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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 299 294
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +24
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 40 17 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.18% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 0.67% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 31 9 11
10th Percentile £46,750 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £115,000 -
90th Percentile £82,500 - £72,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £95,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +14.29%

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 5,227 2,547 5,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.84% 27.01% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,627 1,757 4,210
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £84,919
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +7 22 £72,500 -32.56% 12
Yorkshire -28 15 £65,000 -7.14% 6
North East -45 3 £62,500 - 5
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 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (87.50%) AWS
2 20 (50.00%) Serverless
3 19 (47.50%) Amazon S3
4 17 (42.50%) Amazon ECS
5 16 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (32.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (27.50%) Azure
9 7 (17.50%) GitHub
9 7 (17.50%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (15.00%) Azure AKS
11 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
11 5 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (7.50%) GCP
13 2 (5.00%) AWS Control Tower
13 2 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) DNS
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) AMQP
2 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) Relational Database
2 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (7.50%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.00%) Big Data
5 2 (5.00%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.50%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) GitLab
2 9 (22.50%) Git
2 9 (22.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) Artifactory
3 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.50%) JIRA
3 3 (7.50%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Developer
2 11 (27.50%) Senior
3 10 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (17.50%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (15.00%) Java Developer
8 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
10 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
10 3 (7.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
11 2 (5.00%) DevOps Developer
11 2 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) REST
2 11 (27.50%) Node.js
2 11 (27.50%) React
3 10 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 8 (20.00%) Spring
4 8 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 7 (17.50%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (17.50%) YAML
6 5 (12.50%) RESTful
7 4 (10.00%) FastAPI
7 4 (10.00%) Flask
7 4 (10.00%) Web Services
8 3 (7.50%) JSON
8 3 (7.50%) Vue
9 2 (5.00%) Apache Camel
9 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
9 2 (5.00%) gRPC
9 2 (5.00%) Material-UI
9 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (27.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
5 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Debian
2 4 (10.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.00%) CentOS
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 30 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 30 (75.00%) DevOps
3 18 (45.00%) Agile
4 17 (42.50%) Microservices
5 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (27.50%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (22.50%) ITIL
8 8 (20.00%) Cloud Security
8 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (20.00%) Observability
8 8 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (17.50%) AI
9 7 (17.50%) Kanban
9 7 (17.50%) Scrum
9 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
10 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
10 6 (15.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) Python
2 12 (30.00%) Java
3 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (12.50%) Bash
6 3 (7.50%) Groovy
6 3 (7.50%) SQL
7 2 (5.00%) PHP
7 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.50%) Bicep
8 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.50%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (90.00%) Terraform
2 27 (67.50%) Kubernetes
3 20 (50.00%) Ansible
4 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (7.50%) Argo
5 3 (7.50%) Packer
6 2 (5.00%) Kibana
6 2 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) AppDynamics
1 5 (12.50%) IBM
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Pega
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.00%) SaltStack
3 2 (5.00%) WSO2
4 1 (2.50%) Confluent
4 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace