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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 244 251
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +120
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 33 49 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.33% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.46% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16 2 21
10th Percentile - £70,400 £57,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £71,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% -10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £76,875 £73,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £73,600 £87,500
England median annual salary £83,750 £107,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -22.09% +38.71% -3.13%

All Cloud 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 3,771 3,362 3,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.68% 30.90% 43.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,851 1,935 2,623
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,820 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,340 £84,951
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +8 20 £60,000 -18.92% 18
North West +13 11 £82,500 - 21
North East +10 2 £65,000 -7.14% 2
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 8 (24.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (21.21%) OpenStack
3 2 (6.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 32 (96.97%) AWS
2 18 (54.55%) Amazon S3
3 17 (51.52%) Serverless
4 11 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (24.24%) Azure
6 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (12.12%) GCP
9 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
10 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
11 1 (3.03%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (3.03%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (51.52%) DynamoDB
2 11 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (27.27%) Relational Database
4 6 (18.18%) Delta Lake
4 6 (18.18%) Metadata
4 6 (18.18%) Spark SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.06%) Big Data
5 2 (6.06%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.03%) DocumentDB
6 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Git
2 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (18.18%) MLflow
4 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.03%) GitLab
4 1 (3.03%) JUnit
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Developer
2 10 (30.30%) Java Developer
3 9 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (27.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (27.27%) Senior
4 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (60.61%) Node.js
2 18 (54.55%) REST
3 14 (42.42%) React
4 13 (39.39%) Spring
4 13 (39.39%) Spring Boot
5 9 (27.27%) AngularJS
6 7 (21.21%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (18.18%) Keras
7 6 (18.18%) Lambda Expressions
7 6 (18.18%) Metaflow
7 6 (18.18%) NumPy
7 6 (18.18%) Pandas
7 6 (18.18%) PySpark
7 6 (18.18%) PyTorch
7 6 (18.18%) scikit-learn
7 6 (18.18%) TensorFlow
7 6 (18.18%) Web Services
7 6 (18.18%) YAML
8 4 (12.12%) Apache Camel
8 4 (12.12%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Unix
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
3 2 (6.06%) CentOS
3 2 (6.06%) Debian
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (78.79%) CI/CD
2 22 (66.67%) Microservices
3 19 (57.58%) Agile
4 14 (42.42%) DevOps
5 11 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 10 (30.30%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (30.30%) Scrum
6 10 (30.30%) Software Engineering
7 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (24.24%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (24.24%) TDD
9 7 (21.21%) Kanban
9 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
10 6 (18.18%) AI
10 6 (18.18%) Coaching
10 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning
10 6 (18.18%) Metadata Management
10 6 (18.18%) Time Management
10 6 (18.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (60.61%) JavaScript
2 14 (42.42%) Java
3 13 (39.39%) Python
4 8 (24.24%) TypeScript
5 7 (21.21%) SQL
6 1 (3.03%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) PHP
6 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (78.79%) Terraform
2 20 (60.61%) Kubernetes
3 11 (33.33%) Ansible
4 6 (18.18%) Kubeflow
5 2 (6.06%) Argo
5 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) Grafana
6 1 (3.03%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Databricks
2 4 (12.12%) Pega
2 4 (12.12%) WSO2
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.06%) SaltStack