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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 241 317
Rank change year-on-year -31 +76 +55
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 50 20 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.28% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% 0.88% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 31 15 14
10th Percentile £58,750 £64,750 £56,625
25th Percentile £59,375 £71,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £87,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +40.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £82,500 £112,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £83,750 £114,000 £83,375
England median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -25.58% +34.38% -5.88%

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 5,984 2,267 5,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.91% 32.61% 35.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,709 1,730 4,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,738 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,652 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,100 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.84% +8.70% -11.54%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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
Yorkshire -35 27 £65,288 -3.28% 1
North West -25 21 £65,000 -38.10% 6
North East -37 2 £65,288 -6.73% 4
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 9 (18.00%) OpenStack
2 4 (8.00%) Apache
2 4 (8.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 44 (88.00%) AWS
2 31 (62.00%) Serverless
3 24 (48.00%) Amazon S3
4 21 (42.00%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (28.00%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (28.00%) Azure
7 9 (18.00%) Azure AKS
8 8 (16.00%) GCP
9 7 (14.00%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (14.00%) OpenShift
10 6 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (10.00%) GitHub
11 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (6.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
13 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (2.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) AMQP
1 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) DNS
2 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) DynamoDB
2 13 (26.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (22.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.00%) Big Data
4 4 (8.00%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (8.00%) Hadoop
4 4 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.00%) MySQL
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 19 (38.00%) Git
2 15 (30.00%) GitLab
2 15 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.00%) JIRA
3 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.00%) JUnit
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) Java Developer
3 12 (24.00%) Senior
3 12 (24.00%) Software Engineer
4 10 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.00%) Backend Developer
11 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 2 (4.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 2 (4.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (48.00%) Node.js
2 23 (46.00%) React
3 20 (40.00%) REST
4 17 (34.00%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (34.00%) Spring
4 17 (34.00%) Spring Boot
5 14 (28.00%) RESTful
6 10 (20.00%) Web Services
7 9 (18.00%) AngularJS
7 9 (18.00%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (14.00%) Kafka
8 7 (14.00%) Mustache
8 7 (14.00%) YAML
9 4 (8.00%) gRPC
9 4 (8.00%) JSON
9 4 (8.00%) Material-UI
9 4 (8.00%) OpenAPI
9 4 (8.00%) Swagger
10 2 (4.00%) Apache Camel
10 2 (4.00%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.00%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (14.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
6 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Debian
2 6 (12.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (8.00%) CentOS
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 36 (72.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (66.00%) DevOps
4 32 (64.00%) Microservices
5 30 (60.00%) Agile
6 20 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (30.00%) Scrum
7 15 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 14 (28.00%) Observability
9 12 (24.00%) Containerisation
10 11 (22.00%) TDD
11 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (18.00%) API Design
12 9 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (18.00%) Kanban
13 8 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (14.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 7 (14.00%) Deployment Automation
14 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.00%) Java
2 15 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (30.00%) Python
3 10 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (12.00%) SQL
5 3 (6.00%) Bash
5 3 (6.00%) Go
5 3 (6.00%) Groovy
6 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.00%) QA
3 3 (6.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (32.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (80.00%) Terraform
2 38 (76.00%) Kubernetes
3 25 (50.00%) Ansible
4 4 (8.00%) Puppet
5 3 (6.00%) Argo
5 3 (6.00%) Packer
5 3 (6.00%) Rancher
6 2 (4.00%) Kibana
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.00%) Grafana
7 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) AppDynamics
1 5 (10.00%) IBM
2 4 (8.00%) Google
2 4 (8.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (8.00%) SaltStack
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle
3 2 (4.00%) Pega
3 2 (4.00%) WSO2