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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 425 506
Rank change year-on-year -71 +81 +36
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 289 276 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.56% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.73% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 135 81 205
10th Percentile £52,922 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £91,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.84% -9.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £127,500 £147,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £78,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.73% +5.00% +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 27,046 15,955 33,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.39% 32.40% 33.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,601 11,123 25,438
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
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% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -62 252 £75,000 -21.05% 97
London -26 145 £90,000 -14.29% 54
Work from Home +7 129 £72,500 -12.12% 50
UK excluding London -98 116 £65,576 -16.73% 53
North of England -8 42 £65,576 -37.55% 20
South East -43 42 £62,500 +92.31% 8
North West -6 24 £72,500 -30.95% 7
South West -58 17 £80,250 -10.83% 12
Yorkshire -24 16 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Midlands -37 9 £72,500 -14.71% 9
West Midlands -23 7 £62,000 -27.06% 4
Wales -47 6 £80,000 +72.54%
East of England -32 3 £80,150 - 1
Scotland -2 2 £76,783 -19.18% 4
East Midlands -33 2 £75,000 - 5
North East -50 2 £64,038 - 7

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 9 (3.11%) Apache
2 7 (2.42%) Confluence
3 6 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.38%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Drupal
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 273 (94.46%) AWS
2 100 (34.60%) Serverless
3 92 (31.83%) Amazon ECS
4 87 (30.10%) GCP
5 81 (28.03%) Amazon S3
6 78 (26.99%) AWS Lambda
7 70 (24.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 63 (21.80%) SaaS
9 59 (20.42%) Amazon EC2
9 59 (20.42%) Azure
10 42 (14.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (13.15%) GitHub
12 34 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (9.00%) Azure AKS
14 22 (7.61%) OpenShift
15 21 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
16 20 (6.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 19 (6.57%) Amazon EventBridge
18 18 (6.23%) AWS Control Tower
19 16 (5.54%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.84%) Network Security
2 13 (4.50%) Firewall
2 13 (4.50%) VPN
3 6 (2.08%) AMQP
4 5 (1.73%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.38%) Broadband
5 4 (1.38%) DNS
5 4 (1.38%) IPv4
5 4 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.04%) BGP
6 3 (1.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.57%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.03%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (8.30%) Relational Database
4 15 (5.19%) MySQL
5 14 (4.84%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.46%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.11%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.77%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.08%) Big Data
9 6 (2.08%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.08%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.08%) Redis
10 5 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.73%) Flink
11 4 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.38%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.04%) Looker
Development Applications
1 64 (22.15%) TeamCity
2 53 (18.34%) Jenkins
3 47 (16.26%) GitLab
4 34 (11.76%) Git
5 16 (5.54%) JIRA
6 9 (3.11%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.11%) JUnit
7 8 (2.77%) JMeter
8 7 (2.42%) Mockito
8 7 (2.42%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.73%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.38%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.38%) MLflow
11 2 (0.69%) NUnit
11 2 (0.69%) Snyk
11 2 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.69%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.35%) Gatling
12 1 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 100 (34.60%) Finance
2 80 (27.68%) Banking
3 73 (25.26%) Retail
4 68 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (22.49%) Law
6 55 (19.03%) Social Skills
7 48 (16.61%) Back Office
7 48 (16.61%) Financial Institution
8 47 (16.26%) Public Sector
9 15 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (4.15%) Aerospace
11 9 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.69%) Advertising
14 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Games
15 1 (0.35%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 84 (29.07%) Senior
2 73 (25.26%) Software Engineer
3 45 (15.57%) AWS Engineer
4 41 (14.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (11.07%) Developer
5 32 (11.07%) Platform Engineer
6 29 (10.03%) Lead
7 26 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (8.65%) Java Engineer
9 24 (8.30%) Consultant
9 24 (8.30%) Senior Software Engineer
10 22 (7.61%) Architect
11 20 (6.92%) Senior Consultant
12 19 (6.57%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (6.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 17 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
14 17 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 16 (5.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 16 (5.54%) Team Leader
16 15 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.49%) REST
2 35 (12.11%) React
3 32 (11.07%) Spring Boot
4 30 (10.38%) AWS CDK
5 27 (9.34%) Spring
6 25 (8.65%) Node.js
7 24 (8.30%) RESTful
8 22 (7.61%) Kafka
9 18 (6.23%) AngularJS
10 17 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (5.19%) Web Services
12 14 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (4.50%) FastAPI
14 12 (4.15%) JSON
15 10 (3.46%) Apache Camel
16 9 (3.11%) .NET
16 9 (3.11%) YAML
17 8 (2.77%) Hibernate
17 8 (2.77%) OpenAPI
17 8 (2.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 110 (38.06%) Cloud Native
2 41 (14.19%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (10.03%) Onboarding
4 28 (9.69%) Product Ownership
5 24 (8.30%) Enterprise Cloud
6 20 (6.92%) Blog
7 11 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.81%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.11%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.11%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.77%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.42%) Low-Code
11 6 (2.08%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.08%) Mainframe
11 6 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.73%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.73%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.11%) Linux
2 11 (3.81%) Ubuntu
3 9 (3.11%) CentOS
3 9 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.77%) Debian
5 5 (1.73%) Windows
5 5 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.04%) Android
6 3 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (74.39%) CI/CD
2 149 (51.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 146 (50.52%) DevOps
4 117 (40.48%) Microservices
5 106 (36.68%) Software Engineering
6 86 (29.76%) Agile
7 77 (26.64%) Deployment Automation
8 76 (26.30%) Test Automation
9 73 (25.26%) Containerisation
10 68 (23.53%) AI
11 65 (22.49%) Continuous Deployment
11 65 (22.49%) Observability
12 64 (22.15%) Clean Code
13 62 (21.45%) Platform Engineering
14 59 (20.42%) Cloud Security
14 59 (20.42%) Mentoring
15 49 (16.96%) Fintech
16 48 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 37 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 134 (46.37%) Python
2 132 (45.67%) Java
3 46 (15.92%) Bash
4 33 (11.42%) JavaScript
4 33 (11.42%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.73%) Go
6 22 (7.61%) Ruby
7 19 (6.57%) SQL
8 18 (6.23%) Perl
9 17 (5.88%) PHP
9 17 (5.88%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.46%) C#
11 9 (3.11%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.08%) COBOL
12 6 (2.08%) Groovy
13 5 (1.73%) Bicep
14 4 (1.38%) C++
14 4 (1.38%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 70 (24.22%) Security Cleared
2 56 (19.38%) AWS Certification
3 28 (9.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 27 (9.34%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.77%) Degree
6 7 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.42%) OSCP
7 6 (2.08%) RHCSA
7 6 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.38%) CCNA
9 4 (1.38%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.38%) RHCE
10 3 (1.04%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.04%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.46%) QA
2 8 (2.77%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.42%) NCSC
4 6 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.73%) NIST
6 3 (1.04%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) GxP
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (29.76%) Docker
2 10 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.77%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.38%) Squid
4 4 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.38%) vSphere
5 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 235 (81.31%) Terraform
2 208 (71.97%) Kubernetes
3 81 (28.03%) Grafana
4 54 (18.69%) Ansible
5 17 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.84%) Packer
7 13 (4.50%) Argo
7 13 (4.50%) Puppet
8 11 (3.81%) Kibana
9 10 (3.46%) Istio
10 8 (2.77%) Proxmox
11 7 (2.42%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.38%) Rancher
12 4 (1.38%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.50%) Splunk
3 12 (4.15%) Confluent
3 12 (4.15%) VMware
4 10 (3.46%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.46%) Google
4 10 (3.46%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.11%) Oracle
6 8 (2.77%) Databricks
6 8 (2.77%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.77%) IBM
7 6 (2.08%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.69%) Pega
9 2 (0.69%) WSO2
10 1 (0.35%) New Relic
10 1 (0.35%) Solace
10 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software