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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 444 537
Rank change year-on-year -8 +93 -69
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 269 202 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.49% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.34% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 137 101 184
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% -3.13%
75th Percentile £102,500 £123,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £111,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% -6.45% +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 26,789 15,099 33,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 36.66% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 14,030 11,109 26,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,950 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 14 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 14 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 -19 246 £80,000 -23.81% 67
Work from Home +52 147 £76,250 -29.07% 35
London -17 136 £110,000 +2.33% 33
UK excluding London -52 116 £62,500 -13.79% 34
North of England -19 53 £65,000 -25.71% 13
South East -50 39 £62,500 - 13
Yorkshire -37 28 £65,000 -3.70% 3
North West -19 23 £65,000 -38.10% 7
Midlands -27 13 £50,000 -
West Midlands -7 11 £50,000 -
South West -44 9 £62,500 +13.64% 5
East of England -24 6 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Wales -23 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -22 2 £76,783 -7.49% 2
North East -32 2 £65,288 -6.73% 3
East Midlands -51 2 £75,000 -

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 11 (4.09%) Apache
1 11 (4.09%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (4.09%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.49%) Confluence
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 257 (95.54%) AWS
2 89 (33.09%) Serverless
3 81 (30.11%) GCP
4 70 (26.02%) Amazon S3
5 68 (25.28%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (21.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (21.56%) Amazon ECS
8 53 (19.70%) SaaS
9 47 (17.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (15.61%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (15.61%) Azure
11 41 (15.24%) GitHub
12 37 (13.75%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (9.29%) Azure AKS
14 23 (8.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (8.18%) OpenShift
16 16 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (5.20%) Route 53
18 13 (4.83%) Amazon Kinesis
19 11 (4.09%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.95%) VPN
2 15 (5.58%) Firewall
3 8 (2.97%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.23%) AMQP
4 6 (2.23%) BGP
4 6 (2.23%) VLAN
5 2 (0.74%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.13%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (8.92%) Relational Database
4 18 (6.69%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.83%) Flink
6 10 (3.72%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.72%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.72%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.60%) MySQL
9 6 (2.23%) Big Data
9 6 (2.23%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (2.23%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.23%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.23%) Redis
10 5 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.12%) Looker
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (20.07%) TeamCity
2 45 (16.73%) Jenkins
3 43 (15.99%) GitLab
4 34 (12.64%) Git
5 9 (3.35%) JIRA
5 9 (3.35%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.97%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.97%) JUnit
7 5 (1.86%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.86%) JMeter
7 5 (1.86%) MLflow
8 4 (1.49%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.49%) Mockito
9 3 (1.12%) NUnit
10 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.37%) Gradle
11 1 (0.37%) Maven
11 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 83 (30.86%) Finance
2 82 (30.48%) Banking
3 72 (26.77%) Retail
4 67 (24.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (23.42%) Law
6 57 (21.19%) Social Skills
7 47 (17.47%) Back Office
7 47 (17.47%) Financial Institution
8 22 (8.18%) Public Sector
9 13 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (4.83%) Front Office
10 9 (3.35%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.12%) Advertising
11 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Games
13 1 (0.37%) iGaming
13 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.39%) Software Engineer
2 61 (22.68%) Senior
3 57 (21.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (20.07%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (12.64%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (12.64%) Developer
6 29 (10.78%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (9.29%) Java Developer
8 24 (8.92%) AWS DevOps
8 24 (8.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.92%) Lead
9 21 (7.81%) Java Engineer
10 20 (7.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (6.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 18 (6.69%) Java Software Engineer
11 18 (6.69%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (6.69%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (6.32%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 15 (5.58%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (4.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.70%) React
2 41 (15.24%) Kafka
2 41 (15.24%) Node.js
3 40 (14.87%) REST
4 37 (13.75%) Spring
5 31 (11.52%) Spring Boot
6 26 (9.67%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (9.29%) RESTful
8 19 (7.06%) AWS CDK
9 18 (6.69%) AngularJS
9 18 (6.69%) Web Services
10 14 (5.20%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (4.46%) JSON
12 9 (3.35%) Mustache
12 9 (3.35%) YAML
13 8 (2.97%) Loki
14 7 (2.60%) Sass
15 6 (2.23%) .NET
15 6 (2.23%) Apache Camel
15 6 (2.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 84 (31.23%) Cloud Native
2 42 (15.61%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (8.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.06%) Blog
5 18 (6.69%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.72%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.97%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.23%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.86%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.86%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.12%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.74%) AI Agents
13 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.74%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 55 (20.45%) Linux
2 11 (4.09%) Ubuntu
3 9 (3.35%) CentOS
3 9 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.97%) Debian
5 3 (1.12%) Android
5 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.74%) Unix
7 1 (0.37%) Windows
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (78.81%) CI/CD
2 149 (55.39%) DevOps
3 131 (48.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (37.17%) Microservices
5 94 (34.94%) Software Engineering
6 92 (34.20%) Agile
7 78 (29.00%) Test Automation
8 77 (28.62%) Deployment Automation
9 75 (27.88%) Observability
10 62 (23.05%) Platform Engineering
11 60 (22.30%) Continuous Deployment
12 57 (21.19%) Clean Code
13 53 (19.70%) Containerisation
14 50 (18.59%) Mentoring
15 42 (15.61%) Fintech
16 41 (15.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 38 (14.13%) Cloud Security
19 37 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
20 36 (13.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 126 (46.84%) Java
2 105 (39.03%) Python
3 40 (14.87%) JavaScript
4 38 (14.13%) Go
4 38 (14.13%) TypeScript
5 29 (10.78%) Bash
6 14 (5.20%) SQL
7 6 (2.23%) Groovy
7 6 (2.23%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.86%) C#
9 4 (1.49%) Perl
9 4 (1.49%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.12%) Bicep
11 2 (0.74%) C++
11 2 (0.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.37%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.27%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.15%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.72%) Degree
5 7 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.12%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.12%) OSCP
9 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.37%) CISM
9 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) GIAC
9 1 (0.37%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.72%) QA
2 10 (3.72%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.60%) NIST
4 6 (2.23%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.86%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 71 (26.39%) Docker
2 8 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 209 (77.70%) Terraform
2 201 (74.72%) Kubernetes
3 94 (34.94%) Grafana
4 57 (21.19%) Ansible
5 32 (11.90%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.43%) Argo
7 12 (4.46%) Kibana
8 10 (3.72%) Istio
9 8 (2.97%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.60%) Puppet
11 5 (1.86%) Packer
12 4 (1.49%) Rancher
13 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.37%) Consul
14 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (4.09%) Confluent
1 11 (4.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.72%) AppDynamics
2 10 (3.72%) Google
3 9 (3.35%) Splunk
4 8 (2.97%) IBM
4 8 (2.97%) VMware
5 7 (2.60%) Oracle
6 6 (2.23%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.23%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.49%) Databricks
7 4 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.49%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.12%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.74%) Pega
9 2 (0.74%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.74%) WSO2
10 1 (0.37%) New Relic
10 1 (0.37%) Solace