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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 502 532
Rank change year-on-year +81 +30 -41
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 266 182 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.37% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 0.99% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 139 86 165
10th Percentile £50,000 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £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 £100,000 £123,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £128,000 £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 22,608 18,303 28,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.30% 37.21% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,219 10,901 23,698
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £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 18 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 18 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 +83 235 £80,000 -25.58% 79
Work from Home +100 140 £81,000 -24.65% 53
London +45 137 £110,000 +2.33% 41
UK excluding London +27 107 £62,500 -11.35% 44
North of England +2 43 £62,500 -26.47% 14
South East 0 32 £62,500 -3.85% 10
Yorkshire -10 26 £62,500 -10.71% 4
North West +11 16 £72,500 -24.68% 9
Midlands +18 15 £50,000 -28.57% 2
West Midlands +26 13 £50,000 -28.57% 2
South West +8 10 £62,500 - 13
East of England +23 8 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Wales +2 4 £54,060 +43.27% 3
East Midlands -19 2 £75,000 -
North East -6 1 £65,000 -7.14% 1

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 (5.26%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.14%) Apache
3 8 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.63%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.88%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.88%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.50%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (1.13%) Confluence
8 2 (0.75%) Apache Qpid
8 2 (0.75%) 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
1 255 (95.86%) AWS
2 96 (36.09%) Serverless
3 69 (25.94%) Amazon S3
3 69 (25.94%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (24.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 64 (24.06%) GCP
6 63 (23.68%) Amazon ECS
7 55 (20.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 50 (18.80%) GitHub
9 48 (18.05%) Amazon EC2
10 47 (17.67%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (16.54%) SaaS
12 43 (16.17%) Azure
13 30 (11.28%) Azure AKS
13 30 (11.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (6.77%) Route 53
15 16 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (6.02%) OpenShift
16 14 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.89%) VPN
2 11 (4.14%) Firewall
3 7 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.26%) BGP
4 6 (2.26%) VLAN
5 5 (1.88%) AMQP
5 5 (1.88%) SSL
6 2 (0.75%) DNS
7 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.80%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (14.66%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (13.16%) Relational Database
4 22 (8.27%) DynamoDB
5 17 (6.39%) RDBMS
6 12 (4.51%) Flink
7 11 (4.14%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.76%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (3.38%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.26%) MySQL
11 6 (2.26%) Redis
12 5 (1.88%) Big Data
12 5 (1.88%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.88%) DB2
12 5 (1.88%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.50%) SQL Server
14 3 (1.13%) Apache Ignite
15 2 (0.75%) Looker
Development Applications
1 63 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 48 (18.05%) TeamCity
3 32 (12.03%) Git
4 31 (11.65%) GitLab
5 13 (4.89%) JUnit
6 9 (3.38%) JMeter
6 9 (3.38%) Mockito
7 8 (3.01%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.88%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.50%) JIRA
9 4 (1.50%) MLflow
10 3 (1.13%) NUnit
10 3 (1.13%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.75%) JConsole
11 2 (0.75%) VisualVM
12 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 84 (31.58%) Finance
2 72 (27.07%) Banking
3 62 (23.31%) Retail
4 59 (22.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (20.68%) Law
6 52 (19.55%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.17%) Financial Institution
8 40 (15.04%) Back Office
9 21 (7.89%) Front Office
10 20 (7.52%) Public Sector
11 18 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (3.01%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.13%) Advertising
13 3 (1.13%) Games
14 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (26.32%) Software Engineer
2 57 (21.43%) Senior
3 46 (17.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (15.41%) AWS Engineer
5 40 (15.04%) Developer
6 36 (13.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 35 (13.16%) Java Developer
8 29 (10.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 28 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 28 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
10 26 (9.77%) Lead
11 19 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (6.39%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 16 (6.02%) Java Engineer
13 16 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (5.64%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (5.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 12 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.30%) React
2 51 (19.17%) Spring
3 49 (18.42%) Node.js
4 47 (17.67%) Kafka
5 41 (15.41%) REST
6 40 (15.04%) Spring Boot
7 23 (8.65%) RESTful
8 22 (8.27%) AngularJS
8 22 (8.27%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (7.89%) AWS CDK
9 21 (7.89%) Web Services
10 13 (4.89%) Apache Camel
11 12 (4.51%) Hibernate
12 11 (4.14%) JSON
12 11 (4.14%) XML
13 10 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (3.38%) ActiveMQ
14 9 (3.38%) HTML
14 9 (3.38%) jQuery
14 9 (3.38%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 83 (31.20%) Cloud Native
2 48 (18.05%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.77%) Blog
3 18 (6.77%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (6.02%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.14%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.38%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.38%) Private Cloud
7 9 (3.38%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.01%) Reference Data
9 6 (2.26%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (24.06%) Linux
2 13 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (4.14%) Windows
4 10 (3.76%) Ubuntu
5 8 (3.01%) CentOS
6 7 (2.63%) Debian
6 7 (2.63%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) Android
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (76.69%) CI/CD
2 139 (52.26%) DevOps
3 116 (43.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (37.22%) Microservices
5 90 (33.83%) Software Engineering
6 85 (31.95%) Agile
7 70 (26.32%) Test Automation
8 69 (25.94%) Observability
9 64 (24.06%) Deployment Automation
10 60 (22.56%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (19.17%) Continuous Deployment
11 51 (19.17%) Mentoring
12 49 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
13 48 (18.05%) Clean Code
14 47 (17.67%) Containerisation
15 38 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (14.29%) Fintech
16 37 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (12.41%) Cloud Security
17 33 (12.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 130 (48.87%) Java
2 105 (39.47%) Python
3 50 (18.80%) JavaScript
4 42 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 41 (15.41%) Bash
6 29 (10.90%) Go
7 16 (6.02%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.51%) Bicep
9 9 (3.38%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.26%) C#
10 6 (2.26%) SQL
11 3 (1.13%) C
12 2 (0.75%) C++
12 2 (0.75%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 56 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.53%) AWS Certification
3 35 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.64%) Degree
5 9 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.38%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.76%) SOC 2
3 9 (3.38%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.88%) NIST
4 5 (1.88%) QA
5 4 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.50%) GDPR
5 4 (1.50%) SLA
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 66 (24.81%) Docker
2 3 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) vCloud
3 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 183 (68.80%) Terraform
2 181 (68.05%) Kubernetes
3 100 (37.59%) Grafana
4 48 (18.05%) Ansible
5 40 (15.04%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.14%) Argo
7 17 (6.39%) Kibana
8 6 (2.26%) Proxmox
8 6 (2.26%) Rancher
9 5 (1.88%) Puppet
10 3 (1.13%) vRealize
11 2 (0.75%) logstash
11 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.38%) Cilium
12 1 (0.38%) Istio
12 1 (0.38%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (4.89%) Splunk
2 11 (4.14%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.76%) Dynatrace
3 10 (3.76%) Google
3 10 (3.76%) Red Hat
3 10 (3.76%) VMware
4 5 (1.88%) IBM
4 5 (1.88%) LogicMonitor
4 5 (1.88%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.50%) Databricks
5 4 (1.50%) PagerDuty
5 4 (1.50%) Pega
5 4 (1.50%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.50%) WSO2
6 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.13%) Oracle
6 3 (1.13%) Solace
7 2 (0.75%) Confluent
7 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.38%) Mercator