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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 424 531
Rank change year-on-year -60 +107 +6
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 277 274 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.58% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 1.77% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 135 81 215
10th Percentile £51,000 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £127,500 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £83,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -22.39% +11.67% +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 26,355 15,462 35,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.72% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17,172 10,773 26,925
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £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% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,125
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.69% -7.05%

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 3 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 3 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 -59 243 £74,750 -21.32% 115
London -40 134 £95,000 -9.52% 76
Work from Home +16 129 £72,500 -19.44% 70
UK excluding London -88 116 £65,000 -22.39% 55
North of England -14 43 £65,288 -31.28% 17
South East -46 42 £62,500 +92.31% 15
North West 0 24 £72,500 -30.95% 9
South West -60 18 £62,500 -30.56% 12
Yorkshire -22 17 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Midlands -27 8 £67,250 -27.30% 4
West Midlands -24 6 £62,000 -32.97% 4
East of England -24 4 £82,575 - 2
Wales -42 4 £80,000 +72.54%
Scotland +5 2 £76,783 -19.18% 2
East Midlands -17 2 £75,000 -
North East -47 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 9 (3.25%) Apache
2 7 (2.53%) Confluence
3 6 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.44%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 261 (94.22%) AWS
2 93 (33.57%) Serverless
3 85 (30.69%) GCP
4 81 (29.24%) Amazon ECS
5 80 (28.88%) Amazon S3
6 74 (26.71%) AWS Lambda
7 61 (22.02%) SaaS
8 60 (21.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 57 (20.58%) Azure
10 56 (20.22%) Amazon EC2
11 44 (15.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (13.00%) GitHub
13 32 (11.55%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (9.39%) Azure AKS
15 22 (7.94%) OpenShift
16 19 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (5.78%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (5.42%) Route 53
19 13 (4.69%) Amazon MSK
19 13 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.69%) Firewall
1 13 (4.69%) VPN
2 8 (2.89%) Network Security
3 6 (2.17%) AMQP
4 5 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.44%) Broadband
5 4 (1.44%) DNS
5 4 (1.44%) IPv4
5 4 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.08%) BGP
6 3 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.80%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.75%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (8.66%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.69%) DynamoDB
5 11 (3.97%) MySQL
6 9 (3.25%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.89%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.89%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.17%) Big Data
8 6 (2.17%) Cloudera CDH
8 6 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.17%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.17%) Redis
9 5 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.81%) Flink
10 4 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.44%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.08%) Looker
Development Applications
1 62 (22.38%) TeamCity
2 51 (18.41%) Jenkins
3 47 (16.97%) GitLab
4 34 (12.27%) Git
5 16 (5.78%) JIRA
6 9 (3.25%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.25%) JUnit
7 8 (2.89%) JMeter
8 7 (2.53%) Mockito
8 7 (2.53%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.81%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.81%) MLflow
10 4 (1.44%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.72%) NUnit
11 2 (0.72%) Snyk
11 2 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.72%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.36%) Gatling
12 1 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 93 (33.57%) Finance
2 78 (28.16%) Banking
3 71 (25.63%) Retail
4 66 (23.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (22.74%) Law
6 57 (20.58%) Social Skills
7 46 (16.61%) Back Office
7 46 (16.61%) Financial Institution
8 37 (13.36%) Public Sector
9 16 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (4.33%) Aerospace
11 9 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.89%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.72%) Advertising
14 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.36%) Games
15 1 (0.36%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 75 (27.08%) Senior
2 73 (26.35%) Software Engineer
3 44 (15.88%) AWS Engineer
4 42 (15.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (11.91%) Platform Engineer
6 30 (10.83%) Developer
7 28 (10.11%) Lead
8 26 (9.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (9.03%) Java Engineer
10 24 (8.66%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (7.22%) Architect
12 19 (6.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 18 (6.50%) Lead Software Engineer
14 17 (6.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 17 (6.14%) Java Software Engineer
14 17 (6.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 15 (5.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 15 (5.42%) Consultant
15 15 (5.42%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (5.42%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.36%) React
1 37 (13.36%) REST
2 30 (10.83%) Spring Boot
3 28 (10.11%) Spring
4 25 (9.03%) Node.js
5 24 (8.66%) AWS CDK
6 23 (8.30%) RESTful
7 22 (7.94%) Kafka
8 18 (6.50%) AngularJS
9 17 (6.14%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (5.42%) Web Services
11 14 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.33%) JSON
13 11 (3.97%) FastAPI
14 10 (3.61%) Apache Camel
15 9 (3.25%) .NET
15 9 (3.25%) YAML
16 8 (2.89%) gRPC
16 8 (2.89%) Hibernate
16 8 (2.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 103 (37.18%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (9.39%) Product Ownership
5 20 (7.22%) Blog
6 16 (5.78%) Onboarding
7 15 (5.42%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.97%) Public Cloud
9 9 (3.25%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.89%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
11 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.81%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.81%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.81%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.44%) Digital Wallet
13 4 (1.44%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
14 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (21.66%) Linux
2 11 (3.97%) Ubuntu
3 9 (3.25%) CentOS
3 9 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.89%) Debian
5 5 (1.81%) Windows
5 5 (1.81%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.08%) Android
6 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (76.90%) CI/CD
2 146 (52.71%) DevOps
3 142 (51.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (39.35%) Microservices
5 105 (37.91%) Software Engineering
6 84 (30.32%) Agile
7 76 (27.44%) Deployment Automation
7 76 (27.44%) Test Automation
8 66 (23.83%) Containerisation
8 66 (23.83%) Observability
9 63 (22.74%) Continuous Deployment
10 62 (22.38%) Clean Code
11 60 (21.66%) Platform Engineering
12 58 (20.94%) AI
13 55 (19.86%) Mentoring
14 52 (18.77%) Cloud Security
15 48 (17.33%) Fintech
16 46 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (12.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 127 (45.85%) Python
2 123 (44.40%) Java
3 41 (14.80%) Bash
4 35 (12.64%) TypeScript
5 33 (11.91%) JavaScript
6 31 (11.19%) Go
7 17 (6.14%) PowerShell
7 17 (6.14%) SQL
8 14 (5.05%) Ruby
9 12 (4.33%) Perl
10 11 (3.97%) PHP
11 10 (3.61%) C#
12 9 (3.25%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.17%) Groovy
14 5 (1.81%) Bicep
15 4 (1.44%) C++
15 4 (1.44%) COBOL
15 4 (1.44%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.69%) AWS Certification
3 27 (9.75%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.25%) Degree
6 7 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.53%) OSCP
7 6 (2.17%) RHCSA
8 5 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.44%) CCNA
9 4 (1.44%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.44%) RHCE
9 4 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.08%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.36%) CCSP
12 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.61%) QA
2 8 (2.89%) SOC 2
3 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.81%) NCSC
3 5 (1.81%) NIST
4 4 (1.44%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (1.08%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.36%) GxP
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (30.32%) Docker
2 10 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.89%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.44%) Squid
4 4 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.44%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.44%) vSphere
5 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 225 (81.23%) Terraform
2 204 (73.65%) Kubernetes
3 81 (29.24%) Grafana
4 54 (19.49%) Ansible
5 19 (6.86%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.05%) Packer
7 13 (4.69%) Argo
8 11 (3.97%) Kibana
9 10 (3.61%) Istio
9 10 (3.61%) Puppet
10 8 (2.89%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.44%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.44%) Rancher
11 4 (1.44%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.36%) Consul
12 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.69%) Splunk
3 12 (4.33%) Confluent
3 12 (4.33%) VMware
4 10 (3.61%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.61%) Google
4 10 (3.61%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.25%) Databricks
5 9 (3.25%) Oracle
6 8 (2.89%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.89%) IBM
7 6 (2.17%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.72%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.72%) Pega
9 2 (0.72%) WSO2
10 1 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.36%) New Relic
10 1 (0.36%) Solace
10 1 (0.36%) TOWER Software