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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 536 532
Rank change year-on-year +127 -4 -66
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 247 177 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.34% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 0.92% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 129 84 146
10th Percentile £50,000 £66,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +40.98% -4.69%
75th Percentile £97,500 £147,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £123,500 - £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -9.68% +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 21,204 19,150 26,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.51% 36.52% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11,542 11,236 21,935
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,623 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -6.36%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +97 215 £80,000 -25.58% 104
London +57 129 £100,000 -6.98% 31
Work from Home +104 127 £82,500 -23.26% 71
UK excluding London +36 95 £62,500 -10.71% 82
North of England +27 38 £63,750 -25.00% 15
South East 0 28 £62,500 -3.85% 30
Yorkshire 0 25 £62,500 -10.71% 6
Midlands +11 13 £50,000 -28.57% 7
West Midlands +39 12 £50,000 -28.57% 6
North West +24 12 £80,000 -16.88% 7
South West +12 10 £62,500 - 16
East of England +29 7 £85,000 +17.24% 8
Wales +12 4 £54,060 +43.27% 4
North East -2 1 £65,000 -7.14% 2
East Midlands -17 1 £75,000 - 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 (5.67%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.45%) Apache
3 9 (3.64%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.83%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (2.43%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.62%) Confluence
7 2 (0.81%) Apache Qpid
8 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.40%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 237 (95.95%) AWS
2 99 (40.08%) Serverless
3 70 (28.34%) AWS Lambda
4 66 (26.72%) Amazon S3
5 65 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
6 64 (25.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (21.46%) Amazon EC2
8 52 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 48 (19.43%) GCP
10 46 (18.62%) GitHub
11 44 (17.81%) Azure
12 43 (17.41%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (14.17%) SaaS
14 32 (12.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 28 (11.34%) Azure AKS
16 19 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (6.88%) OpenShift
17 17 (6.88%) Route 53
18 16 (6.48%) Amazon SQS
19 13 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.45%) VPN
2 8 (3.24%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.83%) SSL
4 6 (2.43%) BGP
4 6 (2.43%) VLAN
5 5 (2.02%) AMQP
5 5 (2.02%) Firewall
6 3 (1.21%) DNS
7 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (20.24%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (16.60%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 23 (9.31%) DynamoDB
5 20 (8.10%) RDBMS
6 10 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (4.05%) Flink
7 9 (3.64%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.83%) DB2
9 7 (2.83%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.43%) MySQL
10 6 (2.43%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.02%) Big Data
11 5 (2.02%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (2.02%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.62%) Redis
13 3 (1.21%) Apache Ignite
14 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 69 (27.94%) Jenkins
2 35 (14.17%) TeamCity
3 34 (13.77%) Git
4 28 (11.34%) GitLab
5 16 (6.48%) JUnit
6 12 (4.86%) JMeter
6 12 (4.86%) Mockito
7 8 (3.24%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.02%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.02%) JIRA
9 4 (1.62%) MLflow
10 3 (1.21%) NUnit
10 3 (1.21%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.81%) JConsole
11 2 (0.81%) VisualVM
12 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.40%) Snyk
General
1 76 (30.77%) Finance
2 60 (24.29%) Banking
3 49 (19.84%) Social Skills
4 45 (18.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (18.22%) Retail
5 42 (17.00%) Law
6 34 (13.77%) Financial Institution
7 31 (12.55%) Back Office
8 23 (9.31%) Front Office
9 21 (8.50%) Public Sector
10 20 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (3.24%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.62%) Games
13 2 (0.81%) Advertising
13 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (23.89%) Software Engineer
2 49 (19.84%) Senior
3 46 (18.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (17.81%) Developer
5 40 (16.19%) Java Developer
6 37 (14.98%) AWS Engineer
7 36 (14.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 32 (12.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 31 (12.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 21 (8.50%) Lead
10 21 (8.50%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (5.26%) Java Engineer
12 13 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
13 12 (4.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 12 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (4.05%) Mid-Level Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.67%) Spring
2 50 (20.24%) React
3 48 (19.43%) Node.js
4 47 (19.03%) Kafka
5 44 (17.81%) REST
6 43 (17.41%) Spring Boot
7 24 (9.72%) AngularJS
7 24 (9.72%) RESTful
8 23 (9.31%) Elastic Stack
9 22 (8.91%) Web Services
10 20 (8.10%) AWS CDK
11 16 (6.48%) Apache Camel
12 15 (6.07%) Hibernate
13 14 (5.67%) JSON
13 14 (5.67%) XML
14 12 (4.86%) ActiveMQ
14 12 (4.86%) HTML
14 12 (4.86%) jQuery
14 12 (4.86%) WireMock
15 11 (4.45%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 68 (27.53%) Cloud Native
2 49 (19.84%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.29%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (5.67%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.26%) Blog
6 12 (4.86%) Product Ownership
7 11 (4.45%) Hedge funds
8 10 (4.05%) Reference Data
9 9 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (3.64%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.83%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.43%) Fixed Income
11 6 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.21%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.21%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.81%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 65 (26.32%) Linux
2 15 (6.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (6.07%) Windows
3 12 (4.86%) Unix
4 8 (3.24%) CentOS
4 8 (3.24%) Ubuntu
5 5 (2.02%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (74.49%) CI/CD
2 130 (52.63%) DevOps
3 104 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (37.65%) Microservices
5 87 (35.22%) Agile
6 76 (30.77%) Software Engineering
7 56 (22.67%) Test Automation
8 55 (22.27%) Observability
9 52 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
10 51 (20.65%) Deployment Automation
11 50 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
12 46 (18.62%) Containerisation
13 42 (17.00%) Mentoring
13 42 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
15 37 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (14.57%) Scrum
17 35 (14.17%) Clean Code
18 30 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 30 (12.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 119 (48.18%) Java
2 104 (42.11%) Python
3 50 (20.24%) JavaScript
4 42 (17.00%) Bash
5 35 (14.17%) TypeScript
6 26 (10.53%) Go
7 19 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.26%) Bicep
9 12 (4.86%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.83%) C#
11 5 (2.02%) SQL
12 3 (1.21%) C
13 2 (0.81%) C++
13 2 (0.81%) Rust
14 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 56 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.98%) AWS Certification
3 36 (14.57%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.88%) Degree
5 10 (4.05%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.02%) MCP
8 4 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.64%) PCI DSS
2 9 (3.64%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.43%) SLA
4 5 (2.02%) NIST
5 4 (1.62%) GDPR
5 4 (1.62%) QA
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 65 (26.32%) Docker
2 4 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.40%) vCloud
3 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 161 (65.18%) Kubernetes
2 158 (63.97%) Terraform
3 86 (34.82%) Grafana
4 46 (18.62%) Ansible
5 38 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 20 (8.10%) Kibana
7 18 (7.29%) Argo
8 7 (2.83%) Rancher
9 5 (2.02%) Puppet
10 4 (1.62%) vRealize
11 3 (1.21%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.81%) logstash
13 1 (0.40%) Cilium
13 1 (0.40%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.48%) Splunk
2 13 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 12 (4.86%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.64%) IBM
4 9 (3.64%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.24%) Google
5 8 (3.24%) VMware
6 5 (2.02%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.62%) Databricks
7 4 (1.62%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.62%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.62%) Pega
7 4 (1.62%) WSO2
8 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.21%) Oracle
8 3 (1.21%) Solace
8 3 (1.21%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.40%) Mercator