Amazon EKS Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 546 544
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 -62
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 439 447 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 1.12% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 175 261 286
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,250 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +17.31% -7.14% +10.24%

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 36,452 40,083 83,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.61% 43.06% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 27,130 27,066 41,503
10th Percentile £30,140 £34,182 £33,916
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -10 351 £82,500 -5.71% 53
UK excluding London +62 274 £76,250 +17.31% 21
Work from Home +53 192 £82,500 -2.94% 32
London -21 174 £92,500 -11.90% 34
South East +39 73 £82,500 +32.00% 4
North of England +49 72 £60,000 -14.29% 7
Scotland -2 68 £46,500 -28.46%
North West +40 67 £60,000 -9.43% 5
South West -18 29 £62,500 -7.41% 4
Midlands -19 15 £58,500 +17.00% 2
East Midlands -21 13 £50,000 +42.86% 1
East of England -53 7 £42,500 -39.29% 1
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 3
Yorkshire +44 4 - - 2
Wales +14 4 - -
West Midlands -10 2 £66,750 +2.69% 1
North East -19 1 £75,000 +15.38%

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 92 (20.96%) Apache
2 90 (20.50%) Apache Spark
3 46 (10.48%) WebLogic
4 42 (9.57%) OpenStack
5 27 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (2.28%) Red Hat Fuse
7 9 (2.05%) JBoss
8 4 (0.91%) Confluence
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.46%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (10.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 428 (97.49%) AWS
2 194 (44.19%) Serverless
3 166 (37.81%) Amazon ECS
4 155 (35.31%) Azure
5 145 (33.03%) AWS Lambda
6 124 (28.25%) Amazon S3
7 122 (27.79%) Amazon SQS
8 105 (23.92%) Amazon EC2
9 80 (18.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 74 (16.86%) GCP
11 62 (14.12%) Amazon ECR
11 62 (14.12%) Route 53
12 58 (13.21%) IBM Cloud
12 58 (13.21%) OCI
13 49 (11.16%) Amazon EMR
14 44 (10.02%) OpenShift
15 41 (9.34%) Azure AKS
16 40 (9.11%) GitHub
17 30 (6.83%) CloudFront
18 26 (5.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (11.39%) DNS
2 48 (10.93%) TCP/IP
3 46 (10.48%) BGP
3 46 (10.48%) SSL
4 29 (6.61%) AMQP
5 14 (3.19%) Firewall
6 3 (0.68%) HTTP
6 3 (0.68%) VPN
7 2 (0.46%) Internet
8 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (34.17%) Amazon RDS
2 92 (20.96%) Relational Database
3 86 (19.59%) NoSQL
4 84 (19.13%) Hadoop
5 78 (17.77%) Big Data
6 64 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (14.58%) RDBMS
7 49 (11.16%) Oracle Database
8 47 (10.71%) Electronic Patient Records
9 30 (6.83%) SQL Server
10 29 (6.61%) Cloudera CDH
11 22 (5.01%) DynamoDB
12 19 (4.33%) Amazon Aurora
13 16 (3.64%) MongoDB
14 14 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (2.96%) Data Lake
16 12 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (2.73%) Apache Ignite
16 12 (2.73%) DB2
16 12 (2.73%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 94 (21.41%) Jenkins
2 93 (21.18%) Git
3 23 (5.24%) GitLab
4 20 (4.56%) Bitbucket
5 16 (3.64%) TeamCity
6 14 (3.19%) JUnit
7 10 (2.28%) JIRA
8 7 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (1.14%) JMeter
9 5 (1.14%) Mockito
10 4 (0.91%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.91%) Sourcetree
11 3 (0.68%) git-flow
11 3 (0.68%) Maven
11 3 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.23%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.23%) Mocha
12 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 143 (32.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 113 (25.74%) Finance
3 95 (21.64%) Public Sector
4 93 (21.18%) Social Skills
5 90 (20.50%) Law
6 55 (12.53%) Legal
7 30 (6.83%) Banking
8 29 (6.61%) Aerospace
9 21 (4.78%) Retail
10 17 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (3.64%) Automotive
12 12 (2.73%) Front Office
12 12 (2.73%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.14%) Games
14 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.68%) Marketing
16 2 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
17 1 (0.23%) Back Office
17 1 (0.23%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 129 (29.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 117 (26.65%) Software Engineer
3 97 (22.10%) AWS Engineer
4 95 (21.64%) Lead
5 88 (20.05%) Senior
6 80 (18.22%) Developer
7 59 (13.44%) Senior DevOps
7 59 (13.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 54 (12.30%) AWS DevOps
9 53 (12.07%) Architect
10 52 (11.85%) Solutions Architect
11 51 (11.62%) AWS Software Engineer
12 50 (11.39%) Java Developer
13 47 (10.71%) Lead Architect
14 46 (10.48%) Lead Solutions Architect
15 45 (10.25%) Big Data Engineer
15 45 (10.25%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 45 (10.25%) Scala Engineer
15 45 (10.25%) Scala Software Engineer
16 42 (9.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (29.38%) Spring Boot
2 103 (23.46%) Spring
3 94 (21.41%) REST
4 87 (19.82%) RabbitMQ
5 66 (15.03%) AngularJS
5 66 (15.03%) Node.js
6 57 (12.98%) React
7 54 (12.30%) Elastic Stack
8 42 (9.57%) Web Services
9 41 (9.34%) .NET
9 41 (9.34%) Apache Camel
9 41 (9.34%) gRPC
10 29 (6.61%) Material-UI
10 29 (6.61%) OpenAPI
10 29 (6.61%) Swagger
11 24 (5.47%) JSON
12 23 (5.24%) XML
13 16 (3.64%) Kafka
14 15 (3.42%) JPA
15 14 (3.19%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 58 (13.21%) Blockchain
1 58 (13.21%) e-Learning
1 58 (13.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 55 (12.53%) Cloud Native
2 55 (12.53%) Public Cloud
3 46 (10.48%) Algorithms
3 46 (10.48%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.10%) Hedge funds
6 16 (3.64%) Mobile App
7 15 (3.42%) Blog
8 14 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (2.96%) Fixed Income
10 12 (2.73%) Derivative
10 12 (2.73%) Equities
11 9 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.82%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.59%) Client/Server
13 7 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 134 (30.52%) Linux
2 76 (17.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 32 (7.29%) Windows
4 30 (6.83%) CentOS
4 30 (6.83%) Ubuntu
5 29 (6.61%) Debian
6 18 (4.10%) Unix
7 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (66.97%) Agile
2 207 (47.15%) DevOps
3 181 (41.23%) CI/CD
4 148 (33.71%) Containerisation
5 145 (33.03%) Software Engineering
6 144 (32.80%) Microservices
7 132 (30.07%) Scrum
8 131 (29.84%) Kanban
9 121 (27.56%) SDLC
10 98 (22.32%) Test Automation
11 87 (19.82%) Artificial Intelligence
11 87 (19.82%) Mentoring
12 86 (19.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 84 (19.13%) Collaborative Working
14 83 (18.91%) Migration
15 75 (17.08%) Open Source
16 73 (16.63%) Actionable Insight
17 67 (15.26%) Secrets Management
18 63 (14.35%) Observability
19 60 (13.67%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 217 (49.43%) Java
2 161 (36.67%) Python
3 119 (27.11%) SQL
4 109 (24.83%) JavaScript
5 45 (10.25%) Scala
6 23 (5.24%) Bash
6 23 (5.24%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.78%) Shell Script
8 15 (3.42%) Go
9 9 (2.05%) C#
9 9 (2.05%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.59%) Groovy
11 6 (1.37%) PHP
11 6 (1.37%) Ruby
12 4 (0.91%) C
12 4 (0.91%) Perl
13 3 (0.68%) Swift
14 2 (0.46%) C++
Qualifications
1 135 (30.75%) Security Cleared
2 130 (29.61%) SC Cleared
3 77 (17.54%) AWS Certification
4 57 (12.98%) Azure Certification
5 55 (12.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 31 (7.06%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.42%) Degree
8 12 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.23%) MCSA
14 1 (0.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.14%) Data Quality
1 5 (1.14%) QA
2 2 (0.46%) MiFID
3 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.23%) GDPR
3 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 130 (29.61%) Docker
2 24 (5.47%) Hyper-V
3 19 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.51%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.28%) HDFS
6 5 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 274 (62.41%) Kubernetes
2 222 (50.57%) Terraform
3 106 (24.15%) Ansible
4 82 (18.68%) Prometheus
5 41 (9.34%) Puppet
6 30 (6.83%) Grafana
7 13 (2.96%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.14%) Argo
9 5 (1.14%) Karpenter
9 5 (1.14%) Kibana
9 5 (1.14%) Rancher
10 4 (0.91%) Packer
11 3 (0.68%) Consul
12 1 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 89 (20.27%) Red Hat
2 84 (19.13%) Oracle
3 69 (15.72%) Dynatrace
4 59 (13.44%) IBM
5 46 (10.48%) Sparx
6 35 (7.97%) Google
7 34 (7.74%) WSO2
8 29 (6.61%) SaltStack
9 23 (5.24%) ForgeRock
10 16 (3.64%) Sitecore
11 12 (2.73%) Bloomberg
11 12 (2.73%) Reuters
11 12 (2.73%) Sybase
12 11 (2.51%) Databricks
13 10 (2.28%) Cloudera
14 9 (2.05%) Microsoft
15 8 (1.82%) Splunk
15 8 (1.82%) VMware
16 7 (1.59%) Facebook
16 7 (1.59%) Zscaler