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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 135 148
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +46
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 20 46 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.50% 1.36% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 4.19% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 18
10th Percentile - £60,625 £70,875
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -21.21% +13.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - £73,125 £85,625
South East median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -16.13% +6.90%

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 1,203 1,097 1,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.84% 32.42% 29.31%
Number of salaries quoted 646 564 952
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,375 £88,675 £82,375
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

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 14 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
Berkshire -31 17 - - 5
Oxfordshire +16 3 £75,000 - 5
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 6 (30.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (85.00%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (85.00%) Serverless
3 11 (55.00%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (85.00%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (85.00%) Relational Database
2 11 (55.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (85.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (60.00%) JUnit
3 11 (55.00%) JMeter
3 11 (55.00%) Mockito
4 6 (30.00%) Git
General
1 12 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Developer
1 17 (85.00%) Java Developer
2 14 (70.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (70.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 11 (55.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (85.00%) REST
1 17 (85.00%) Spring
1 17 (85.00%) Spring Boot
2 16 (80.00%) Web Services
3 11 (55.00%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (55.00%) Apache Camel
3 11 (55.00%) Hibernate
3 11 (55.00%) HTML
3 11 (55.00%) jQuery
3 11 (55.00%) JSON
3 11 (55.00%) WireMock
3 11 (55.00%) XML
4 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (30.00%) Kafka
4 6 (30.00%) Mustache
4 6 (30.00%) Node.js
4 6 (30.00%) React
5 2 (10.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 17 (85.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
2 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (85.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 17 (85.00%) Microservices
2 17 (85.00%) SDLC
2 17 (85.00%) TDD
3 11 (55.00%) BDD
3 11 (55.00%) Process Management
3 11 (55.00%) Workflow
4 6 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (10.00%) AI
6 2 (10.00%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
6 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Finite Element Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) Java
1 17 (85.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (65.00%) Python
3 11 (55.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 17 (85.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (55.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Dynatrace
1 11 (55.00%) Splunk