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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 294 252
Rank change year-on-year -2 -42 +28
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 51 15 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.16% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 0.58% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 41 8 6
10th Percentile - £61,250 -
25th Percentile £46,000 £65,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +21.15% -7.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £113,125 £70,625
90th Percentile £74,750 £115,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% -19.05% +21.74%

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 5,267 2,572 4,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.53% 26.72% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 1,793 3,303
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,000 £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 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -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 18 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 18 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 +12 21 £66,538 -36.63% 9
Yorkshire -19 17 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North East -48 13 £52,250 - 7
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 (3.92%) Apache
1 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 44 (86.27%) AWS
2 30 (58.82%) Serverless
3 28 (54.90%) Amazon ECS
4 27 (52.94%) Amazon S3
5 26 (50.98%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (43.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (37.25%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (35.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (25.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (17.65%) Azure
11 8 (15.69%) Azure AKS
12 5 (9.80%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (9.80%) GitHub
12 5 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (7.84%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (5.88%) AWS KMS
14 3 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
14 3 (5.88%) GCP
14 3 (5.88%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) DNS
2 2 (3.92%) AMQP
3 1 (1.96%) Firewall
3 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (19.61%) Relational Database
3 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (9.80%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.84%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.88%) DocumentDB
6 3 (5.88%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.92%) Big Data
7 2 (3.92%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.96%) MySQL
8 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) GitLab
2 12 (23.53%) Git
3 9 (17.65%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.88%) JIRA
4 3 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.92%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (27.45%) Public Sector
2 12 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (21.57%) Law
4 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.92%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Finance
7 1 (1.96%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (31.37%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (27.45%) Developer
4 13 (25.49%) Senior
5 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (13.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
9 5 (9.80%) Software Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (7.84%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
11 3 (5.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (3.92%) Architect
12 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
12 2 (3.92%) Java Engineer
12 2 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
12 2 (3.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (3.92%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) REST
2 12 (23.53%) Node.js
3 10 (19.61%) AngularJS
3 10 (19.61%) React
4 9 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (15.69%) Spring
5 8 (15.69%) Spring Boot
6 7 (13.73%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (13.73%) YAML
7 6 (11.76%) RESTful
8 4 (7.84%) FastAPI
8 4 (7.84%) Flask
8 4 (7.84%) Web Services
9 3 (5.88%) Express.js
9 3 (5.88%) Jest
9 3 (5.88%) JSON
9 3 (5.88%) Kafka
9 3 (5.88%) MEAN Stack
9 3 (5.88%) Nunjucks
9 3 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (39.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (21.57%) Cloud Native
2 11 (21.57%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (21.57%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (7.84%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Blog
6 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Linux
2 5 (9.80%) Windows
2 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.84%) Unix
4 2 (3.92%) CentOS
4 2 (3.92%) Debian
4 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (76.47%) CI/CD
1 39 (76.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (72.55%) DevOps
3 25 (49.02%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (43.14%) Agile
5 21 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (37.25%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (35.29%) ITIL
8 17 (33.33%) Microservices
9 15 (29.41%) Cloud Security
10 14 (27.45%) Cost Optimisation
10 14 (27.45%) Migration
11 13 (25.49%) Cost Management
11 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (21.57%) Identity Management
13 11 (21.57%) Project Delivery
13 11 (21.57%) Service Management
14 9 (17.65%) Containerisation
15 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (45.10%) Python
2 14 (27.45%) Bash
3 11 (21.57%) Java
3 11 (21.57%) JavaScript
4 9 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.88%) Groovy
5 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.92%) PHP
6 2 (3.92%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.92%) SQL
7 1 (1.96%) Bicep
7 1 (1.96%) Perl
7 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (43.14%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (86.27%) Terraform
2 26 (50.98%) Kubernetes
3 18 (35.29%) Ansible
4 3 (5.88%) Kibana
4 3 (5.88%) Packer
5 2 (3.92%) Argo
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.92%) Puppet
6 1 (1.96%) Fluentd
6 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) AppDynamics
2 5 (9.80%) IBM
3 4 (7.84%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.88%) Confluent
5 2 (3.92%) Google
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle
5 2 (3.92%) Pega
5 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.92%) SaltStack
5 2 (3.92%) WSO2
6 1 (1.96%) Splunk