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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 436 525
Rank change year-on-year -58 +89 -16
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 255 222 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.52% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.56% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 124 81 179
10th Percentile £48,050 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £71,250 £64,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +31.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £116,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £126,000 £138,750 £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 27,210 14,221 34,596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.27% 33.46% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 15,565 9,782 26,784
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% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 27 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 15 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 27 May 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 -36 230 £72,500 -30.95% 76
Work from Home +27 131 £68,750 -34.52% 40
London -23 119 £105,000 -3.45% 45
UK excluding London -59 114 £65,000 -13.33% 39
North of England +1 47 £65,000 -25.71% 12
South East -26 45 £62,500 +92.31% 9
Yorkshire -19 25 £65,000 -5.45% 3
North West -7 21 £65,576 -37.55% 7
Midlands -22 13 £50,000 - 5
West Midlands -28 11 £50,000 - 5
South West -54 11 £61,500 -18.00% 9
East of England -35 6 £85,000 -
Scotland -8 2 £76,783 -19.18% 1
East Midlands -33 2 £75,000 -
North East - 1 £65,576 - 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 13 (5.10%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.14%) Apache
4 5 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.96%) Confluence
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) Drupal
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 245 (96.08%) AWS
2 82 (32.16%) GCP
2 82 (32.16%) Serverless
3 71 (27.84%) Amazon S3
4 64 (25.10%) Amazon ECS
5 58 (22.75%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (20.39%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (19.22%) SaaS
9 46 (18.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (16.86%) Azure
11 34 (13.33%) GitHub
12 30 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (9.02%) OpenShift
14 22 (8.63%) Azure AKS
15 21 (8.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (5.88%) Route 53
18 14 (5.49%) AWS CloudTrail
19 13 (5.10%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.10%) Firewall
1 13 (5.10%) VPN
2 5 (1.96%) AMQP
2 5 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.57%) DNS
4 3 (1.18%) BGP
4 3 (1.18%) IPv4
4 3 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.08%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.16%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (10.98%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.10%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.53%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.14%) Flink
7 8 (3.14%) MySQL
8 7 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.35%) Redis
10 5 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.96%) Big Data
10 5 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.96%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.96%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.18%) Looker
12 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.39%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 57 (22.35%) TeamCity
2 52 (20.39%) Jenkins
3 41 (16.08%) GitLab
4 36 (14.12%) Git
5 10 (3.92%) Bitbucket
5 10 (3.92%) JIRA
5 10 (3.92%) JUnit
6 8 (3.14%) JMeter
7 7 (2.75%) Mockito
7 7 (2.75%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.96%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.96%) MLflow
9 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.18%) NUnit
11 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.39%) Gatling
12 1 (0.39%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
General
1 80 (31.37%) Finance
2 75 (29.41%) Banking
3 70 (27.45%) Retail
4 63 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (23.92%) Law
6 54 (21.18%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.86%) Back Office
7 43 (16.86%) Financial Institution
8 24 (9.41%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.71%) Aerospace
9 12 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.96%) Front Office
11 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.18%) Advertising
12 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Games
14 1 (0.39%) iGaming
14 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (24.71%) Software Engineer
2 55 (21.57%) Senior
3 48 (18.82%) AWS Engineer
4 46 (18.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (12.94%) Developer
6 30 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (9.41%) Java Engineer
8 23 (9.02%) Lead
9 22 (8.63%) Java Developer
10 20 (7.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (7.06%) AWS DevOps
11 18 (7.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (7.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 17 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 17 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (6.27%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (6.27%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (5.49%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (18.82%) React
2 38 (14.90%) REST
3 33 (12.94%) Spring
4 30 (11.76%) Kafka
4 30 (11.76%) Node.js
4 30 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 25 (9.80%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (8.24%) AWS CDK
6 21 (8.24%) RESTful
6 21 (8.24%) Web Services
7 16 (6.27%) AngularJS
8 14 (5.49%) JSON
9 13 (5.10%) Mustache
9 13 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (3.92%) Apache Camel
11 9 (3.53%) YAML
12 8 (3.14%) Hibernate
13 7 (2.75%) ActiveMQ
13 7 (2.75%) HTML
13 7 (2.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (32.16%) Cloud Native
2 38 (14.90%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (10.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.24%) Blog
4 21 (8.24%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.71%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.53%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.75%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.96%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.39%) AI Agents
13 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
13 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 58 (22.75%) Linux
2 10 (3.92%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.14%) CentOS
3 8 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.75%) Debian
5 4 (1.57%) Windows
5 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.18%) Android
6 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (81.96%) CI/CD
2 141 (55.29%) DevOps
3 125 (49.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (36.08%) Microservices
5 84 (32.94%) Agile
5 84 (32.94%) Software Engineering
6 79 (30.98%) Deployment Automation
7 76 (29.80%) Test Automation
8 65 (25.49%) Observability
9 62 (24.31%) Continuous Deployment
10 59 (23.14%) Clean Code
11 57 (22.35%) Platform Engineering
12 50 (19.61%) Containerisation
13 48 (18.82%) Mentoring
14 46 (18.04%) Fintech
15 45 (17.65%) Cloud Security
16 44 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (16.08%) Scrum
18 39 (15.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 32 (12.55%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (45.49%) Java
2 104 (40.78%) Python
3 38 (14.90%) JavaScript
4 34 (13.33%) Bash
4 34 (13.33%) Go
5 33 (12.94%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.49%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.10%) SQL
8 9 (3.53%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.35%) Groovy
10 5 (1.96%) Bicep
11 4 (1.57%) C#
11 4 (1.57%) Perl
11 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.78%) PHP
12 2 (0.78%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 46 (18.04%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.29%) AWS Certification
3 27 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.53%) Degree
5 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.35%) OSCP
7 4 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) CCNA
8 3 (1.18%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.18%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.18%) RHCE
8 3 (1.18%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.92%) QA
2 7 (2.75%) NIST
2 7 (2.75%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) NCSC
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (30.20%) Docker
2 10 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.18%) Squid
4 3 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.18%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 203 (79.61%) Terraform
2 198 (77.65%) Kubernetes
3 88 (34.51%) Grafana
4 55 (21.57%) Ansible
5 27 (10.59%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.10%) Argo
7 11 (4.31%) Kibana
8 10 (3.92%) Istio
8 10 (3.92%) Packer
9 8 (3.14%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.35%) Puppet
11 5 (1.96%) Rancher
12 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.18%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.39%) Consul
14 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.71%) Splunk
3 11 (4.31%) Confluent
3 11 (4.31%) VMware
4 10 (3.92%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.53%) Google
6 8 (3.14%) IBM
6 8 (3.14%) Oracle
6 8 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.75%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.35%) Databricks
9 5 (1.96%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.78%) Pega
11 2 (0.78%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.78%) WSO2
12 1 (0.39%) Mercator
12 1 (0.39%) New Relic
12 1 (0.39%) Solace
12 1 (0.39%) TOWER Software