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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 444 538
Rank change year-on-year -44 +94 -18
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 250 233 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.53% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.58% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 124 76 179
10th Percentile £48,050 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,313 £69,063 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £95,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +15.15% -5.71%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £127,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -3.23% +19.23%

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 26,349 14,711 35,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.43% 33.58% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15,694 10,086 26,982
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.12%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -34 227 £71,250 -32.14% 79
Work from Home +22 124 £66,538 -26.48% 52
London -32 118 £95,500 -9.05% 46
UK excluding London -65 113 £65,000 -13.33% 42
North of England -26 47 £65,288 -25.39% 12
South East -51 40 £62,500 +92.31% 10
North West +1 23 £67,500 -35.71% 8
Yorkshire -24 22 £65,000 -5.45% 3
Midlands -24 13 £50,000 - 5
South West -46 13 £61,500 -18.00% 8
West Midlands -27 11 £50,000 - 5
East of England -31 4 £85,000 -
Scotland 0 2 £76,783 -19.18% 1
East Midlands -25 2 £75,000 -
North East - 2 £64,038 - 1
Wales -43 1 £80,000 +72.54% 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 10 (4.00%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.20%) Apache
4 6 (2.40%) Confluence
5 5 (2.00%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) Drupal
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Magento
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 241 (96.40%) AWS
2 85 (34.00%) Serverless
3 81 (32.40%) GCP
4 75 (30.00%) Amazon S3
5 66 (26.40%) Amazon ECS
6 63 (25.20%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (20.40%) Amazon EC2
8 49 (19.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (19.20%) SaaS
10 44 (17.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 44 (17.60%) Azure
11 31 (12.40%) GitHub
12 28 (11.20%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (8.80%) Azure AKS
14 21 (8.40%) OpenShift
15 18 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (6.80%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (6.00%) AWS CloudTrail
17 15 (6.00%) Route 53
18 14 (5.60%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.20%) Firewall
1 13 (5.20%) VPN
2 5 (2.00%) AMQP
2 5 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.60%) DNS
3 4 (1.60%) IPv4
3 4 (1.60%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.20%) BGP
4 3 (1.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.60%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.60%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (10.80%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.40%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.60%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.60%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.80%) MySQL
7 6 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.40%) Flink
7 6 (2.40%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.40%) Redis
8 5 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.00%) Big Data
8 5 (2.00%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (2.00%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.20%) Looker
10 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.40%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 57 (22.80%) TeamCity
2 52 (20.80%) Jenkins
3 41 (16.40%) GitLab
4 34 (13.60%) Git
5 11 (4.40%) JIRA
6 9 (3.60%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.60%) JUnit
7 8 (3.20%) JMeter
8 7 (2.80%) Mockito
8 7 (2.80%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.00%) MLflow
10 4 (1.60%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.20%) NUnit
12 2 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.80%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.40%) Gatling
13 1 (0.40%) Gradle
13 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 77 (30.80%) Finance
2 74 (29.60%) Banking
3 69 (27.60%) Retail
4 63 (25.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (24.00%) Law
6 48 (19.20%) Social Skills
7 42 (16.80%) Back Office
7 42 (16.80%) Financial Institution
8 24 (9.60%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.40%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.20%) Advertising
14 2 (0.80%) Front Office
14 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.40%) Games
15 1 (0.40%) iGaming
15 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (24.40%) Software Engineer
2 56 (22.40%) Senior
3 44 (17.60%) AWS Engineer
4 40 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (13.20%) Developer
6 28 (11.20%) Platform Engineer
7 26 (10.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (9.60%) Java Engineer
9 21 (8.40%) Lead
10 19 (7.60%) Java Developer
11 18 (7.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (6.80%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 17 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (6.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 16 (6.40%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (6.40%) Lead Software Engineer
14 15 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (6.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
15 14 (5.60%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.00%) React
2 39 (15.60%) REST
3 32 (12.80%) Spring
4 30 (12.00%) Spring Boot
5 29 (11.60%) Node.js
6 27 (10.80%) Kafka
7 22 (8.80%) AWS CDK
8 21 (8.40%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (8.00%) RESTful
10 19 (7.60%) Web Services
11 17 (6.80%) AngularJS
12 14 (5.60%) JSON
13 13 (5.20%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (4.00%) Apache Camel
14 10 (4.00%) Mustache
15 9 (3.60%) YAML
16 8 (3.20%) Hibernate
17 7 (2.80%) ActiveMQ
17 7 (2.80%) HTML
17 7 (2.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (34.00%) Cloud Native
2 35 (14.00%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (11.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.40%) Blog
4 21 (8.40%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.40%) Public Cloud
6 10 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.60%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.80%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.80%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.40%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.60%) Linux
2 10 (4.00%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.20%) CentOS
3 8 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.80%) Debian
5 5 (2.00%) Windows
5 5 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.20%) Android
6 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (81.20%) CI/CD
2 135 (54.00%) DevOps
3 126 (50.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (36.80%) Microservices
5 85 (34.00%) Software Engineering
6 79 (31.60%) Agile
7 75 (30.00%) Test Automation
8 74 (29.60%) Deployment Automation
9 63 (25.20%) Observability
10 60 (24.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 59 (23.60%) Clean Code
12 52 (20.80%) Platform Engineering
13 51 (20.40%) Containerisation
14 47 (18.80%) Mentoring
15 46 (18.40%) Fintech
16 43 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (16.80%) Cloud Security
18 38 (15.20%) Scrum
19 33 (13.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 30 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 112 (44.80%) Java
2 100 (40.00%) Python
3 37 (14.80%) JavaScript
4 35 (14.00%) TypeScript
5 33 (13.20%) Bash
6 31 (12.40%) Go
7 16 (6.40%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.80%) SQL
9 9 (3.60%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.40%) Bicep
10 6 (2.40%) Groovy
11 4 (1.60%) C#
11 4 (1.60%) Perl
11 4 (1.60%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.80%) PHP
12 2 (0.80%) Rust
13 1 (0.40%) C++
13 1 (0.40%) COBOL
13 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.00%) AWS Certification
3 26 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.80%) OSCP
6 6 (2.40%) Degree
6 6 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.60%) CCNA
8 4 (1.60%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.60%) RHCE
8 4 (1.60%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.20%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.40%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.40%) QA
2 7 (2.80%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.40%) NIST
4 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.80%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (30.80%) Docker
2 10 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.20%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.60%) Squid
4 4 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.60%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 202 (80.80%) Terraform
2 191 (76.40%) Kubernetes
3 83 (33.20%) Grafana
4 54 (21.60%) Ansible
5 23 (9.20%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.80%) Packer
7 11 (4.40%) Argo
7 11 (4.40%) Kibana
8 10 (4.00%) Istio
9 8 (3.20%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.40%) Puppet
11 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.60%) Rancher
11 4 (1.60%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.40%) Consul
12 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.40%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.20%) Splunk
3 12 (4.80%) Confluent
3 12 (4.80%) VMware
4 10 (4.00%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.60%) Google
5 9 (3.60%) Oracle
5 9 (3.60%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.20%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.20%) IBM
7 6 (2.40%) Databricks
8 5 (2.00%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.20%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.80%) Pega
10 2 (0.80%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.80%) WSO2
11 1 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.40%) New Relic
11 1 (0.40%) Solace