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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 463 537
Rank change year-on-year +21 +74 -61
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 267 182 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 1.19% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 139 97 176
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% +1.64%
75th Percentile £102,500 £123,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £105,000
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 24,817 15,260 32,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.26% 37.08% 37.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,141 10,961 26,103
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
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 25 March 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 March 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 +7 238 £80,000 -23.81% 80
Work from Home +63 141 £80,000 -25.58% 40
London +9 139 £106,250 -1.16% 38
UK excluding London -28 108 £62,500 -13.79% 42
North of England -26 47 £65,000 -25.71% 18
South East -40 30 £62,500 - 16
Yorkshire -19 25 £65,000 -3.70% 4
North West -21 21 £65,000 -38.10% 10
Midlands -22 14 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +9 12 £50,000 - 1
South West -38 10 £62,500 - 7
East of England -11 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Wales -16 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -25 2 £76,783 -7.49%
East Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
North East -25 1 £65,000 -7.14% 4

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 (5.24%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.12%) Apache
2 11 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.87%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.12%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.37%) Drupal
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 258 (96.63%) AWS
2 92 (34.46%) Serverless
3 75 (28.09%) GCP
4 73 (27.34%) Amazon S3
5 68 (25.47%) AWS Lambda
6 63 (23.60%) Amazon ECS
7 61 (22.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (20.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 50 (18.73%) SaaS
10 48 (17.98%) GitHub
11 45 (16.85%) Azure
12 44 (16.48%) Amazon EC2
12 44 (16.48%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (11.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (8.99%) Azure AKS
15 20 (7.49%) OpenShift
16 17 (6.37%) Route 53
17 16 (5.99%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (4.87%) Amazon Kinesis
18 13 (4.87%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.62%) VPN
2 14 (5.24%) Firewall
3 8 (3.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.25%) BGP
4 6 (2.25%) VLAN
5 5 (1.87%) AMQP
6 3 (1.12%) SSL
7 2 (0.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (16.85%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (14.23%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (10.49%) Relational Database
4 18 (6.74%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.87%) Flink
6 10 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.75%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.37%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.37%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.25%) MySQL
8 6 (2.25%) Redis
9 5 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.87%) Big Data
9 5 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.87%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.12%) DB2
11 3 (1.12%) Looker
11 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (19.10%) TeamCity
2 49 (18.35%) Jenkins
3 36 (13.48%) GitLab
4 32 (11.99%) Git
5 10 (3.75%) JUnit
6 8 (3.00%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.25%) JIRA
7 6 (2.25%) JMeter
8 5 (1.87%) MLflow
8 5 (1.87%) Mockito
9 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.12%) NUnit
9 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.37%) Gatling
10 1 (0.37%) Gradle
10 1 (0.37%) Maven
10 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.37%) Snyk
10 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 83 (31.09%) Finance
2 79 (29.59%) Banking
3 66 (24.72%) Retail
4 62 (23.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (21.72%) Law
6 50 (18.73%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.10%) Back Office
7 43 (16.10%) Financial Institution
8 17 (6.37%) Public Sector
9 15 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
9 15 (5.62%) Front Office
10 8 (3.00%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.12%) Advertising
11 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Games
13 1 (0.37%) iGaming
13 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (25.84%) Software Engineer
2 59 (22.10%) Senior
3 56 (20.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (19.85%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (13.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (12.73%) Developer
7 28 (10.49%) Platform Engineer
8 27 (10.11%) Java Developer
9 24 (8.99%) AWS DevOps
9 24 (8.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (8.99%) Lead
10 22 (8.24%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (7.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 19 (7.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 18 (6.74%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (6.37%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 17 (6.37%) Java Engineer
14 17 (6.37%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 16 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
15 16 (5.99%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (18.73%) React
2 45 (16.85%) Node.js
3 44 (16.48%) Kafka
4 39 (14.61%) Spring
5 35 (13.11%) REST
6 32 (11.99%) Spring Boot
7 24 (8.99%) Elastic Stack
8 23 (8.61%) RESTful
9 19 (7.12%) AWS CDK
10 18 (6.74%) Web Services
11 17 (6.37%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.75%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.37%) Mustache
14 8 (3.00%) Hibernate
14 8 (3.00%) Loki
15 7 (2.62%) .NET
15 7 (2.62%) JSON
15 7 (2.62%) Sass
15 7 (2.62%) XML
16 5 (1.87%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (29.96%) Cloud Native
2 37 (13.86%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.74%) Blog
4 16 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.99%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.37%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.62%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.25%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.87%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.50%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 57 (21.35%) Linux
2 11 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.75%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.00%) CentOS
5 7 (2.62%) Debian
6 6 (2.25%) Windows
7 5 (1.87%) Unix
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (76.78%) CI/CD
2 147 (55.06%) DevOps
3 123 (46.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (34.83%) Microservices
5 92 (34.46%) Software Engineering
6 83 (31.09%) Agile
7 73 (27.34%) Observability
8 70 (26.22%) Test Automation
9 67 (25.09%) Deployment Automation
10 61 (22.85%) Platform Engineering
11 54 (20.22%) Continuous Deployment
12 52 (19.48%) Containerisation
13 51 (19.10%) Clean Code
14 48 (17.98%) Mentoring
15 41 (15.36%) Full-Stack Development
16 40 (14.98%) Fintech
17 38 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 36 (13.48%) Cloud Security
18 36 (13.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 34 (12.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 118 (44.19%) Java
2 106 (39.70%) Python
3 45 (16.85%) JavaScript
4 41 (15.36%) TypeScript
5 36 (13.48%) Bash
6 34 (12.73%) Go
7 9 (3.37%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.00%) SQL
9 7 (2.62%) Bicep
10 6 (2.25%) C#
11 5 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.75%) C++
12 2 (0.75%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) C
13 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (18.73%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.11%) AWS Certification
3 31 (11.61%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.87%) Degree
5 7 (2.62%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) CEH
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CISM
10 1 (0.37%) CISSP
10 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.37%) GIAC
10 1 (0.37%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.75%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.25%) NIST
3 6 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.87%) QA
5 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.75%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 72 (26.97%) Docker
2 8 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 199 (74.53%) Terraform
2 191 (71.54%) Kubernetes
3 98 (36.70%) Grafana
4 46 (17.23%) Ansible
5 37 (13.86%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.12%) Argo
7 11 (4.12%) Kibana
8 10 (3.75%) Istio
9 7 (2.62%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.25%) Puppet
11 3 (1.12%) Rancher
12 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) Packer
13 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (4.87%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.12%) Confluent
3 10 (3.75%) Splunk
4 9 (3.37%) Google
5 7 (2.62%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.62%) VMware
6 5 (1.87%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.87%) Pega
6 5 (1.87%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.87%) WSO2
7 4 (1.50%) Databricks
7 4 (1.50%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.50%) Oracle
7 4 (1.50%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.12%) IBM
8 3 (1.12%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.37%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.37%) New Relic
9 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow