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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 440 471
Rank change year-on-year -74 +31 +85
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 310 250 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 1.61% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 136 78 141
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £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 26,705 15,573 23,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.65% 31.29% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 18,286 10,453 14,260
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,091 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,186 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -8.94% +4.00%
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 9 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 9 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 -102 249 £65,576 -20.51% 366
Work from Home +2 133 £66,538 -1.43% 151
London -63 128 £78,750 -7.35% 256
UK excluding London -134 128 £65,576 -6.32% 142
North of England -41 47 £65,576 +9.29% 31
South East -70 34 £60,000 - 23
South West -65 24 £102,500 +24.24% 21
North West -9 18 £72,500 -24.68% 17
North East -48 18 £57,500 - 6
Yorkshire -34 11 £47,000 -21.67% 8
Midlands -51 11 £62,500 +18.48% 10
Wales -72 7 £80,000 +45.45% 2
West Midlands -46 6 £67,250 +30.58% 2
East Midlands -35 5 £62,500 +15.74% 8
Scotland +7 3 - - 32
East of England -58 2 £72,500 -27.50% 15

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 9 (2.90%) Apache
2 8 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.94%) Confluence
4 4 (1.29%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.97%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.65%) Camunda
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 293 (94.52%) AWS
2 111 (35.81%) Amazon ECS
2 111 (35.81%) Serverless
3 101 (32.58%) GCP
4 89 (28.71%) AWS Lambda
5 85 (27.42%) SaaS
6 81 (26.13%) Amazon S3
7 71 (22.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (17.74%) Amazon EC2
9 49 (15.81%) Azure
10 45 (14.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (12.58%) GitHub
12 34 (10.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (8.06%) Azure AKS
15 22 (7.10%) Amazon SQS
16 21 (6.77%) Amazon EventBridge
17 20 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (6.13%) Amazon Bedrock
19 17 (5.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.45%) Network Security
1 20 (6.45%) VPN
2 14 (4.52%) Firewall
3 12 (3.87%) BGP
3 12 (3.87%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.58%) AMQP
5 6 (1.94%) VLAN
6 4 (1.29%) Broadband
6 4 (1.29%) DNS
6 4 (1.29%) IPv4
6 4 (1.29%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.65%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (19.68%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (6.13%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.48%) MySQL
5 15 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.87%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.87%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.23%) DocumentDB
8 10 (3.23%) Redis
9 8 (2.58%) Big Data
9 8 (2.58%) Cloudera CDH
9 8 (2.58%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.58%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.29%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.29%) Flink
12 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.65%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 92 (29.68%) TeamCity
2 49 (15.81%) Jenkins
3 42 (13.55%) Git
4 36 (11.61%) GitLab
5 12 (3.87%) JUnit
6 11 (3.55%) Mockito
7 10 (3.23%) JIRA
8 9 (2.90%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.26%) JMeter
10 4 (1.29%) Snyk
11 3 (0.97%) Maven
11 3 (0.97%) MLflow
12 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.65%) Gradle
12 2 (0.65%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 121 (39.03%) Finance
2 106 (34.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 97 (31.29%) Law
4 91 (29.35%) Banking
5 87 (28.06%) Retail
6 74 (23.87%) Back Office
6 74 (23.87%) Financial Institution
7 58 (18.71%) Public Sector
7 58 (18.71%) Social Skills
8 28 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (4.52%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.55%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.97%) Marketing
13 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.32%) Advertising
14 1 (0.32%) Games
14 1 (0.32%) iGaming
14 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (30.97%) Software Engineer
2 92 (29.68%) Senior
3 40 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (12.26%) AWS Engineer
4 38 (12.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (11.29%) Lead
6 32 (10.32%) Developer
7 28 (9.03%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (8.71%) Java Engineer
9 24 (7.74%) Lead Software Engineer
10 22 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (6.77%) Java Software Engineer
11 21 (6.77%) Software Team Leader
11 21 (6.77%) Team Leader
12 20 (6.45%) Consultant
12 20 (6.45%) Senior Consultant
13 19 (6.13%) Architect
14 17 (5.48%) Senior Java Engineer
15 16 (5.16%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 14 (4.52%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (78.71%) Terraform
2 41 (13.23%) REST
3 39 (12.58%) Spring Boot
4 33 (10.65%) Spring
5 32 (10.32%) Kafka
5 32 (10.32%) Node.js
6 27 (8.71%) AWS CDK
7 26 (8.39%) React
7 26 (8.39%) RESTful
8 17 (5.48%) AngularJS
8 17 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (5.16%) FastAPI
10 14 (4.52%) LangChain
11 13 (4.19%) LangGraph
11 13 (4.19%) OpenAPI
11 13 (4.19%) Swagger
12 12 (3.87%) Hibernate
12 12 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (3.87%) Web Services
13 11 (3.55%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 135 (43.55%) Cloud Native
2 52 (16.77%) Product Ownership
3 39 (12.58%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (11.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (10.32%) Onboarding
6 28 (9.03%) Blog
7 21 (6.77%) Enterprise Cloud
8 13 (4.19%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (4.19%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.55%) Low-Code
10 10 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (3.23%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 9 (2.90%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.90%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.90%) Replication
12 8 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.94%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 64 (20.65%) Linux
2 11 (3.55%) Windows
2 11 (3.55%) Windows Server
3 10 (3.23%) CentOS
3 10 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.58%) Debian
5 7 (2.26%) Unix
6 2 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Android
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 163 (52.58%) DevOps
3 153 (49.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 134 (43.23%) Microservices
4 134 (43.23%) Software Engineering
5 101 (32.58%) Test Automation
6 94 (30.32%) AI
7 90 (29.03%) Deployment Automation
8 87 (28.06%) Agile
9 85 (27.42%) Clean Code
10 81 (26.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 80 (25.81%) Mentoring
12 77 (24.84%) Observability
13 74 (23.87%) Continuous Deployment
14 73 (23.55%) Containerisation
15 72 (23.23%) Cloud Security
16 68 (21.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 59 (19.03%) Fintech
18 58 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
19 55 (17.74%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 153 (49.35%) Java
2 150 (48.39%) Python
3 76 (24.52%) Bash
4 33 (10.65%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.32%) Go
6 29 (9.35%) TypeScript
7 26 (8.39%) SQL
8 22 (7.10%) Ruby
9 18 (5.81%) PHP
10 16 (5.16%) PowerShell
11 14 (4.52%) Perl
12 9 (2.90%) C#
12 9 (2.90%) Groovy
12 9 (2.90%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.94%) COBOL
14 4 (1.29%) C++
14 4 (1.29%) Scala
15 3 (0.97%) Bicep
16 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.52%) AWS Certification
3 42 (13.55%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.26%) Degree
8 6 (1.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (1.94%) CCSP
8 6 (1.94%) CISM
8 6 (1.94%) CISSP
8 6 (1.94%) RHCSA
8 6 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.61%) OSCP
10 4 (1.29%) CCNA
10 4 (1.29%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.29%) RHCE
11 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (4.19%) SOC 2
2 12 (3.87%) PCI DSS
3 10 (3.23%) QA
4 8 (2.58%) NIST
5 7 (2.26%) NCSC
6 6 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.94%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.97%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.32%) GxP
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 104 (33.55%) Docker
2 6 (1.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.29%) Squid
3 4 (1.29%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.29%) vSphere
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 225 (72.58%) Kubernetes
2 123 (39.68%) Grafana
3 40 (12.90%) Ansible
4 35 (11.29%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.52%) Puppet
6 13 (4.19%) Rancher
7 11 (3.55%) Argo
8 10 (3.23%) Kibana
9 9 (2.90%) Packer
10 8 (2.58%) Proxmox
11 7 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.94%) Cilium
12 6 (1.94%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.29%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.65%) Istio
14 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.32%) Opsview
Vendors
1 24 (7.74%) Dynatrace
2 20 (6.45%) Google
3 15 (4.84%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.52%) Splunk
5 12 (3.87%) Red Hat
5 12 (3.87%) VMware
6 10 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.58%) Databricks
7 8 (2.58%) SaltStack
8 7 (2.26%) Oracle
9 6 (1.94%) Confluent
10 4 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.97%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.65%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.65%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.65%) YouTube
13 1 (0.32%) ForgeRock
13 1 (0.32%) Okta
13 1 (0.32%) Ping Identity