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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 428 537
Rank change year-on-year -55 +109 -20
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 271 250 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.55% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 1.65% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 135 79 205
10th Percentile £50,000 £56,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,625 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £127,500 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -23.53% +13.33% +15.38%

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 25,812 15,107 35,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.18% 33.26% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,787 10,472 27,089
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 26 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 26 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 -44 238 £74,500 -23.59% 67
Work from Home +23 130 £72,500 -19.44% 34
London -43 129 £95,250 -9.29% 44
UK excluding London -65 116 £65,000 -23.53% 30
North of England -8 43 £65,288 -37.82% 10
South East -52 42 £62,500 +92.31% 8
North West +13 23 £72,500 -30.95% 6
Yorkshire -23 18 £65,000 -7.14% 2
South West -55 17 £62,500 -30.56% 7
Midlands -17 9 £62,000 -32.97% 3
West Midlands -17 7 £62,000 -32.97% 3
East of England -26 5 £85,000 - 1
Wales -48 4 £80,000 +72.54%
Scotland -3 2 £76,783 -19.18%
East Midlands -20 2 £75,000 -
North East - 2 £64,038 - 2

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 (2.95%) Apache
2 7 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.58%) Confluence
3 5 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.85%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 256 (94.46%) AWS
2 90 (33.21%) Serverless
3 84 (31.00%) GCP
4 80 (29.52%) Amazon S3
5 77 (28.41%) Amazon ECS
6 71 (26.20%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (22.14%) SaaS
8 55 (20.30%) Amazon EC2
8 55 (20.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (19.56%) Azure
10 46 (16.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (12.55%) GitHub
12 30 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (9.23%) Azure AKS
14 21 (7.75%) OpenShift
15 19 (7.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (5.90%) AWS CloudTrail
17 15 (5.54%) Route 53
18 13 (4.80%) Amazon MSK
18 13 (4.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.80%) Firewall
1 13 (4.80%) VPN
2 5 (1.85%) AMQP
2 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.48%) Broadband
3 4 (1.48%) DNS
3 4 (1.48%) IPv4
3 4 (1.48%) Network Security
3 4 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.11%) BGP
4 3 (1.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.76%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.70%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (9.23%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.43%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.69%) MySQL
6 9 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.95%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.58%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.21%) Redis
10 5 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.85%) Big Data
10 5 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.85%) Flink
10 5 (1.85%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.48%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.11%) Looker
Development Applications
1 62 (22.88%) TeamCity
2 51 (18.82%) Jenkins
3 46 (16.97%) GitLab
4 34 (12.55%) Git
5 16 (5.90%) JIRA
6 9 (3.32%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.32%) JUnit
7 8 (2.95%) JMeter
8 7 (2.58%) Mockito
8 7 (2.58%) SonarQube
9 6 (2.21%) MLflow
10 5 (1.85%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.48%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.74%) NUnit
12 2 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.74%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.37%) Gatling
13 1 (0.37%) Maven
13 1 (0.37%) Snyk
General
1 88 (32.47%) Finance
2 78 (28.78%) Banking
3 71 (26.20%) Retail
4 66 (24.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (23.25%) Law
6 57 (21.03%) Social Skills
7 46 (16.97%) Back Office
7 46 (16.97%) Financial Institution
8 32 (11.81%) Public Sector
9 16 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.06%) Aerospace
11 9 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.95%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.74%) Advertising
14 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.37%) Games
15 1 (0.37%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 72 (26.57%) Software Engineer
2 71 (26.20%) Senior
3 45 (16.61%) AWS Engineer
4 41 (15.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (12.18%) Platform Engineer
6 30 (11.07%) Developer
7 28 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (9.96%) Lead
9 25 (9.23%) Java Engineer
10 24 (8.86%) Senior Software Engineer
11 20 (7.38%) Architect
11 20 (7.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 18 (6.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 18 (6.64%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (6.27%) Java Software Engineer
13 17 (6.27%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 15 (5.54%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (5.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (5.54%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (5.54%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.65%) React
1 37 (13.65%) REST
2 30 (11.07%) Spring Boot
3 28 (10.33%) Spring
4 25 (9.23%) Node.js
5 23 (8.49%) Kafka
6 22 (8.12%) AWS CDK
6 22 (8.12%) RESTful
7 17 (6.27%) AngularJS
7 17 (6.27%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (5.54%) Web Services
9 13 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (4.43%) JSON
11 10 (3.69%) Apache Camel
11 10 (3.69%) FastAPI
12 9 (3.32%) YAML
13 8 (2.95%) .NET
13 8 (2.95%) Hibernate
14 7 (2.58%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (2.58%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 101 (37.27%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.39%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (9.59%) Product Ownership
5 20 (7.38%) Blog
6 11 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (4.06%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.69%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.32%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.95%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.85%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.85%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.48%) Digital Wallet
12 4 (1.48%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.48%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 59 (21.77%) Linux
2 10 (3.69%) Ubuntu
3 8 (2.95%) CentOS
3 8 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.58%) Debian
5 5 (1.85%) Windows
5 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.11%) Android
6 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (78.23%) CI/CD
2 144 (53.14%) DevOps
3 136 (50.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (39.48%) Microservices
5 105 (38.75%) Software Engineering
6 84 (31.00%) Agile
7 77 (28.41%) Deployment Automation
7 77 (28.41%) Test Automation
8 66 (24.35%) Observability
9 63 (23.25%) Containerisation
9 63 (23.25%) Continuous Deployment
10 62 (22.88%) Clean Code
11 59 (21.77%) Platform Engineering
12 54 (19.93%) AI
12 54 (19.93%) Mentoring
13 49 (18.08%) Cloud Security
14 48 (17.71%) Fintech
15 46 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
17 33 (12.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 120 (44.28%) Python
2 118 (43.54%) Java
3 38 (14.02%) Bash
4 35 (12.92%) TypeScript
5 32 (11.81%) JavaScript
6 30 (11.07%) Go
7 17 (6.27%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.90%) SQL
9 10 (3.69%) C#
10 9 (3.32%) Ruby
10 9 (3.32%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.95%) Perl
12 7 (2.58%) PHP
13 6 (2.21%) Groovy
14 5 (1.85%) Bicep
15 4 (1.48%) C++
15 4 (1.48%) COBOL
15 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.74%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (19.19%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.97%) AWS Certification
3 26 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (3.69%) Degree
6 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.58%) OSCP
7 6 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.85%) RHCSA
9 4 (1.48%) CCNA
9 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.48%) RHCE
9 4 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.11%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.69%) QA
2 8 (2.95%) SOC 2
3 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.85%) NCSC
3 5 (1.85%) NIST
4 4 (1.48%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.37%) GxP
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (31.00%) Docker
2 10 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.95%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.48%) Squid
4 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.48%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 218 (80.44%) Terraform
2 203 (74.91%) Kubernetes
3 83 (30.63%) Grafana
4 53 (19.56%) Ansible
5 21 (7.75%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.17%) Packer
7 12 (4.43%) Argo
8 11 (4.06%) Kibana
9 10 (3.69%) Istio
10 8 (2.95%) Proxmox
10 8 (2.95%) Puppet
11 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.48%) Rancher
11 4 (1.48%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.11%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.54%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.80%) Splunk
3 12 (4.43%) Confluent
3 12 (4.43%) VMware
4 10 (3.69%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.69%) Databricks
5 9 (3.32%) Google
5 9 (3.32%) Oracle
5 9 (3.32%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.95%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.95%) IBM
7 5 (1.85%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.11%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.74%) Pega
9 2 (0.74%) WSO2
10 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.37%) New Relic
10 1 (0.37%) Solace
10 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software