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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 301 253
Rank change year-on-year -8 -48 +49
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 44 15 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.20% 0.16% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 0.58% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 34 7 7
10th Percentile £46,000 £65,000 £61,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,288 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £113,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £115,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £92,500 £105,000
% change year-on-year -21.62% -11.90% +20.00%

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 5,311 2,595 4,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.58% 27.05% 31.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,694 1,803 3,482
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,150 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 4 August 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 4 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
North West +6 21 £72,500 -30.95% 13
Yorkshire -23 15 £65,000 -7.14% 9
North East -45 8 £62,500 - 5
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 2 (4.55%) Apache
1 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.55%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 40 (90.91%) AWS
2 25 (56.82%) Serverless
3 23 (52.27%) Amazon ECS
3 23 (52.27%) Amazon S3
4 21 (47.73%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (38.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (34.09%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (22.73%) Azure
9 8 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (13.64%) GitHub
10 6 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (11.36%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (11.36%) Azure AKS
12 4 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
13 3 (6.82%) AWS KMS
13 3 (6.82%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (6.82%) GCP
13 3 (6.82%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) DNS
2 3 (6.82%) Firewall
3 2 (4.55%) AMQP
3 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 4 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.82%) DocumentDB
5 3 (6.82%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.55%) Big Data
6 2 (4.55%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.27%) MySQL
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) GitLab
2 12 (27.27%) Git
3 9 (20.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.82%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 3 (6.82%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.55%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
2 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Law
5 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.55%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Games
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Senior
4 9 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Java Developer
7 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.82%) REST
2 12 (27.27%) Node.js
3 10 (22.73%) AngularJS
3 10 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (22.73%) React
4 8 (18.18%) Spring
4 8 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 7 (15.91%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (15.91%) YAML
6 6 (13.64%) RESTful
7 4 (9.09%) FastAPI
7 4 (9.09%) Flask
7 4 (9.09%) Web Services
8 3 (6.82%) Express.js
8 3 (6.82%) Jest
8 3 (6.82%) JSON
8 3 (6.82%) Kafka
8 3 (6.82%) MEAN Stack
8 3 (6.82%) Nunjucks
8 3 (6.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (11.36%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
7 2 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
8 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Debian
2 3 (6.82%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.55%) CentOS
3 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Windows
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (77.27%) CI/CD
1 34 (77.27%) DevOps
2 33 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (47.73%) Agile
4 17 (38.64%) Microservices
5 15 (34.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (27.27%) ITIL
8 11 (25.00%) Cloud Security
9 10 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
10 8 (18.18%) Migration
10 8 (18.18%) Observability
10 8 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (15.91%) AI
11 7 (15.91%) Cost Management
11 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (15.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) Python
2 12 (27.27%) Java
3 11 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.45%) Bash
4 9 (20.45%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.82%) Groovy
5 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.82%) SQL
6 2 (4.55%) PHP
6 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.27%) Bicep
7 1 (2.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 13 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.82%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (90.91%) Terraform
2 29 (65.91%) Kubernetes
3 19 (43.18%) Ansible
4 3 (6.82%) Argo
4 3 (6.82%) Kibana
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.82%) Packer
5 2 (4.55%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) AppDynamics
1 5 (11.36%) IBM
2 4 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.82%) Confluent
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.55%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) Pega
4 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.55%) SaltStack
4 2 (4.55%) WSO2