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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 509 523
Rank change year-on-year +76 +14 -59
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 224 198 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.37% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.03% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 124 86 137
10th Percentile £50,000 £66,875 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,688 £78,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +43.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £98,125 £147,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £126,000 - £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -9.68% +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 20,948 19,290 24,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 36.31% 39.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,428 11,344 20,401
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 January 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 22 January 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 +60 194 £80,000 -25.58% 127
London +31 110 £100,000 -6.98% 28
Work from Home +99 106 £81,750 -23.95% 94
UK excluding London +24 94 £62,500 -10.71% 110
North of England +26 38 £63,750 -25.00% 21
South East +3 28 £62,500 -3.85% 36
Yorkshire +2 25 £62,500 -7.41% 10
Midlands +22 13 £50,000 -28.57% 8
West Midlands +38 12 £50,000 -28.57% 6
North West +15 12 £80,000 -8.57% 8
South West +17 10 £62,500 - 19
East of England +24 6 £85,000 +17.24% 13
Wales +7 4 £54,060 +43.27% 7
North East +5 1 £65,000 -7.14% 3
East Midlands -8 1 £75,000 - 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 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.91%) Apache
3 9 (4.02%) WebSphere
4 7 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.13%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (2.68%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.79%) Confluence
7 2 (0.89%) Apache Qpid
8 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 214 (95.54%) AWS
2 98 (43.75%) Serverless
3 68 (30.36%) AWS Lambda
4 62 (27.68%) Amazon ECS
4 62 (27.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 60 (26.79%) Amazon S3
6 49 (21.88%) Amazon EC2
7 47 (20.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 44 (19.64%) Azure
9 43 (19.20%) GitHub
10 40 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
11 34 (15.18%) GCP
12 28 (12.50%) Azure AKS
13 27 (12.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (10.71%) SaaS
15 19 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (7.59%) OpenShift
17 15 (6.70%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (5.80%) Route 53
19 12 (5.36%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.13%) SSL
1 7 (3.13%) VPN
2 5 (2.23%) AMQP
2 5 (2.23%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.79%) Firewall
4 3 (1.34%) BGP
4 3 (1.34%) DNS
4 3 (1.34%) VLAN
5 1 (0.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (20.98%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (16.96%) Relational Database
3 37 (16.52%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (10.27%) DynamoDB
5 21 (9.38%) RDBMS
6 10 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.46%) Flink
7 9 (4.02%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (3.13%) DB2
9 7 (3.13%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.68%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.23%) Big Data
11 5 (2.23%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (2.23%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.23%) MySQL
12 4 (1.79%) Redis
13 3 (1.34%) Apache Ignite
14 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 69 (30.80%) Jenkins
2 34 (15.18%) Git
3 27 (12.05%) GitLab
4 21 (9.38%) TeamCity
5 17 (7.59%) JUnit
6 13 (5.80%) JMeter
6 13 (5.80%) Mockito
7 8 (3.57%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.23%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.23%) JIRA
9 4 (1.79%) MLflow
10 3 (1.34%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.89%) JConsole
11 2 (0.89%) NUnit
11 2 (0.89%) VisualVM
12 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.45%) Snyk
General
1 63 (28.13%) Finance
2 45 (20.09%) Social Skills
3 43 (19.20%) Banking
4 28 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (12.05%) Retail
6 25 (11.16%) Law
7 23 (10.27%) Financial Institution
7 23 (10.27%) Front Office
8 20 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (8.93%) Back Office
8 20 (8.93%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.57%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.79%) Games
11 2 (0.89%) Advertising
11 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (20.98%) Software Engineer
2 45 (20.09%) Developer
2 45 (20.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (18.30%) Java Developer
3 41 (18.30%) Senior
4 35 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (14.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 32 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 30 (13.39%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (7.59%) Lead
8 17 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.36%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.91%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 10 (4.46%) Data Warehouse Developer
11 10 (4.46%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.45%) Spring
2 48 (21.43%) Node.js
2 48 (21.43%) React
3 47 (20.98%) Kafka
4 44 (19.64%) REST
4 44 (19.64%) Spring Boot
5 24 (10.71%) AngularJS
6 23 (10.27%) Elastic Stack
6 23 (10.27%) Web Services
7 21 (9.38%) RESTful
8 18 (8.04%) AWS CDK
9 17 (7.59%) Apache Camel
10 16 (7.14%) Hibernate
11 15 (6.70%) JSON
11 15 (6.70%) XML
12 13 (5.80%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (5.80%) HTML
12 13 (5.80%) jQuery
12 13 (5.80%) WireMock
13 11 (4.91%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 46 (20.54%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.91%) Hedge funds
6 10 (4.46%) Reference Data
7 9 (4.02%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.02%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.68%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.68%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.79%) Blog
10 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.34%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.89%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 63 (28.13%) Linux
2 15 (6.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (6.70%) Windows
3 12 (5.36%) Unix
4 8 (3.57%) CentOS
4 8 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.23%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (72.32%) CI/CD
2 122 (54.46%) DevOps
3 95 (42.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (39.29%) Agile
5 85 (37.95%) Microservices
6 63 (28.13%) Software Engineering
7 49 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 47 (20.98%) Observability
9 44 (19.64%) Containerisation
9 44 (19.64%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (18.75%) Test Automation
11 37 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (16.07%) Mentoring
12 36 (16.07%) Scrum
13 35 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
14 33 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (13.84%) TDD
16 27 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 25 (11.16%) Cloud Security
18 24 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 103 (45.98%) Java
2 99 (44.20%) Python
3 49 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 40 (17.86%) Bash
5 33 (14.73%) TypeScript
6 22 (9.82%) Go
7 19 (8.48%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.80%) Bicep
8 13 (5.80%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.68%) C#
10 5 (2.23%) SQL
11 3 (1.34%) C
12 2 (0.89%) C++
12 2 (0.89%) Rust
13 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 56 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.63%) AWS Certification
2 35 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.14%) Degree
4 10 (4.46%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (2.23%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.23%) MCP
7 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.68%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.68%) SLA
2 6 (2.68%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.23%) NIST
4 4 (1.79%) GDPR
5 3 (1.34%) QA
6 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.89%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 64 (28.57%) Docker
2 4 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.45%) vCloud
3 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 142 (63.39%) Kubernetes
2 134 (59.82%) Terraform
3 68 (30.36%) Grafana
4 45 (20.09%) Ansible
5 35 (15.63%) Prometheus
6 21 (9.38%) Kibana
7 18 (8.04%) Argo
8 7 (3.13%) Rancher
9 5 (2.23%) Puppet
10 4 (1.79%) vRealize
11 2 (0.89%) logstash
11 2 (0.89%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.45%) Cilium
12 1 (0.45%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (7.59%) Splunk
2 14 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 12 (5.36%) Red Hat
4 9 (4.02%) IBM
4 9 (4.02%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.57%) Google
6 7 (3.13%) VMware
7 5 (2.23%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.79%) Databricks
8 4 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.79%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.79%) Pega
8 4 (1.79%) WSO2
9 3 (1.34%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.34%) Oracle
9 3 (1.34%) Solace
9 3 (1.34%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.45%) Mercator