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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 447 454
Rank change year-on-year -69 +7 +93
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 307 248 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.59% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 142 73 154
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -25.58% +34.38%
75th Percentile £81,250 £100,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% - +7.69%

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 27,603 15,559 24,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.55% 31.50% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 18,768 10,536 15,264
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -101 252 £65,576 -22.85% 343
UK excluding London -123 136 £65,576 -6.32% 163
Work from Home -22 123 £65,576 -4.62% 180
London -65 121 £77,500 -11.43% 231
North of England -27 54 £65,576 +0.89% 38
South East -65 44 £62,500 - 30
South West -65 22 £102,500 +18.84% 22
North West -13 19 £72,500 -24.68% 22
North East -53 18 £57,500 - 7
Yorkshire -27 17 £56,000 -6.67% 9
Midlands -48 11 £62,500 +15.74% 10
West Midlands -49 6 £67,250 -1.47% 3
Wales -67 6 £80,000 +45.45% 3
East Midlands -33 5 £62,500 +15.74% 7
Scotland +5 3 - - 28
East of England -40 1 £72,500 -27.50% 20

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 7 (2.28%) Apache
1 7 (2.28%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.63%) Confluence
2 5 (1.63%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.33%) Camunda
4 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 288 (93.81%) AWS
2 121 (39.41%) Serverless
3 113 (36.81%) Amazon ECS
4 96 (31.27%) AWS Lambda
5 88 (28.66%) Amazon S3
5 88 (28.66%) GCP
6 75 (24.43%) SaaS
7 74 (24.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 64 (20.85%) Amazon EC2
9 52 (16.94%) Azure
10 45 (14.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (12.05%) GitHub
12 31 (10.10%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (8.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (8.14%) Azure AKS
15 21 (6.84%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (6.51%) Amazon EventBridge
16 20 (6.51%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (6.19%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (5.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.89%) Network Security
2 11 (3.58%) VPN
3 9 (2.93%) Firewall
4 7 (2.28%) AMQP
5 4 (1.30%) Broadband
5 4 (1.30%) IPv4
5 4 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.98%) BGP
6 3 (0.98%) DNS
6 3 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.65%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (19.22%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (16.61%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (7.17%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.54%) MySQL
5 15 (4.89%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.91%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.58%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.58%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.26%) DocumentDB
8 10 (3.26%) Redis
9 9 (2.93%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.28%) Big Data
10 7 (2.28%) Cloudera CDH
10 7 (2.28%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.30%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.98%) Flink
14 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.65%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 79 (25.73%) TeamCity
2 60 (19.54%) Jenkins
3 53 (17.26%) Git
4 42 (13.68%) GitLab
5 14 (4.56%) JIRA
6 12 (3.91%) JUnit
7 11 (3.58%) Mockito
8 9 (2.93%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.61%) JMeter
10 7 (2.28%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.95%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.63%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.30%) Snyk
14 3 (0.98%) Maven
14 3 (0.98%) MLflow
15 2 (0.65%) Gradle
15 2 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.65%) Terragrunt
16 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 109 (35.50%) Finance
2 98 (31.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 90 (29.32%) Law
4 83 (27.04%) Banking
5 81 (26.38%) Retail
6 64 (20.85%) Back Office
6 64 (20.85%) Financial Institution
6 64 (20.85%) Public Sector
7 58 (18.89%) Social Skills
8 26 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (4.23%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.58%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.98%) Marketing
13 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.33%) Advertising
14 1 (0.33%) Games
14 1 (0.33%) iGaming
14 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (28.99%) Software Engineer
2 83 (27.04%) Senior
3 44 (14.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (12.70%) AWS Engineer
4 39 (12.70%) Developer
5 34 (11.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (10.75%) Lead
7 26 (8.47%) Java Engineer
8 24 (7.82%) Lead Software Engineer
8 24 (7.82%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (6.84%) Software Team Leader
9 21 (6.84%) Team Leader
10 20 (6.51%) Consultant
10 20 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (6.51%) Senior Consultant
11 19 (6.19%) Architect
12 18 (5.86%) Java Software Engineer
13 15 (4.89%) Java Developer
14 14 (4.56%) Security Consultant
14 14 (4.56%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (77.85%) Terraform
2 51 (16.61%) REST
3 40 (13.03%) Spring Boot
4 35 (11.40%) Spring
5 31 (10.10%) Node.js
6 30 (9.77%) Kafka
7 28 (9.12%) React
8 27 (8.79%) AWS CDK
8 27 (8.79%) Elastic Stack
9 24 (7.82%) RESTful
10 23 (7.49%) AngularJS
11 19 (6.19%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (5.54%) Web Services
13 16 (5.21%) FastAPI
14 14 (4.56%) LangChain
15 13 (4.23%) JSON
15 13 (4.23%) LangGraph
16 12 (3.91%) Hibernate
17 11 (3.58%) OpenAPI
17 11 (3.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 121 (39.41%) Cloud Native
2 51 (16.61%) Product Ownership
3 41 (13.36%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (12.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (10.10%) Onboarding
6 21 (6.84%) Enterprise Cloud
7 16 (5.21%) Blog
8 13 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (4.23%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.58%) Low-Code
10 10 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.93%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.93%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.93%) Replication
12 8 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (2.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (1.95%) Digital Wallet
14 6 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.95%) Mainframe
14 6 (1.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (22.48%) Linux
2 11 (3.58%) Windows
2 11 (3.58%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.93%) CentOS
3 9 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.93%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.28%) Debian
4 7 (2.28%) Unix
5 2 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.65%) Android
5 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (79.15%) CI/CD
2 171 (55.70%) DevOps
3 155 (50.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (44.63%) Microservices
5 127 (41.37%) Software Engineering
6 100 (32.57%) Test Automation
7 97 (31.60%) Agile
8 92 (29.97%) AI
9 90 (29.32%) Deployment Automation
10 82 (26.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 80 (26.06%) Clean Code
12 77 (25.08%) Mentoring
13 74 (24.10%) Containerisation
14 73 (23.78%) Observability
15 72 (23.45%) Continuous Deployment
16 68 (22.15%) Cloud Security
17 63 (20.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 54 (17.59%) Coaching
18 54 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
19 48 (15.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 148 (48.21%) Java
2 147 (47.88%) Python
3 71 (23.13%) Bash
4 35 (11.40%) JavaScript
5 27 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 23 (7.49%) Go
7 22 (7.17%) Ruby
8 21 (6.84%) SQL
9 18 (5.86%) Perl
9 18 (5.86%) PHP
10 15 (4.89%) Groovy
10 15 (4.89%) PowerShell
11 12 (3.91%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.93%) C#
13 6 (1.95%) COBOL
14 5 (1.63%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.30%) C++
15 4 (1.30%) Scala
16 3 (0.98%) Bicep
17 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 84 (27.36%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.33%) AWS Certification
2 44 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (2.61%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.28%) Degree
6 6 (1.95%) OSCP
6 6 (1.95%) RHCSA
6 6 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.30%) CCNA
8 4 (1.30%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.30%) RHCE
9 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.65%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.89%) QA
2 7 (2.28%) NCSC
3 6 (1.95%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.63%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.30%) NIST
6 3 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) GxP
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 110 (35.83%) Docker
2 6 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.30%) Squid
4 4 (1.30%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.30%) vSphere
5 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 223 (72.64%) Kubernetes
2 108 (35.18%) Grafana
3 50 (16.29%) Ansible
4 31 (10.10%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.89%) Kibana
6 13 (4.23%) Packer
6 13 (4.23%) Puppet
6 13 (4.23%) Rancher
7 12 (3.91%) Argo
8 8 (2.61%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.95%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.30%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.65%) Istio
12 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.33%) Cilium
13 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 24 (7.82%) Dynatrace
2 15 (4.89%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.56%) Splunk
4 12 (3.91%) VMware
5 11 (3.58%) AppDynamics
5 11 (3.58%) Oracle
5 11 (3.58%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.26%) Google
7 9 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.61%) Databricks
8 8 (2.61%) IBM
9 7 (2.28%) SaltStack
10 6 (1.95%) Confluent
11 4 (1.30%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.98%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.65%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.33%) ForgeRock
14 1 (0.33%) Okta
14 1 (0.33%) Ping Identity
14 1 (0.33%) YouTube