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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 442 478
Rank change year-on-year -67 +36 +55
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 264 259 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.63% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 133 73 185
10th Percentile £48,200 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £140,000
90th Percentile £116,000 £127,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -12.57% +7.91% +6.92%

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 27,405 15,898 29,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.20% 32.36% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,887 11,069 21,791
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -85 226 £75,000 -21.05% 103
London -51 124 £90,000 -14.29% 59
UK excluding London -101 112 £65,576 -12.57% 61
Work from Home -15 106 £67,500 -10.00% 46
North of England -3 44 £65,000 -17.46% 24
South East -64 35 £62,500 +92.31% 11
North West +3 22 £72,500 -30.95% 12
South West -60 17 £100,000 +11.11% 8
Yorkshire -28 16 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Midlands -43 9 £62,500 -10.07% 4
West Midlands -25 7 £62,000 -27.06% 3
North East -44 6 £62,500 - 6
Wales -52 6 £80,000 +45.45%
Scotland +10 3 £76,783 -19.18% 9
East of England -26 3 £80,150 - 4
East Midlands -35 2 £68,750 +27.31% 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 7 (2.65%) Apache
1 7 (2.65%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.52%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.76%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.38%) Drupal
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 249 (94.32%) AWS
2 98 (37.12%) Serverless
3 94 (35.61%) Amazon ECS
4 78 (29.55%) Amazon S3
5 76 (28.79%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (27.27%) GCP
7 66 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 58 (21.97%) Amazon EC2
9 56 (21.21%) SaaS
10 55 (20.83%) Azure
11 38 (14.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (12.50%) GitHub
13 28 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (8.71%) Azure AKS
15 21 (7.95%) Cloud Computing
16 20 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 19 (7.20%) Amazon EventBridge
18 18 (6.82%) OpenShift
19 17 (6.44%) AWS Control Tower
20 15 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.30%) Network Security
2 10 (3.79%) Firewall
3 8 (3.03%) VPN
4 5 (1.89%) DNS
5 4 (1.52%) AMQP
5 4 (1.52%) Broadband
5 4 (1.52%) IPv4
5 4 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.38%) BGP
7 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.53%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.98%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.92%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.92%) MySQL
5 11 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.79%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.03%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.27%) Flink
9 5 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.52%) Big Data
10 4 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.52%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.52%) Redis
11 3 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.14%) Looker
12 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 53 (20.08%) TeamCity
2 50 (18.94%) Jenkins
3 45 (17.05%) GitLab
4 35 (13.26%) Git
5 16 (6.06%) JIRA
6 9 (3.41%) JUnit
7 8 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.03%) JMeter
8 7 (2.65%) Mockito
9 6 (2.27%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.89%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.52%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.52%) MLflow
12 2 (0.76%) Snyk
12 2 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.76%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.38%) Gradle
13 1 (0.38%) Maven
13 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 91 (34.47%) Finance
2 66 (25.00%) Banking
3 56 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 56 (21.21%) Law
3 56 (21.21%) Retail
4 50 (18.94%) Social Skills
5 47 (17.80%) Public Sector
6 42 (15.91%) Back Office
6 42 (15.91%) Financial Institution
7 19 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.79%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.03%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.76%) Advertising
13 2 (0.76%) Games
14 1 (0.38%) iGaming
14 1 (0.38%) Marketing
14 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (28.79%) Senior
2 61 (23.11%) Software Engineer
3 40 (15.15%) AWS Engineer
3 40 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (12.88%) Developer
5 28 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (10.23%) Lead
6 27 (10.23%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (9.09%) Consultant
8 22 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (7.95%) Java Engineer
10 20 (7.58%) Architect
10 20 (7.58%) Senior Consultant
11 16 (6.06%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 16 (6.06%) Lead Software Engineer
12 15 (5.68%) Security Consultant
13 14 (5.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 14 (5.30%) Senior Security Consultant
13 14 (5.30%) Team Leader
14 13 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.02%) REST
2 30 (11.36%) Spring Boot
3 29 (10.98%) React
4 27 (10.23%) AWS CDK
5 25 (9.47%) Spring
6 23 (8.71%) Kafka
6 23 (8.71%) Node.js
7 21 (7.95%) RESTful
8 17 (6.44%) AngularJS
8 17 (6.44%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (5.68%) Web Services
10 14 (5.30%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.55%) JSON
13 10 (3.79%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.41%) YAML
15 8 (3.03%) Hibernate
16 7 (2.65%) .NET
16 7 (2.65%) ActiveMQ
16 7 (2.65%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (34.85%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.77%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (10.98%) Onboarding
5 28 (10.61%) Product Ownership
6 24 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.79%) Blog
7 10 (3.79%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.41%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.03%) Algorithms
9 8 (3.03%) Low-Code
10 6 (2.27%) Digital Wallet
10 6 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (2.27%) Mainframe
10 6 (2.27%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.89%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.89%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.32%) Linux
2 8 (3.03%) Ubuntu
3 6 (2.27%) CentOS
3 6 (2.27%) Debian
3 6 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.27%) Windows
3 6 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.14%) Android
4 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (73.11%) CI/CD
2 140 (53.03%) DevOps
3 139 (52.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (41.29%) Microservices
5 94 (35.61%) Software Engineering
6 80 (30.30%) Agile
7 67 (25.38%) Containerisation
7 67 (25.38%) Test Automation
8 66 (25.00%) AI
9 62 (23.48%) Deployment Automation
10 58 (21.97%) Cloud Security
11 57 (21.59%) Observability
12 56 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
13 53 (20.08%) Clean Code
13 53 (20.08%) Mentoring
14 52 (19.70%) Continuous Deployment
15 47 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (16.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 38 (14.39%) Fintech
18 37 (14.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 127 (48.11%) Python
2 115 (43.56%) Java
3 46 (17.42%) Bash
4 30 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 29 (10.98%) JavaScript
6 24 (9.09%) Go
7 22 (8.33%) Ruby
8 19 (7.20%) SQL
9 18 (6.82%) Perl
10 17 (6.44%) PHP
10 17 (6.44%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.41%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.65%) C#
13 6 (2.27%) COBOL
13 6 (2.27%) Groovy
14 4 (1.52%) Bicep
14 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 65 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.94%) AWS Certification
3 27 (10.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 26 (9.85%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.65%) OSCP
6 6 (2.27%) Degree
6 6 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.27%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.52%) CCNA
8 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.52%) RHCE
9 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.14%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.38%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.79%) QA
2 7 (2.65%) NCSC
3 6 (2.27%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (2.27%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.52%) NIST
6 3 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.38%) GxP
8 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (32.95%) Docker
2 10 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.52%) Squid
4 4 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.52%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.52%) vSphere
5 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 212 (80.30%) Terraform
2 188 (71.21%) Kubernetes
3 62 (23.48%) Grafana
4 48 (18.18%) Ansible
5 14 (5.30%) Packer
5 14 (5.30%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.92%) Argo
7 12 (4.55%) Kibana
8 11 (4.17%) Puppet
9 10 (3.79%) Istio
10 7 (2.65%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.89%) Proxmox
12 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.52%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.14%) Rancher
14 1 (0.38%) Consul
14 1 (0.38%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.30%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.92%) Confluent
3 12 (4.55%) Splunk
4 10 (3.79%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.79%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.41%) Oracle
5 9 (3.41%) VMware
6 8 (3.03%) Databricks
6 8 (3.03%) Google
6 8 (3.03%) IBM
6 8 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.52%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.76%) Pega
8 2 (0.76%) WSO2
9 1 (0.38%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.38%) New Relic
9 1 (0.38%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.38%) TOWER Software