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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 291 260
Rank change year-on-year -15 -31 +45
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 45 16 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.20% 0.17% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% 0.62% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 35 8 7
10th Percentile £46,000 £61,250 £61,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £73,750 £113,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £115,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% -14.29% +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 5,331 2,585 4,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.09% 26.91% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,723 1,801 3,414
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 £82,751 £84,964
England median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% - -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 11 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 11 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 -3 21 £72,500 -30.95% 12
Yorkshire -23 15 £65,000 -7.14% 9
North East -49 9 £54,750 - 6
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 (4.44%) Apache
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.44%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 41 (91.11%) AWS
2 27 (60.00%) Serverless
3 25 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (53.33%) Amazon S3
5 23 (51.11%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (42.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (35.56%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (31.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (22.22%) Azure
10 9 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (11.11%) Azure AKS
11 5 (11.11%) GitHub
11 5 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (8.89%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
13 3 (6.67%) AWS KMS
13 3 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (6.67%) GCP
13 3 (6.67%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) DNS
2 3 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (4.44%) AMQP
3 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Relational Database
2 7 (15.56%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.89%) DynamoDB
4 4 (8.89%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.67%) DocumentDB
5 3 (6.67%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.44%) Big Data
6 2 (4.44%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.22%) MySQL
7 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) GitLab
2 12 (26.67%) Git
3 9 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.67%) JIRA
4 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.44%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Law
4 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Cloud Engineer
1 14 (31.11%) Developer
2 12 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) Senior
4 8 (17.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Java Developer
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) REST
2 12 (26.67%) Node.js
3 10 (22.22%) AngularJS
3 10 (22.22%) React
4 9 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (17.78%) Spring
5 8 (17.78%) Spring Boot
6 7 (15.56%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (15.56%) YAML
7 6 (13.33%) RESTful
8 4 (8.89%) FastAPI
8 4 (8.89%) Flask
8 4 (8.89%) Web Services
9 3 (6.67%) Express.js
9 3 (6.67%) Jest
9 3 (6.67%) JSON
9 3 (6.67%) Kafka
9 3 (6.67%) MEAN Stack
9 3 (6.67%) Nunjucks
9 3 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (35.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (24.44%) Cloud Native
4 7 (15.56%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
7 2 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Debian
2 3 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.44%) CentOS
3 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.22%) Windows
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 35 (77.78%) DevOps
2 34 (75.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (46.67%) Agile
4 17 (37.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (37.78%) Microservices
5 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (31.11%) ITIL
7 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (26.67%) Cloud Security
8 12 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
9 10 (22.22%) Migration
10 9 (20.00%) Cost Management
10 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (15.56%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (15.56%) Observability
11 7 (15.56%) Project Delivery
11 7 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) Python
2 12 (26.67%) Java
3 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
4 10 (22.22%) Bash
5 9 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.67%) Groovy
6 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.67%) SQL
7 2 (4.44%) PHP
7 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.22%) Bicep
8 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (42.22%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (91.11%) Terraform
2 28 (62.22%) Kubernetes
3 19 (42.22%) Ansible
4 3 (6.67%) Kibana
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.67%) Packer
5 2 (4.44%) Argo
5 2 (4.44%) Puppet
6 1 (2.22%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) AppDynamics
1 5 (11.11%) IBM
2 4 (8.89%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.67%) Confluent
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.44%) Google
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) Pega
4 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.44%) SaltStack
4 2 (4.44%) WSO2