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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 485 550
Rank change year-on-year -13 +65 -96
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 456 622 897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.59% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.38% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 190 301 316
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £71,547
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +11.82% +2.21%
75th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £108,000 £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 35,310 45,224 74,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.96% 43.16% 48.08%
Number of salaries quoted 26,760 29,534 41,937
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 £96,250 £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 26 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 26 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 -37 346 £80,000 -5.88% 55
UK excluding London +64 297 £77,500 +19.23% 29
Work from Home +64 196 £77,500 -1.59% 41
London -8 167 £82,500 -15.38% 28
South East +41 83 £82,500 +32.00% 7
Scotland +13 83 £65,000 - 3
North of England +59 74 £65,000 -3.70% 8
North West +39 67 £60,000 -4.00% 6
South West -19 23 £60,000 -15.79% 5
Midlands +13 15 £58,500 -10.00% 3
East Midlands -7 13 £50,000 -23.08%
East of England -18 9 £50,000 -37.50% 2
Northern Ireland +31 7 - - 2
Yorkshire +83 6 £78,750 +12.50%
Wales - 4 - -
West Midlands +23 2 £66,750 +2.69% 3
North East -4 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 (21.05%) Apache Spark
2 80 (17.54%) Apache
3 52 (11.40%) OpenStack
4 46 (10.09%) WebLogic
5 21 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (2.19%) JBoss
6 10 (2.19%) 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 (10.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 446 (97.81%) AWS
2 219 (48.03%) Serverless
3 170 (37.28%) Amazon ECS
4 164 (35.96%) Azure
5 160 (35.09%) AWS Lambda
6 127 (27.85%) Amazon SQS
7 124 (27.19%) Amazon S3
8 104 (22.81%) Amazon EC2
9 75 (16.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 62 (13.60%) GCP
10 62 (13.60%) Route 53
11 58 (12.72%) Amazon ECR
12 55 (12.06%) Amazon EMR
12 55 (12.06%) IBM Cloud
12 55 (12.06%) OCI
13 47 (10.31%) GitHub
14 44 (9.65%) Azure AKS
15 35 (7.68%) OpenShift
16 30 (6.58%) CloudFront
17 29 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 51 (11.18%) DNS
2 49 (10.75%) TCP/IP
3 46 (10.09%) BGP
3 46 (10.09%) SSL
4 24 (5.26%) AMQP
5 13 (2.85%) Firewall
6 3 (0.66%) HTTP
6 3 (0.66%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) VPN
7 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (35.09%) Amazon RDS
2 102 (22.37%) NoSQL
3 98 (21.49%) Relational Database
4 91 (19.96%) Hadoop
5 79 (17.32%) Big Data
6 74 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
7 60 (13.16%) RDBMS
8 53 (11.62%) Electronic Patient Records
9 49 (10.75%) Oracle Database
10 30 (6.58%) SQL Server
11 26 (5.70%) Amazon Aurora
12 24 (5.26%) Cloudera CDH
12 24 (5.26%) DynamoDB
13 16 (3.51%) Apache Hive
13 16 (3.51%) HBase
14 15 (3.29%) MongoDB
15 14 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (1.97%) DB2
17 6 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
17 6 (1.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 117 (25.66%) Git
2 110 (24.12%) Jenkins
3 31 (6.80%) GitLab
4 19 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 16 (3.51%) TeamCity
6 14 (3.07%) JIRA
6 14 (3.07%) JUnit
7 9 (1.97%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.75%) git-flow
9 7 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (1.32%) Maven
11 5 (1.10%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.10%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.88%) JMeter
12 4 (0.88%) Mockito
12 4 (0.88%) Sourcetree
13 3 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
15 1 (0.22%) IntelliJ
15 1 (0.22%) Mocha
General
1 155 (33.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 118 (25.88%) Finance
3 106 (23.25%) Public Sector
4 105 (23.03%) Law
5 102 (22.37%) Social Skills
6 67 (14.69%) Legal
7 24 (5.26%) Aerospace
8 21 (4.61%) Retail
9 18 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (3.73%) Banking
11 14 (3.07%) Automotive
12 8 (1.75%) 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
1 143 (31.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 117 (25.66%) Software Engineer
3 111 (24.34%) AWS Engineer
4 88 (19.30%) Senior
5 84 (18.42%) Developer
6 78 (17.11%) Lead
7 66 (14.47%) AWS DevOps
8 59 (12.94%) Java Developer
9 58 (12.72%) Senior DevOps
9 58 (12.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 55 (12.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 51 (11.18%) AWS Software Engineer
11 51 (11.18%) Big Data Engineer
11 51 (11.18%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 51 (11.18%) Scala Engineer
11 51 (11.18%) Scala Software Engineer
12 48 (10.53%) Architect
13 47 (10.31%) Lead Architect
14 46 (10.09%) Java Engineer
14 46 (10.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (29.61%) Spring Boot
2 112 (24.56%) Spring
3 106 (23.25%) REST
4 89 (19.52%) RabbitMQ
5 73 (16.01%) Node.js
6 71 (15.57%) AngularJS
6 71 (15.57%) Elastic Stack
7 60 (13.16%) React
8 48 (10.53%) Apache Camel
8 48 (10.53%) Web Services
9 34 (7.46%) JSON
10 32 (7.02%) .NET
10 32 (7.02%) XML
11 24 (5.26%) gRPC
11 24 (5.26%) Material-UI
11 24 (5.26%) OpenAPI
11 24 (5.26%) Swagger
12 21 (4.61%) JPA
13 15 (3.29%) RESTful
14 14 (3.07%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 57 (12.50%) Blockchain
2 55 (12.06%) e-Learning
2 55 (12.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (11.62%) Public Cloud
4 51 (11.18%) Algorithms
4 51 (11.18%) Cloud Native
5 49 (10.75%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (10.09%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (3.29%) Blog
8 14 (3.07%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.19%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.97%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.75%) 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
1 141 (30.92%) Linux
2 71 (15.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 39 (8.55%) Windows
4 25 (5.48%) CentOS
4 25 (5.48%) Ubuntu
5 24 (5.26%) Debian
5 24 (5.26%) Unix
6 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (67.11%) Agile
2 231 (50.66%) DevOps
3 208 (45.61%) CI/CD
4 153 (33.55%) Microservices
5 146 (32.02%) Containerisation
6 141 (30.92%) Scrum
7 140 (30.70%) Kanban
7 140 (30.70%) Software Engineering
8 135 (29.61%) SDLC
9 106 (23.25%) Test Automation
10 89 (19.52%) Artificial Intelligence
10 89 (19.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 86 (18.86%) Mentoring
12 83 (18.20%) Collaborative Working
13 73 (16.01%) Actionable Insight
14 71 (15.57%) Open Source
14 71 (15.57%) Risk Management
15 70 (15.35%) Operational Stability
16 68 (14.91%) Migration
17 67 (14.69%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 221 (48.46%) Java
2 167 (36.62%) Python
3 131 (28.73%) SQL
4 105 (23.03%) JavaScript
5 51 (11.18%) Scala
6 30 (6.58%) Bash
7 29 (6.36%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.73%) Go
9 11 (2.41%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.75%) C#
10 8 (1.75%) Perl
10 8 (1.75%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.54%) Groovy
11 7 (1.54%) PHP
12 6 (1.32%) Ruby
13 3 (0.66%) C
13 3 (0.66%) Swift
14 2 (0.44%) C++
14 2 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 146 (32.02%) Security Cleared
2 141 (30.92%) SC Cleared
3 85 (18.64%) AWS Certification
4 62 (13.60%) Azure Certification
5 56 (12.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 25 (5.48%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.95%) Degree
8 14 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.97%) 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 11 (2.41%) 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
1 145 (31.80%) Docker
2 33 (7.24%) Hyper-V
3 21 (4.61%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (3.51%) HDFS
6 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 283 (62.06%) Kubernetes
2 238 (52.19%) Terraform
3 118 (25.88%) Ansible
4 77 (16.89%) Prometheus
5 35 (7.68%) Grafana
6 34 (7.46%) Puppet
7 12 (2.63%) 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
11 3 (0.66%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 85 (18.64%) Oracle
2 81 (17.76%) Red Hat
3 65 (14.25%) Dynatrace
4 57 (12.50%) IBM
5 46 (10.09%) Sparx
6 42 (9.21%) WSO2
7 36 (7.89%) Google
8 24 (5.26%) SaltStack
9 20 (4.39%) ForgeRock
10 17 (3.73%) Databricks
11 16 (3.51%) Cloudera
12 14 (3.07%) Sitecore
13 9 (1.97%) Microsoft
13 9 (1.97%) Sybase
14 8 (1.75%) Facebook
14 8 (1.75%) McAfee
15 7 (1.54%) Splunk
15 7 (1.54%) VMware
16 6 (1.32%) Atlassian
16 6 (1.32%) Zscaler