Amazon EKS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 407 501
Rank change year-on-year -42 +94 +53
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 115 88 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 1.04% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 76 29 79
10th Percentile £46,500 £49,547 £56,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% -6.45% +19.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £102,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,463 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -3.13%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,681 8,481 22,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.75% 32.10% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,825 6,316 17,458
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £39,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EKS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
North of England -27 52 £65,000 -25.71% 20
South East -46 41 £62,500 - 15
Yorkshire -43 27 £65,288 -3.28% 6
North West -15 23 £65,000 -38.10% 8
Midlands -26 12 £50,000 - 7
West Midlands -15 10 £50,000 - 2
South West -45 8 £62,500 - 16
East of England -28 6 £85,000 +17.24% 9
Wales -23 4 £54,060 +43.27% 1
North East -30 2 £65,288 -6.73% 6
Scotland -31 2 £76,783 -7.49% 9
East Midlands -47 2 £75,000 - 5
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (9.57%) OpenStack
2 9 (7.83%) Apache
3 6 (5.22%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.74%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (1.74%) Confluence
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.87%) Drupal
6 1 (0.87%) IIS
6 1 (0.87%) JBoss
6 1 (0.87%) nginx
6 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.87%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 105 (91.30%) AWS
2 63 (54.78%) Serverless
3 44 (38.26%) AWS Lambda
4 40 (34.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 38 (33.04%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (33.04%) Amazon S3
6 28 (24.35%) Azure
7 23 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (17.39%) GitHub
9 18 (15.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (15.65%) Azure AKS
9 18 (15.65%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (13.04%) GCP
11 14 (12.17%) OpenShift
12 11 (9.57%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (6.09%) CloudFront
14 7 (6.09%) Entra ID
15 6 (5.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
16 5 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) Firewall
2 8 (6.96%) VPN
3 6 (5.22%) AMQP
4 2 (1.74%) DNS
4 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.87%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.52%) Relational Database
3 17 (14.78%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (14.78%) DynamoDB
4 8 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (6.96%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.96%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.22%) Big Data
5 6 (5.22%) Cloudera CDH
5 6 (5.22%) Hadoop
5 6 (5.22%) Redis
6 5 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (3.48%) MySQL
7 4 (3.48%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.61%) Flink
8 3 (2.61%) Looker
9 1 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (33.04%) Jenkins
2 30 (26.09%) Git
3 28 (24.35%) GitLab
4 7 (6.09%) JIRA
4 7 (6.09%) JUnit
5 6 (5.22%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.35%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.35%) JMeter
7 4 (3.48%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.48%) Mockito
8 1 (0.87%) Gatling
8 1 (0.87%) MLflow
8 1 (0.87%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.87%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.70%) Aerospace
4 8 (6.96%) Retail
5 5 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Finance
6 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.61%) Advertising
8 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (20.87%) Developer
1 24 (20.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (19.13%) Senior
4 21 (18.26%) Java Developer
5 20 (17.39%) Software Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (9.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (9.57%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (7.83%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (6.96%) Administrator
10 8 (6.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.96%) DevOps Administrator
10 8 (6.96%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 8 (6.96%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (4.35%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (32.17%) Node.js
2 34 (29.57%) REST
3 33 (28.70%) React
4 32 (27.83%) Spring
5 28 (24.35%) Spring Boot
6 22 (19.13%) Elastic Stack
7 18 (15.65%) Web Services
8 16 (13.91%) AngularJS
8 16 (13.91%) RESTful
9 14 (12.17%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (11.30%) Kafka
11 10 (8.70%) JSON
12 9 (7.83%) AWS CDK
12 9 (7.83%) Mustache
13 8 (6.96%) YAML
14 7 (6.09%) Apache Camel
15 6 (5.22%) gRPC
15 6 (5.22%) Material-UI
15 6 (5.22%) OpenAPI
15 6 (5.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.96%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.96%) Private Cloud
4 6 (5.22%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.48%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 44 (38.26%) Linux
2 8 (6.96%) Debian
2 8 (6.96%) Ubuntu
3 6 (5.22%) CentOS
3 6 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.87%) Windows
4 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (73.91%) CI/CD
2 80 (69.57%) DevOps
3 73 (63.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (54.78%) Agile
5 50 (43.48%) Microservices
6 38 (33.04%) Observability
7 28 (24.35%) Scrum
8 27 (23.48%) Software Engineering
9 25 (21.74%) Containerisation
9 25 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (20.87%) Mentoring
11 22 (19.13%) Cloud Security
11 22 (19.13%) TDD
12 19 (16.52%) AI
12 19 (16.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (16.52%) Infrastructure Automation
13 18 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (15.65%) Kanban
14 17 (14.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 17 (14.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (44.35%) Python
2 42 (36.52%) Java
3 27 (23.48%) JavaScript
4 22 (19.13%) TypeScript
5 19 (16.52%) Bash
6 12 (10.43%) Go
7 10 (8.70%) SQL
8 6 (5.22%) Groovy
8 6 (5.22%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.48%) Perl
9 4 (3.48%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.61%) Bicep
10 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.74%) C#
11 2 (1.74%) C++
11 2 (1.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.87%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.96%) Degree
5 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) QA
2 6 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.61%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.87%) NCSC
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (30.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 83 (72.17%) Terraform
2 82 (71.30%) Kubernetes
3 49 (42.61%) Ansible
4 18 (15.65%) Grafana
5 15 (13.04%) Prometheus
6 9 (7.83%) Kibana
7 8 (6.96%) Proxmox
8 7 (6.09%) Argo
8 7 (6.09%) Puppet
9 5 (4.35%) Packer
10 4 (3.48%) Rancher
11 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.87%) Consul
12 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (8.70%) Google
2 9 (7.83%) AppDynamics
3 8 (6.96%) IBM
3 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.96%) VMware
4 6 (5.22%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.22%) SaltStack
5 5 (4.35%) Oracle
6 4 (3.48%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.48%) PagerDuty
6 4 (3.48%) Splunk
7 3 (2.61%) Confluent
7 3 (2.61%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.74%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.74%) Pega
8 2 (1.74%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.74%) WSO2
9 1 (0.87%) New Relic
9 1 (0.87%) TOWER Software