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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 296 276
Rank change year-on-year -7 -20 +35
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 44 15 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.21% 0.16% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 0.59% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 34 7 9
10th Percentile £46,225 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £113,750 -
90th Percentile £82,500 £115,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £74,500 £95,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -21.58% -9.52% +20.00%

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 5,311 2,562 5,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.95% 26.93% 31.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,673 1,775 3,833
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £79,336 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +16 22 £72,500 -30.95% 9
Yorkshire -27 16 £65,000 -7.14% 5
North East -41 6 £62,500 - 7
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 (4.55%) Apache
1 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.55%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 39 (88.64%) AWS
2 24 (54.55%) Serverless
3 22 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 21 (47.73%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (25.00%) Azure
9 10 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (15.91%) GitHub
10 7 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (15.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (13.64%) Azure AKS
12 5 (11.36%) Entra ID
13 4 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (6.82%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (6.82%) GCP
15 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
15 2 (4.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) DNS
2 4 (9.09%) Firewall
3 2 (4.55%) AMQP
3 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.36%) DynamoDB
4 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.82%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.55%) Big Data
6 2 (4.55%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (4.55%) DocumentDB
6 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.27%) MySQL
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) GitLab
2 11 (25.00%) Git
3 9 (20.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.82%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 3 (6.82%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.55%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Law
5 2 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (25.00%) Senior
4 10 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (20.45%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (13.64%) Java Developer
8 5 (11.36%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
10 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
10 3 (6.82%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (6.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (4.55%) Architect
11 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 2 (4.55%) Java Engineer
11 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 2 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) REST
2 12 (27.27%) Node.js
3 11 (25.00%) React
4 10 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (20.45%) AngularJS
6 8 (18.18%) Spring
6 8 (18.18%) Spring Boot
7 7 (15.91%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (15.91%) YAML
8 6 (13.64%) RESTful
9 4 (9.09%) FastAPI
9 4 (9.09%) Flask
9 4 (9.09%) Web Services
10 3 (6.82%) JSON
10 3 (6.82%) Vue
11 2 (4.55%) Express.js
11 2 (4.55%) Jakarta EE
11 2 (4.55%) JMS
11 2 (4.55%) JPA
11 2 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (22.73%) Cloud Native
4 4 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) Debian
2 4 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.55%) CentOS
3 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Windows
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (77.27%) CI/CD
1 34 (77.27%) DevOps
1 34 (77.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (45.45%) Agile
3 18 (40.91%) Microservices
4 14 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (25.00%) ITIL
7 10 (22.73%) Cloud Security
8 9 (20.45%) Observability
9 8 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
10 7 (15.91%) AI
10 7 (15.91%) Cost Optimisation
10 7 (15.91%) Kanban
10 7 (15.91%) Migration
10 7 (15.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) Python
2 12 (27.27%) Java
3 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.45%) TypeScript
5 8 (18.18%) Bash
6 3 (6.82%) Groovy
6 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.82%) SQL
7 2 (4.55%) PHP
7 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.27%) Bicep
8 1 (2.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.82%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (90.91%) Terraform
2 29 (65.91%) Kubernetes
3 20 (45.45%) Ansible
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (6.82%) Argo
5 3 (6.82%) Kibana
5 3 (6.82%) Packer
6 2 (4.55%) Puppet
7 1 (2.27%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) AppDynamics
1 5 (11.36%) IBM
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.55%) Confluent
4 2 (4.55%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle
4 2 (4.55%) Pega
4 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.55%) SaltStack
4 2 (4.55%) WSO2