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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 416 518
Rank change year-on-year -57 +102 -48
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 255 238 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.57% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.92% 1.57% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 133 99 187
10th Percentile £50,000 £62,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -3.13%
75th Percentile £103,250 £123,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £73,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.56% -4.84% +19.23%

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 27,603 15,173 34,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.44% 36.18% 36.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14,250 11,138 26,661
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -60 234 £80,000 -25.58% 67
Work from Home +11 142 £75,000 -30.23% 47
London -11 129 £110,000 +2.33% 30
UK excluding London -89 110 £63,750 -13.56% 39
North of England -21 50 £65,000 -25.71% 10
South East -68 39 £62,500 - 13
Yorkshire -37 27 £65,288 -3.28% 1
North West -20 21 £65,000 -38.10% 6
Midlands -39 11 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands -18 9 £50,000 - 2
South West -52 8 £62,500 - 9
East of England -38 6 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Wales -17 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -23 2 £76,783 -7.49% 2
East Midlands -46 2 £75,000 -
North East - 2 £65,288 - 3

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 12 (4.71%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.31%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.53%) Apache
4 7 (2.75%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.18%) Confluence
6 2 (0.78%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.39%) Drupal
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) JBoss
7 1 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 242 (94.90%) AWS
2 85 (33.33%) Serverless
3 77 (30.20%) GCP
4 66 (25.88%) Amazon S3
4 66 (25.88%) AWS Lambda
5 57 (22.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 56 (21.96%) Amazon ECS
7 48 (18.82%) SaaS
8 44 (17.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (15.29%) Azure
9 39 (15.29%) GitHub
10 37 (14.51%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (9.41%) Azure AKS
13 22 (8.63%) OpenShift
14 21 (8.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (5.10%) Amazon Kinesis
16 13 (5.10%) Route 53
17 10 (3.92%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.88%) Firewall
1 15 (5.88%) VPN
2 7 (2.75%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.96%) AMQP
3 5 (1.96%) BGP
3 5 (1.96%) VLAN
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (8.63%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 13 (5.10%) Flink
6 10 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.92%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.53%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.75%) MySQL
10 6 (2.35%) Redis
11 5 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.96%) Big Data
11 5 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.96%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.57%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.18%) Looker
14 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.39%) InterSystems Cache
15 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 51 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 43 (16.86%) Jenkins
3 40 (15.69%) GitLab
4 32 (12.55%) Git
5 8 (3.14%) JIRA
5 8 (3.14%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.75%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.75%) JUnit
7 5 (1.96%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.96%) MLflow
8 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.57%) JMeter
9 3 (1.18%) Mockito
9 3 (1.18%) NUnit
10 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.39%) Gatling
10 1 (0.39%) Gradle
10 1 (0.39%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
General
1 79 (30.98%) Finance
2 78 (30.59%) Banking
3 68 (26.67%) Retail
4 63 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (23.14%) Law
6 56 (21.96%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.86%) Back Office
7 43 (16.86%) Financial Institution
8 21 (8.24%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (4.71%) Front Office
10 9 (3.53%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.18%) Advertising
11 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Games
13 1 (0.39%) iGaming
13 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (25.10%) Software Engineer
2 58 (22.75%) Senior
3 55 (21.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (20.78%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (11.76%) Developer
7 29 (11.37%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (9.80%) Lead
9 24 (9.41%) AWS DevOps
9 24 (9.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 22 (8.63%) Java Developer
10 22 (8.63%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 18 (7.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 18 (7.06%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
13 17 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 16 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (5.49%) Lead Software Engineer
16 12 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (19.22%) React
2 39 (15.29%) Kafka
3 38 (14.90%) Node.js
4 37 (14.51%) REST
5 33 (12.94%) Spring
6 28 (10.98%) Spring Boot
7 26 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
8 23 (9.02%) RESTful
9 19 (7.45%) AWS CDK
10 18 (7.06%) Web Services
11 16 (6.27%) AngularJS
12 13 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (4.31%) JSON
14 10 (3.92%) Mustache
15 9 (3.53%) YAML
16 8 (3.14%) Loki
17 7 (2.75%) Sass
18 6 (2.35%) Apache Camel
19 5 (1.96%) gRPC
19 5 (1.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 78 (30.59%) Cloud Native
2 41 (16.08%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.45%) Blog
5 17 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.92%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.14%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.35%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.96%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.96%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.78%) Hedge funds
14 1 (0.39%) Equities
14 1 (0.39%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 52 (20.39%) Linux
2 9 (3.53%) Ubuntu
3 7 (2.75%) CentOS
3 7 (2.75%) Debian
3 7 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.18%) Android
4 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.78%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) Windows
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 145 (56.86%) DevOps
3 127 (49.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (35.69%) Microservices
5 86 (33.73%) Agile
6 85 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 74 (29.02%) Deployment Automation
7 74 (29.02%) Observability
7 74 (29.02%) Test Automation
8 60 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
9 58 (22.75%) Continuous Deployment
10 55 (21.57%) Clean Code
11 48 (18.82%) Containerisation
11 48 (18.82%) Mentoring
12 43 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (16.47%) Fintech
14 41 (16.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 38 (14.90%) Cloud Security
16 35 (13.73%) Scrum
17 33 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 117 (45.88%) Java
2 98 (38.43%) Python
3 37 (14.51%) Go
4 35 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 27 (10.59%) Bash
7 14 (5.49%) SQL
8 6 (2.35%) Groovy
9 5 (1.96%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.57%) C#
10 4 (1.57%) Perl
10 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.57%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.18%) Bicep
12 2 (0.78%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) C
13 1 (0.39%) C++
13 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (19.22%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.16%) AWS Certification
3 29 (11.37%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.53%) Degree
5 6 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.18%) OSCP
9 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.39%) CCSP
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CISSP
9 1 (0.39%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.31%) QA
2 9 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.53%) SOC 2
3 8 (3.14%) NIST
4 5 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 68 (26.67%) Docker
2 8 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 201 (78.82%) Terraform
2 194 (76.08%) Kubernetes
3 88 (34.51%) Grafana
4 56 (21.96%) Ansible
5 29 (11.37%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.45%) Argo
7 10 (3.92%) Istio
8 9 (3.53%) Kibana
9 8 (3.14%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.35%) Puppet
11 5 (1.96%) Packer
12 4 (1.57%) Rancher
13 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.39%) Consul
14 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (4.31%) Confluent
2 10 (3.92%) AppDynamics
2 10 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.53%) Google
4 8 (3.14%) IBM
4 8 (3.14%) VMware
5 7 (2.75%) Splunk
6 6 (2.35%) Oracle
7 5 (1.96%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.96%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.57%) Databricks
8 4 (1.57%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.78%) Pega
10 2 (0.78%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.78%) WSO2
11 1 (0.39%) New Relic
11 1 (0.39%) Solace