18.58%) Spring Boot
7 33 (18.03%) AngularJS
8 29 (15.85%) Kafka
9 21 (11.48%) JSON
10 19 (10.38%) Web Services
11 18 (9.84%) Lambda Expressions
11 18 (9.84%) React
12 15 (8.20%) Apache Camel
12 15 (8.20%) LDAP
13 13 (7.10%) RESTful
14 10 (5.46%) AWS SAM
14 10 (5.46%) GraphQL
14 10 (5.46%) SOAP
15 9 (4.92%) J2EE
15 9 (4.92%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.39%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.65%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.01%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.37%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.28%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.73%) Genomics
6 5 (2.73%) mHealth
6 5 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.09%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.09%) Blog
9 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 83 (45.36%) Linux
2 35 (19.13%) Windows
3 17 (9.29%) Unix
4 11 (6.01%) Windows Server
5 10 (5.46%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.83%) Debian
6 7 (3.83%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.28%) CentOS
7 6 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (71.58%) DevOps
2 115 (62.84%) CI/CD
3 111 (60.66%) Agile
4 87 (47.54%) Microservices
5 81 (44.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (26.78%) Scrum
7 46 (25.14%) Kanban
8 41 (22.40%) Containerisation
9 36 (19.67%) TDD
10 32 (17.49%) Deployment Automation
11 29 (15.85%) Test Automation
12 25 (13.66%) Software Engineering
13 24 (13.11%) BDD
14 23 (12.57%) Open Source
15 21 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (11.48%) Unit Testing
16 19 (10.38%) Configuration Management
17 17 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 16 (8.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 86 (46.99%) Python
2 85 (46.45%) Java
3 37 (20.22%) JavaScript
4 35 (19.13%) SQL
5 28 (15.30%) Bash
6 25 (13.66%) Shell Script
7 22 (12.02%) Perl
8 15 (8.20%) Groovy
9 14 (7.65%) PowerShell
10 13 (7.10%) C#
11 8 (4.37%) Ruby
11 8 (4.37%) TypeScript
12 7 (3.83%) Go
13 5 (2.73%) Bicep
14 2 (1.09%) Korn
14 2 (1.09%) R
14 2 (1.09%) Scala
14 2 (1.09%) VB
15 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.29%) AWS Certification
4 15 (8.20%) Degree
5 10 (5.46%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.28%) MCSA
7 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.19%) MCITP
10 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.09%) MCSE
12 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.11%) QA
2 3 (1.64%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (45.36%) Docker
2 29 (15.85%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.92%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.09%) HDFS
5 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 149 (81.42%) Kubernetes
2 113 (61.75%) Terraform
3 82 (44.81%) Ansible
4 24 (13.11%) Grafana
5 15 (8.20%) Kustomize
6 9 (4.92%) Packer
6 9 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.83%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.28%) Puppet
9 5 (2.73%) Kibana
10 4 (2.19%) Istio
10 4 (2.19%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.09%) logstash
11 2 (1.09%) Rancher
12 1 (0.55%) Argo
12 1 (0.55%) linkerd
12 1 (0.55%) Opsview
12 1 (0.55%) SELinux
12 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (12.02%) AppDynamics
2 15 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.20%) Oracle
2 15 (8.20%) WSO2
3 13 (7.10%) Google
3 13 (7.10%) Red Hat
4 11 (6.01%) New Relic
5 10 (5.46%) Atlassian
6 9 (4.92%) IBM
7 7 (3.83%) VMware
8 5 (2.73%) McAfee
8 5 (2.73%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.09%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.09%) Databricks
9 2 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.09%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (1.09%) Okta
9 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.55%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.55%) Splunk