Amazon EKS Job Trends in London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 271 336
Rank change year-on-year +5 +65 -29
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 137 136 158
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 1.05% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.95% 2.38% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 52 69 96
10th Percentile £66,375 £70,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £81,563 £97,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £107,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +30.30% -9.59%
75th Percentile £128,125 £138,750 £104,063
90th Percentile £150,000 £147,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -25.58% +30.30% -2.94%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,041 5,713 10,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.47% 44.26% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,516 4,142 8,194
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in London

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in London

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EKS within the London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Central London -7 8 £83,000 -25.39% 10
South London -12 4 £70,000 +12.00% 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.46%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.73%) Apache
3 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.73%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.73%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) JBoss
3 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.73%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 136 (99.27%) AWS
2 68 (49.64%) GCP
3 52 (37.96%) SaaS
4 23 (16.79%) Amazon S3
5 18 (13.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (11.68%) Serverless
7 15 (10.95%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (10.22%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (9.49%) GitHub
9 13 (9.49%) Route 53
10 12 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (8.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (7.30%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (7.30%) Azure
13 9 (6.57%) Amazon MSK
13 9 (6.57%) OpenShift
14 8 (5.84%) AWS KMS
15 7 (5.11%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.84%) VPN
2 6 (4.38%) BGP
2 6 (4.38%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.38%) VLAN
3 3 (2.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.03%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.30%) Flink
4 6 (4.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.92%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (40.88%) TeamCity
2 8 (5.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.38%) GitLab
4 4 (2.92%) Git
4 4 (2.92%) JUnit
4 4 (2.92%) MLflow
5 2 (1.46%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.46%) JMeter
5 2 (1.46%) Mockito
6 1 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.73%) Gradle
6 1 (0.73%) JIRA
6 1 (0.73%) Maven
6 1 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 84 (61.31%) Banking
2 76 (55.47%) Finance
3 65 (47.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 65 (47.45%) Law
3 65 (47.45%) Retail
4 49 (35.77%) Back Office
4 49 (35.77%) Financial Institution
5 19 (13.87%) Social Skills
6 13 (9.49%) Front Office
7 8 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (5.11%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Games
10 1 (0.73%) iGaming
10 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (36.50%) Software Engineer
2 35 (25.55%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (24.82%) Senior
4 26 (18.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (15.33%) Java Engineer
5 21 (15.33%) Lead
6 19 (13.87%) Java Software Engineer
7 17 (12.41%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (12.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 17 (12.41%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 16 (11.68%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (11.68%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (10.22%) Lead Software Engineer
10 12 (8.76%) Developer
11 11 (8.03%) Customer Engineer
11 11 (8.03%) Customer Service Engineer
12 10 (7.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (7.30%) Software Team Leader
12 10 (7.30%) Team Leader
13 9 (6.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.98%) Kafka
2 17 (12.41%) React
3 8 (5.84%) RESTful
3 8 (5.84%) Spring
4 7 (5.11%) AWS CDK
4 7 (5.11%) Sass
5 6 (4.38%) REST
5 6 (4.38%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.92%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.92%) JSON
6 4 (2.92%) LangChain
6 4 (2.92%) LangGraph
6 4 (2.92%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (2.92%) Web Services
7 3 (2.19%) Apache Camel
7 3 (2.19%) Loki
7 3 (2.19%) XML
8 2 (1.46%) Mustache
8 2 (1.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 71 (51.82%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.87%) Blog
2 19 (13.87%) Product Ownership
3 12 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.38%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.65%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.19%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.19%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.46%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.73%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.73%) Equities
9 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.38%) Linux
2 3 (2.19%) Android
2 3 (2.19%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (84.67%) CI/CD
2 63 (45.99%) Software Engineering
2 63 (45.99%) Test Automation
3 60 (43.80%) Deployment Automation
4 58 (42.34%) Clean Code
4 58 (42.34%) DevOps
5 57 (41.61%) Continuous Deployment
6 48 (35.04%) Microservices
7 43 (31.39%) Fintech
8 40 (29.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (24.09%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (21.17%) Observability
11 26 (18.98%) Disruptive Innovation
12 24 (17.52%) Mentoring
13 23 (16.79%) Agile
13 23 (16.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (13.87%) Coaching
15 17 (12.41%) Containerisation
16 15 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 87 (63.50%) Java
2 49 (35.77%) Python
3 26 (18.98%) Go
4 13 (9.49%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.76%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.84%) Bash
7 4 (2.92%) SQL
8 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (10.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.76%) AWS Certification
3 7 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 3 (2.19%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.19%) OSCP
6 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.46%) Degree
7 1 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.73%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.73%) CCSP
7 1 (0.73%) CEH
7 1 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.73%) CISM
7 1 (0.73%) CISSP
7 1 (0.73%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) GIAC
7 1 (0.73%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.11%) SOC 2
2 6 (4.38%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.46%) NIST
5 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 27 (19.71%) Docker
2 8 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 115 (83.94%) Kubernetes
2 114 (83.21%) Terraform
3 66 (48.18%) Grafana
4 12 (8.76%) Argo
5 10 (7.30%) Istio
6 8 (5.84%) Prometheus
7 7 (5.11%) Ansible
8 3 (2.19%) Kibana
9 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (5.84%) Confluent
2 4 (2.92%) Databricks
2 4 (2.92%) Splunk
3 2 (1.46%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.73%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.73%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.73%) Charles River
4 1 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle
4 1 (0.73%) Solace