Amazon EKS Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 500 590
Rank change year-on-year +42 +90 +58
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 119 287 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.20% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 26 72 66
10th Percentile £37,733 £56,250 £48,098
25th Percentile £59,063 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £112,500 £84,063 £77,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £102,500 £88,125
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -8.57% +16.67%

All Cloud 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 8,591 24,005 22,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.82% 32.19% 38.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,701 17,654 13,410
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,500 £70,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Amazon EKS in the UK excluding London

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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
South East +70 59 £32,500 -60.61% 294
North of England -1 20 £87,500 +40.00% 255
North West -42 16 £105,000 +75.00% 127
East of England +55 15 - - 159
Scotland +50 9 £95,000 +104.30% 48
South West +86 8 £75,000 +20.00% 128
Midlands +75 4 - - 200
Yorkshire +59 4 £68,750 -8.33% 100
Wales +47 4 £46,367 - 29
West Midlands +59 3 - - 107
East Midlands +34 1 - - 80
Amazon EKS
UK

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (11.76%) JBoss
1 14 (11.76%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (5.04%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.52%) Confluence
5 2 (1.68%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 116 (97.48%) AWS
2 49 (41.18%) Serverless
3 48 (40.34%) Azure
4 44 (36.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 43 (36.13%) Amazon ECS
6 27 (22.69%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (15.97%) Amazon S3
8 16 (13.45%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (9.24%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (7.56%) GitHub
10 9 (7.56%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (4.20%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.36%) GCP
14 3 (2.52%) Azure AKS
14 3 (2.52%) Route 53
15 2 (1.68%) Amazon Bedrock
15 2 (1.68%) Amazon ECR
15 2 (1.68%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (30.25%) Elasticsearch
2 36 (30.25%) Relational Database
3 13 (10.92%) RDBMS
4 9 (7.56%) DynamoDB
4 9 (7.56%) MySQL
5 6 (5.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.68%) Big Data
8 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.84%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 42 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 29 (24.37%) JUnit
3 26 (21.85%) Git
4 13 (10.92%) JMeter
4 13 (10.92%) Mockito
5 10 (8.40%) GitLab
6 4 (3.36%) JIRA
7 3 (2.52%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.68%) Locust
8 2 (1.68%) Selenium
9 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.84%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.84%) Travis CI
General
1 43 (36.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 42 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (22.69%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.92%) Finance
4 13 (10.92%) Social Skills
5 5 (4.20%) Law
5 5 (4.20%) Marketing
5 5 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.52%) Automotive
6 3 (2.52%) Banking
6 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.68%) Electronics
7 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.84%) Games
Job Titles
1 71 (59.66%) Developer
2 36 (30.25%) Software Developer
3 34 (28.57%) Java Developer
4 12 (10.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.24%) Lead
5 11 (9.24%) Software Engineer
6 10 (8.40%) Senior
7 7 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.20%) IT Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Senior IT Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Team Leader
10 3 (2.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (40.34%) Node.js
2 42 (35.29%) .NET
3 40 (33.61%) Spring
4 39 (32.77%) REST
5 38 (31.93%) Spring Boot
6 36 (30.25%) Pandas
7 33 (27.73%) Web Services
8 27 (22.69%) Apache Camel
9 20 (16.81%) Kafka
10 16 (13.45%) J2EE
11 14 (11.76%) React
11 14 (11.76%) RESTful
11 14 (11.76%) SOAP
12 13 (10.92%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (10.92%) Hibernate
12 13 (10.92%) HTML
12 13 (10.92%) jQuery
12 13 (10.92%) WireMock
13 9 (7.56%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (5.88%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 36 (30.25%) Cyberattack
1 36 (30.25%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (8.40%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.52%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.68%) BBC
5 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.68%) Molecular Biology
5 2 (1.68%) Wiki
6 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.84%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (36.13%) Linux
2 36 (30.25%) Android
3 2 (1.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (84.03%) Agile
2 83 (69.75%) CI/CD
3 60 (50.42%) Software Engineering
4 59 (49.58%) Kanban
5 51 (42.86%) Microservices
6 46 (38.66%) Containerisation
7 45 (37.82%) DevOps
8 44 (36.97%) Collaborative Working
9 37 (31.09%) Line Management
9 37 (31.09%) Mathematics
10 36 (30.25%) Android Development
10 36 (30.25%) Design Patterns
10 36 (30.25%) OO
10 36 (30.25%) OOP
10 36 (30.25%) OWASP
10 36 (30.25%) Secure Coding
10 36 (30.25%) Statistics
10 36 (30.25%) TDD
11 31 (26.05%) Scrum
12 27 (22.69%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 85 (71.43%) Java
2 74 (62.18%) Python
3 63 (52.94%) JavaScript
4 36 (30.25%) C++
4 36 (30.25%) Go
4 36 (30.25%) Rust
5 15 (12.61%) Shell Script
6 10 (8.40%) SQL
7 9 (7.56%) Bash
8 5 (4.20%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.84%) Groovy
9 1 (0.84%) Perl
9 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (52.10%) Security Cleared
2 37 (31.09%) DV Cleared
3 24 (20.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.84%) Degree
6 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.84%) MCSA
6 1 (0.84%) MCSE
6 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.61%) SLA
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.68%) SEPA
4 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.84%) SOC 2
System Software
1 92 (77.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 105 (88.24%) Kubernetes
2 64 (53.78%) Terraform
3 52 (43.70%) Ansible
4 13 (10.92%) Kibana
5 9 (7.56%) Grafana
6 8 (6.72%) Argo
7 5 (4.20%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.68%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.84%) Automic
9 1 (0.84%) Consul
9 1 (0.84%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.84%) Packer
9 1 (0.84%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Dynatrace
1 13 (10.92%) Splunk
2 2 (1.68%) Atlassian
2 2 (1.68%) Databricks
2 2 (1.68%) PagerDuty
2 2 (1.68%) Sawtooth Software
3 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
3 1 (0.84%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (0.84%) Hitachi
3 1 (0.84%) IBM
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle