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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 440 458
Rank change year-on-year -64 +18 +84
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 314 248 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 1.60% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 143 74 146
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £63,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £78,750 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -26.74% +34.38%
75th Percentile £81,250 £100,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% - +7.69%

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 27,237 15,508 23,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.10% 31.34% 31.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18,678 10,421 14,664
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
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 £100,000 £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 1 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 1 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 -87 258 £66,538 -21.72% 357
UK excluding London -116 138 £65,576 -6.32% 174
Work from Home -17 130 £65,576 -2.85% 167
London -67 125 £78,750 -12.50% 236
North of England -34 54 £65,576 +0.89% 33
South East -68 46 £62,500 - 33
South West -65 22 £102,500 +18.84% 29
North West -14 20 £72,500 -24.68% 19
North East -49 18 £57,500 - 7
Yorkshire -27 16 £47,000 -21.67% 7
Midlands -52 11 £62,500 +18.48% 15
West Midlands -52 6 £67,250 +30.58% 3
Wales -70 6 £80,000 +45.45% 4
East Midlands -35 5 £62,500 +15.74% 12
Scotland +10 3 - - 34
East of England -47 1 £72,500 -27.50% 18

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 (2.23%) Apache
1 7 (2.23%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.91%) Confluence
3 5 (1.59%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.64%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.64%) Camunda
5 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) JBoss
5 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 295 (93.95%) AWS
2 123 (39.17%) Serverless
3 116 (36.94%) Amazon ECS
4 97 (30.89%) AWS Lambda
5 92 (29.30%) GCP
6 88 (28.03%) Amazon S3
7 77 (24.52%) SaaS
8 73 (23.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 63 (20.06%) Amazon EC2
10 53 (16.88%) Azure
11 46 (14.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (12.10%) GitHub
13 31 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (8.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 26 (8.28%) Azure AKS
16 21 (6.69%) Amazon EventBridge
16 21 (6.69%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (6.37%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (6.05%) Amazon Bedrock
19 17 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.10%) Network Security
2 14 (4.46%) VPN
3 11 (3.50%) Firewall
4 7 (2.23%) AMQP
5 5 (1.59%) BGP
5 5 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.27%) Broadband
6 4 (1.27%) DNS
6 4 (1.27%) IPv4
6 4 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.96%) VLAN
8 2 (0.64%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (20.38%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (17.20%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.41%) MySQL
5 15 (4.78%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.82%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.82%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.18%) DocumentDB
8 10 (3.18%) Redis
9 9 (2.87%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.23%) Big Data
10 7 (2.23%) Cloudera CDH
10 7 (2.23%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.27%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.96%) Flink
14 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.64%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 83 (26.43%) TeamCity
2 61 (19.43%) Jenkins
3 54 (17.20%) Git
4 43 (13.69%) GitLab
5 15 (4.78%) JIRA
6 13 (4.14%) JUnit
7 12 (3.82%) Mockito
8 9 (2.87%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.55%) JMeter
10 7 (2.23%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.91%) Artifactory
11 6 (1.91%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.27%) Snyk
13 3 (0.96%) Maven
13 3 (0.96%) MLflow
14 2 (0.64%) Gradle
14 2 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.64%) Terragrunt
15 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 111 (35.35%) Finance
2 101 (32.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 93 (29.62%) Law
4 86 (27.39%) Banking
5 84 (26.75%) Retail
6 66 (21.02%) Back Office
6 66 (21.02%) Financial Institution
6 66 (21.02%) Public Sector
7 60 (19.11%) Social Skills
8 27 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (4.14%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.50%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.96%) Marketing
13 2 (0.64%) 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 92 (29.30%) Software Engineer
2 89 (28.34%) Senior
3 45 (14.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (12.74%) Developer
5 39 (12.42%) AWS Engineer
6 34 (10.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (10.51%) Lead
8 28 (8.92%) Java Engineer
9 26 (8.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 24 (7.64%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (6.69%) Software Team Leader
11 21 (6.69%) Team Leader
12 20 (6.37%) Consultant
12 20 (6.37%) Java Software Engineer
12 20 (6.37%) Senior Consultant
13 19 (6.05%) Architect
14 16 (5.10%) Java Developer
15 15 (4.78%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (4.78%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (78.03%) Terraform
2 51 (16.24%) REST
3 42 (13.38%) Spring Boot
4 37 (11.78%) Spring
5 31 (9.87%) Node.js
6 30 (9.55%) Kafka
7 28 (8.92%) React
8 27 (8.60%) AWS CDK
9 26 (8.28%) Elastic Stack
9 26 (8.28%) RESTful
10 23 (7.32%) AngularJS
11 19 (6.05%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (5.73%) Web Services
13 16 (5.10%) FastAPI
14 14 (4.46%) JSON
14 14 (4.46%) LangChain
15 13 (4.14%) Hibernate
15 13 (4.14%) LangGraph
16 11 (3.50%) OpenAPI
16 11 (3.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 125 (39.81%) Cloud Native
2 52 (16.56%) Product Ownership
3 43 (13.69%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (12.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (9.87%) Onboarding
6 21 (6.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 20 (6.37%) Blog
8 13 (4.14%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (4.14%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.50%) Low-Code
10 10 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (3.18%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.87%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.87%) Replication
12 8 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (2.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (2.23%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.91%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.91%) Digital Wallet
14 6 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 70 (22.29%) Linux
2 11 (3.50%) Windows
2 11 (3.50%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.87%) CentOS
3 9 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.87%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.23%) Debian
4 7 (2.23%) Unix
5 2 (0.64%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.64%) Android
5 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (79.62%) CI/CD
2 173 (55.10%) DevOps
3 158 (50.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 139 (44.27%) Microservices
5 130 (41.40%) Software Engineering
6 104 (33.12%) Test Automation
7 99 (31.53%) Agile
8 93 (29.62%) AI
8 93 (29.62%) Deployment Automation
9 83 (26.43%) Clean Code
9 83 (26.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 80 (25.48%) Mentoring
11 76 (24.20%) Containerisation
12 75 (23.89%) Observability
13 74 (23.57%) Continuous Deployment
14 70 (22.29%) Cloud Security
15 64 (20.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 57 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
17 55 (17.52%) Coaching
18 51 (16.24%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 154 (49.04%) Java
2 152 (48.41%) Python
3 74 (23.57%) Bash
4 35 (11.15%) JavaScript
5 27 (8.60%) Go
5 27 (8.60%) TypeScript
6 23 (7.32%) SQL
7 22 (7.01%) Ruby
8 18 (5.73%) Perl
8 18 (5.73%) PHP
9 16 (5.10%) PowerShell
10 15 (4.78%) Groovy
11 12 (3.82%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.87%) C#
13 6 (1.91%) COBOL
14 5 (1.59%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.27%) C++
15 4 (1.27%) Scala
16 3 (0.96%) Bicep
17 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 87 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 46 (14.65%) AWS Certification
4 23 (7.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.23%) Degree
7 6 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.91%) OSCP
7 6 (1.91%) RHCSA
7 6 (1.91%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.27%) CCNA
8 4 (1.27%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.27%) RHCE
9 3 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.64%) CCSP
10 2 (0.64%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.78%) QA
2 7 (2.23%) NCSC
3 6 (1.91%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.91%) SOC 2
4 5 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.59%) NIST
4 5 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.64%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.32%) GxP
6 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (35.35%) Docker
2 6 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.27%) Squid
3 4 (1.27%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.27%) vSphere
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 230 (73.25%) Kubernetes
2 114 (36.31%) Grafana
3 52 (16.56%) Ansible
4 33 (10.51%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.78%) Kibana
6 13 (4.14%) Packer
6 13 (4.14%) Puppet
6 13 (4.14%) Rancher
7 11 (3.50%) Argo
8 9 (2.87%) Proxmox
9 6 (1.91%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.27%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.64%) Cilium
11 2 (0.64%) Istio
11 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.32%) Opsview
Vendors
1 25 (7.96%) Dynatrace
2 15 (4.78%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.46%) Splunk
4 13 (4.14%) VMware
5 12 (3.82%) Google
6 11 (3.50%) AppDynamics
6 11 (3.50%) Oracle
6 11 (3.50%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.18%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.55%) Databricks
8 8 (2.55%) IBM
9 7 (2.23%) SaltStack
10 6 (1.91%) Confluent
11 4 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.96%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.64%) YouTube
14 1 (0.32%) ForgeRock
14 1 (0.32%) Okta
14 1 (0.32%) Ping Identity