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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 484 548
Rank change year-on-year +58 +64 0
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 242 278 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.41% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.26% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 101 133 136
10th Percentile £52,500 £70,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £97,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £112,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +57.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £165,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +7.14%

All Cloud 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 17,892 22,093 22,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.71% 32.88% 42.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,341 13,299 18,529
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 November 2025.

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 November 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
England +61 213 £81,000 -28.00% 172
London +5 139 £85,000 -37.04% 92
UK excluding London +66 103 £65,000 -5.45% 91
Work from Home +19 81 £72,500 -46.30% 101
South East +34 30 - - 24
North of England +23 28 £65,000 -9.72% 30
Yorkshire +17 17 £60,000 -18.92% 7
Midlands +71 16 £52,750 -24.64% 10
South West +30 14 £80,000 +18.52% 11
West Midlands +54 11 £51,500 -26.43% 9
North West +6 9 £82,500 - 22
Wales - 6 £39,163 - 5
Scotland - 6 - - 3
East of England +27 5 £100,000 - 8
East Midlands +23 5 £54,000 - 1
North East +9 2 £65,000 -7.14% 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 31 (12.81%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.96%) Apache
3 9 (3.72%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.89%) OpenStack
4 7 (2.89%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.48%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (2.07%) nginx
7 4 (1.65%) Confluence
7 4 (1.65%) Traefik
8 3 (1.24%) JBoss
8 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.41%) CMS
10 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 231 (95.45%) AWS
2 99 (40.91%) Serverless
3 79 (32.64%) Amazon ECS
4 76 (31.40%) Amazon S3
5 65 (26.86%) AWS Lambda
6 63 (26.03%) Amazon EC2
7 53 (21.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (19.01%) Azure
9 37 (15.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (14.46%) GitHub
10 35 (14.46%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (10.33%) GCP
11 25 (10.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (9.09%) Azure AKS
13 19 (7.85%) Amazon ELB
13 19 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (7.85%) SaaS
14 18 (7.44%) Amazon SageMaker
15 17 (7.02%) Amazon Bedrock
16 15 (6.20%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.72%) TCP/IP
1 9 (3.72%) VPN
2 8 (3.31%) DNS
3 7 (2.89%) SSL
4 4 (1.65%) DHCP
4 4 (1.65%) ICMP
4 4 (1.65%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.24%) BGP
5 3 (1.24%) Firewall
5 3 (1.24%) VLAN
6 2 (0.83%) AMQP
7 1 (0.41%) Internet
7 1 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.07%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 41 (16.94%) DynamoDB
4 30 (12.40%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (12.40%) RDBMS
5 19 (7.85%) Delta Lake
5 19 (7.85%) Metadata
5 19 (7.85%) Spark SQL
6 11 (4.55%) Big Data
6 11 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (3.72%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.89%) DB2
10 6 (2.48%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.48%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.65%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (1.65%) Flink
12 4 (1.65%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 82 (33.88%) Jenkins
2 28 (11.57%) JUnit
3 26 (10.74%) Git
4 22 (9.09%) JMeter
4 22 (9.09%) Mockito
5 19 (7.85%) MLflow
6 17 (7.02%) GitLab
7 14 (5.79%) TeamCity
8 8 (3.31%) Selenium
9 7 (2.89%) Locust
10 6 (2.48%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.07%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.07%) JIRA
12 4 (1.65%) Spinnaker
13 2 (0.83%) JConsole
13 2 (0.83%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.83%) VisualVM
14 1 (0.41%) Jasmine
14 1 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
14 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
General
1 89 (36.78%) Finance
2 62 (25.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 59 (24.38%) Law
4 58 (23.97%) Social Skills
5 49 (20.25%) Banking
6 31 (12.81%) Public Sector
7 28 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (8.68%) Marketing
9 20 (8.26%) Financial Institution
10 17 (7.02%) Back Office
10 17 (7.02%) Front Office
10 17 (7.02%) Retail
11 8 (3.31%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.07%) Games
13 2 (0.83%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.83%) Automotive
13 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 52 (21.49%) Developer
3 50 (20.66%) Senior
4 46 (19.01%) Java Developer
5 42 (17.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (14.05%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (13.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 32 (13.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (10.33%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (9.92%) Lead
11 23 (9.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 19 (7.85%) Operations Engineer
12 19 (7.85%) Python Engineer
13 17 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (6.20%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 15 (6.20%) Python Software Engineer
14 15 (6.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 13 (5.37%) Lead Software Engineer
16 11 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (24.38%) Spring
2 47 (19.42%) Spring Boot
3 44 (18.18%) REST
4 38 (15.70%) Kafka
5 31 (12.81%) Node.js
6 30 (12.40%) Web Services
7 29 (11.98%) Apache Camel
8 26 (10.74%) Hibernate
9 25 (10.33%) React
9 25 (10.33%) RESTful
10 24 (9.92%) HTML
11 23 (9.50%) jQuery
11 23 (9.50%) PySpark
11 23 (9.50%) PyTorch
11 23 (9.50%) TensorFlow
12 22 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
12 22 (9.09%) JSON
12 22 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
12 22 (9.09%) WireMock
13 21 (8.68%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 64 (26.45%) Cloud Native
2 52 (21.49%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (10.33%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (9.09%) Management Information System
5 18 (7.44%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.55%) Algorithms
7 11 (4.55%) Hedge funds
8 10 (4.13%) Reference Data
9 6 (2.48%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.48%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.65%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.65%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (1.65%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.83%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.77%) Linux
2 30 (12.40%) Unix
3 16 (6.61%) Windows
4 11 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.65%) CentOS
5 4 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.83%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 114 (47.11%) DevOps
3 97 (40.08%) Agile
4 86 (35.54%) Software Engineering
5 84 (34.71%) Microservices
6 76 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 71 (29.34%) Containerisation
8 60 (24.79%) Machine Learning
9 57 (23.55%) AI
10 55 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (17.77%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (16.94%) SDLC
13 38 (15.70%) Data Science
14 37 (15.29%) Deployment Automation
14 37 (15.29%) Test Automation
15 35 (14.46%) TDD
16 32 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
17 31 (12.81%) BDD
17 31 (12.81%) Scrum
18 30 (12.40%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 138 (57.02%) Python
2 102 (42.15%) Java
3 47 (19.42%) JavaScript
4 36 (14.88%) Bash
5 29 (11.98%) SQL
6 26 (10.74%) Go
7 22 (9.09%) Shell Script
8 20 (8.26%) PowerShell
8 20 (8.26%) TypeScript
9 13 (5.37%) Bicep
10 9 (3.72%) Lua
11 4 (1.65%) C#
11 4 (1.65%) Rust
12 3 (1.24%) C
12 3 (1.24%) Scala
13 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.41%) C++
14 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.41%) PHP
14 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 54 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.40%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.20%) Degree
5 10 (4.13%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.41%) MCSA
10 1 (0.41%) MCSE
10 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.72%) SLA
3 7 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.89%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.48%) SOC 2
5 5 (2.07%) GDPR
6 3 (1.24%) QA
7 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.83%) NIST
8 1 (0.41%) CDISC
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.41%) DICOM
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) HL7
8 1 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 99 (40.91%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) vCloud
3 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 163 (67.36%) Kubernetes
2 129 (53.31%) Terraform
3 51 (21.07%) Grafana
4 41 (16.94%) Ansible
5 30 (12.40%) Kibana
5 30 (12.40%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.85%) Kubeflow
7 14 (5.79%) Argo
8 5 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.65%) HAProxy
9 4 (1.65%) Rancher
9 4 (1.65%) vRealize
10 2 (0.83%) logstash
10 2 (0.83%) Puppet
11 1 (0.41%) Cilium
11 1 (0.41%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 29 (11.98%) Splunk
2 26 (10.74%) Databricks
3 23 (9.50%) Dynatrace
4 9 (3.72%) IBM
4 9 (3.72%) MKS
4 9 (3.72%) MuleSoft
4 9 (3.72%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.89%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.48%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.07%) Google
7 5 (2.07%) PagerDuty
7 5 (2.07%) VMware
8 4 (1.65%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle
8 4 (1.65%) Pega
8 4 (1.65%) WSO2
9 3 (1.24%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.24%) Solace
9 3 (1.24%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.83%) SaltStack