Amazon EKS Job Trends in the Midlands

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 221 282
Rank change year-on-year -33 +61 -25
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 8 15 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.055% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.83% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £59,500 £51,575 £41,400
25th Percentile £59,937 £52,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +18.80% -10.00%
75th Percentile £73,313 £94,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £97,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £71,250 £85,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -16.18% -19.05% +20.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,346 1,798 2,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.04% 30.91% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,225 1,438 2,192
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,838 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,125 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the Midlands

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EKS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
West Midlands -20 6 £67,250 -20.88%
East Midlands -24 2 £62,500 +15.74% 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) CloudOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Observability
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) AI
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (25.00%) Information Security
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bicep
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GxP
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks