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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 580 569
Rank change year-on-year +65 -11 -52
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 276 185 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.31% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 0.73% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 128 140 288
10th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £97,500 £57,500 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £108,750 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.94% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £147,500 £99,063 £95,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £138,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - +11.54%

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 23,425 25,468 63,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.96% 42.84% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 13,587 19,908 37,407
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 October 2024.

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 23 October 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 +67 269 £110,000 +37.50% 56
London +104 172 £135,000 +28.57% 36
Work from Home +57 135 £135,000 +68.75% 119
UK excluding London -23 112 £70,000 -3.45% 24
North of England -14 50 £72,000 -10.00% 7
North West +10 42 £65,000 - 2
South East -13 37 £65,000 - 2
South West +4 17 £67,500 +14.89% 6
Midlands - 11 £70,000 - 1
Yorkshire +11 6 £74,000 -7.50% 4
East Midlands - 6 - - 1
West Midlands - 5 £70,000 -
North East -29 2 £72,500 +11.54% 1
Scotland -13 1 - - 2
East of England -61 1 - - 4

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 (36.59%) Apache
2 96 (34.78%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.99%) OpenStack
4 10 (3.62%) Apache Spark
5 6 (2.17%) Red Hat Fuse
6 4 (1.45%) JBoss
7 2 (0.72%) Confluence
7 2 (0.72%) nginx
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 267 (96.74%) AWS
2 138 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 127 (46.01%) Amazon EC2
4 111 (40.22%) GCP
5 109 (39.49%) Amazon S3
6 92 (33.33%) dbt
6 92 (33.33%) Snowflake
7 65 (23.55%) Route 53
8 62 (22.46%) Amazon ECR
9 61 (22.10%) OCI
10 58 (21.01%) IBM Cloud
11 54 (19.57%) Serverless
12 39 (14.13%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (12.32%) Azure
14 18 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (5.43%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (5.07%) SaaS
17 13 (4.71%) CloudFront
17 13 (4.71%) OpenShift
18 10 (3.62%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.90%) Firewall
2 5 (1.81%) AMQP
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (33.70%) Amazon Athena
1 93 (33.70%) Data Lake
2 92 (33.33%) Apache Arrow
2 92 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
2 92 (33.33%) Dremio
3 72 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 24 (8.70%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.62%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.62%) RDBMS
7 8 (2.90%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.54%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.17%) Big Data
10 5 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.81%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.45%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.45%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (18.84%) Jenkins
2 34 (12.32%) Git
3 27 (9.78%) GitLab
4 16 (5.80%) JUnit
5 12 (4.35%) Mockito
6 11 (3.99%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.62%) Maven
8 9 (3.26%) JIRA
8 9 (3.26%) TeamCity
9 7 (2.54%) JMeter
10 6 (2.17%) Artifactory
10 6 (2.17%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.17%) IntelliJ
11 5 (1.81%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.09%) Android Studio
12 3 (1.09%) Subversion
13 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.36%) TestCafe
14 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 131 (47.46%) Finance
2 111 (40.22%) Banking
3 93 (33.70%) Front Office
4 92 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 76 (27.54%) Public Sector
6 72 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (7.97%) Social Skills
8 13 (4.71%) Law
9 9 (3.26%) Retail
10 5 (1.81%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Back Office
12 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.09%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.72%) Automotive
13 2 (0.72%) Legal
14 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (30.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (29.35%) Software Engineer
3 76 (27.54%) Developer
4 67 (24.28%) Senior
5 56 (20.29%) Senior DevOps
6 51 (18.48%) Lead
7 50 (18.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 48 (17.39%) AWS Developer
9 42 (15.22%) AWS Engineer
10 38 (13.77%) Java Engineer
11 37 (13.41%) Java Developer
11 37 (13.41%) Java Software Engineer
12 34 (12.32%) Principal Engineer
13 33 (11.96%) Principal Software Engineer
14 32 (11.59%) Lead Developer
15 31 (11.23%) AWS Software Engineer
15 31 (11.23%) Python Engineer
15 31 (11.23%) Python Software Engineer
15 31 (11.23%) Software Developer
16 30 (10.87%) Developer/Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (35.14%) gRPC
2 95 (34.42%) Pandas
3 94 (34.06%) NumPy
4 93 (33.70%) PySpark
5 92 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
5 92 (33.33%) SciPy
6 37 (13.41%) Spring
7 33 (11.96%) REST
8 32 (11.59%) Spring Boot
9 24 (8.70%) Kafka
10 22 (7.97%) .NET
10 22 (7.97%) Node.js
11 20 (7.25%) AngularJS
12 18 (6.52%) Web Services
13 17 (6.16%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (5.07%) React
15 13 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
16 12 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
16 12 (4.35%) RESTful
17 11 (3.99%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 103 (37.32%) Hedge funds
2 96 (34.78%) Derivative
3 92 (33.33%) Equities
3 92 (33.33%) Fixed Income
3 92 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 59 (21.38%) Blockchain
5 58 (21.01%) e-Learning
5 58 (21.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (7.25%) Cloud Native
8 14 (5.07%) Public Cloud
9 9 (3.26%) Blog
10 7 (2.54%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.17%) Credit Derivative
11 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.81%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.45%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.45%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.96%) Linux
2 10 (3.62%) Windows
3 5 (1.81%) CentOS
3 5 (1.81%) Debian
3 5 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.81%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.45%) Android
5 2 (0.72%) Unix
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (76.45%) Agile
2 130 (47.10%) Software Engineering
3 128 (46.38%) DevOps
4 109 (39.49%) Mentoring
5 98 (35.51%) Migration
6 95 (34.42%) Asset Management
7 87 (31.52%) Containerisation
8 80 (28.99%) Test Automation
9 68 (24.64%) Artificial Intelligence
9 68 (24.64%) Observability
10 64 (23.19%) Coaching
10 64 (23.19%) Microservices
11 62 (22.46%) CI/CD
11 62 (22.46%) Secrets Management
12 61 (22.10%) Line Management
13 37 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
14 34 (12.32%) Scrum
15 32 (11.59%) TDD
16 29 (10.51%) Full-Stack Development
17 27 (9.78%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 152 (55.07%) Java
2 137 (49.64%) Python
3 122 (44.20%) JavaScript
4 109 (39.49%) SQL
5 97 (35.14%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.80%) C#
7 14 (5.07%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.26%) Groovy
9 6 (2.17%) C++
9 6 (2.17%) Perl
9 6 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.45%) Bash
11 2 (0.72%) Go
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.36%) Rust
12 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (9.78%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.54%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.45%) Degree
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.72%) MCSA
8 2 (0.72%) MCSE
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CCSP
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.99%) MiFID
2 10 (3.62%) QA
3 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.36%) GDPR
4 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.36%) NIST
4 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (21.38%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 154 (55.80%) Kubernetes
2 125 (45.29%) Terraform
3 73 (26.45%) Prometheus
4 34 (12.32%) Ansible
5 16 (5.80%) Grafana
6 12 (4.35%) Puppet
7 7 (2.54%) Kibana
8 6 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.81%) Packer
10 2 (0.72%) Rancher
11 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.36%) logstash
11 1 (0.36%) yum
Vendors
1 70 (25.36%) IBM
2 67 (24.28%) Dynatrace
2 67 (24.28%) Red Hat
3 60 (21.74%) Bloomberg
3 60 (21.74%) Reuters
4 15 (5.43%) Oracle
5 8 (2.90%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.90%) ForgeRock
6 7 (2.54%) Splunk
7 6 (2.17%) Google
7 6 (2.17%) Zscaler
8 5 (1.81%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.81%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.81%) WSO2
9 4 (1.45%) Sybase
10 2 (0.72%) Databricks
10 2 (0.72%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (0.72%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.72%) Talend
10 2 (0.72%) VMware