Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 441 551
Rank change year-on-year -51 +110 -27
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 256 246 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.55% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 1.64% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 128 75 196
10th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £57,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.32% +11.76% -1.45%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,125 £127,500 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +15.38%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 25,444 15,013 35,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.03% 33.45% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 16,496 10,369 27,538
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,466 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 June 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
England -70 229 £72,500 -30.95% 51
Work from Home +18 124 £72,500 -19.89% 29
London -43 122 £90,000 -14.29% 33
UK excluding London -56 112 £65,000 -13.33% 33
North of England 0 43 £65,576 -30.97% 11
South East -42 41 £62,500 +92.31% 8
North West +13 23 £72,500 -30.95% 5
Yorkshire -25 18 £65,000 -5.45% 4
South West -54 17 £62,500 -16.67% 5
Midlands -22 9 £62,000 - 2
West Midlands -15 7 £50,000 - 2
East of England -22 5 £85,000 -
Scotland +1 2 £76,783 -19.18%
East Midlands -31 2 £75,000 -
Wales -47 2 £80,000 +72.54% 1
North East - 2 £64,038 - 2

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (3.13%) Apache
1 8 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.34%) Confluence
2 6 (2.34%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.39%) Drupal
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) JBoss
5 1 (0.39%) nginx
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 242 (94.53%) AWS
2 84 (32.81%) Serverless
3 80 (31.25%) GCP
4 76 (29.69%) Amazon S3
5 69 (26.95%) Amazon ECS
6 65 (25.39%) AWS Lambda
7 54 (21.09%) Amazon EC2
7 54 (21.09%) SaaS
8 49 (19.14%) Azure
9 48 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (17.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 30 (11.72%) GitHub
12 26 (10.16%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (9.38%) Azure AKS
14 20 (7.81%) OpenShift
15 18 (7.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
17 15 (5.86%) Route 53
18 14 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
19 13 (5.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.08%) Firewall
1 13 (5.08%) VPN
2 5 (1.95%) AMQP
2 5 (1.95%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.56%) Broadband
3 4 (1.56%) DNS
3 4 (1.56%) IPv4
3 4 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.17%) BGP
4 3 (1.17%) VLAN
5 2 (0.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.23%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (10.55%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (10.16%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.30%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.91%) MySQL
6 9 (3.52%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.13%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.73%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.34%) Redis
10 5 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.95%) Big Data
10 5 (1.95%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.95%) Flink
10 5 (1.95%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.56%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.17%) Looker
Development Applications
1 58 (22.66%) TeamCity
2 47 (18.36%) Jenkins
3 44 (17.19%) GitLab
4 34 (13.28%) Git
5 15 (5.86%) JIRA
6 9 (3.52%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.52%) JUnit
7 8 (3.13%) JMeter
8 7 (2.73%) MLflow
8 7 (2.73%) Mockito
8 7 (2.73%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.56%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.78%) NUnit
11 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.39%) Gatling
12 1 (0.39%) Maven
12 1 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 82 (32.03%) Finance
2 73 (28.52%) Banking
3 67 (26.17%) Retail
4 62 (24.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (23.05%) Law
6 52 (20.31%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.80%) Back Office
7 43 (16.80%) Financial Institution
8 27 (10.55%) Public Sector
9 15 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (3.91%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.78%) Advertising
14 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.39%) Games
15 1 (0.39%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 66 (25.78%) Senior
1 66 (25.78%) Software Engineer
2 45 (17.58%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (12.89%) Platform Engineer
5 31 (12.11%) Developer
6 28 (10.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (9.77%) Java Engineer
8 22 (8.59%) Lead
8 22 (8.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 20 (7.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 18 (7.03%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 17 (6.64%) Java Software Engineer
11 17 (6.64%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 17 (6.64%) Lead Software Engineer
12 16 (6.25%) Architect
13 15 (5.86%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (5.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (5.86%) Java Developer
13 15 (5.86%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.45%) React
2 36 (14.06%) REST
3 29 (11.33%) Spring
3 29 (11.33%) Spring Boot
4 24 (9.38%) Kafka
5 23 (8.98%) Node.js
6 22 (8.59%) RESTful
7 20 (7.81%) AWS CDK
8 18 (7.03%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (6.64%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.86%) Web Services
11 13 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.69%) JSON
13 10 (3.91%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.52%) FastAPI
14 9 (3.52%) YAML
15 8 (3.13%) Hibernate
16 7 (2.73%) ActiveMQ
16 7 (2.73%) HTML
16 7 (2.73%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 91 (35.55%) Cloud Native
2 39 (15.23%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (11.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (8.59%) Product Ownership
5 19 (7.42%) Blog
6 11 (4.30%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.52%) Private Cloud
9 8 (3.13%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (2.34%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.95%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.56%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.56%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
14 3 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (1.17%) Low-Code
15 2 (0.78%) Digital Wallet
15 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 58 (22.66%) Linux
2 10 (3.91%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.13%) CentOS
3 8 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.73%) Debian
5 5 (1.95%) Windows
5 5 (1.95%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.17%) Android
6 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (78.52%) CI/CD
2 136 (53.13%) DevOps
3 129 (50.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (38.28%) Microservices
5 95 (37.11%) Software Engineering
6 80 (31.25%) Agile
7 73 (28.52%) Test Automation
8 72 (28.13%) Deployment Automation
9 63 (24.61%) Observability
10 58 (22.66%) Clean Code
10 58 (22.66%) Continuous Deployment
11 57 (22.27%) Containerisation
12 54 (21.09%) Platform Engineering
13 47 (18.36%) Mentoring
14 46 (17.97%) AI
14 46 (17.97%) Fintech
15 44 (17.19%) Cloud Security
16 43 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (13.28%) Scrum
18 33 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 114 (44.53%) Python
2 109 (42.58%) Java
3 36 (14.06%) Bash
4 33 (12.89%) TypeScript
5 31 (12.11%) JavaScript
6 29 (11.33%) Go
7 17 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 16 (6.25%) SQL
9 9 (3.52%) C#
9 9 (3.52%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.34%) Groovy
10 6 (2.34%) Perl
11 5 (1.95%) Bicep
12 4 (1.56%) PHP
12 4 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.56%) Ruby
13 3 (1.17%) C++
14 2 (0.78%) COBOL
14 2 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.02%) AWS Certification
3 26 (10.16%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (3.91%) Degree
5 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.73%) OSCP
6 6 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.95%) RHCSA
8 4 (1.56%) CCNA
8 4 (1.56%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.56%) RHCE
9 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.17%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.39%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.91%) QA
2 7 (2.73%) SOC 2
3 5 (1.95%) NIST
4 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.17%) NCSC
5 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.78%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (31.64%) Docker
2 10 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.56%) Squid
4 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.56%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.56%) vSphere
5 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 205 (80.08%) Terraform
2 196 (76.56%) Kubernetes
3 80 (31.25%) Grafana
4 52 (20.31%) Ansible
5 22 (8.59%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.47%) Packer
7 12 (4.69%) Argo
8 11 (4.30%) Kibana
9 10 (3.91%) Istio
10 8 (3.13%) Proxmox
11 7 (2.73%) Puppet
12 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.56%) Rancher
12 4 (1.56%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.39%) Consul
14 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.08%) Splunk
3 12 (4.69%) Confluent
3 12 (4.69%) VMware
4 11 (4.30%) Databricks
5 10 (3.91%) AppDynamics
6 9 (3.52%) Google
6 9 (3.52%) Oracle
6 9 (3.52%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.13%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.13%) IBM
8 5 (1.95%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.78%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.78%) Pega
10 2 (0.78%) WSO2
11 1 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.39%) New Relic
11 1 (0.39%) Solace
11 1 (0.39%) TOWER Software