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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 253 260
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +109
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 30 49 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.30% 0.40% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 1.39% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 18 2 25
10th Percentile - £70,400 £54,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £71,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% -10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,625 £73,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,875 £73,600 £87,500
England median annual salary £81,250 £130,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% +62.50% -

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 2,967 3,517 3,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.86% 28.59% 44.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,873 1,961 2,751
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,285 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 12 November 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 12 November 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 +18 18 £60,000 -18.92% 6
North West -5 10 £88,750 - 12
North East +10 2 £65,000 -7.14% 1
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 (26.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (13.33%) OpenStack
3 2 (6.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 29 (96.67%) AWS
2 15 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 13 (43.33%) Serverless
4 7 (23.33%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (23.33%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (23.33%) Azure
5 6 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.00%) GCP
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (6.67%) Datadog
7 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) DynamoDB
2 7 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (23.33%) Relational Database
3 6 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 6 (20.00%) Metadata
3 6 (20.00%) Spark SQL
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.67%) Big Data
5 2 (6.67%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.33%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Git
1 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Senior
2 7 (23.33%) Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Site Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) Node.js
2 14 (46.67%) REST
3 11 (36.67%) React
4 9 (30.00%) Spring
4 9 (30.00%) Spring Boot
5 8 (26.67%) AngularJS
6 6 (20.00%) Keras
6 6 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
6 6 (20.00%) Metaflow
6 6 (20.00%) NumPy
6 6 (20.00%) Pandas
6 6 (20.00%) PySpark
6 6 (20.00%) PyTorch
6 6 (20.00%) scikit-learn
6 6 (20.00%) TensorFlow
6 6 (20.00%) YAML
7 4 (13.33%) Apache Camel
7 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (13.33%) Web Services
8 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Unix
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) CentOS
3 2 (6.67%) Debian
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 17 (56.67%) Microservices
3 16 (53.33%) Agile
4 13 (43.33%) DevOps
5 11 (36.67%) Software Engineering
6 9 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (23.33%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (23.33%) Kanban
7 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
7 7 (23.33%) Scrum
8 6 (20.00%) AI
8 6 (20.00%) Coaching
8 6 (20.00%) Information Security
8 6 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 6 (20.00%) Metadata Management
8 6 (20.00%) OO
8 6 (20.00%) OOP
8 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 14 (46.67%) Python
3 10 (33.33%) Java
4 8 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 7 (23.33%) SQL
6 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (86.67%) Terraform
2 18 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (33.33%) Ansible
4 6 (20.00%) Kubeflow
5 3 (10.00%) Argo
5 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.67%) Puppet
7 1 (3.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Databricks
2 4 (13.33%) Pega
2 4 (13.33%) WSO2
3 2 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.67%) SaltStack