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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 498 515
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 +35
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 237 453 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.28% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 100 183 267
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £74,375 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -8.82% +17.24%
75th Percentile £123,750 £101,250 £110,625
90th Percentile £147,500 £114,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -7.14%

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 15,521 35,410 43,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.37% 35.69% 42.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,973 26,750 28,485
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,792
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +38 224 £107,500 +34.38% 225
London +83 141 £107,500 +30.30% 140
Work from Home +103 138 £107,500 +38.71% 160
UK excluding London +26 119 £72,500 -6.45% 127
South East +86 66 £62,500 -24.24% 44
North of England +7 18 £87,500 +34.62% 45
East of England +49 16 £72,500 +70.59% 3
North West -51 15 £105,000 +75.00% 33
Scotland +48 9 £83,000 +27.69% 5
South West +87 5 - - 13
Midlands +54 4 - - 14
Yorkshire +65 3 £67,500 -10.00% 11
West Midlands +61 3 - - 9
Wales +36 1 £37,733 - 2
East Midlands +32 1 - - 5

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 (14.35%) Apache
1 34 (14.35%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.49%) JBoss
2 13 (5.49%) Red Hat Fuse
3 8 (3.38%) Confluence
4 6 (2.53%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.27%) 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
1 234 (98.73%) AWS
2 94 (39.66%) Amazon ECS
3 92 (38.82%) Amazon EC2
4 81 (34.18%) Serverless
5 78 (32.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 74 (31.22%) Azure
7 49 (20.68%) Amazon S3
8 47 (19.83%) GCP
9 41 (17.30%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (14.35%) Dagster
10 34 (14.35%) dbt
10 34 (14.35%) Snowflake
11 15 (6.33%) Datadog
12 13 (5.49%) GitHub
13 11 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.80%) Amazon MSK
15 9 (3.80%) Azure AKS
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 (21.52%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (21.10%) Elasticsearch
3 40 (16.88%) Relational Database
4 38 (16.03%) Data Lake
5 34 (14.35%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (14.35%) Apache Arrow
5 34 (14.35%) Apache Iceberg
5 34 (14.35%) Apache Ignite
5 34 (14.35%) Dremio
6 19 (8.02%) RDBMS
7 14 (5.91%) MySQL
8 13 (5.49%) DynamoDB
9 12 (5.06%) MongoDB
10 10 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.27%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.27%) Redis
14 2 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 70 (29.54%) Jenkins
2 49 (20.68%) JUnit
3 46 (19.41%) Git
4 37 (15.61%) GitLab
5 33 (13.92%) Mockito
6 19 (8.02%) JMeter
7 17 (7.17%) Cucumber
8 15 (6.33%) Maven
9 14 (5.91%) IntelliJ
10 11 (4.64%) JIRA
11 7 (2.95%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.11%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.69%) CircleCI
14 3 (1.27%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
16 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 1 (0.42%) Gradle
16 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
16 1 (0.42%) Selenium
16 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 75 (31.65%) Finance
2 52 (21.94%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (21.94%) Banking
2 52 (21.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 40 (16.88%) Investment Banking
4 35 (14.77%) Front Office
5 34 (14.35%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.59%) Social Skills
7 6 (2.53%) Electronics
7 6 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 106 (44.73%) Developer
2 56 (23.63%) AWS Engineer
3 55 (23.21%) Java Developer
3 55 (23.21%) Senior
4 49 (20.68%) Software Developer
5 48 (20.25%) Software Engineer
6 35 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 34 (14.35%) AWS DevOps
7 34 (14.35%) AWS Software Engineer
8 27 (11.39%) Senior DevOps
9 24 (10.13%) Java Engineer
9 24 (10.13%) Java Software Engineer
10 20 (8.44%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (7.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (7.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (6.33%) Senior Developer
13 14 (5.91%) DevOps Developer
13 14 (5.91%) Java Pricing Developer
13 14 (5.91%) Pricing Developer
13 14 (5.91%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (35.02%) Pandas
2 65 (27.43%) Spring
3 62 (26.16%) Node.js
3 62 (26.16%) Spring Boot
4 57 (24.05%) .NET
5 47 (19.83%) REST
6 38 (16.03%) Web Services
7 35 (14.77%) PySpark
8 34 (14.35%) gRPC
8 34 (14.35%) NumPy
8 34 (14.35%) Protocol Buffers
8 34 (14.35%) SciPy
9 33 (13.92%) ActiveMQ
10 32 (13.50%) Apache Camel
10 32 (13.50%) Kafka
11 21 (8.86%) React
12 19 (8.02%) Hibernate
12 19 (8.02%) HTML
12 19 (8.02%) jQuery
12 19 (8.02%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.68%) Cyberattack
2 44 (18.57%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (14.35%) Derivative
3 34 (14.35%) Equities
3 34 (14.35%) Fixed Income
3 34 (14.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 34 (14.35%) Hedge funds
4 18 (7.59%) Cloud Native
5 14 (5.91%) Credit Derivative
5 14 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.91%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.53%) Molecular Biology
7 5 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.27%) BBC
8 3 (1.27%) Wiki
9 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 77 (32.49%) Linux
2 49 (20.68%) Android
3 6 (2.53%) 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
1 163 (68.78%) Agile
2 149 (62.87%) CI/CD
3 126 (53.16%) Software Engineering
4 95 (40.08%) DevOps
5 84 (35.44%) Containerisation
6 75 (31.65%) Kanban
7 65 (27.43%) Collaborative Working
7 65 (27.43%) Microservices
8 64 (27.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (21.10%) Line Management
9 50 (21.10%) Mathematics
9 50 (21.10%) Statistics
10 49 (20.68%) Android Development
10 49 (20.68%) Design Patterns
10 49 (20.68%) OO
10 49 (20.68%) OOP
10 49 (20.68%) OWASP
10 49 (20.68%) Secure Coding
11 48 (20.25%) Migration
12 42 (17.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 164 (69.20%) Java
2 155 (65.40%) Python
3 123 (51.90%) JavaScript
4 63 (26.58%) C++
5 58 (24.47%) Go
6 50 (21.10%) Rust
7 47 (19.83%) TypeScript
8 24 (10.13%) Shell Script
9 21 (8.86%) Bash
10 9 (3.80%) SQL
11 5 (2.11%) Groovy
12 3 (1.27%) Perl
12 3 (1.27%) Ruby
13 2 (0.84%) C#
14 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 86 (36.29%) Security Cleared
2 51 (21.52%) DV Cleared
3 31 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.75%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.38%) Degree
6 5 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.91%) SLA
2 8 (3.38%) QA
3 5 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.27%) SEPA
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 130 (54.85%) Docker
2 6 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 165 (69.62%) Kubernetes
2 132 (55.70%) Terraform
3 101 (42.62%) Ansible
4 21 (8.86%) Grafana
5 20 (8.44%) Kibana
6 16 (6.75%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.64%) Argo
8 7 (2.95%) Istio
8 7 (2.95%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.69%) Packer
10 2 (0.84%) Consul
11 1 (0.42%) Automic
11 1 (0.42%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.42%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.42%) logstash
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.42%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.42%) Rancher
11 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (8.86%) Dynatrace
2 20 (8.44%) Splunk
3 17 (7.17%) IBM
4 6 (2.53%) Confluent
4 6 (2.53%) Sawtooth Software
5 5 (2.11%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.69%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.69%) 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%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.42%) VMware