Amazon EKS Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 174 179
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +53
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 7 1 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.032% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 0.099% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £60,125 - £41,250
25th Percentile £75,938 £68,750 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -9.38% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,500 - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £106,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year -24.71% +37.10% -3.13%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,276 1,015 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.15% 32.20% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 571 586 1,310
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,125 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EKS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the East of England

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the East of England

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EKS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire +11 6 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Hertfordshire - 1 £100,000 -
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (71.43%) CloudFront
2 5 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Route 53
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (57.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Loki
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Nuxt
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Observability
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) Auto-Scaling
3 5 (71.43%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 5 (71.43%) Canary Deployment
3 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
3 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (71.43%) High Availability
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) Secrets Management
4 2 (28.57%) AI
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Grafana
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) New Relic
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAI