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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 285 238
Rank change year-on-year -17 -47 +36
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 52 13 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.22% 0.14% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 0.54% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 41 6 4
10th Percentile - £55,000 -
25th Percentile £46,000 £59,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +0.72% -0.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,563 £76,750
90th Percentile £74,750 £99,375 £81,700
England median annual salary £65,576 £85,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year -22.85% -20.93% +26.47%

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 5,141 2,418 4,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.84% 25.97% 29.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,679 1,665 2,618
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,500 £42,059
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £79,875 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,635 £60,000 £62,900
% change year-on-year +7.73% -4.61% -3.23%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -5 20 £70,000 -27.27% 24
Yorkshire -35 16 £56,000 -13.85% 8
North East -46 16 £57,500 - 9
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 3 (5.77%) Apache
1 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 45 (86.54%) AWS
2 33 (63.46%) Serverless
3 30 (57.69%) Amazon ECS
3 30 (57.69%) Amazon S3
3 30 (57.69%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (42.31%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (40.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 20 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (26.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (17.31%) Azure
9 8 (15.38%) Azure AKS
10 6 (11.54%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (9.62%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (9.62%) GitHub
11 5 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (7.69%) AWS KMS
12 4 (7.69%) GCP
12 4 (7.69%) Kong
13 3 (5.77%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) AMQP
1 3 (5.77%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (17.31%) Relational Database
3 7 (13.46%) MongoDB
4 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.69%) DocumentDB
6 3 (5.77%) Big Data
6 3 (5.77%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (5.77%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.77%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.85%) MySQL
7 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.92%) Redis
8 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) Git
1 13 (25.00%) GitLab
2 9 (17.31%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.69%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.77%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.77%) JIRA
4 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.85%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.92%) Maven
6 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (32.69%) Public Sector
2 15 (28.85%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (25.00%) Law
4 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
5 6 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.77%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Finance
8 1 (1.92%) Games
8 1 (1.92%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) AWS Engineer
1 17 (32.69%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (28.85%) Developer
3 14 (26.92%) Senior
4 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Node.js Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (82.69%) Terraform
2 17 (32.69%) REST
3 12 (23.08%) Node.js
4 11 (21.15%) AngularJS
4 11 (21.15%) React
5 10 (19.23%) Spring
5 10 (19.23%) Spring Boot
6 9 (17.31%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (13.46%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (11.54%) Kafka
8 6 (11.54%) RESTful
9 5 (9.62%) YAML
10 4 (7.69%) Express.js
10 4 (7.69%) FastAPI
10 4 (7.69%) Flask
10 4 (7.69%) Jest
10 4 (7.69%) MEAN Stack
10 4 (7.69%) Nunjucks
11 3 (5.77%) Material-UI
11 3 (5.77%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (38.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (26.92%) Cloud Native
3 13 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (17.31%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (9.62%) Product Ownership
6 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (7.69%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.85%) Blog
7 2 (3.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Unix
2 5 (9.62%) Windows
2 5 (9.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.77%) CentOS
3 3 (5.77%) Debian
3 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (78.85%) CI/CD
2 39 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (67.31%) DevOps
4 26 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (44.23%) Agile
6 22 (42.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (34.62%) ITIL
8 17 (32.69%) Microservices
9 16 (30.77%) Cloud Security
9 16 (30.77%) Cost Optimisation
9 16 (30.77%) Migration
10 15 (28.85%) Cost Management
10 15 (28.85%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (26.92%) Service Management
12 13 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (25.00%) Identity Management
12 13 (25.00%) Project Delivery
13 11 (21.15%) Containerisation
14 10 (19.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (48.08%) Python
2 15 (28.85%) Bash
3 13 (25.00%) Java
3 13 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 10 (19.23%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.77%) Groovy
5 3 (5.77%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.77%) SQL
6 2 (3.85%) PHP
6 2 (3.85%) Scala
7 1 (1.92%) Bicep
7 1 (1.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (46.15%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (48.08%) Kubernetes
2 16 (30.77%) Ansible
3 3 (5.77%) Kibana
3 3 (5.77%) Packer
3 3 (5.77%) Puppet
4 2 (3.85%) Grafana
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.92%) Argo
5 1 (1.92%) Fluentd
5 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) AppDynamics
2 5 (9.62%) Dynatrace
2 5 (9.62%) IBM
3 4 (7.69%) Confluent
4 3 (5.77%) Google
4 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.77%) SaltStack
5 2 (3.85%) Splunk
6 1 (1.92%) Pega
6 1 (1.92%) WSO2
6 1 (1.92%) YouTube