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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 502 542
Rank change year-on-year +74 +40 -49
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 258 170 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.37% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 1.01% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 132 80 169
10th Percentile £50,000 £63,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £123,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £127,000 £147,500 £106,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £71,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.89% -7.42% +14.81%

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 23,116 16,906 30,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.73% 37.09% 38.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12,458 10,740 24,527
10th Percentile £29,186 £33,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
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 3 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 3 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 +57 228 £80,000 -25.58% 99
Work from Home +80 135 £81,750 -23.95% 57
London +38 133 £107,500 - 44
UK excluding London +23 106 £62,500 -12.89% 55
North of England -7 43 £65,000 -24.64% 18
South East -27 32 £62,500 -3.85% 18
Yorkshire -16 26 £62,500 -7.41% 3
North West +9 16 £72,500 -24.68% 13
Midlands -4 14 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +30 12 £50,000 - 1
South West -13 10 £62,500 - 14
East of England +12 7 £85,000 +17.24% 2
Wales -4 4 £54,060 +43.27% 1
East Midlands -28 2 £75,000 -
North East -15 1 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Scotland -16 1 £95,000 +14.46% 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 (5.43%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.26%) Apache
3 10 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.71%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.94%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.94%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.55%) Confluence
6 4 (1.55%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 247 (95.74%) AWS
2 96 (37.21%) Serverless
3 70 (27.13%) Amazon S3
3 70 (27.13%) AWS Lambda
4 64 (24.81%) GCP
5 63 (24.42%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (24.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (21.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 47 (18.22%) Amazon EC2
9 46 (17.83%) GitHub
10 44 (17.05%) SaaS
11 43 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (14.73%) Azure
13 30 (11.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (10.08%) Azure AKS
15 17 (6.59%) Route 53
16 16 (6.20%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (5.43%) Amazon Kinesis
17 14 (5.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 13 (5.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.04%) VPN
2 11 (4.26%) Firewall
3 7 (2.71%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.33%) BGP
4 6 (2.33%) VLAN
5 5 (1.94%) AMQP
5 5 (1.94%) SSL
6 1 (0.39%) DNS
6 1 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (19.38%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (12.40%) Relational Database
4 21 (8.14%) DynamoDB
5 14 (5.43%) RDBMS
6 13 (5.04%) Flink
7 11 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (4.26%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.49%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.71%) Redis
11 6 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.33%) MySQL
12 5 (1.94%) Big Data
12 5 (1.94%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.94%) DB2
12 5 (1.94%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.55%) SQL Server
14 3 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (1.16%) Looker
Development Applications
1 57 (22.09%) Jenkins
2 48 (18.60%) TeamCity
3 31 (12.02%) Git
4 30 (11.63%) GitLab
5 13 (5.04%) JUnit
6 8 (3.10%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.10%) JMeter
6 8 (3.10%) Mockito
7 5 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.94%) JIRA
8 4 (1.55%) MLflow
9 3 (1.16%) NUnit
9 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.78%) JConsole
10 2 (0.78%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.39%) Gradle
11 1 (0.39%) Maven
11 1 (0.39%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 81 (31.40%) Finance
2 71 (27.52%) Banking
3 62 (24.03%) Retail
4 59 (22.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (21.32%) Law
6 52 (20.16%) Social Skills
7 42 (16.28%) Financial Institution
8 40 (15.50%) Back Office
9 19 (7.36%) Front Office
9 19 (7.36%) Public Sector
10 16 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (3.10%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.16%) Advertising
13 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.39%) Games
14 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (26.74%) Software Engineer
2 54 (20.93%) Senior
3 44 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (15.50%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (14.73%) Developer
6 32 (12.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (12.40%) Java Developer
7 27 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (10.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (9.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 25 (9.69%) Lead
10 20 (7.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (6.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 17 (6.59%) Java Engineer
13 16 (6.20%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (6.20%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 12 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.93%) React
2 47 (18.22%) Node.js
2 47 (18.22%) Spring
3 45 (17.44%) Kafka
4 39 (15.12%) REST
5 38 (14.73%) Spring Boot
6 24 (9.30%) RESTful
7 22 (8.53%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (8.14%) AWS CDK
9 20 (7.75%) Web Services
10 19 (7.36%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.65%) Apache Camel
12 11 (4.26%) Hibernate
13 10 (3.88%) JSON
13 10 (3.88%) XML
14 9 (3.49%) Mustache
15 8 (3.10%) jQuery
15 8 (3.10%) Loki
15 8 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (3.10%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 80 (31.01%) Cloud Native
2 44 (17.05%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.98%) Blog
4 16 (6.20%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.10%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.71%) Hedge funds
8 7 (2.71%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.71%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.33%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.33%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.94%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.16%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.78%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.87%) Linux
2 13 (5.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.88%) Ubuntu
4 9 (3.49%) Windows
5 8 (3.10%) CentOS
6 7 (2.71%) Debian
6 7 (2.71%) Unix
7 1 (0.39%) Android
7 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (78.29%) CI/CD
2 135 (52.33%) DevOps
3 115 (44.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (37.21%) Microservices
5 89 (34.50%) Software Engineering
6 84 (32.56%) Agile
7 69 (26.74%) Observability
8 68 (26.36%) Test Automation
9 64 (24.81%) Deployment Automation
10 59 (22.87%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (19.77%) Continuous Deployment
12 50 (19.38%) Mentoring
13 48 (18.60%) Clean Code
14 45 (17.44%) Full-Stack Development
15 43 (16.67%) Containerisation
16 37 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (14.34%) Fintech
16 37 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (12.79%) Scrum
18 30 (11.63%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 126 (48.84%) Java
2 100 (38.76%) Python
3 49 (18.99%) JavaScript
4 44 (17.05%) TypeScript
5 35 (13.57%) Bash
6 25 (9.69%) Go
7 11 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.49%) Bicep
9 8 (3.10%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.71%) SQL
11 6 (2.33%) C#
12 2 (0.78%) C++
12 2 (0.78%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) C
13 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 52 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.40%) AWS Certification
2 32 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.81%) Degree
4 7 (2.71%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.49%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.71%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.94%) NIST
4 5 (1.94%) QA
5 4 (1.55%) SLA
6 3 (1.16%) GDPR
7 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 66 (25.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) vCloud
2 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 180 (69.77%) Terraform
2 173 (67.05%) Kubernetes
3 98 (37.98%) Grafana
4 44 (17.05%) Ansible
5 39 (15.12%) Prometheus
6 18 (6.98%) Argo
7 16 (6.20%) Kibana
8 6 (2.33%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.94%) Puppet
10 4 (1.55%) Rancher
11 2 (0.78%) logstash
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.39%) Cilium
12 1 (0.39%) Istio
12 1 (0.39%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (4.65%) Splunk
2 11 (4.26%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.88%) Google
4 9 (3.49%) Red Hat
5 8 (3.10%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.10%) VMware
6 5 (1.94%) IBM
6 5 (1.94%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.55%) Databricks
7 4 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.55%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.55%) Pega
7 4 (1.55%) WSO2
8 3 (1.16%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.16%) Confluent
8 3 (1.16%) Oracle
8 3 (1.16%) Solace
8 3 (1.16%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.39%) Mercator