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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 464 520
Rank change year-on-year +40 +56 -73
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 180 204 164
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.42% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 1.16% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 94 84 107
10th Percentile £50,225 £66,625 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £80,938 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £107,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% +38.71% -3.13%
75th Percentile £103,750 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £150,000 - £107,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £107,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -30.23% +43.33% -4.76%

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 18,614 17,629 19,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.06% 36.56% 40.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,405 10,454 16,588
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +47 106 £100,000 -6.98% 22
North of England +4 34 £63,750 -15.00% 19
South East -2 24 £75,000 +15.38% 38
Yorkshire +3 23 £62,500 -7.41% 7
West Midlands +27 12 £50,000 -28.57% 6
Midlands +22 12 £50,000 -28.57% 8
North West 0 10 £80,000 -8.57% 9
South West +3 9 £62,500 - 12
East of England +31 6 £85,000 +17.24% 14
North East +11 1 £65,000 -7.14% 3
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 14 (7.78%) OpenStack
2 9 (5.00%) Apache
2 9 (5.00%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.89%) Tomcat
4 6 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (2.78%) Apache Spark
6 4 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.56%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 170 (94.44%) AWS
2 78 (43.33%) Serverless
3 49 (27.22%) Amazon ECS
3 49 (27.22%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (26.11%) Amazon S3
5 40 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
6 36 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (16.11%) GCP
8 23 (12.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 23 (12.78%) Azure
8 23 (12.78%) GitHub
9 22 (12.22%) SaaS
9 22 (12.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 21 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (7.78%) Azure AKS
11 14 (7.78%) OpenShift
12 12 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 12 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (6.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.89%) SSL
2 5 (2.78%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.78%) VPN
3 3 (1.67%) AMQP
3 3 (1.67%) BGP
3 3 (1.67%) DNS
3 3 (1.67%) VLAN
4 2 (1.11%) Firewall
5 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 30 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (11.67%) RDBMS
5 20 (11.11%) DynamoDB
6 10 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.56%) Flink
7 8 (4.44%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.89%) DB2
8 7 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (3.33%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.33%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.67%) Apache Ignite
10 3 (1.67%) Big Data
10 3 (1.67%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.67%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.11%) MySQL
11 2 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 28 (15.56%) Git
3 19 (10.56%) TeamCity
4 17 (9.44%) JUnit
5 16 (8.89%) GitLab
6 13 (7.22%) JMeter
6 13 (7.22%) Mockito
7 7 (3.89%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.78%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.78%) JIRA
9 4 (2.22%) MLflow
10 2 (1.11%) JConsole
10 2 (1.11%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 58 (32.22%) Finance
2 41 (22.78%) Banking
3 39 (21.67%) Social Skills
4 23 (12.78%) Front Office
4 23 (12.78%) Law
5 22 (12.22%) Financial Institution
5 22 (12.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (12.22%) Retail
6 20 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (10.56%) Back Office
7 19 (10.56%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.89%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.22%) Games
10 2 (1.11%) Advertising
10 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (24.44%) Developer
2 41 (22.78%) Java Developer
3 40 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 35 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (18.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (17.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 26 (14.44%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (14.44%) Senior
8 21 (11.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (7.78%) Lead
11 11 (6.11%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (6.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 10 (5.56%) Angular Developer
12 10 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.56%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 10 (5.56%) Kafka Developer
12 10 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
12 10 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (30.56%) Spring
2 45 (25.00%) Kafka
3 44 (24.44%) React
4 42 (23.33%) Spring Boot
5 40 (22.22%) REST
6 38 (21.11%) Node.js
7 23 (12.78%) Web Services
8 22 (12.22%) AngularJS
9 18 (10.00%) RESTful
10 17 (9.44%) Apache Camel
10 17 (9.44%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (8.89%) Hibernate
12 15 (8.33%) AWS CDK
12 15 (8.33%) JSON
12 15 (8.33%) XML
13 13 (7.22%) ActiveMQ
13 13 (7.22%) HTML
13 13 (7.22%) jQuery
13 13 (7.22%) WireMock
14 11 (6.11%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 42 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 39 (21.67%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.78%) Management Information System
3 14 (7.78%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (6.11%) Hedge funds
5 10 (5.56%) Reference Data
6 8 (4.44%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.33%) Fixed Income
7 6 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.33%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.22%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.67%) Blog
10 3 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.11%) Credit Risk
11 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.11%) Linux
2 12 (6.67%) Unix
3 10 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.33%) Windows
5 3 (1.67%) CentOS
5 3 (1.67%) Debian
5 3 (1.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 90 (50.00%) DevOps
3 77 (42.78%) Microservices
4 74 (41.11%) Agile
5 57 (31.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 56 (31.11%) Software Engineering
7 49 (27.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 39 (21.67%) Platform Engineering
8 39 (21.67%) Test Automation
9 36 (20.00%) Observability
10 34 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
12 29 (16.11%) Mentoring
12 29 (16.11%) Scrum
12 29 (16.11%) TDD
13 27 (15.00%) Containerisation
14 22 (12.22%) Continuous Deployment
15 21 (11.67%) Workflow
16 20 (11.11%) BDD
16 20 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 98 (54.44%) Java
2 73 (40.56%) Python
3 47 (26.11%) JavaScript
4 30 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 22 (12.22%) Bash
6 18 (10.00%) Go
7 13 (7.22%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.22%) C#
9 4 (2.22%) SQL
10 3 (1.67%) Bicep
10 3 (1.67%) C
11 2 (1.11%) C++
12 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 17 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.89%) Degree
5 6 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.22%) MCP
7 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.33%) SLA
2 6 (3.33%) SOC 2
3 4 (2.22%) GDPR
4 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.11%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 51 (28.33%) Docker
2 4 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) vCloud
3 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (62.78%) Kubernetes
2 96 (53.33%) Terraform
3 42 (23.33%) Grafana
4 29 (16.11%) Ansible
5 23 (12.78%) Prometheus
6 21 (11.67%) Kibana
7 14 (7.78%) Argo
8 6 (3.33%) Rancher
9 4 (2.22%) vRealize
10 3 (1.67%) Puppet
11 2 (1.11%) logstash
12 1 (0.56%) Cilium
12 1 (0.56%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (7.78%) Dynatrace
1 14 (7.78%) Splunk
2 10 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 9 (5.00%) IBM
4 7 (3.89%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.33%) Google
6 5 (2.78%) VMware
7 4 (2.22%) Databricks
7 4 (2.22%) Pega
7 4 (2.22%) WSO2
8 3 (1.67%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.67%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.67%) Oracle
8 3 (1.67%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.67%) Solace
8 3 (1.67%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.11%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.56%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.56%) Charles River