Amazon EKS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 154 216
Rank change year-on-year -4 +62 -6
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 23 40 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.38% 1.12% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 4.23% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £78,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £84,375
90th Percentile £84,375 - £85,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £32,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +92.31% -60.61% +26.92%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,481 946 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.26% 26.44% 27.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,025 477 1,374
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EKS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire -9 19 £82,500 -
Oxfordshire -7 4 - - 1
Amazon EKS
South East

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.70%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (82.61%) Serverless
3 13 (56.52%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (56.52%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (34.78%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (30.43%) Amazon S3
5 7 (30.43%) Azure
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Relational Database
2 9 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (21.74%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (82.61%) Jenkins
2 12 (52.17%) Git
3 8 (34.78%) JUnit
4 7 (30.43%) JMeter
4 7 (30.43%) Mockito
5 6 (26.09%) GitLab
5 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
6 5 (21.74%) Cucumber
6 5 (21.74%) JIRA
7 4 (17.39%) Artifactory
General
1 12 (52.17%) Public Sector
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
1 11 (47.83%) Java Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Java Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Backend Developer
6 3 (13.04%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Python Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Python Software Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (8.70%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior
8 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (69.57%) REST
2 14 (60.87%) Spring
3 13 (56.52%) Spring Boot
4 11 (47.83%) Web Services
5 10 (43.48%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (43.48%) JSON
6 8 (34.78%) Apache Camel
6 8 (34.78%) Hibernate
6 8 (34.78%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (30.43%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (30.43%) HTML
7 7 (30.43%) jQuery
7 7 (30.43%) WireMock
8 6 (26.09%) AngularJS
8 6 (26.09%) JPA
8 6 (26.09%) React
9 5 (21.74%) XML
10 4 (17.39%) JMS
10 4 (17.39%) RESTful
10 4 (17.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (26.09%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Agile
2 19 (82.61%) Microservices
3 16 (69.57%) CI/CD
4 14 (60.87%) TDD
5 13 (56.52%) DevOps
6 12 (52.17%) BDD
7 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
7 9 (39.13%) Scrum
8 8 (34.78%) Design Patterns
8 8 (34.78%) Kanban
9 7 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (30.43%) Workflow
10 6 (26.09%) Auto-Scaling
10 6 (26.09%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (26.09%) SDLC
10 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
11 5 (21.74%) Domain-Driven Design
11 5 (21.74%) Process Management
11 5 (21.74%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Java
2 17 (73.91%) Python
3 9 (39.13%) Shell Script
4 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
5 6 (26.09%) Groovy
6 4 (17.39%) C#
6 4 (17.39%) C++
6 4 (17.39%) Perl
6 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
6 4 (17.39%) SQL
6 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) QA
System Software
1 18 (78.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (95.65%) Kubernetes
2 11 (47.83%) Ansible
2 11 (47.83%) Kibana
3 10 (43.48%) Terraform
4 4 (17.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) AppDynamics
2 8 (34.78%) IBM
3 7 (30.43%) Dynatrace
3 7 (30.43%) Splunk
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Atlassian