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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 280 325
Rank change year-on-year -4 +45 +50
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 47 20 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.25% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% 0.82% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 31 16 14
10th Percentile £58,750 £64,375 £56,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,938 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £87,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.06% +40.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £74,750 £112,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £115,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £105,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -30.95% +27.27% -8.33%

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 5,825 2,428 6,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 28.99% 30.55% 33.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,185 1,573 5,075
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,777 £69,125
90th Percentile £94,500 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -1 23 £67,500 -35.71% 9
Yorkshire -24 23 £65,000 -5.45% 3
North East - 1 £65,576 - 3
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 7 (14.89%) OpenStack
2 3 (6.38%) Apache
2 3 (6.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 42 (89.36%) AWS
2 26 (55.32%) Serverless
3 22 (46.81%) Amazon S3
4 17 (36.17%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (36.17%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (29.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (29.79%) Azure
6 10 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (17.02%) Azure AKS
8 6 (12.77%) GCP
8 6 (12.77%) GitHub
8 6 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (10.64%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
9 5 (10.64%) OpenShift
10 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (6.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (4.26%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) DNS
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) AMQP
3 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) Relational Database
2 12 (25.53%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (21.28%) DynamoDB
4 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.38%) Big Data
5 3 (6.38%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (6.38%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.38%) MySQL
6 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (34.04%) Git
2 14 (29.79%) GitLab
2 14 (29.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
3 3 (6.38%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Developer
2 11 (23.40%) Java Developer
2 11 (23.40%) Senior
3 10 (21.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (19.15%) Software Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Backend Developer
8 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Architect
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (42.55%) Node.js
2 19 (40.43%) React
3 17 (36.17%) REST
4 15 (31.91%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (29.79%) Spring
5 14 (29.79%) Spring Boot
6 12 (25.53%) RESTful
7 9 (19.15%) Web Services
8 8 (17.02%) AngularJS
8 8 (17.02%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (14.89%) YAML
10 5 (10.64%) Kafka
10 5 (10.64%) Mustache
11 4 (8.51%) JSON
12 3 (6.38%) gRPC
12 3 (6.38%) Material-UI
12 3 (6.38%) OpenAPI
12 3 (6.38%) Swagger
13 2 (4.26%) ARM Templates
13 2 (4.26%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.91%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (19.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (4.26%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) Debian
2 5 (10.64%) Ubuntu
3 3 (6.38%) CentOS
3 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) CI/CD
2 33 (70.21%) DevOps
2 33 (70.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (57.45%) Microservices
4 25 (53.19%) Agile
5 16 (34.04%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (27.66%) Scrum
7 12 (25.53%) Software Engineering
8 11 (23.40%) Observability
9 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (19.15%) Kanban
9 9 (19.15%) TDD
10 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
10 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (17.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (14.89%) API Design
11 7 (14.89%) ITIL
12 6 (12.77%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) Java
2 14 (29.79%) Python
3 13 (27.66%) JavaScript
4 9 (19.15%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.64%) SQL
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) Groovy
7 2 (4.26%) Go
7 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.13%) Bicep
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.38%) QA
1 3 (6.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (80.85%) Terraform
2 34 (72.34%) Kubernetes
3 24 (51.06%) Ansible
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (6.38%) Argo
5 3 (6.38%) Packer
5 3 (6.38%) Puppet
6 2 (4.26%) Kibana
6 2 (4.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) AppDynamics
1 5 (10.64%) IBM
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.38%) Google
3 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.38%) SaltStack
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle
4 2 (4.26%) Pega
4 2 (4.26%) WSO2