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

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 527 548
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 -72
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 449 508 998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.52% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.20% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 176 263 295
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £64,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £94,375
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% -7.14% +12.00%

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 35,668 42,301 80,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.92% 43.20% 48.57%
Number of salaries quoted 26,805 27,789 41,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
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% +8.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 27 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 27 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 -15 348 £80,000 -11.11% 78
UK excluding London +94 291 £77,500 +19.23% 47
Work from Home +42 187 £82,500 -2.94% 48
London -12 168 £82,500 -17.50% 58
Scotland +8 80 £46,500 -28.46% 2
South East +19 79 £82,500 +32.00% 24
North of England +76 73 £62,500 -10.71% 9
North West +56 67 £60,000 -14.29% 7
South West -15 27 £62,500 -7.41% 5
Midlands +4 15 £58,500 +17.00% 1
East Midlands -6 13 £50,000 +42.86%
Northern Ireland +29 7 - - 3
East of England -40 7 £42,500 -37.04% 2
Yorkshire +53 5 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Wales +9 4 - - 1
West Midlands +3 2 £66,750 +2.69% 1
North East -6 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
1 101 (22.49%) Apache Spark
2 85 (18.93%) Apache
3 48 (10.69%) OpenStack
4 46 (10.24%) WebLogic
5 21 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (2.23%) Red Hat Fuse
7 9 (2.00%) JBoss
8 4 (0.89%) Confluence
9 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.45%) nginx
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 46 (10.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 438 (97.55%) AWS
2 211 (46.99%) Serverless
3 169 (37.64%) Amazon ECS
4 162 (36.08%) Azure
5 155 (34.52%) AWS Lambda
6 128 (28.51%) Amazon SQS
7 125 (27.84%) Amazon S3
8 100 (22.27%) Amazon EC2
9 79 (17.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 62 (13.81%) Amazon ECR
10 62 (13.81%) GCP
10 62 (13.81%) Route 53
11 58 (12.92%) IBM Cloud
11 58 (12.92%) OCI
12 55 (12.25%) Amazon EMR
13 43 (9.58%) GitHub
14 42 (9.35%) Azure AKS
14 42 (9.35%) OpenShift
15 30 (6.68%) CloudFront
16 26 (5.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (11.14%) DNS
2 48 (10.69%) TCP/IP
3 46 (10.24%) BGP
3 46 (10.24%) SSL
4 28 (6.24%) AMQP
5 13 (2.90%) Firewall
6 3 (0.67%) HTTP
6 3 (0.67%) VPN
7 2 (0.45%) Internet
8 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (34.08%) Amazon RDS
2 99 (22.05%) NoSQL
3 97 (21.60%) Relational Database
4 95 (21.16%) Hadoop
5 83 (18.49%) Big Data
6 70 (15.59%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (14.03%) RDBMS
8 53 (11.80%) Electronic Patient Records
9 49 (10.91%) Oracle Database
10 31 (6.90%) SQL Server
11 28 (6.24%) Cloudera CDH
12 24 (5.35%) DynamoDB
13 21 (4.68%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (3.56%) Apache Hive
14 16 (3.56%) HBase
14 16 (3.56%) MongoDB
15 12 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (2.67%) DB2
16 6 (1.34%) MySQL
17 4 (0.89%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 105 (23.39%) Git
2 102 (22.72%) Jenkins
3 23 (5.12%) GitLab
4 20 (4.45%) Bitbucket
5 16 (3.56%) TeamCity
6 13 (2.90%) JUnit
7 10 (2.23%) JIRA
8 7 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (1.11%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.89%) git-flow
10 4 (0.89%) JMeter
10 4 (0.89%) Mockito
10 4 (0.89%) Sourcetree
11 3 (0.67%) Maven
11 3 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.22%) Gradle
12 1 (0.22%) Mocha
12 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 157 (34.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 114 (25.39%) Finance
3 104 (23.16%) Law
4 100 (22.27%) Public Sector
5 96 (21.38%) Social Skills
6 67 (14.92%) Legal
7 28 (6.24%) Aerospace
8 21 (4.68%) Retail
9 17 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (3.79%) Banking
10 16 (3.56%) Automotive
11 7 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.34%) Games
12 6 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.67%) Marketing
14 2 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.22%) Back Office
15 1 (0.22%) Cantonese Language
15 1 (0.22%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 135 (30.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 122 (27.17%) Software Engineer
3 101 (22.49%) AWS Engineer
4 88 (19.60%) Lead
4 88 (19.60%) Senior
5 82 (18.26%) Developer
6 59 (13.14%) Senior DevOps
6 59 (13.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 58 (12.92%) AWS DevOps
8 56 (12.47%) Java Developer
9 51 (11.36%) AWS Software Engineer
9 51 (11.36%) Big Data Engineer
9 51 (11.36%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 51 (11.36%) Scala Engineer
9 51 (11.36%) Scala Software Engineer
10 47 (10.47%) Architect
10 47 (10.47%) Lead Architect
11 46 (10.24%) Java Engineer
11 46 (10.24%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 46 (10.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (30.07%) Spring Boot
2 115 (25.61%) Spring
3 106 (23.61%) REST
4 86 (19.15%) RabbitMQ
5 74 (16.48%) Node.js
6 73 (16.26%) AngularJS
7 62 (13.81%) React
8 61 (13.59%) Elastic Stack
9 46 (10.24%) Apache Camel
9 46 (10.24%) Web Services
10 40 (8.91%) .NET
11 31 (6.90%) JSON
12 30 (6.68%) XML
13 28 (6.24%) gRPC
13 28 (6.24%) Material-UI
13 28 (6.24%) OpenAPI
13 28 (6.24%) Swagger
14 21 (4.68%) JPA
15 14 (3.12%) Kafka
16 13 (2.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.92%) Blockchain
1 58 (12.92%) e-Learning
1 58 (12.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 54 (12.03%) Cloud Native
2 54 (12.03%) Public Cloud
3 51 (11.36%) Algorithms
4 46 (10.24%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (10.24%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (3.56%) Mobile App
6 15 (3.34%) Blog
7 9 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.56%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.11%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.89%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.89%) Market Risk
11 4 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 135 (30.07%) Linux
2 75 (16.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (7.35%) Windows
4 29 (6.46%) CentOS
4 29 (6.46%) Ubuntu
5 28 (6.24%) Debian
6 24 (5.35%) Unix
7 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (67.48%) Agile
2 221 (49.22%) DevOps
3 199 (44.32%) CI/CD
4 156 (34.74%) Microservices
5 149 (33.18%) Containerisation
6 144 (32.07%) Software Engineering
7 138 (30.73%) Scrum
8 137 (30.51%) Kanban
9 134 (29.84%) SDLC
10 104 (23.16%) Test Automation
11 93 (20.71%) Artificial Intelligence
12 89 (19.82%) Mentoring
13 86 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
14 83 (18.49%) Collaborative Working
15 74 (16.48%) Open Source
16 73 (16.26%) Actionable Insight
17 71 (15.81%) Migration
17 71 (15.81%) Risk Management
18 70 (15.59%) Operational Stability
19 69 (15.37%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 224 (49.89%) Java
2 162 (36.08%) Python
3 125 (27.84%) SQL
4 104 (23.16%) JavaScript
5 51 (11.36%) Scala
6 25 (5.57%) Bash
7 23 (5.12%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.79%) Go
9 11 (2.45%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.78%) C#
12 7 (1.56%) Groovy
13 6 (1.34%) PHP
13 6 (1.34%) Ruby
14 4 (0.89%) C
14 4 (0.89%) Perl
15 3 (0.67%) Swift
16 2 (0.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 144 (32.07%) Security Cleared
2 137 (30.51%) SC Cleared
3 82 (18.26%) AWS Certification
4 61 (13.59%) Azure Certification
5 54 (12.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (6.68%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.34%) Degree
8 12 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.34%) QA
2 5 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.22%) GDPR
3 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 137 (30.51%) Docker
2 32 (7.13%) Hyper-V
3 19 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (3.56%) HDFS
5 12 (2.67%) Active Directory
6 5 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 278 (61.92%) Kubernetes
2 231 (51.45%) Terraform
3 114 (25.39%) Ansible
4 82 (18.26%) Prometheus
5 40 (8.91%) Puppet
6 32 (7.13%) Grafana
7 13 (2.90%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.11%) Argo
9 5 (1.11%) Karpenter
9 5 (1.11%) Rancher
10 4 (0.89%) Kibana
10 4 (0.89%) Packer
11 3 (0.67%) Consul
12 1 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 88 (19.60%) Red Hat
2 85 (18.93%) Oracle
3 68 (15.14%) Dynatrace
4 59 (13.14%) IBM
5 46 (10.24%) Sparx
6 40 (8.91%) WSO2
7 35 (7.80%) Google
8 28 (6.24%) SaltStack
9 23 (5.12%) ForgeRock
10 17 (3.79%) Databricks
11 16 (3.56%) Cloudera
11 16 (3.56%) Sitecore
12 12 (2.67%) Sybase
13 9 (2.00%) Microsoft
14 8 (1.78%) Facebook
14 8 (1.78%) VMware
15 7 (1.56%) Splunk
15 7 (1.56%) Zscaler
16 4 (0.89%) Atlassian
16 4 (0.89%) McAfee