Amazon EKS Job Trends in the North West

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 174 183
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 +92
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 10 38 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.74% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% 2.35% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £65,500 - -
25th Percentile £70,000 £86,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% +33.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 -
90th Percentile £94,500 - -
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,743 1,617 1,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.28% 31.29% 39.46%
Number of salaries quoted 998 911 1,347
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EKS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the North West

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the North West over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the North West

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
Manchester -8 10 £80,000 -8.57% 6
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) Serverless
3 6 (60.00%) Azure
4 5 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (50.00%) GCP
4 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) Big Data
2 3 (30.00%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) AngularJS
1 7 (70.00%) Node.js
1 7 (70.00%) REST
1 7 (70.00%) Spring
1 7 (70.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) gRPC
2 3 (30.00%) Material-UI
2 3 (30.00%) OpenAPI
2 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (30.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) Swagger
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Camel
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) CentOS
2 3 (30.00%) Debian
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Microservices
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (60.00%) DevOps
5 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (50.00%) Kanban
5 5 (50.00%) Scrum
6 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (30.00%) API Development
7 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (30.00%) Open Source
7 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (20.00%) BDD
8 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (50.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) Go
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Ansible
2 7 (70.00%) Terraform
3 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (30.00%) Puppet
5 2 (20.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (30.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (10.00%) Pega
2 1 (10.00%) WSO2