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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 497 537
Rank change year-on-year +70 +40 -57
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 264 177 275
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.36% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 0.98% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 138 82 166
10th Percentile £50,000 £64,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £75,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £106,250 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +39.34% -4.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £123,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £128,250 £147,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.35% -9.03% +10.71%

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 22,794 18,033 28,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.12% 37.16% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 12,318 10,977 23,885
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 21 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 15 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 21 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 +86 233 £80,000 -25.58% 82
Work from Home +98 140 £81,000 -24.65% 52
London +49 134 £110,000 +2.33% 42
UK excluding London +28 108 £62,500 -11.35% 45
North of England -7 43 £62,500 -27.54% 14
South East -26 33 £62,500 -3.85% 13
Yorkshire -13 26 £62,500 -7.41% 4
North West 0 16 £72,500 -24.68% 8
Midlands +12 15 £50,000 -28.57% 2
West Midlands +17 13 £50,000 -28.57% 2
South West -2 10 £62,500 - 13
East of England +22 8 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Wales +1 4 £54,060 +43.27% 1
East Midlands -27 2 £75,000 -
North East -14 1 £65,000 -7.14% 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 14 (5.30%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.17%) Apache
3 9 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.65%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.89%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.89%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.52%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (1.14%) Confluence
8 2 (0.76%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 253 (95.83%) AWS
2 96 (36.36%) Serverless
3 69 (26.14%) AWS Lambda
4 68 (25.76%) Amazon S3
5 65 (24.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 65 (24.62%) GCP
6 63 (23.86%) Amazon ECS
7 55 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 49 (18.56%) GitHub
9 47 (17.80%) Amazon EC2
10 46 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (16.67%) SaaS
12 42 (15.91%) Azure
13 30 (11.36%) Azure AKS
14 29 (10.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (6.44%) Route 53
16 16 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (5.68%) Amazon Kinesis
17 15 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (5.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.92%) VPN
2 11 (4.17%) Firewall
3 7 (2.65%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.27%) BGP
4 6 (2.27%) VLAN
5 5 (1.89%) AMQP
5 5 (1.89%) SSL
6 1 (0.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (19.32%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (14.39%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (12.88%) Relational Database
4 22 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 16 (6.06%) RDBMS
6 13 (4.92%) Flink
7 12 (4.55%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (3.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (3.79%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.65%) Redis
11 6 (2.27%) MySQL
12 5 (1.89%) Big Data
12 5 (1.89%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.89%) DB2
12 5 (1.89%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
14 3 (1.14%) Apache Ignite
14 3 (1.14%) Looker
Development Applications
1 61 (23.11%) Jenkins
2 48 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 31 (11.74%) Git
4 29 (10.98%) GitLab
5 13 (4.92%) JUnit
6 9 (3.41%) JMeter
6 9 (3.41%) Mockito
7 8 (3.03%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.89%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.52%) JIRA
9 4 (1.52%) MLflow
10 3 (1.14%) NUnit
10 3 (1.14%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.76%) JConsole
11 2 (0.76%) VisualVM
12 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 82 (31.06%) Finance
2 71 (26.89%) Banking
3 62 (23.48%) Retail
4 59 (22.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (20.83%) Law
6 52 (19.70%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.29%) Financial Institution
8 40 (15.15%) Back Office
9 20 (7.58%) Front Office
9 20 (7.58%) Public Sector
10 16 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (3.03%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.14%) Advertising
13 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Games
13 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (26.52%) Software Engineer
2 56 (21.21%) Senior
3 46 (17.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (15.53%) AWS Engineer
5 39 (14.77%) Developer
6 36 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (12.88%) Java Developer
8 28 (10.61%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (10.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 26 (9.85%) Lead
10 26 (9.85%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (7.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (6.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 16 (6.06%) Java Engineer
13 16 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (5.68%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (5.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 12 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.45%) React
2 50 (18.94%) Spring
3 49 (18.56%) Node.js
4 47 (17.80%) Kafka
5 41 (15.53%) REST
6 40 (15.15%) Spring Boot
7 23 (8.71%) RESTful
8 22 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (7.95%) AngularJS
9 21 (7.95%) AWS CDK
9 21 (7.95%) Web Services
10 13 (4.92%) Apache Camel
11 12 (4.55%) Hibernate
12 11 (4.17%) JSON
12 11 (4.17%) XML
13 10 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (3.41%) ActiveMQ
14 9 (3.41%) HTML
14 9 (3.41%) jQuery
14 9 (3.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 83 (31.44%) Cloud Native
2 47 (17.80%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.82%) Blog
4 17 (6.44%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (6.06%) Product Ownership
6 12 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.41%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.03%) Hedge funds
8 8 (3.03%) Private Cloud
8 8 (3.03%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.65%) Reference Data
10 6 (2.27%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.14%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.14%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.76%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 62 (23.48%) Linux
2 13 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (4.17%) Windows
4 10 (3.79%) Ubuntu
5 8 (3.03%) CentOS
6 7 (2.65%) Debian
6 7 (2.65%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (76.89%) CI/CD
2 138 (52.27%) DevOps
3 114 (43.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (37.50%) Microservices
5 89 (33.71%) Software Engineering
6 86 (32.58%) Agile
7 70 (26.52%) Observability
7 70 (26.52%) Test Automation
8 64 (24.24%) Deployment Automation
9 58 (21.97%) Platform Engineering
10 52 (19.70%) Mentoring
11 51 (19.32%) Continuous Deployment
12 48 (18.18%) Clean Code
12 48 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 46 (17.42%) Containerisation
14 38 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (14.02%) Fintech
16 36 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (12.50%) Scrum
18 32 (12.12%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 129 (48.86%) Java
2 104 (39.39%) Python
3 51 (19.32%) JavaScript
4 43 (16.29%) TypeScript
5 39 (14.77%) Bash
6 27 (10.23%) Go
7 15 (5.68%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.55%) Bicep
9 9 (3.41%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.27%) C#
10 6 (2.27%) SQL
11 3 (1.14%) C
12 2 (0.76%) C++
12 2 (0.76%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 56 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.26%) AWS Certification
2 35 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.68%) Degree
4 9 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.38%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.79%) SOC 2
3 8 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.89%) NIST
4 5 (1.89%) QA
5 4 (1.52%) GDPR
5 4 (1.52%) SLA
6 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 66 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) vCloud
3 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 182 (68.94%) Terraform
2 180 (68.18%) Kubernetes
3 100 (37.88%) Grafana
4 47 (17.80%) Ansible
5 40 (15.15%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.20%) Argo
7 17 (6.44%) Kibana
8 6 (2.27%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.89%) Puppet
9 5 (1.89%) Rancher
10 2 (0.76%) logstash
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.76%) 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 13 (4.92%) Splunk
2 11 (4.17%) Google
2 11 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.79%) Dynatrace
3 10 (3.79%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.41%) VMware
5 5 (1.89%) IBM
5 5 (1.89%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (1.89%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.52%) Databricks
6 4 (1.52%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.52%) Pega
6 4 (1.52%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.52%) WSO2
7 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.14%) Confluent
7 3 (1.14%) Oracle
7 3 (1.14%) Solace
8 2 (0.76%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics