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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 504 560
Rank change year-on-year +4 +56 -91
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 456 588 911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.57% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.32% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 187 280 312
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £56,250
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 £106,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £138,750 £114,750
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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £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 £96,000 £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 3 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 3 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 -42 347 £80,000 -8.57% 55
UK excluding London +98 296 £77,500 +19.23% 27
Work from Home +74 193 £77,500 -3.13% 33
London -14 168 £82,500 -17.50% 27
Scotland +9 83 £65,000 -
South East +23 82 £82,500 +32.00% 5
North of England +69 74 £65,000 - 8
North West +43 68 £60,000 - 7
South West -15 24 £62,500 -12.28% 6
Midlands +23 15 £58,500 -10.00% 4
East Midlands +6 13 £50,000 -
East of England -26 8 £42,500 -46.88% 1
Northern Ireland +34 7 - - 2
Yorkshire +65 5 £75,000 +7.14%
Wales - 4 - - 1
West Midlands +15 2 £66,750 +2.69% 4
North East -8 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 98 (21.49%) Apache Spark
2 82 (17.98%) 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
1 445 (97.59%) AWS
2 220 (48.25%) Serverless
3 172 (37.72%) Amazon ECS
4 164 (35.96%) Azure
5 161 (35.31%) AWS Lambda
6 129 (28.29%) Amazon SQS
7 127 (27.85%) Amazon S3
8 104 (22.81%) Amazon EC2
9 77 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 62 (13.60%) GCP
11 61 (13.38%) Route 53
12 60 (13.16%) Amazon ECR
13 57 (12.50%) IBM Cloud
13 57 (12.50%) OCI
14 55 (12.06%) Amazon EMR
15 47 (10.31%) GitHub
16 43 (9.43%) Azure AKS
17 38 (8.33%) OpenShift
18 31 (6.80%) CloudFront
19 28 (6.14%) 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 25 (5.48%) AMQP
5 12 (2.63%) Firewall
6 3 (0.66%) HTTP
6 3 (0.66%) Internet
6 3 (0.66%) VPN
7 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (34.65%) Amazon RDS
2 102 (22.37%) NoSQL
3 100 (21.93%) Relational Database
4 92 (20.18%) Hadoop
5 80 (17.54%) Big Data
6 74 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
7 62 (13.60%) RDBMS
8 53 (11.62%) Electronic Patient Records
9 49 (10.75%) Oracle Database
10 31 (6.80%) SQL Server
11 26 (5.70%) Amazon Aurora
12 25 (5.48%) Cloudera CDH
12 25 (5.48%) DynamoDB
13 17 (3.73%) MongoDB
14 16 (3.51%) Apache Hive
14 16 (3.51%) HBase
15 14 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (2.41%) DB2
17 7 (1.54%) MySQL
18 4 (0.88%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 113 (24.78%) Git
2 108 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.92%) GitLab
4 19 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 16 (3.51%) TeamCity
6 14 (3.07%) JUnit
7 11 (2.41%) JIRA
8 8 (1.75%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.54%) git-flow
9 7 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.88%) JMeter
10 4 (0.88%) Mockito
10 4 (0.88%) Sourcetree
11 3 (0.66%) Maven
11 3 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.44%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.22%) Gradle
13 1 (0.22%) Mocha
General
1 157 (34.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 117 (25.66%) Finance
3 107 (23.46%) Public Sector
4 105 (23.03%) Law
5 102 (22.37%) Social Skills
6 67 (14.69%) Legal
7 25 (5.48%) Aerospace
8 21 (4.61%) Retail
9 18 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (3.73%) Banking
11 15 (3.29%) 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
1 140 (30.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 119 (26.10%) Software Engineer
3 107 (23.46%) AWS Engineer
4 90 (19.74%) Senior
5 86 (18.86%) Developer
6 81 (17.76%) Lead
7 63 (13.82%) AWS DevOps
8 59 (12.94%) Java Developer
9 58 (12.72%) Senior DevOps
9 58 (12.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 51 (11.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 51 (11.18%) AWS Software Engineer
10 51 (11.18%) Big Data Engineer
10 51 (11.18%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 51 (11.18%) Scala Engineer
10 51 (11.18%) Scala Software Engineer
11 47 (10.31%) Architect
11 47 (10.31%) Lead Architect
12 46 (10.09%) Java Engineer
12 46 (10.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (29.82%) Spring Boot
2 115 (25.22%) Spring
3 107 (23.46%) REST
4 87 (19.08%) RabbitMQ
5 74 (16.23%) Node.js
6 72 (15.79%) AngularJS
7 67 (14.69%) Elastic Stack
8 62 (13.60%) React
9 48 (10.53%) Apache Camel
9 48 (10.53%) Web Services
10 37 (8.11%) .NET
11 34 (7.46%) JSON
12 32 (7.02%) XML
13 25 (5.48%) gRPC
13 25 (5.48%) Material-UI
13 25 (5.48%) OpenAPI
13 25 (5.48%) Swagger
14 21 (4.61%) JPA
15 15 (3.29%) RESTful
16 13 (2.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.94%) Blockchain
2 57 (12.50%) e-Learning
2 57 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 52 (11.40%) Cloud Native
3 52 (11.40%) Public Cloud
4 51 (11.18%) Algorithms
5 49 (10.75%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (10.09%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (3.29%) Blog
7 15 (3.29%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.19%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.54%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.88%) Credit Risk
13 4 (0.88%) Hedge funds
13 4 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 137 (30.04%) Linux
2 72 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 37 (8.11%) Windows
4 26 (5.70%) CentOS
4 26 (5.70%) Ubuntu
5 25 (5.48%) Debian
6 24 (5.26%) Unix
7 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (67.32%) Agile
2 230 (50.44%) DevOps
3 206 (45.18%) CI/CD
4 153 (33.55%) Microservices
5 148 (32.46%) Containerisation
6 142 (31.14%) Software Engineering
7 140 (30.70%) Scrum
8 139 (30.48%) Kanban
9 135 (29.61%) SDLC
10 108 (23.68%) Test Automation
11 92 (20.18%) Artificial Intelligence
12 90 (19.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 88 (19.30%) Mentoring
14 83 (18.20%) Collaborative Working
15 73 (16.01%) Actionable Insight
16 72 (15.79%) Open Source
17 71 (15.57%) Risk Management
18 70 (15.35%) Migration
18 70 (15.35%) Operational Stability
19 69 (15.13%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 223 (48.90%) Java
2 166 (36.40%) Python
3 131 (28.73%) SQL
4 108 (23.68%) JavaScript
5 51 (11.18%) Scala
6 29 (6.36%) Bash
7 28 (6.14%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.73%) Go
9 11 (2.41%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.75%) C#
10 8 (1.75%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.54%) Groovy
11 7 (1.54%) PHP
12 6 (1.32%) Ruby
13 5 (1.10%) Perl
14 4 (0.88%) C
15 3 (0.66%) Swift
16 2 (0.44%) C++
17 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 144 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 138 (30.26%) SC Cleared
3 84 (18.42%) AWS Certification
4 62 (13.60%) Azure Certification
5 55 (12.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (5.92%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.95%) Degree
8 14 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.75%) 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
1 145 (31.80%) Docker
2 33 (7.24%) Hyper-V
3 18 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (3.73%) Active Directory
5 16 (3.51%) HDFS
6 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 282 (61.84%) Kubernetes
2 236 (51.75%) Terraform
3 115 (25.22%) Ansible
4 79 (17.32%) Prometheus
5 35 (7.68%) Puppet
6 34 (7.46%) Grafana
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
12 1 (0.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 85 (18.64%) Oracle
2 84 (18.42%) Red Hat
3 67 (14.69%) Dynatrace
4 59 (12.94%) IBM
5 46 (10.09%) Sparx
6 42 (9.21%) WSO2
7 36 (7.89%) Google
8 25 (5.48%) SaltStack
9 21 (4.61%) ForgeRock
10 17 (3.73%) Databricks
11 16 (3.51%) Cloudera
12 15 (3.29%) Sitecore
13 11 (2.41%) Sybase
14 9 (1.97%) Microsoft
15 8 (1.75%) Facebook
16 7 (1.54%) McAfee
16 7 (1.54%) Splunk
16 7 (1.54%) VMware
17 6 (1.32%) Atlassian
17 6 (1.32%) Zscaler