Amazon EKS Job Trends in the South West

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

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 159 215
Rank change year-on-year -63 +56 -4
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 23 13 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.22% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.37% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 3
10th Percentile - £73,500 £63,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% +17.86% +19.15%
75th Percentile £117,188 £95,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £120,000 - £76,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £82,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% -23.26% +34.38%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,970 947 1,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 18.61% 26.61% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 687 1,032
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,272 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.49% -17.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £84,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +4.00%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the South West

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the South West

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Gloucestershire -50 17 £80,250 -10.83% 7
Bristol -38 4 £105,000 +35.48% 1
Wiltshire - 2 - - 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 6 (26.09%) Apache
2 5 (21.74%) Apache Spark
3 4 (17.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) Azure
3 12 (52.17%) AWS Lambda
3 12 (52.17%) Serverless
4 9 (39.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (39.13%) OpenShift
5 8 (34.78%) Azure AKS
6 7 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (30.43%) GCP
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
7 5 (21.74%) GitHub
8 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (17.39%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) AMQP
2 4 (17.39%) IPv4
2 4 (17.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Big Data
1 5 (21.74%) Cloudera CDH
1 5 (21.74%) Hadoop
2 4 (17.39%) Flink
3 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) GitLab
2 6 (26.09%) Bitbucket
2 6 (26.09%) Git
3 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Aerospace
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 4 (17.39%) Lead DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Platform Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (86.96%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
2 5 (21.74%) gRPC
2 5 (21.74%) Material-UI
2 5 (21.74%) Node.js
2 5 (21.74%) OpenAPI
2 5 (21.74%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (21.74%) React
2 5 (21.74%) REST
2 5 (21.74%) Spring
2 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
2 5 (21.74%) Swagger
3 4 (17.39%) boto
3 4 (17.39%) Kafka
4 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
5 1 (4.35%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Cloud Native
1 8 (34.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) CentOS
2 5 (21.74%) Debian
2 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Ubuntu
3 4 (17.39%) Windows
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (69.57%) Agile
3 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
3 15 (65.22%) Containerisation
4 11 (47.83%) DevSecOps
5 10 (43.48%) DevOps
6 9 (39.13%) Migration
6 9 (39.13%) Scrum
6 9 (39.13%) Software Engineering
7 7 (30.43%) Microservices
7 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (26.09%) Open Source
8 6 (26.09%) Systems Engineering
8 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
9 5 (21.74%) AI
9 5 (21.74%) API Development
9 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
9 5 (21.74%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 11 (47.83%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) Bash
3 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) RHCSA
4 5 (21.74%) AWS Certification
4 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
5 4 (17.39%) CCNA
5 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (17.39%) ISTQB
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (17.39%) OSCP
5 4 (17.39%) RHCE
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Squid
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (17.39%) VMware NSX
2 4 (17.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (82.61%) Kubernetes
2 17 (73.91%) Ansible
3 5 (21.74%) Puppet
4 4 (17.39%) Packer
4 4 (17.39%) ZABBIX
5 2 (8.70%) Rancher
6 1 (4.35%) Argo
6 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Red Hat
2 5 (21.74%) Google
2 5 (21.74%) SaltStack
3 4 (17.39%) Atlassian
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 4 (17.39%) Splunk
3 4 (17.39%) VMware