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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 436 526
Rank change year-on-year -41 +90 -18
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 250 228 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 1.51% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 121 91 183
10th Percentile £48,750 £62,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,500 £73,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +31.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £102,500 £123,125 £101,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £114,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -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 26,775 15,094 34,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.32% 34.49% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 15,020 10,570 26,680
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £43,000 £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 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% +8.88% -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 16 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 16 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 -37 228 £75,000 -28.57% 80
Work from Home +20 128 £70,000 -34.88% 165
London -20 119 £105,000 -2.33% 39
UK excluding London -60 112 £62,500 -16.67% 44
North of England -2 45 £65,000 -25.71% 12
South East -36 45 £62,500 +92.31% 10
Yorkshire -33 24 £65,000 -5.45% 2
North West +8 20 £65,000 -38.10% 6
Midlands -14 13 £50,000 - 4
West Midlands -29 11 £50,000 - 4
South West -43 11 £62,500 - 14
East of England -22 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Scotland -11 2 £76,783 -7.49% 3
East Midlands -27 2 £75,000 -
North East - 1 £65,576 - 4

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 (5.20%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.60%) Apache
2 9 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.00%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) Drupal
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 240 (96.00%) AWS
2 83 (33.20%) Serverless
3 80 (32.00%) GCP
4 66 (26.40%) Amazon S3
5 60 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (23.20%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (20.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (18.80%) SaaS
9 46 (18.40%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (17.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (16.40%) Azure
12 35 (14.00%) GitHub
13 31 (12.40%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (9.20%) OpenShift
15 22 (8.80%) Azure AKS
16 21 (8.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (6.80%) Amazon SQS
18 13 (5.20%) Route 53
19 12 (4.80%) AWS Fargate
20 11 (4.40%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.60%) Firewall
2 13 (5.20%) VPN
3 5 (2.00%) AMQP
3 5 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.20%) BGP
4 3 (1.20%) VLAN
5 2 (0.80%) DNS
5 2 (0.80%) IPv4
5 2 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.40%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (10.80%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.20%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.60%) Flink
6 9 (3.60%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.60%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.80%) MySQL
9 6 (2.40%) Redis
10 5 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.00%) Big Data
10 5 (2.00%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (2.00%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.00%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.20%) Looker
12 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 53 (21.20%) TeamCity
2 51 (20.40%) Jenkins
3 41 (16.40%) GitLab
4 36 (14.40%) Git
5 11 (4.40%) JUnit
6 10 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.00%) JIRA
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
13 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.40%) Gatling
13 1 (0.40%) Gradle
13 1 (0.40%) Maven
13 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (31.20%) Finance
2 74 (29.60%) Banking
3 68 (27.20%) Retail
4 61 (24.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (23.60%) Law
6 55 (22.00%) Social Skills
7 41 (16.40%) Back Office
7 41 (16.40%) Financial Institution
8 24 (9.60%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.40%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.40%) Front Office
12 4 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.20%) Advertising
14 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.40%) Games
15 1 (0.40%) iGaming
15 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (24.80%) Software Engineer
2 55 (22.00%) Senior
3 48 (19.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (17.60%) AWS Engineer
5 33 (13.20%) Developer
6 28 (11.20%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (10.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (9.60%) Java Engineer
9 23 (9.20%) Java Developer
10 22 (8.80%) Lead
11 19 (7.60%) AWS DevOps
11 19 (7.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 18 (7.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 17 (6.80%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 17 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (6.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 16 (6.40%) Java Software Engineer
14 16 (6.40%) Lead Software Engineer
14 16 (6.40%) Senior DevOps
15 13 (5.20%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (19.20%) React
2 39 (15.60%) REST
3 34 (13.60%) Spring
4 32 (12.80%) Kafka
5 31 (12.40%) Node.js
5 31 (12.40%) Spring Boot
6 26 (10.40%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (8.40%) Web Services
8 20 (8.00%) RESTful
9 19 (7.60%) AWS CDK
10 17 (6.80%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.60%) JSON
12 13 (5.20%) Mustache
12 13 (5.20%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (4.00%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.60%) Hibernate
14 9 (3.60%) YAML
15 7 (2.80%) ActiveMQ
15 7 (2.80%) jQuery
15 7 (2.80%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 80 (32.00%) Cloud Native
2 37 (14.80%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (9.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.40%) Blog
5 19 (7.60%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.40%) Public Cloud
7 10 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.60%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.40%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.00%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 2 (0.80%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
15 1 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 1 (0.40%) Hedge funds
15 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 56 (22.40%) 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 3 (1.20%) Android
5 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.20%) Windows
5 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (80.80%) CI/CD
2 138 (55.20%) DevOps
3 121 (48.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (37.20%) Microservices
5 83 (33.20%) Agile
6 82 (32.80%) Software Engineering
7 76 (30.40%) Deployment Automation
8 74 (29.60%) Test Automation
9 65 (26.00%) Observability
10 60 (24.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 57 (22.80%) Clean Code
12 55 (22.00%) Platform Engineering
13 48 (19.20%) Containerisation
14 47 (18.80%) Mentoring
15 45 (18.00%) Fintech
16 42 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (16.40%) Cloud Security
18 39 (15.60%) Scrum
18 39 (15.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 30 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (46.00%) Java
2 101 (40.40%) Python
3 41 (16.40%) JavaScript
4 35 (14.00%) Go
5 32 (12.80%) TypeScript
6 31 (12.40%) Bash
7 13 (5.20%) SQL
8 9 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.60%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.40%) Groovy
10 5 (2.00%) Bicep
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++
Qualifications
1 48 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.40%) AWS Certification
3 28 (11.20%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.60%) Degree
5 6 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.00%) OSCP
7 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.20%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.80%) CCNA
9 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.80%) RHCE
9 2 (0.80%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.40%) CEH
10 1 (0.40%) CISM
10 1 (0.40%) GIAC
10 1 (0.40%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.00%) QA
2 7 (2.80%) NIST
2 7 (2.80%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 75 (30.00%) Docker
2 8 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.80%) Squid
4 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 196 (78.40%) Terraform
2 195 (78.00%) Kubernetes
3 85 (34.00%) Grafana
4 57 (22.80%) Ansible
5 25 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.80%) Kibana
7 11 (4.40%) Argo
8 10 (4.00%) Istio
9 8 (3.20%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.80%) Packer
11 6 (2.40%) Puppet
12 5 (2.00%) Rancher
13 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.80%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.40%) Consul
14 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.60%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.40%) Confluent
2 11 (4.40%) Splunk
3 10 (4.00%) VMware
4 9 (3.60%) AppDynamics
4 9 (3.60%) Google
5 8 (3.20%) IBM
5 8 (3.20%) Oracle
6 7 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.80%) Red Hat
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%) Mercator
11 1 (0.40%) New Relic
11 1 (0.40%) TOWER Software