Amazon EKS Jobs

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 488 498
Rank change year-on-year +33 +10 +52
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 238 454 599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.46% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 1.28% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 99 188 283
10th Percentile £62,250 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -3.13% +11.08%
75th Percentile £123,750 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £147,500 £109,000 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.84% +19.23% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon EKS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 15 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 30 April 2025. 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 +81 225 £107,500 +38.71% 150
London +79 141 £107,500 +30.30% 82
Work from Home +129 138 £107,500 +40.98% 94
UK excluding London +44 119 £73,750 -4.84% 77
South East +96 65 £62,500 -24.24% 10
North of England +30 19 £87,500 +40.00% 28
East of England +66 16 £72,500 +70.59% 4
North West -19 15 £105,000 +75.00% 24
Scotland +54 9 £83,000 +27.69% 6
South West +99 7 - - 14
Yorkshire +69 4 £67,500 -10.00% 4
Midlands +49 3 - - 11
West Midlands +51 2 - - 8
East Midlands +37 1 - - 3
Wales +37 1 £37,733 - 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 34 (14.29%) Apache
1 34 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.04%) JBoss
2 12 (5.04%) Red Hat Fuse
3 9 (3.78%) Confluence
4 6 (2.52%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.26%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) Jetty
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 235 (98.74%) AWS
2 91 (38.24%) Amazon EC2
3 90 (37.82%) Amazon ECS
4 78 (32.77%) Serverless
5 76 (31.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 73 (30.67%) Azure
7 53 (22.27%) Amazon S3
8 48 (20.17%) GCP
9 39 (16.39%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (14.29%) Dagster
10 34 (14.29%) dbt
10 34 (14.29%) Snowflake
11 15 (6.30%) Datadog
12 13 (5.46%) GitHub
13 11 (4.62%) Amazon ECR
13 11 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.78%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) Firewall
2 1 (0.42%) SSL
2 1 (0.42%) VoIP
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (21.01%) Elasticsearch
3 38 (15.97%) Data Lake
3 38 (15.97%) Relational Database
4 34 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 34 (14.29%) Apache Arrow
4 34 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
4 34 (14.29%) Apache Ignite
4 34 (14.29%) Dremio
5 18 (7.56%) RDBMS
6 14 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (5.88%) DynamoDB
6 14 (5.88%) MySQL
7 12 (5.04%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.10%) Redis
9 5 (2.10%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.68%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.84%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 68 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 47 (19.75%) JUnit
3 46 (19.33%) Git
4 38 (15.97%) GitLab
5 32 (13.45%) Mockito
6 18 (7.56%) Cucumber
6 18 (7.56%) JMeter
7 15 (6.30%) Maven
8 14 (5.88%) IntelliJ
9 13 (5.46%) JIRA
10 7 (2.94%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.52%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.68%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.68%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.42%) Gradle
14 1 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
14 1 (0.42%) Jaeger
14 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (31.93%) Finance
2 57 (23.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 53 (22.27%) Banking
4 52 (21.85%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (16.81%) Investment Banking
6 35 (14.71%) Front Office
7 34 (14.29%) Public Sector
8 19 (7.98%) Social Skills
9 6 (2.52%) Electronics
9 6 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.42%) Back Office
13 1 (0.42%) Games
13 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 107 (44.96%) Developer
2 58 (24.37%) AWS Engineer
3 54 (22.69%) Java Developer
3 54 (22.69%) Senior
4 49 (20.59%) Software Developer
4 49 (20.59%) Software Engineer
5 39 (16.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 37 (15.55%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
8 27 (11.34%) Senior DevOps
9 25 (10.50%) Java Engineer
9 25 (10.50%) Java Software Engineer
10 21 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (8.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (6.30%) AWS Developer
13 15 (6.30%) Senior Developer
14 14 (5.88%) DevOps Developer
14 14 (5.88%) Lead
14 14 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (34.87%) Pandas
2 64 (26.89%) Spring
3 63 (26.47%) Node.js
4 61 (25.63%) Spring Boot
5 57 (23.95%) .NET
6 46 (19.33%) REST
7 36 (15.13%) Web Services
8 34 (14.29%) gRPC
8 34 (14.29%) NumPy
8 34 (14.29%) Protocol Buffers
8 34 (14.29%) PySpark
8 34 (14.29%) SciPy
9 32 (13.45%) ActiveMQ
9 32 (13.45%) Kafka
10 30 (12.61%) Apache Camel
11 22 (9.24%) React
12 18 (7.56%) Hibernate
12 18 (7.56%) HTML
12 18 (7.56%) jQuery
12 18 (7.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.59%) Cyberattack
2 43 (18.07%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (14.71%) Derivative
4 34 (14.29%) Equities
4 34 (14.29%) Fixed Income
4 34 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (14.29%) Hedge funds
5 18 (7.56%) Cloud Native
6 14 (5.88%) Credit Derivative
6 14 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (5.88%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.52%) Molecular Biology
7 6 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.68%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.68%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.26%) BBC
9 3 (1.26%) Wiki
10 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 77 (32.35%) Linux
2 49 (20.59%) Android
3 6 (2.52%) Windows
4 2 (0.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (70.59%) Agile
2 147 (61.76%) CI/CD
3 126 (52.94%) Software Engineering
4 98 (41.18%) DevOps
5 88 (36.97%) Containerisation
6 73 (30.67%) Kanban
7 65 (27.31%) Collaborative Working
8 63 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 63 (26.47%) Microservices
9 50 (21.01%) Line Management
9 50 (21.01%) Mathematics
9 50 (21.01%) Secure Coding
9 50 (21.01%) Statistics
10 49 (20.59%) Android Development
10 49 (20.59%) Design Patterns
10 49 (20.59%) OO
10 49 (20.59%) OOP
10 49 (20.59%) OWASP
11 47 (19.75%) Migration
12 41 (17.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 163 (68.49%) Java
2 152 (63.87%) Python
3 122 (51.26%) JavaScript
4 63 (26.47%) C++
5 57 (23.95%) Go
6 51 (21.43%) Rust
7 48 (20.17%) TypeScript
8 24 (10.08%) Shell Script
9 20 (8.40%) Bash
10 8 (3.36%) SQL
11 6 (2.52%) Groovy
12 4 (1.68%) Perl
13 3 (1.26%) C#
13 3 (1.26%) Ruby
14 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 86 (36.13%) Security Cleared
2 51 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 30 (12.61%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.72%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.78%) Degree
6 5 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.46%) SLA
2 8 (3.36%) QA
3 5 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) SEPA
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 128 (53.78%) Docker
2 6 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 166 (69.75%) Kubernetes
2 133 (55.88%) Terraform
3 101 (42.44%) Ansible
4 19 (7.98%) Grafana
4 19 (7.98%) Kibana
4 19 (7.98%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.62%) Argo
6 7 (2.94%) Istio
6 7 (2.94%) Kustomize
7 5 (2.10%) Packer
8 2 (0.84%) Consul
9 1 (0.42%) Automic
9 1 (0.42%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.42%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.42%) logstash
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.42%) Rancher
9 1 (0.42%) SCCM
9 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (9.66%) Dynatrace
2 22 (9.24%) IBM
3 19 (7.98%) Splunk
4 6 (2.52%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.52%) Confluent
4 6 (2.52%) Sawtooth Software
5 5 (2.10%) AppDynamics
5 5 (2.10%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.26%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.42%) Cisco
7 1 (0.42%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.42%) Imperva
7 1 (0.42%) Okta
7 1 (0.42%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.42%) VMware