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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 280 317
Rank change year-on-year -9 +37 +54
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 47 20 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.24% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 0.85% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 28 16 15
10th Percentile £58,750 £64,375 £56,750
25th Percentile £59,688 £70,938 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £87,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +34.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £76,688 £112,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,875 £115,000 £84,000
England median annual salary £71,250 £105,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -32.14% +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 5,741 2,362 6,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.29% 30.68% 34.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,086 1,519 5,024
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,504 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% +7.63% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,747 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.89% +5.65% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -29 25 £65,000 -5.45% 1
North West -2 21 £65,288 -37.82% 7
North East - 1 £65,576 - 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 9 (19.15%) 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 27 (57.45%) Serverless
3 22 (46.81%) Amazon S3
4 17 (36.17%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (34.04%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (31.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (27.66%) Azure
8 9 (19.15%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (17.02%) Azure AKS
10 7 (14.89%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (12.77%) GCP
11 6 (12.77%) GitHub
11 6 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (12.77%) OpenShift
12 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
12 3 (6.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
14 1 (2.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) AMQP
2 3 (6.38%) DNS
3 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.91%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (27.66%) Relational Database
3 11 (23.40%) DynamoDB
4 5 (10.64%) NoSQL
5 4 (8.51%) MongoDB
5 4 (8.51%) MySQL
6 3 (6.38%) Big Data
6 3 (6.38%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (6.38%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Git
2 16 (34.04%) Jenkins
3 15 (31.91%) GitLab
4 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket
4 3 (6.38%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.38%) JIRA
4 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.13%) JUnit
5 1 (2.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (31.91%) Developer
2 14 (29.79%) Java Developer
3 10 (21.28%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) Senior
4 9 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (19.15%) Software Engineer
5 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (14.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Backend Developer
9 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Java Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (46.81%) Node.js
2 20 (42.55%) React
3 19 (40.43%) REST
4 17 (36.17%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (34.04%) Spring
5 16 (34.04%) Spring Boot
6 13 (27.66%) RESTful
7 10 (21.28%) Web Services
8 9 (19.15%) AngularJS
9 8 (17.02%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (14.89%) Kafka
10 7 (14.89%) Mustache
10 7 (14.89%) YAML
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%) Apache Camel
13 2 (4.26%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (17.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.26%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) 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 38 (80.85%) CI/CD
2 33 (70.21%) DevOps
3 32 (68.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (61.70%) Microservices
5 28 (59.57%) Agile
6 16 (34.04%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (31.91%) Scrum
8 12 (25.53%) Software Engineering
9 11 (23.40%) TDD
10 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
10 10 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (21.28%) Observability
11 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (19.15%) Kanban
11 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (17.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (14.89%) API Design
13 7 (14.89%) Collaborative Culture
13 7 (14.89%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) Java
2 15 (31.91%) JavaScript
3 14 (29.79%) Python
4 8 (17.02%) TypeScript
5 6 (12.77%) SQL
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) Go
6 3 (6.38%) Groovy
7 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) PHP
8 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
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 16 (34.04%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (76.60%) Kubernetes
1 36 (76.60%) Terraform
2 25 (53.19%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) Argo
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.38%) Packer
3 3 (6.38%) Puppet
3 3 (6.38%) Rancher
4 2 (4.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) AppDynamics
1 5 (10.64%) IBM
2 3 (6.38%) Google
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.38%) SaltStack
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) Pega
3 2 (4.26%) WSO2