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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 439 448
Rank change year-on-year -84 +9 +93
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 303 246 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.59% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 140 72 155
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £81,250 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% -24.42% +34.38%
75th Percentile £81,250 £100,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £126,750 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% - +3.70%

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 27,715 15,462 23,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.75% 31.57% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 18,767 10,461 15,073
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,375 £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 £101,250 £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 23 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 23 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 -100 248 £65,576 -22.85% 331
UK excluding London -126 132 £65,576 -6.32% 156
London -78 121 £78,750 -14.86% 221
Work from Home -31 120 £65,576 -4.62% 169
North of England -22 52 £65,576 -6.32% 37
South East -61 43 £62,500 - 29
South West -67 21 £101,250 +17.39% 20
North West -17 19 £72,500 -24.68% 21
North East -53 17 £57,500 - 7
Yorkshire -31 16 £56,000 -6.67% 9
Midlands -62 11 £62,500 +15.74% 10
West Midlands -44 6 £67,250 -1.47% 3
Wales -75 6 £80,000 +45.45% 4
East Midlands -34 5 £62,500 +15.74% 7
Scotland +7 3 - - 31
East of England -57 1 £72,500 -27.50% 18

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 (2.31%) Apache
1 7 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.65%) Confluence
3 4 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.33%) Camunda
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 284 (93.73%) AWS
2 119 (39.27%) Serverless
3 111 (36.63%) Amazon ECS
4 95 (31.35%) AWS Lambda
5 87 (28.71%) GCP
6 85 (28.05%) Amazon S3
7 75 (24.75%) SaaS
8 74 (24.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 64 (21.12%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (17.16%) Azure
11 44 (14.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (11.88%) GitHub
13 30 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (8.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (8.25%) Azure AKS
16 20 (6.60%) Amazon EventBridge
16 20 (6.60%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (6.27%) Amazon Bedrock
17 19 (6.27%) Amazon SQS
18 16 (5.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.95%) Network Security
2 11 (3.63%) VPN
3 9 (2.97%) Firewall
4 7 (2.31%) AMQP
5 4 (1.32%) Broadband
5 4 (1.32%) IPv4
5 4 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.99%) BGP
6 3 (0.99%) DNS
6 3 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.66%) VLAN
8 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (19.14%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (16.50%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (6.93%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.61%) MySQL
5 14 (4.62%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.96%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.63%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.30%) Redis
9 9 (2.97%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.64%) DocumentDB
11 7 (2.31%) Big Data
11 7 (2.31%) Cloudera CDH
11 7 (2.31%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.32%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.99%) Flink
15 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
15 2 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 78 (25.74%) TeamCity
2 59 (19.47%) Jenkins
3 51 (16.83%) Git
4 41 (13.53%) GitLab
5 14 (4.62%) JIRA
6 12 (3.96%) JUnit
7 11 (3.63%) Mockito
8 9 (2.97%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.64%) JMeter
10 7 (2.31%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.98%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.65%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.32%) Snyk
14 3 (0.99%) Maven
14 3 (0.99%) MLflow
15 2 (0.66%) Gradle
15 2 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.66%) Terragrunt
16 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 108 (35.64%) Finance
2 96 (31.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 89 (29.37%) Law
4 82 (27.06%) Banking
5 80 (26.40%) Retail
6 63 (20.79%) Back Office
6 63 (20.79%) Financial Institution
7 61 (20.13%) Public Sector
8 56 (18.48%) Social Skills
9 26 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (4.29%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.63%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.99%) Marketing
14 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.33%) Advertising
15 1 (0.33%) Games
15 1 (0.33%) iGaming
15 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (29.37%) Software Engineer
2 83 (27.39%) Senior
3 43 (14.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (13.20%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (12.21%) Developer
6 34 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (10.89%) Lead
8 26 (8.58%) Java Engineer
9 24 (7.92%) Lead Software Engineer
9 24 (7.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (6.93%) Software Team Leader
10 21 (6.93%) Team Leader
11 20 (6.60%) Consultant
11 20 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (6.60%) Senior Consultant
12 19 (6.27%) Architect
13 18 (5.94%) Java Software Engineer
14 14 (4.62%) Java Developer
14 14 (4.62%) Security Consultant
14 14 (4.62%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (77.89%) Terraform
2 49 (16.17%) REST
3 39 (12.87%) Spring Boot
4 34 (11.22%) Spring
5 29 (9.57%) Node.js
6 28 (9.24%) Kafka
7 27 (8.91%) AWS CDK
7 27 (8.91%) React
8 26 (8.58%) Elastic Stack
9 23 (7.59%) RESTful
10 22 (7.26%) AngularJS
11 19 (6.27%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (5.28%) FastAPI
12 16 (5.28%) Web Services
13 14 (4.62%) LangChain
14 13 (4.29%) JSON
14 13 (4.29%) LangGraph
15 12 (3.96%) Hibernate
16 11 (3.63%) OpenAPI
16 11 (3.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 120 (39.60%) Cloud Native
2 50 (16.50%) Product Ownership
3 40 (13.20%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (12.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (10.23%) Onboarding
6 21 (6.93%) Enterprise Cloud
7 16 (5.28%) Blog
8 13 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (4.29%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.63%) Low-Code
10 10 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.97%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.97%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.97%) Replication
12 7 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (2.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (1.98%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.98%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (22.44%) Linux
2 11 (3.63%) Windows
2 11 (3.63%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.97%) CentOS
3 9 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.97%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.31%) Debian
4 7 (2.31%) Unix
5 2 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.66%) Android
5 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (78.55%) CI/CD
2 169 (55.78%) DevOps
3 154 (50.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (44.55%) Microservices
5 127 (41.91%) Software Engineering
6 99 (32.67%) Test Automation
7 95 (31.35%) Agile
8 92 (30.36%) AI
9 89 (29.37%) Deployment Automation
10 81 (26.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 79 (26.07%) Clean Code
12 77 (25.41%) Mentoring
13 74 (24.42%) Containerisation
14 72 (23.76%) Continuous Deployment
14 72 (23.76%) Observability
15 69 (22.77%) Cloud Security
16 63 (20.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 54 (17.82%) Coaching
18 53 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
19 48 (15.84%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 146 (48.18%) Java
2 145 (47.85%) Python
3 69 (22.77%) Bash
4 33 (10.89%) JavaScript
5 26 (8.58%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.26%) Go
6 22 (7.26%) Ruby
7 21 (6.93%) SQL
8 18 (5.94%) Perl
8 18 (5.94%) PHP
9 15 (4.95%) Groovy
9 15 (4.95%) PowerShell
10 12 (3.96%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.97%) C#
12 6 (1.98%) COBOL
13 5 (1.65%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.32%) C++
14 4 (1.32%) Scala
15 3 (0.99%) Bicep
16 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 82 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.52%) AWS Certification
3 42 (13.86%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.64%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.31%) Degree
7 6 (1.98%) OSCP
7 6 (1.98%) RHCSA
7 6 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.32%) CCNA
9 4 (1.32%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.32%) RHCE
10 3 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.66%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.62%) QA
2 7 (2.31%) NCSC
3 6 (1.98%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.65%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.32%) NIST
6 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) GxP
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 107 (35.31%) Docker
2 6 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.32%) Squid
4 4 (1.32%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.32%) vSphere
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 220 (72.61%) Kubernetes
2 106 (34.98%) Grafana
3 50 (16.50%) Ansible
4 31 (10.23%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.95%) Kibana
6 13 (4.29%) Packer
6 13 (4.29%) Puppet
6 13 (4.29%) Rancher
7 11 (3.63%) Argo
8 8 (2.64%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.98%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.32%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.66%) Istio
12 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.33%) Cilium
13 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 23 (7.59%) Dynatrace
2 15 (4.95%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.62%) Splunk
4 12 (3.96%) VMware
5 11 (3.63%) AppDynamics
5 11 (3.63%) Oracle
5 11 (3.63%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.30%) Google
7 9 (2.97%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.64%) Databricks
8 8 (2.64%) IBM
9 7 (2.31%) SaltStack
10 5 (1.65%) Confluent
11 4 (1.32%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.99%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.33%) ForgeRock
14 1 (0.33%) Okta
14 1 (0.33%) Ping Identity
14 1 (0.33%) YouTube