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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 444 458
Rank change year-on-year -77 +14 +65
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 295 249 374
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.59% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 140 73 157
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -25.58% +34.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £105,375 £122,000 £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 27,462 15,625 24,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.07% 31.65% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,587 10,573 15,690
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,983 £39,375 £45,750
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 £100,400 £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 16 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 16 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 -97 242 £65,576 -22.85% 413
UK excluding London -117 130 £65,576 -6.32% 193
London -69 117 £80,000 -8.57% 274
Work from Home -13 113 £65,576 -2.85% 210
North of England -28 52 £65,000 -7.14% 42
South East -70 40 £62,500 - 34
South West -61 22 £100,000 +15.94% 27
North West -3 20 £70,000 -27.27% 24
Yorkshire -25 16 £56,000 -6.67% 8
North East -48 16 £57,500 - 10
Midlands -36 11 £62,500 +15.74% 16
West Midlands -44 6 £67,250 -1.47% 6
Wales -74 6 £80,000 +45.45% 6
East Midlands -32 5 £62,500 +15.74% 10
Scotland +3 3 - - 39
East of England -51 1 £72,500 -27.50% 19

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 (2.71%) Apache
2 7 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.03%) Confluence
4 3 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) Drupal
6 1 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 276 (93.56%) AWS
2 113 (38.31%) Serverless
3 110 (37.29%) Amazon ECS
4 90 (30.51%) AWS Lambda
5 84 (28.47%) Amazon S3
6 82 (27.80%) GCP
7 76 (25.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (23.73%) SaaS
9 65 (22.03%) Amazon EC2
10 54 (18.31%) Azure
11 44 (14.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (12.88%) GitHub
13 31 (10.51%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (8.81%) Azure AKS
15 24 (8.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (6.78%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (6.44%) Amazon EventBridge
18 18 (6.10%) Amazon Bedrock
19 17 (5.76%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (5.76%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.75%) Network Security
2 9 (3.05%) Firewall
2 9 (3.05%) VPN
3 7 (2.37%) AMQP
4 4 (1.36%) Broadband
4 4 (1.36%) IPv4
4 4 (1.36%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.02%) DNS
6 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.29%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (6.78%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.76%) MySQL
5 13 (4.41%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.07%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.73%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.05%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.71%) Redis
10 7 (2.37%) Big Data
10 7 (2.37%) Cloudera CDH
10 7 (2.37%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.03%) DocumentDB
12 5 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.02%) Flink
14 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
15 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 71 (24.07%) TeamCity
2 55 (18.64%) Jenkins
3 46 (15.59%) Git
4 42 (14.24%) GitLab
5 15 (5.08%) JIRA
6 11 (3.73%) JUnit
7 10 (3.39%) Mockito
8 9 (3.05%) Bitbucket
8 9 (3.05%) JMeter
9 7 (2.37%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.03%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.69%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.36%) Snyk
13 3 (1.02%) Maven
13 3 (1.02%) MLflow
14 2 (0.68%) Gradle
14 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.68%) Terragrunt
15 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 1 (0.34%) Gatling
General
1 101 (34.24%) Finance
2 86 (29.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 83 (28.14%) Law
4 76 (25.76%) Banking
5 74 (25.08%) Retail
6 61 (20.68%) Public Sector
7 56 (18.98%) Back Office
7 56 (18.98%) Financial Institution
8 52 (17.63%) Social Skills
9 26 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (4.41%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.73%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.36%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.02%) Marketing
14 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.34%) Advertising
15 1 (0.34%) Games
15 1 (0.34%) iGaming
15 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (29.15%) Software Engineer
2 83 (28.14%) Senior
3 42 (14.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (13.90%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (11.86%) Developer
6 31 (10.51%) Lead
7 26 (8.81%) Java Engineer
8 25 (8.47%) Senior Software Engineer
9 22 (7.46%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (7.12%) Consultant
11 20 (6.78%) Senior Consultant
12 19 (6.44%) Architect
12 19 (6.44%) Software Team Leader
12 19 (6.44%) Team Leader
13 18 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (6.10%) Java Software Engineer
14 15 (5.08%) Security Consultant
15 14 (4.75%) Java Developer
15 14 (4.75%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (77.29%) Terraform
2 47 (15.93%) REST
3 37 (12.54%) Spring Boot
4 32 (10.85%) Spring
5 27 (9.15%) AWS CDK
5 27 (9.15%) Node.js
6 26 (8.81%) React
7 23 (7.80%) Kafka
8 22 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (7.12%) AngularJS
10 20 (6.78%) RESTful
11 19 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (5.42%) FastAPI
13 15 (5.08%) Web Services
14 13 (4.41%) JSON
14 13 (4.41%) LangChain
14 13 (4.41%) LangGraph
15 12 (4.07%) Hibernate
16 11 (3.73%) OpenAPI
16 11 (3.73%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 114 (38.64%) Cloud Native
2 46 (15.59%) Product Ownership
3 39 (13.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (10.51%) Onboarding
6 22 (7.46%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (4.41%) Blog
7 13 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (4.41%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.73%) Low-Code
9 10 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (3.05%) Data Centre
10 9 (3.05%) Private Cloud
11 7 (2.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (2.03%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (2.03%) Mainframe
12 6 (2.03%) Replication
13 5 (1.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (23.05%) Linux
2 12 (4.07%) Windows
2 12 (4.07%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.05%) CentOS
3 9 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.05%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.37%) Debian
4 7 (2.37%) Unix
5 2 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (76.95%) CI/CD
2 164 (55.59%) DevOps
3 153 (51.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (43.05%) Microservices
5 124 (42.03%) Software Engineering
6 93 (31.53%) Test Automation
7 92 (31.19%) Agile
8 90 (30.51%) AI
9 87 (29.49%) Deployment Automation
10 80 (27.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (25.42%) Containerisation
12 74 (25.08%) Clean Code
12 74 (25.08%) Mentoring
13 72 (24.41%) Cloud Security
14 70 (23.73%) Continuous Deployment
15 68 (23.05%) Observability
16 61 (20.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 51 (17.29%) Coaching
18 50 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
19 48 (16.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 138 (46.78%) Python
2 136 (46.10%) Java
3 64 (21.69%) Bash
4 31 (10.51%) JavaScript
5 25 (8.47%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.46%) Ruby
7 19 (6.44%) PHP
8 18 (6.10%) Go
8 18 (6.10%) Perl
8 18 (6.10%) SQL
9 16 (5.42%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.07%) Groovy
10 12 (4.07%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.05%) C#
12 6 (2.03%) COBOL
13 5 (1.69%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.36%) C++
14 4 (1.36%) Scala
15 3 (1.02%) Bicep
16 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 79 (26.78%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.59%) AWS Certification
3 38 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 24 (8.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.71%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.37%) Degree
7 6 (2.03%) OSCP
7 6 (2.03%) RHCSA
7 6 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.36%) CCNA
9 4 (1.36%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.36%) RHCE
10 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.68%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.41%) QA
2 8 (2.71%) NCSC
3 6 (2.03%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.36%) NIST
6 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.34%) GxP
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 102 (34.58%) Docker
2 8 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.36%) Squid
4 4 (1.36%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.36%) vSphere
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 212 (71.86%) Kubernetes
2 96 (32.54%) Grafana
3 52 (17.63%) Ansible
4 26 (8.81%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.08%) Kibana
6 14 (4.75%) Packer
6 14 (4.75%) Puppet
7 11 (3.73%) Argo
8 10 (3.39%) Rancher
9 8 (2.71%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.37%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.36%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.68%) Istio
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.34%) Consul
13 1 (0.34%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 19 (6.44%) Dynatrace
2 17 (5.76%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.08%) Splunk
4 12 (4.07%) VMware
5 11 (3.73%) AppDynamics
5 11 (3.73%) Oracle
5 11 (3.73%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.71%) Databricks
6 8 (2.71%) Google
6 8 (2.71%) IBM
7 7 (2.37%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.03%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.36%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.36%) Confluent
10 3 (1.02%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.68%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.34%) Okta
12 1 (0.34%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.34%) YouTube