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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 284 333
Rank change year-on-year -5 +49 +16
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 43 17 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.21% 0.20% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.70% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 31 14 13
10th Percentile £58,750 £64,125 £56,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,813 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £95,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.97% +58.33% -9.43%
75th Percentile £74,250 £112,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £115,000 £71,000
England median annual salary £73,500 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -26.50% +17.65% -2.86%

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 5,047 2,413 6,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.98% 28.58% 32.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,443 1,635 5,169
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,200 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 23 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 23 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 +18 23 £72,500 -30.95% 4
Yorkshire -18 18 £65,000 -5.45% 3
North East - 2 £64,038 - 2
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 4 (9.30%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.65%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 38 (88.37%) AWS
2 23 (53.49%) Serverless
3 21 (48.84%) Amazon S3
4 17 (39.53%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (39.53%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (27.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (27.91%) Azure
6 10 (23.26%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (16.28%) Azure AKS
8 6 (13.95%) GitHub
8 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
10 4 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (9.30%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (9.30%) GCP
11 3 (6.98%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
11 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (4.65%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) AMQP
2 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) Relational Database
2 8 (18.60%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (16.28%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.98%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.65%) Big Data
5 2 (4.65%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.65%) MySQL
5 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.33%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (32.56%) GitLab
2 12 (27.91%) Git
3 11 (25.58%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.98%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.98%) JIRA
4 3 (6.98%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.65%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.65%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Developer
2 13 (30.23%) Senior
3 9 (20.93%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (20.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (18.60%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Software Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
7 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (9.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) Node.js
1 15 (34.88%) React
2 14 (32.56%) REST
3 12 (27.91%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (23.26%) Spring
4 10 (23.26%) Spring Boot
5 9 (20.93%) RESTful
6 8 (18.60%) AngularJS
7 7 (16.28%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (16.28%) YAML
8 6 (13.95%) Web Services
9 4 (9.30%) FastAPI
9 4 (9.30%) Flask
10 3 (6.98%) JSON
10 3 (6.98%) Kafka
10 3 (6.98%) Vue
11 2 (4.65%) Java EE
11 2 (4.65%) JMS
11 2 (4.65%) JPA
11 2 (4.65%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 14 (32.56%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (20.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
4 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Debian
2 4 (9.30%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.65%) CentOS
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) CI/CD
2 32 (74.42%) DevOps
2 32 (74.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (53.49%) Microservices
4 21 (48.84%) Agile
5 14 (32.56%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (25.58%) Observability
7 9 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (20.93%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (20.93%) Scrum
7 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
8 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (18.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
9 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (16.28%) ITIL
9 7 (16.28%) Kanban
10 6 (13.95%) AI
10 6 (13.95%) Cloud Security
10 6 (13.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Java
2 14 (32.56%) Python
3 10 (23.26%) JavaScript
3 10 (23.26%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.30%) SQL
5 3 (6.98%) Bash
5 3 (6.98%) Groovy
6 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) Perl
7 1 (2.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.98%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (86.05%) Terraform
2 30 (69.77%) Kubernetes
3 21 (48.84%) Ansible
4 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (6.98%) Argo
5 3 (6.98%) Packer
6 2 (4.65%) Kibana
6 2 (4.65%) Puppet
7 1 (2.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) AppDynamics
1 5 (11.63%) IBM
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) Google
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) Pega
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.65%) SaltStack
3 2 (4.65%) WSO2
4 1 (2.33%) Confluent
4 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace