Amazon EKS Job Trends in England

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 414 491
Rank change year-on-year -61 +77 +30
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 249 255 364
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.59% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 1.78% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 120 72 202
10th Percentile £52,250 £62,050 £57,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £98,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -3.80% +12.86%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £117,188
90th Percentile £122,500 £127,500 £147,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £93,000 £98,750
% change year-on-year -16.67% -5.82% +16.18%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24,029 14,340 29,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.53% 33.16% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16,066 10,248 23,171
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in England

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in England

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
London -29 142 £90,000 -14.29% 39
North of England -13 42 £65,576 -37.55% 14
South East -52 42 £62,500 +92.31% 7
North West +3 24 £72,500 -30.95% 6
South West -57 17 £80,250 -10.83% 6
Yorkshire -16 16 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Midlands -36 9 £72,500 -21.62% 7
West Midlands -19 7 £62,000 -32.97% 6
East of England -29 3 £80,150 - 1
East Midlands -32 2 £75,000 - 1
North East -48 2 £64,038 - 4
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.21%) Apache
2 7 (2.81%) Confluence
3 6 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.61%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) Drupal
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 237 (95.18%) AWS
2 81 (32.53%) Serverless
3 76 (30.52%) GCP
4 72 (28.92%) Amazon ECS
5 67 (26.91%) Amazon S3
6 60 (24.10%) AWS Lambda
7 56 (22.49%) Azure
8 55 (22.09%) Amazon EC2
9 54 (21.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 44 (17.67%) SaaS
11 35 (14.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 26 (10.44%) GitHub
13 25 (10.04%) Azure AKS
14 22 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (8.84%) OpenShift
15 18 (7.23%) Cloud Computing
16 17 (6.83%) Amazon EventBridge
17 16 (6.43%) AWS Control Tower
17 16 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 15 (6.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.22%) Firewall
1 13 (5.22%) VPN
2 12 (4.82%) Network Security
3 6 (2.41%) AMQP
4 5 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.61%) DNS
5 4 (1.61%) IPv4
5 4 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.20%) BGP
6 3 (1.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.66%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.84%) Relational Database
3 20 (8.03%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (5.62%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.02%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.61%) MySQL
7 8 (3.21%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.41%) Big Data
8 6 (2.41%) Cloudera CDH
8 6 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.41%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.41%) Redis
9 5 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.01%) Flink
10 4 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.20%) Looker
12 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 53 (21.29%) TeamCity
2 41 (16.47%) Jenkins
3 38 (15.26%) GitLab
4 27 (10.84%) Git
5 12 (4.82%) JIRA
6 9 (3.61%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.61%) JUnit
7 8 (3.21%) JMeter
8 7 (2.81%) Mockito
9 6 (2.41%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.01%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.61%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.20%) MLflow
13 2 (0.80%) Snyk
13 2 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.80%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.40%) Gatling
14 1 (0.40%) Gradle
14 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 81 (32.53%) Finance
2 69 (27.71%) Banking
3 62 (24.90%) Retail
4 57 (22.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (21.69%) Law
6 44 (17.67%) Social Skills
7 37 (14.86%) Back Office
7 37 (14.86%) Financial Institution
8 36 (14.46%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.82%) Aerospace
10 10 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.80%) Advertising
14 1 (0.40%) Games
14 1 (0.40%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 73 (29.32%) Senior
2 58 (23.29%) Software Engineer
3 41 (16.47%) AWS Engineer
4 36 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (12.45%) Developer
6 30 (12.05%) Platform Engineer
7 26 (10.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (9.24%) Java Engineer
9 22 (8.84%) Lead
10 21 (8.43%) Consultant
11 19 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (6.83%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 17 (6.83%) Senior Consultant
13 16 (6.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
14 15 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
15 14 (5.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 14 (5.62%) Lead Software Engineer
16 13 (5.22%) Java Developer
16 13 (5.22%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.06%) React
2 31 (12.45%) REST
3 27 (10.84%) Spring
4 26 (10.44%) Spring Boot
5 22 (8.84%) Kafka
6 19 (7.63%) Node.js
6 19 (7.63%) RESTful
7 18 (7.23%) AngularJS
7 18 (7.23%) AWS CDK
8 17 (6.83%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (5.22%) Web Services
11 12 (4.82%) FastAPI
11 12 (4.82%) JSON
12 10 (4.02%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.61%) YAML
14 8 (3.21%) gRPC
14 8 (3.21%) Hibernate
14 8 (3.21%) OpenAPI
14 8 (3.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 87 (34.94%) Cloud Native
2 34 (13.65%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (10.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (10.44%) Onboarding
5 21 (8.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 20 (8.03%) Blog
7 19 (7.63%) Product Ownership
8 11 (4.42%) Public Cloud
9 9 (3.61%) Private Cloud
10 8 (3.21%) Algorithms
10 8 (3.21%) Data Centre
10 8 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.81%) Low-Code
12 5 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (2.01%) Mobile App
12 5 (2.01%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
15 2 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 56 (22.49%) Linux
2 10 (4.02%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.21%) CentOS
3 8 (3.21%) Debian
3 8 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.01%) Windows
4 5 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.20%) Android
5 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (72.69%) CI/CD
2 125 (50.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 121 (48.59%) DevOps
4 92 (36.95%) Microservices
5 82 (32.93%) Software Engineering
6 72 (28.92%) Agile
7 65 (26.10%) Test Automation
8 63 (25.30%) Deployment Automation
9 59 (23.69%) Containerisation
9 59 (23.69%) Observability
10 54 (21.69%) AI
10 54 (21.69%) Continuous Deployment
11 53 (21.29%) Clean Code
11 53 (21.29%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (18.88%) Mentoring
13 44 (17.67%) Cloud Security
13 44 (17.67%) Fintech
14 38 (15.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 32 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (12.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 121 (48.59%) Python
2 110 (44.18%) Java
3 44 (17.67%) Bash
4 32 (12.85%) TypeScript
5 31 (12.45%) JavaScript
6 29 (11.65%) Go
7 17 (6.83%) PowerShell
8 16 (6.43%) Perl
9 15 (6.02%) PHP
10 14 (5.62%) SQL
11 12 (4.82%) Ruby
12 9 (3.61%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.41%) Groovy
14 5 (2.01%) Bicep
15 4 (1.61%) C#
15 4 (1.61%) C++
15 4 (1.61%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.66%) AWS Certification
3 26 (10.44%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.81%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.81%) OSCP
6 6 (2.41%) RHCSA
7 5 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.61%) CCNA
8 4 (1.61%) Degree
8 4 (1.61%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.61%) RHCE
9 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.20%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.40%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.21%) QA
1 8 (3.21%) SOC 2
2 5 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) GxP
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (28.51%) Docker
2 10 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.21%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.61%) Squid
4 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.61%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.61%) vSphere
5 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 205 (82.33%) Terraform
2 187 (75.10%) Kubernetes
3 63 (25.30%) Grafana
4 54 (21.69%) Ansible
5 14 (5.62%) Packer
6 13 (5.22%) Argo
6 13 (5.22%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.82%) Puppet
8 11 (4.42%) Kibana
9 10 (4.02%) Istio
10 8 (3.21%) Proxmox
11 6 (2.41%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.61%) Rancher
12 4 (1.61%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.40%) Consul
13 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.62%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.82%) Confluent
2 12 (4.82%) Splunk
2 12 (4.82%) VMware
3 10 (4.02%) Google
3 10 (4.02%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.61%) AppDynamics
4 9 (3.61%) Oracle
5 8 (3.21%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.21%) IBM
6 6 (2.41%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.61%) Databricks
8 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.80%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.80%) Pega
9 2 (0.80%) WSO2
10 1 (0.40%) New Relic
10 1 (0.40%) Solace
10 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.40%) TOWER Software