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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 426 531
Rank change year-on-year -67 +105 -24
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 267 250 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.55% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 1.66% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 130 79 194
10th Percentile £50,000 £56,500 £56,975
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £116,875 £127,500 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,288 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -23.19% +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 25,738 15,070 35,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.07% 33.32% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16,750 10,432 27,338
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £81,703 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% -6.36%

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 24 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 24 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 -63 235 £74,500 -23.59% 37
Work from Home +26 129 £72,500 -19.44% 25
London -37 126 £90,000 -14.29% 24
UK excluding London -60 116 £65,288 -23.19% 22
North of England -10 43 £65,576 -37.55% 6
South East -40 43 £62,500 +92.31% 8
North West +7 23 £72,500 -30.95% 3
Yorkshire -28 18 £65,000 -7.14% 1
South West -58 17 £62,500 -30.56% 5
Midlands -20 9 £62,000 -32.97% 2
West Midlands -11 7 £62,000 -32.97% 2
East of England -29 5 £85,000 -
Wales -46 4 £80,000 +72.54%
Scotland 0 2 £76,783 -19.18%
East Midlands -26 2 £75,000 -
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 (3.00%) Apache
2 7 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.62%) Confluence
3 6 (2.25%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.37%) Drupal
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) JBoss
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 252 (94.38%) AWS
2 88 (32.96%) Serverless
3 84 (31.46%) GCP
4 77 (28.84%) Amazon S3
5 74 (27.72%) Amazon ECS
6 68 (25.47%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (22.10%) SaaS
8 54 (20.22%) Amazon EC2
9 53 (19.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (19.10%) Azure
11 45 (16.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (11.99%) GitHub
13 28 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (9.36%) Azure AKS
15 21 (7.87%) OpenShift
16 18 (6.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (5.99%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (5.62%) Route 53
19 14 (5.24%) Amazon SQS
20 13 (4.87%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.87%) Firewall
1 13 (4.87%) VPN
2 5 (1.87%) AMQP
2 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.50%) Broadband
3 4 (1.50%) DNS
3 4 (1.50%) IPv4
3 4 (1.50%) Network Security
3 4 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.12%) BGP
4 3 (1.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.98%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.86%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (9.74%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.12%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.75%) MySQL
6 9 (3.37%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.00%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.62%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.25%) Redis
10 5 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.87%) Big Data
10 5 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.87%) Flink
10 5 (1.87%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.50%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.12%) Looker
Development Applications
1 62 (23.22%) TeamCity
2 50 (18.73%) Jenkins
3 45 (16.85%) GitLab
4 34 (12.73%) Git
5 16 (5.99%) JIRA
6 9 (3.37%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.37%) JUnit
7 8 (3.00%) JMeter
8 7 (2.62%) Mockito
8 7 (2.62%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.25%) MLflow
10 5 (1.87%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.50%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.75%) NUnit
12 2 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.75%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.37%) Gradle
13 1 (0.37%) Maven
13 1 (0.37%) Snyk
General
1 88 (32.96%) Finance
2 77 (28.84%) Banking
3 71 (26.59%) Retail
4 66 (24.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (23.60%) Law
6 54 (20.22%) Social Skills
7 46 (17.23%) Back Office
7 46 (17.23%) Financial Institution
8 31 (11.61%) Public Sector
9 15 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.12%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.62%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.75%) Advertising
13 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Games
14 1 (0.37%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 71 (26.59%) Software Engineer
2 70 (26.22%) Senior
3 45 (16.85%) AWS Engineer
4 40 (14.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (12.36%) Platform Engineer
6 31 (11.61%) Developer
7 28 (10.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (9.36%) Java Engineer
9 23 (8.61%) Lead
9 23 (8.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (7.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 19 (7.12%) Architect
12 18 (6.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 18 (6.74%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (6.37%) Java Software Engineer
13 17 (6.37%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 15 (5.62%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (5.62%) Java Developer
14 15 (5.62%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (5.62%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.23%) REST
2 37 (13.86%) React
3 31 (11.61%) Spring Boot
4 29 (10.86%) Spring
5 25 (9.36%) Node.js
6 24 (8.99%) Kafka
7 22 (8.24%) AWS CDK
7 22 (8.24%) RESTful
8 18 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (6.37%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.62%) Web Services
11 13 (4.87%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.49%) JSON
13 10 (3.75%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.37%) FastAPI
14 9 (3.37%) YAML
15 8 (3.00%) Hibernate
16 7 (2.62%) ActiveMQ
16 7 (2.62%) HTML
16 7 (2.62%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 99 (37.08%) Cloud Native
2 40 (14.98%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (9.74%) Product Ownership
5 20 (7.49%) Blog
6 11 (4.12%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.75%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.37%) Private Cloud
9 8 (3.00%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.87%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.87%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.50%) Digital Wallet
12 4 (1.50%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (1.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.10%) Linux
2 10 (3.75%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.00%) CentOS
3 8 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.62%) Debian
5 5 (1.87%) Windows
5 5 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.12%) Android
6 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (78.28%) CI/CD
2 140 (52.43%) DevOps
3 132 (49.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (40.07%) Microservices
5 103 (38.58%) Software Engineering
6 85 (31.84%) Agile
7 77 (28.84%) Deployment Automation
7 77 (28.84%) Test Automation
8 64 (23.97%) Observability
9 63 (23.60%) Continuous Deployment
10 62 (23.22%) Clean Code
11 61 (22.85%) Containerisation
12 58 (21.72%) Platform Engineering
13 53 (19.85%) Mentoring
14 50 (18.73%) AI
15 49 (18.35%) Cloud Security
16 48 (17.98%) Fintech
17 45 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 34 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (12.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 118 (44.19%) Java
2 117 (43.82%) Python
3 38 (14.23%) Bash
4 34 (12.73%) TypeScript
5 31 (11.61%) JavaScript
6 29 (10.86%) Go
7 17 (6.37%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.99%) SQL
9 10 (3.75%) C#
10 9 (3.37%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.00%) Perl
11 8 (3.00%) Ruby
12 6 (2.25%) Groovy
12 6 (2.25%) PHP
13 5 (1.87%) Bicep
14 4 (1.50%) C++
14 4 (1.50%) COBOL
14 4 (1.50%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.85%) AWS Certification
3 26 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.75%) Degree
6 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.62%) OSCP
7 6 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.87%) RHCSA
9 4 (1.50%) CCNA
9 4 (1.50%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.50%) RHCE
9 4 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.12%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.37%) CCSP
11 1 (0.37%) CISM
11 1 (0.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.75%) QA
2 8 (3.00%) SOC 2
3 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.87%) NCSC
3 5 (1.87%) NIST
4 4 (1.50%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.37%) GxP
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (30.71%) Docker
2 10 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.50%) Squid
4 4 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.50%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.50%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 214 (80.15%) Terraform
2 203 (76.03%) Kubernetes
3 83 (31.09%) Grafana
4 53 (19.85%) Ansible
5 21 (7.87%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.24%) Packer
7 12 (4.49%) Argo
8 11 (4.12%) Kibana
9 10 (3.75%) Istio
10 8 (3.00%) Proxmox
10 8 (3.00%) Puppet
11 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.50%) Rancher
11 4 (1.50%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.62%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.87%) Splunk
3 12 (4.49%) Confluent
3 12 (4.49%) VMware
4 10 (3.75%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.75%) Databricks
5 9 (3.37%) Google
5 9 (3.37%) Oracle
5 9 (3.37%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.00%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.00%) IBM
7 5 (1.87%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.75%) Pega
9 2 (0.75%) WSO2
10 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.37%) New Relic
10 1 (0.37%) Solace
10 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software