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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 249 278
Rank change year-on-year -30 +29 +128
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 14 82 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 0.58% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.57% 2.00% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 24
10th Percentile £55,500 - £54,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -7.33% -
75th Percentile £79,375 £76,750 £83,125
90th Percentile £96,250 £81,700 £87,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £107,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -20.93% +26.47% +13.33%

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 2,448 4,102 3,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.09% 29.21% 41.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,696 2,584 3,083
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,964 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +3.17%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +17 8 £60,000 -18.92% 2
North West -53 5 £96,250 +48.08% 11
North East +19 1 - - 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (14.29%) Datadog
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) DynamoDB
2 6 (42.86%) Delta Lake
2 6 (42.86%) Metadata
2 6 (42.86%) Spark SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.14%) DocumentDB
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) MLflow
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Keras
1 6 (42.86%) Lambda Expressions
1 6 (42.86%) Metaflow
1 6 (42.86%) NumPy
1 6 (42.86%) Pandas
1 6 (42.86%) PySpark
1 6 (42.86%) PyTorch
1 6 (42.86%) scikit-learn
1 6 (42.86%) TensorFlow
1 6 (42.86%) YAML
2 3 (21.43%) Node.js
2 3 (21.43%) React
3 2 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Unix
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 6 (42.86%) Data Science
2 6 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Information Security
2 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 6 (42.86%) Metadata Management
2 6 (42.86%) MLOps
2 6 (42.86%) OO
2 6 (42.86%) OOP
2 6 (42.86%) OWASP
2 6 (42.86%) Time Management
2 6 (42.86%) Unit Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) PHP
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Terraform
2 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (42.86%) Kubeflow
4 4 (28.57%) Argo
5 2 (14.29%) Ansible
5 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 1 (7.14%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Databricks