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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 246 313
Rank change year-on-year +19 +67 +61
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 42 23 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.34% 0.29% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.92% 0.84% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24 13 16
10th Percentile - £64,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +25.93% -3.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £112,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £82,500 - £85,625
England median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -25.58% +38.71% -3.13%

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 4,567 2,726 4,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.50% 34.35% 37.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,119 1,544 4,028
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -12 26 £62,500 -10.71% 3
North West +16 15 £65,000 -32.47% 9
North East -8 1 £65,000 -7.14% 1
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 11 (26.19%) OpenStack
2 4 (9.52%) Apache
2 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 39 (92.86%) AWS
2 28 (66.67%) Serverless
3 22 (52.38%) Amazon S3
4 15 (35.71%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (33.33%) Azure
6 8 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (19.05%) GCP
7 7 (16.67%) OpenShift
8 6 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (14.29%) Azure AKS
9 3 (7.14%) GitHub
9 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (2.38%) CloudFront
11 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) AMQP
2 3 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (2.38%) DNS
3 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (42.86%) DynamoDB
2 17 (40.48%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 4 (9.52%) Big Data
4 4 (9.52%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 3 (7.14%) MySQL
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (42.86%) Git
2 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.90%) GitLab
4 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.38%) JUnit
General
1 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
1 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Developer
1 14 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 13 (30.95%) Senior
3 12 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 10 (23.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (23.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (76.19%) Node.js
2 25 (59.52%) React
3 24 (57.14%) REST
4 19 (45.24%) Spring
4 19 (45.24%) Spring Boot
5 12 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (26.19%) AngularJS
6 11 (26.19%) RESTful
7 10 (23.81%) Web Services
8 7 (16.67%) Kafka
8 7 (16.67%) Mustache
9 4 (9.52%) Apache Camel
9 4 (9.52%) gRPC
9 4 (9.52%) Material-UI
9 4 (9.52%) OpenAPI
9 4 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (9.52%) Swagger
10 1 (2.38%) JSON
10 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Debian
2 6 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 4 (9.52%) CentOS
3 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) Microservices
2 32 (76.19%) CI/CD
3 26 (61.90%) Agile
4 24 (57.14%) DevOps
5 22 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (42.86%) Software Engineering
7 16 (38.10%) Scrum
8 12 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (28.57%) TDD
9 11 (26.19%) Containerisation
9 11 (26.19%) Observability
10 10 (23.81%) Kanban
11 8 (19.05%) API Design
11 8 (19.05%) Mentoring
12 6 (14.29%) BDD
12 6 (14.29%) Coaching
12 6 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 22 (52.38%) Java
3 14 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 9 (21.43%) Python
5 3 (7.14%) Go
5 3 (7.14%) SQL
6 1 (2.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.38%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (73.81%) Terraform
2 24 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 17 (40.48%) Ansible
4 4 (9.52%) Puppet
5 3 (7.14%) Rancher
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.38%) Argo
7 1 (2.38%) Grafana
7 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Google
1 4 (9.52%) Pega
1 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
1 4 (9.52%) SaltStack
1 4 (9.52%) WSO2
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft