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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 425 473
Rank change year-on-year -91 +48 +79
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 304 250 332
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.61% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 136 78 141
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,313 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -30.23% +34.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £120,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £67,500
% 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 26,716 15,535 23,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 31.28% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,334 10,393 14,373
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,354 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -106 244 £65,576 -20.51% 331
Work from Home -12 130 £65,576 -2.85% 135
UK excluding London -112 125 £65,576 -6.32% 132
London -70 124 £78,750 -7.35% 227
North of England -34 47 £65,576 +9.29% 30
South East -68 34 £60,000 - 21
South West -60 23 £102,500 +24.24% 20
North West -8 18 £72,500 -24.68% 16
North East -43 18 £57,500 - 6
Yorkshire -33 11 £47,000 -21.67% 8
Midlands -47 11 £62,500 +18.48% 9
West Midlands -45 6 £67,250 +30.58% 3
Wales -73 6 £80,000 +45.45% 3
East Midlands -32 5 £62,500 +15.74% 6
Scotland -4 3 - - 28
East of England -50 1 £72,500 -27.50% 14

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 8 (2.63%) Apache
2 7 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.97%) Confluence
4 4 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.66%) Camunda
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 286 (94.08%) AWS
2 110 (36.18%) Amazon ECS
2 110 (36.18%) Serverless
3 97 (31.91%) GCP
4 88 (28.95%) AWS Lambda
5 83 (27.30%) SaaS
6 81 (26.64%) Amazon S3
7 71 (23.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (18.09%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (15.79%) Azure
10 45 (14.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (12.50%) GitHub
12 32 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (8.55%) Azure AKS
15 21 (6.91%) Amazon EventBridge
15 21 (6.91%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (5.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.25%) Network Security
2 18 (5.92%) VPN
3 13 (4.28%) Firewall
4 10 (3.29%) BGP
4 10 (3.29%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.30%) AMQP
6 5 (1.64%) VLAN
7 4 (1.32%) Broadband
7 4 (1.32%) DNS
7 4 (1.32%) IPv4
7 4 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.66%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (21.71%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (19.08%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (5.92%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.59%) MySQL
5 15 (4.93%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.95%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.29%) DocumentDB
8 10 (3.29%) Redis
9 8 (2.63%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.30%) Big Data
10 7 (2.30%) Cloudera CDH
10 7 (2.30%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.32%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.32%) Flink
13 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 89 (29.28%) TeamCity
2 49 (16.12%) Jenkins
3 42 (13.82%) Git
4 37 (12.17%) GitLab
5 12 (3.95%) JUnit
6 11 (3.62%) Mockito
7 10 (3.29%) JIRA
8 9 (2.96%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.30%) JMeter
10 4 (1.32%) Snyk
11 3 (0.99%) Maven
11 3 (0.99%) MLflow
12 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.66%) Gradle
12 2 (0.66%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 116 (38.16%) Finance
2 103 (33.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 95 (31.25%) Law
4 88 (28.95%) Banking
5 85 (27.96%) Retail
6 72 (23.68%) Back Office
6 72 (23.68%) Financial Institution
7 58 (19.08%) Public Sector
7 58 (19.08%) Social Skills
8 28 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (4.28%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.62%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.99%) Marketing
13 2 (0.66%) 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 93 (30.59%) Software Engineer
2 90 (29.61%) Senior
3 40 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (12.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (11.18%) Lead
7 31 (10.20%) Developer
8 27 (8.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 26 (8.55%) Java Engineer
10 24 (7.89%) Lead Software Engineer
11 22 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (6.91%) Software Team Leader
12 21 (6.91%) Team Leader
13 20 (6.58%) Consultant
13 20 (6.58%) Java Software Engineer
13 20 (6.58%) Senior Consultant
14 18 (5.92%) Architect
15 16 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
16 15 (4.93%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 14 (4.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (78.29%) Terraform
2 39 (12.83%) REST
3 36 (11.84%) Spring Boot
4 31 (10.20%) Kafka
5 30 (9.87%) Node.js
5 30 (9.87%) Spring
6 27 (8.88%) AWS CDK
7 25 (8.22%) RESTful
8 23 (7.57%) React
9 17 (5.59%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (5.26%) AngularJS
10 16 (5.26%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.61%) LangChain
12 13 (4.28%) LangGraph
13 12 (3.95%) Hibernate
13 12 (3.95%) Web Services
14 11 (3.62%) OpenAPI
14 11 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.62%) Swagger
15 10 (3.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 130 (42.76%) Cloud Native
2 52 (17.11%) Product Ownership
3 37 (12.17%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (12.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (10.20%) Onboarding
5 24 (7.89%) Blog
6 21 (6.91%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (4.28%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (4.28%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.62%) Low-Code
9 10 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.96%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.96%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.96%) Replication
10 9 (2.96%) Security Posture
11 8 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (1.97%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 63 (20.72%) Linux
2 11 (3.62%) Windows
2 11 (3.62%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.96%) CentOS
3 9 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.96%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.30%) Debian
4 7 (2.30%) Unix
5 2 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (80.26%) CI/CD
2 162 (53.29%) DevOps
3 152 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 131 (43.09%) Microservices
4 131 (43.09%) Software Engineering
5 100 (32.89%) Test Automation
6 92 (30.26%) AI
7 89 (29.28%) Deployment Automation
8 86 (28.29%) Agile
9 83 (27.30%) Clean Code
10 81 (26.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 80 (26.32%) Mentoring
12 75 (24.67%) Observability
13 72 (23.68%) Containerisation
13 72 (23.68%) Continuous Deployment
14 71 (23.36%) Cloud Security
15 67 (22.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 58 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
17 55 (18.09%) Coaching
17 55 (18.09%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 147 (48.36%) Java
1 147 (48.36%) Python
2 75 (24.67%) Bash
3 32 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 30 (9.87%) Go
5 27 (8.88%) TypeScript
6 23 (7.57%) SQL
7 22 (7.24%) Ruby
8 18 (5.92%) PHP
9 16 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 14 (4.61%) Perl
11 9 (2.96%) C#
11 9 (2.96%) Groovy
11 9 (2.96%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.97%) COBOL
13 4 (1.32%) C++
13 4 (1.32%) Scala
14 3 (0.99%) Bicep
15 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (25.66%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.80%) AWS Certification
3 40 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.30%) Degree
8 6 (1.97%) RHCSA
8 6 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.64%) CCSP
9 5 (1.64%) CISM
9 5 (1.64%) CISSP
9 5 (1.64%) OSCP
10 4 (1.32%) CCNA
10 4 (1.32%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.32%) RHCE
11 3 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (3.62%) SOC 2
2 10 (3.29%) PCI DSS
2 10 (3.29%) QA
3 7 (2.30%) NCSC
3 7 (2.30%) NIST
4 6 (1.97%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.33%) GxP
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 103 (33.88%) Docker
2 6 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.32%) Squid
3 4 (1.32%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.32%) vSphere
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 222 (73.03%) Kubernetes
2 119 (39.14%) Grafana
3 40 (13.16%) Ansible
4 34 (11.18%) Prometheus
5 13 (4.28%) Puppet
5 13 (4.28%) Rancher
6 11 (3.62%) Argo
7 10 (3.29%) Kibana
8 9 (2.96%) Packer
9 8 (2.63%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.97%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.64%) Cilium
12 4 (1.32%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.66%) Istio
13 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.33%) Opsview
Vendors
1 24 (7.89%) Dynatrace
2 17 (5.59%) Google
3 15 (4.93%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.28%) Splunk
5 12 (3.95%) VMware
6 11 (3.62%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.29%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.63%) Databricks
9 7 (2.30%) Oracle
9 7 (2.30%) SaltStack
10 6 (1.97%) Confluent
11 4 (1.32%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.99%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.66%) YouTube
14 1 (0.33%) ForgeRock
14 1 (0.33%) Okta
14 1 (0.33%) Ping Identity