Amazon EKS Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 242 260
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +91
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 30 50 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.27% 0.60% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 1.81% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 46
10th Percentile £48,000 £60,625 £62,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -20.00% +12.07%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £67,000 £73,125 £88,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -25.58% +38.71% -3.13%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,389 2,766 3,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.14% 33.07% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,855 1,548 3,339
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -7.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £77,500
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 South East

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the South East over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the South East

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EKS within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Thames Valley -20 18 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Berkshire -31 15 - -
Surrey - 9 £62,500 - 1
Oxfordshire +7 3 £75,000 - 3
Hampshire - 2 £51,250 -
East Sussex - 1 £60,000 -
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (20.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Qpid
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 27 (90.00%) AWS
2 16 (53.33%) Serverless
3 15 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (36.67%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (30.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (20.00%) GitHub
7 5 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (10.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (10.00%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.33%) Azure
9 1 (3.33%) CloudFront
9 1 (3.33%) Datadog
9 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.33%) GCP
9 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
1 5 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (30.00%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.00%) Redis
5 1 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.33%) Flink
5 1 (3.33%) Looker
5 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (33.33%) JUnit
3 9 (30.00%) JMeter
3 9 (30.00%) Mockito
4 6 (20.00%) Git
5 3 (10.00%) GitLab
6 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 10 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.67%) Retail
3 4 (13.33%) Aerospace
3 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Developer
1 15 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 12 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (40.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 7 (23.33%) Senior
5 5 (16.67%) Administrator
5 5 (16.67%) DevOps Administrator
5 5 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 5 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Architect
9 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
9 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (50.00%) REST
1 15 (50.00%) Spring
1 15 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 14 (46.67%) Web Services
3 9 (30.00%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (30.00%) Apache Camel
3 9 (30.00%) Hibernate
3 9 (30.00%) HTML
3 9 (30.00%) jQuery
3 9 (30.00%) JSON
3 9 (30.00%) Kafka
3 9 (30.00%) WireMock
3 9 (30.00%) XML
4 6 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (20.00%) Mustache
4 6 (20.00%) Node.js
4 6 (20.00%) React
5 2 (6.67%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 15 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 23 (76.67%) Agile
3 17 (56.67%) TDD
4 15 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (50.00%) Microservices
4 15 (50.00%) SDLC
5 10 (33.33%) AI
5 10 (33.33%) DevOps
6 9 (30.00%) BDD
6 9 (30.00%) Process Management
6 9 (30.00%) Workflow
7 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (26.67%) Scrum
8 7 (23.33%) Observability
9 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (16.67%) Cloud Security
10 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (16.67%) Machine Learning
11 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) Python
2 16 (53.33%) JavaScript
3 15 (50.00%) Java
4 9 (30.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (16.67%) Bash
5 5 (16.67%) Go
6 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.67%) C#
7 2 (6.67%) C++
7 2 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (30.00%) Kibana
2 9 (30.00%) Terraform
3 8 (26.67%) Ansible
4 6 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (16.67%) Grafana
5 5 (16.67%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Dynatrace
1 9 (30.00%) Splunk
2 5 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (3.33%) Confluent
3 1 (3.33%) Google