Amazon EKS Job Trends

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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 497 545
Rank change year-on-year +70 +48 -56
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 260 175 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.37% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.00% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 135 81 169
10th Percentile £50,000 £63,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £123,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £129,000 £147,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £71,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.97% -8.39% +14.81%

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 23,048 17,565 29,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.92% 37.17% 38.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,416 10,905 23,951
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +78 229 £80,000 -24.71% 85
Work from Home +95 137 £81,750 -23.95% 51
London +37 134 £110,000 +2.33% 41
UK excluding London +24 106 £62,500 -11.97% 47
North of England +17 43 £65,000 -24.64% 16
South East -21 32 £62,500 -3.85% 14
Yorkshire -9 26 £62,500 -7.41% 3
North West +1 16 £72,500 -24.68% 11
Midlands +5 14 £50,000 -28.57%
West Midlands +23 12 £50,000 -28.57%
South West -1 10 £62,500 - 13
East of England +18 7 £85,000 +17.24% 2
Wales +2 4 £54,060 +43.27% 1
East Midlands -30 2 £75,000 -
North East -8 1 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Scotland -19 1 £95,000 +14.46% 1

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 14 (5.38%) OpenStack
2 12 (4.62%) Apache
3 10 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.69%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.92%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.92%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.54%) Confluence
6 4 (1.54%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.77%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 249 (95.77%) AWS
2 96 (36.92%) Serverless
3 70 (26.92%) Amazon S3
3 70 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (25.00%) GCP
5 63 (24.23%) Amazon ECS
5 63 (24.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 57 (21.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 47 (18.08%) GitHub
8 46 (17.69%) Amazon EC2
9 44 (16.92%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (16.92%) SaaS
10 40 (15.38%) Azure
11 30 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (10.38%) Azure AKS
13 17 (6.54%) Route 53
14 16 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (5.38%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (5.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 14 (5.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.00%) VPN
2 11 (4.23%) Firewall
3 7 (2.69%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.31%) BGP
4 6 (2.31%) VLAN
5 5 (1.92%) AMQP
5 5 (1.92%) SSL
6 1 (0.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (13.85%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (12.31%) Relational Database
4 21 (8.08%) DynamoDB
5 14 (5.38%) RDBMS
6 13 (5.00%) Flink
7 12 (4.62%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.46%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.69%) Redis
12 6 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.31%) MySQL
13 5 (1.92%) Big Data
13 5 (1.92%) Cloudera CDH
13 5 (1.92%) DB2
13 5 (1.92%) Hadoop
14 4 (1.54%) SQL Server
15 3 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (1.15%) Looker
Development Applications
1 59 (22.69%) Jenkins
2 48 (18.46%) TeamCity
3 31 (11.92%) Git
3 31 (11.92%) GitLab
4 12 (4.62%) JUnit
5 8 (3.08%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.08%) JMeter
5 8 (3.08%) Mockito
6 5 (1.92%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.92%) JIRA
7 4 (1.54%) MLflow
8 3 (1.15%) NUnit
8 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.77%) JConsole
9 2 (0.77%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 81 (31.15%) Finance
2 71 (27.31%) Banking
3 62 (23.85%) Retail
4 59 (22.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (21.15%) Law
6 52 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.54%) Financial Institution
8 40 (15.38%) Back Office
9 19 (7.31%) Front Office
9 19 (7.31%) Public Sector
10 17 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (3.08%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.15%) Advertising
13 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Games
13 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (26.54%) Software Engineer
2 55 (21.15%) Senior
3 44 (16.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (14.62%) Developer
6 33 (12.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (12.31%) Java Developer
8 28 (10.77%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (10.00%) Lead
10 25 (9.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 20 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 18 (6.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 16 (6.15%) Java Engineer
13 16 (6.15%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (5.38%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (5.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 12 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.77%) React
2 48 (18.46%) Spring
3 47 (18.08%) Node.js
4 45 (17.31%) Kafka
5 39 (15.00%) REST
5 39 (15.00%) Spring Boot
6 24 (9.23%) RESTful
7 22 (8.46%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (8.08%) AWS CDK
9 20 (7.69%) Web Services
10 19 (7.31%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.62%) Apache Camel
12 11 (4.23%) Hibernate
13 10 (3.85%) JSON
13 10 (3.85%) XML
14 9 (3.46%) Mustache
14 9 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (3.08%) ActiveMQ
15 8 (3.08%) HTML
15 8 (3.08%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 81 (31.15%) Cloud Native
2 45 (17.31%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.92%) Blog
4 16 (6.15%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.46%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.08%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.08%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.69%) Hedge funds
10 6 (2.31%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.31%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.92%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.15%) Mobile App
14 2 (0.77%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 61 (23.46%) Linux
2 13 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.85%) Ubuntu
3 10 (3.85%) Windows
4 8 (3.08%) CentOS
5 7 (2.69%) Debian
5 7 (2.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (77.69%) CI/CD
2 136 (52.31%) DevOps
3 117 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (36.92%) Microservices
5 89 (34.23%) Software Engineering
6 84 (32.31%) Agile
7 69 (26.54%) Observability
8 68 (26.15%) Test Automation
9 64 (24.62%) Deployment Automation
10 60 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (19.62%) Continuous Deployment
11 51 (19.62%) Mentoring
12 48 (18.46%) Clean Code
13 45 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
14 44 (16.92%) Containerisation
15 38 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (14.62%) Fintech
16 37 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (12.69%) Scrum
18 31 (11.92%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 126 (48.46%) Java
2 102 (39.23%) Python
3 49 (18.85%) JavaScript
4 44 (16.92%) TypeScript
5 37 (14.23%) Bash
6 26 (10.00%) Go
7 13 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.85%) Bicep
9 8 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.69%) SQL
11 6 (2.31%) C#
12 2 (0.77%) C++
12 2 (0.77%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) C
13 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 53 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.69%) AWS Certification
2 33 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.77%) Degree
4 8 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.38%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.46%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.69%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.92%) NIST
4 5 (1.92%) QA
5 4 (1.54%) SLA
6 3 (1.15%) GDPR
7 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 66 (25.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) vCloud
3 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 182 (70.00%) Terraform
2 175 (67.31%) Kubernetes
3 99 (38.08%) Grafana
4 46 (17.69%) Ansible
5 39 (15.00%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.92%) Argo
7 16 (6.15%) Kibana
8 6 (2.31%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.92%) Puppet
9 5 (1.92%) Rancher
10 2 (0.77%) logstash
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.77%) vRealize
11 1 (0.38%) Cilium
11 1 (0.38%) Istio
11 1 (0.38%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (4.62%) Splunk
2 11 (4.23%) Google
2 11 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.46%) Red Hat
3 9 (3.46%) VMware
4 8 (3.08%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.92%) IBM
5 5 (1.92%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.54%) Databricks
6 4 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (1.54%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.54%) Pega
6 4 (1.54%) WSO2
7 3 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.15%) Confluent
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle
7 3 (1.15%) Solace
7 3 (1.15%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.38%) Mercator