Amazon EKS Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 237 275
Rank change year-on-year -2 +38 +91
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 34 44 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.32% 0.48% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 1.51% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 12
10th Percentile - £63,750 £58,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +17.86%
75th Percentile £72,188 £88,750 £84,688
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -25.58% +38.71% -3.13%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,149 2,907 3,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.51% 31.97% 39.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,884 1,617 2,849
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,970 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England 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 the North of England

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the North of England

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the North of England

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire +3 23 £62,500 -7.41% 8
North West -5 10 £80,000 -8.57% 9
North East +11 1 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (32.35%) OpenStack
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 33 (97.06%) AWS
2 24 (70.59%) Serverless
3 18 (52.94%) Amazon S3
4 14 (41.18%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (29.41%) Azure
6 6 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (17.65%) GCP
7 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
8 3 (8.82%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (2.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (2.94%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (41.18%) DynamoDB
3 12 (35.29%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.82%) Big Data
4 3 (8.82%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (8.82%) Hadoop
4 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.88%) MySQL
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 17 (50.00%) Git
2 15 (44.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.88%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) JUnit
General
1 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.82%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Developer
1 14 (41.18%) Java Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Full-Stack Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 10 (29.41%) Senior
3 9 (26.47%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (82.35%) Node.js
2 23 (67.65%) REST
3 21 (61.76%) React
4 18 (52.94%) Spring
4 18 (52.94%) Spring Boot
5 11 (32.35%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (29.41%) AngularJS
6 10 (29.41%) Web Services
7 7 (20.59%) Kafka
7 7 (20.59%) Mustache
7 7 (20.59%) RESTful
8 4 (11.76%) Apache Camel
9 3 (8.82%) gRPC
9 3 (8.82%) Material-UI
9 3 (8.82%) OpenAPI
9 3 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (8.82%) Swagger
10 1 (2.94%) JSON
10 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) CentOS
2 3 (8.82%) Debian
2 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (88.24%) Microservices
2 26 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 24 (70.59%) Agile
4 18 (52.94%) DevOps
5 15 (44.12%) Scrum
6 14 (41.18%) Software Engineering
7 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (35.29%) TDD
9 9 (26.47%) Kanban
10 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
10 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
10 7 (20.59%) Observability
11 6 (17.65%) BDD
11 6 (17.65%) Coaching
11 6 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (17.65%) SDLC
12 5 (14.71%) API Design
12 5 (14.71%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) JavaScript
2 20 (58.82%) Java
3 11 (32.35%) TypeScript
4 7 (20.59%) Python
5 2 (5.88%) Go
5 2 (5.88%) SQL
6 1 (2.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (67.65%) Terraform
2 19 (55.88%) Kubernetes
3 13 (38.24%) Ansible
4 3 (8.82%) Puppet
5 2 (5.88%) Rancher
6 1 (2.94%) Argo
6 1 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Pega
1 4 (11.76%) WSO2
2 3 (8.82%) Google
2 3 (8.82%) Red Hat
2 3 (8.82%) SaltStack