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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 517 563
Rank change year-on-year +30 +46 -86
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 453 560 922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.29% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 183 269 309
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £71,547
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +18.80% +2.21%
75th Percentile £101,250 £108,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £114,500 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% -7.14% +16.67%

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 35,426 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.72% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,744 28,539 41,573
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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -38 347 £80,000 -8.57% 65
UK excluding London +81 296 £77,500 +19.23% 34
Work from Home +62 192 £77,500 -8.82% 42
London -8 169 £82,500 -17.50% 33
Scotland +16 83 £65,000 - 1
South East +30 82 £82,500 +32.00% 5
North of England +63 74 £65,000 -7.14% 11
North West +44 68 £60,000 -4.00% 9
South West -18 25 £62,500 -7.41% 8
Midlands +14 15 £58,500 -10.00% 4
East Midlands -2 13 £50,000 -
Northern Ireland +32 7 - - 2
East of England -30 7 £42,500 -43.33% 1
Yorkshire +67 5 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Wales - 4 - - 2
West Midlands +11 2 £66,750 +2.69% 4
North East -5 1 £75,000 +15.38% 1

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 99 (21.85%) Apache Spark
2 83 (18.32%) Apache
3 52 (11.48%) OpenStack
4 46 (10.15%) WebLogic
5 21 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (2.43%) Red Hat Fuse
7 10 (2.21%) JBoss
8 4 (0.88%) Confluence
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.22%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (10.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 443 (97.79%) AWS
2 217 (47.90%) Serverless
3 171 (37.75%) Amazon ECS
4 164 (36.20%) Azure
5 158 (34.88%) AWS Lambda
6 128 (28.26%) Amazon SQS
7 124 (27.37%) Amazon S3
8 100 (22.08%) Amazon EC2
9 77 (17.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (13.91%) GCP
11 62 (13.69%) Route 53
12 61 (13.47%) Amazon ECR
13 58 (12.80%) IBM Cloud
13 58 (12.80%) OCI
14 55 (12.14%) Amazon EMR
15 47 (10.38%) GitHub
16 43 (9.49%) Azure AKS
17 40 (8.83%) OpenShift
18 32 (7.06%) CloudFront
19 27 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 51 (11.26%) DNS
2 49 (10.82%) TCP/IP
3 46 (10.15%) BGP
3 46 (10.15%) SSL
4 26 (5.74%) AMQP
5 12 (2.65%) Firewall
6 3 (0.66%) HTTP
6 3 (0.66%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) VPN
7 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (34.22%) Amazon RDS
2 101 (22.30%) NoSQL
3 100 (22.08%) Relational Database
4 93 (20.53%) Hadoop
5 81 (17.88%) Big Data
6 72 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (13.91%) RDBMS
8 53 (11.70%) Electronic Patient Records
9 49 (10.82%) Oracle Database
10 31 (6.84%) SQL Server
11 26 (5.74%) Cloudera CDH
12 25 (5.52%) DynamoDB
13 24 (5.30%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (3.53%) Apache Hive
14 16 (3.53%) HBase
14 16 (3.53%) MongoDB
15 14 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.65%) DB2
17 6 (1.32%) MySQL
18 4 (0.88%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 112 (24.72%) Git
2 106 (23.40%) Jenkins
3 24 (5.30%) GitLab
4 19 (4.19%) Bitbucket
5 16 (3.53%) TeamCity
6 14 (3.09%) JUnit
7 10 (2.21%) JIRA
8 7 (1.55%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.55%) git-flow
8 7 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.88%) JMeter
9 4 (0.88%) Mockito
9 4 (0.88%) Sourcetree
10 3 (0.66%) Maven
10 3 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.22%) Gradle
11 1 (0.22%) Mocha
11 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 158 (34.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 115 (25.39%) Finance
3 107 (23.62%) Public Sector
4 105 (23.18%) Law
5 98 (21.63%) Social Skills
6 67 (14.79%) Legal
7 26 (5.74%) Aerospace
8 21 (4.64%) Retail
9 17 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (3.75%) Banking
10 16 (3.53%) Automotive
11 7 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.32%) Games
12 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.66%) Marketing
14 2 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.22%) Back Office
15 1 (0.22%) Cantonese Language
15 1 (0.22%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 140 (30.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 120 (26.49%) Software Engineer
3 105 (23.18%) AWS Engineer
4 89 (19.65%) Senior
5 84 (18.54%) Developer
6 83 (18.32%) Lead
7 61 (13.47%) AWS DevOps
8 59 (13.02%) Java Developer
9 58 (12.80%) Senior DevOps
9 58 (12.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 51 (11.26%) AWS Software Engineer
10 51 (11.26%) Big Data Engineer
10 51 (11.26%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 51 (11.26%) Scala Engineer
10 51 (11.26%) Scala Software Engineer
11 49 (10.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 47 (10.38%) Architect
12 47 (10.38%) Lead Architect
13 46 (10.15%) Java Engineer
13 46 (10.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (30.02%) Spring Boot
2 116 (25.61%) Spring
3 107 (23.62%) REST
4 86 (18.98%) RabbitMQ
5 75 (16.56%) Node.js
6 73 (16.11%) AngularJS
7 66 (14.57%) Elastic Stack
8 62 (13.69%) React
9 48 (10.60%) Apache Camel
9 48 (10.60%) Web Services
10 39 (8.61%) .NET
11 33 (7.28%) JSON
12 32 (7.06%) XML
13 26 (5.74%) gRPC
13 26 (5.74%) Material-UI
13 26 (5.74%) OpenAPI
13 26 (5.74%) Swagger
14 21 (4.64%) JPA
15 15 (3.31%) RESTful
16 12 (2.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.80%) Blockchain
1 58 (12.80%) e-Learning
1 58 (12.80%) Hybrid Cloud
2 52 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 52 (11.48%) Public Cloud
3 51 (11.26%) Algorithms
4 48 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (10.15%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.53%) Mobile App
7 15 (3.31%) Blog
8 11 (2.43%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.21%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.77%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.55%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.88%) Credit Risk
13 4 (0.88%) Market Risk
13 4 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 135 (29.80%) Linux
2 73 (16.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 36 (7.95%) Windows
4 27 (5.96%) CentOS
4 27 (5.96%) Ubuntu
5 26 (5.74%) Debian
6 24 (5.30%) Unix
7 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (67.77%) Agile
2 227 (50.11%) DevOps
3 203 (44.81%) CI/CD
4 153 (33.77%) Microservices
5 150 (33.11%) Containerisation
6 143 (31.57%) Software Engineering
7 141 (31.13%) Scrum
8 140 (30.91%) Kanban
9 134 (29.58%) SDLC
10 105 (23.18%) Test Automation
11 93 (20.53%) Artificial Intelligence
12 89 (19.65%) Mentoring
13 88 (19.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 84 (18.54%) Collaborative Working
15 73 (16.11%) Actionable Insight
16 72 (15.89%) Open Source
17 71 (15.67%) Migration
17 71 (15.67%) Risk Management
18 70 (15.45%) Operational Stability
18 70 (15.45%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 224 (49.45%) Java
2 163 (35.98%) Python
3 128 (28.26%) SQL
4 107 (23.62%) JavaScript
5 51 (11.26%) Scala
6 28 (6.18%) Bash
7 27 (5.96%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.75%) Go
9 11 (2.43%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.77%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.55%) C#
11 7 (1.55%) Groovy
12 6 (1.32%) PHP
12 6 (1.32%) Ruby
13 4 (0.88%) C
13 4 (0.88%) Perl
14 3 (0.66%) Swift
15 2 (0.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 145 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 139 (30.68%) SC Cleared
3 83 (18.32%) AWS Certification
4 62 (13.69%) Azure Certification
5 54 (11.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (6.18%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.31%) Degree
8 12 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.32%) 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
System Software
1 144 (31.79%) Docker
2 33 (7.28%) Hyper-V
3 19 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (3.75%) Active Directory
5 16 (3.53%) HDFS
6 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 280 (61.81%) Kubernetes
2 235 (51.88%) Terraform
3 115 (25.39%) Ansible
4 81 (17.88%) Prometheus
5 36 (7.95%) Puppet
6 34 (7.51%) Grafana
7 12 (2.65%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.10%) Argo
10 4 (0.88%) Kibana
10 4 (0.88%) Packer
10 4 (0.88%) Rancher
11 3 (0.66%) Consul
12 1 (0.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 86 (18.98%) Oracle
1 86 (18.98%) Red Hat
2 68 (15.01%) Dynatrace
3 59 (13.02%) IBM
4 46 (10.15%) Sparx
5 42 (9.27%) WSO2
6 36 (7.95%) Google
7 26 (5.74%) SaltStack
8 22 (4.86%) ForgeRock
9 17 (3.75%) Databricks
10 16 (3.53%) Cloudera
10 16 (3.53%) Sitecore
11 12 (2.65%) Sybase
12 9 (1.99%) Microsoft
13 8 (1.77%) Facebook
14 7 (1.55%) McAfee
14 7 (1.55%) Splunk
14 7 (1.55%) VMware
15 6 (1.32%) Zscaler
16 4 (0.88%) Atlassian