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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 291 239
Rank change year-on-year -9 -52 +39
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 53 16 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.17% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 0.63% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 43 9 6
10th Percentile - £56,500 -
25th Percentile £46,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £70,000 £112,500 £73,625
90th Percentile £74,550 £115,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £66,538 £83,750 £105,000
% change year-on-year -20.55% -20.24% +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 5,169 2,529 4,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.58% 26.60% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,702 1,772 3,048
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £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 £69,800
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -4.62%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -5 21 £66,538 -36.63% 16
Yorkshire -28 17 £65,000 - 9
North East -46 15 £52,250 - 8
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 (3.77%) Apache
1 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.77%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 46 (86.79%) AWS
2 31 (58.49%) Serverless
3 30 (56.60%) Amazon ECS
4 28 (52.83%) Amazon S3
5 27 (50.94%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (45.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (39.62%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (37.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (28.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (16.98%) Azure
11 8 (15.09%) Azure AKS
12 6 (11.32%) GitHub
12 6 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (9.43%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (7.55%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (5.66%) AWS KMS
15 3 (5.66%) AWS Step Functions
15 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
15 3 (5.66%) GCP
15 3 (5.66%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) DNS
2 2 (3.77%) AMQP
3 1 (1.89%) Firewall
3 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (18.87%) Relational Database
3 6 (11.32%) MongoDB
3 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.66%) DocumentDB
4 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.66%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.77%) Big Data
5 2 (3.77%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.89%) MySQL
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (24.53%) GitLab
2 12 (22.64%) Git
3 9 (16.98%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.66%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.66%) JIRA
4 3 (5.66%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.77%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (28.30%) Public Sector
2 14 (26.42%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (24.53%) Law
4 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
5 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.77%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Finance
7 1 (1.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Cloud Engineer
2 18 (33.96%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (26.42%) Developer
4 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (22.64%) Senior
6 8 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (13.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (11.32%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (11.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (11.32%) Java Developer
8 6 (11.32%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.66%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Angular Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Node.js Developer
10 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (86.79%) Terraform
2 14 (26.42%) REST
3 11 (20.75%) Node.js
4 10 (18.87%) AngularJS
5 9 (16.98%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (16.98%) React
6 8 (15.09%) Spring
6 8 (15.09%) Spring Boot
7 7 (13.21%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (13.21%) YAML
8 5 (9.43%) RESTful
9 4 (7.55%) FastAPI
9 4 (7.55%) Flask
9 4 (7.55%) Web Services
10 3 (5.66%) Express.js
10 3 (5.66%) Jest
10 3 (5.66%) Kafka
10 3 (5.66%) MEAN Stack
10 3 (5.66%) Nunjucks
10 3 (5.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (41.51%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (24.53%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (20.75%) Cloud Native
3 11 (20.75%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.77%) Blog
6 2 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
2 5 (9.43%) Windows
2 5 (9.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.55%) Unix
4 2 (3.77%) CentOS
4 2 (3.77%) Debian
4 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (77.36%) CI/CD
2 40 (75.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (71.70%) DevOps
4 27 (50.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (43.40%) Agile
5 23 (43.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (39.62%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (37.74%) ITIL
8 17 (32.08%) Cloud Security
9 16 (30.19%) Cost Optimisation
9 16 (30.19%) Microservices
9 16 (30.19%) Migration
10 15 (28.30%) Cost Management
10 15 (28.30%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (24.53%) Identity Management
11 13 (24.53%) Project Delivery
11 13 (24.53%) Service Management
12 12 (22.64%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (16.98%) Containerisation
13 9 (16.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) Python
2 16 (30.19%) Bash
3 11 (20.75%) Java
3 11 (20.75%) JavaScript
4 8 (15.09%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.66%) Groovy
5 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.77%) PHP
6 2 (3.77%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.77%) Scala
6 2 (3.77%) SQL
7 1 (1.89%) Bicep
7 1 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (45.28%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (50.94%) Kubernetes
2 18 (33.96%) Ansible
3 3 (5.66%) Kibana
3 3 (5.66%) Packer
4 2 (3.77%) Argo
4 2 (3.77%) Grafana
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.77%) Puppet
5 1 (1.89%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.43%) AppDynamics
2 5 (9.43%) IBM
3 4 (7.55%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.66%) Confluent
5 2 (3.77%) Google
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle
5 2 (3.77%) Pega
5 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.77%) SaltStack
5 2 (3.77%) Splunk
5 2 (3.77%) WSO2