Amazon EKS Job Trends

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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 468 545
Rank change year-on-year +24 +77 -63
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 268 179 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.13% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 138 92 175
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,063 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% +3.33%
75th Percentile £103,625 £123,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £128,250 £147,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% -6.45% +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 24,204 15,884 32,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.35% 37.13% 37.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,932 11,006 25,778
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +36 238 £80,000 -23.81% 92
Work from Home +67 143 £80,000 -25.58% 51
London +20 140 £110,000 +2.33% 45
UK excluding London -8 108 £62,500 -13.79% 48
North of England -17 47 £65,000 -25.71% 16
South East -17 31 £62,500 - 18
Yorkshire -21 26 £63,750 -5.56% 3
North West -12 20 £65,000 -38.10% 10
Midlands -5 14 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands +11 12 £50,000 - 2
South West -24 9 £62,500 - 10
East of England -11 6 £85,000 +17.24% 2
Wales -15 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -24 2 £76,783 -7.49%
East Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
North East -20 1 £65,000 -7.14% 3

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 14 (5.22%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.10%) Apache
2 11 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.49%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.12%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.75%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 258 (96.27%) AWS
2 93 (34.70%) Serverless
3 73 (27.24%) Amazon S3
3 73 (27.24%) GCP
4 68 (25.37%) AWS Lambda
5 63 (23.51%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (22.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (21.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 47 (17.54%) GitHub
9 46 (17.16%) SaaS
10 44 (16.42%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (16.42%) Azure
10 44 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
11 29 (10.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (8.96%) Azure AKS
13 20 (7.46%) OpenShift
14 17 (6.34%) Route 53
15 16 (5.97%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (4.85%) Amazon Kinesis
16 13 (4.85%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.22%) VPN
2 13 (4.85%) Firewall
3 8 (2.99%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.24%) BGP
4 6 (2.24%) VLAN
5 5 (1.87%) AMQP
6 3 (1.12%) SSL
7 2 (0.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (13.81%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (11.19%) Relational Database
4 19 (7.09%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.85%) Flink
6 11 (4.10%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.10%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.73%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.36%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.24%) MySQL
9 6 (2.24%) Redis
10 5 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.87%) Big Data
10 5 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.87%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.12%) DB2
11 3 (1.12%) Looker
12 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (19.40%) Jenkins
2 50 (18.66%) TeamCity
3 34 (12.69%) GitLab
4 32 (11.94%) Git
5 11 (4.10%) JUnit
6 8 (2.99%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.24%) JMeter
7 6 (2.24%) Mockito
8 5 (1.87%) JIRA
8 5 (1.87%) MLflow
9 4 (1.49%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.12%) NUnit
10 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.37%) Gradle
11 1 (0.37%) JConsole
11 1 (0.37%) Maven
11 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.37%) Snyk
11 1 (0.37%) VisualVM
General
1 85 (31.72%) Finance
2 79 (29.48%) Banking
3 65 (24.25%) Retail
4 61 (22.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (21.27%) Law
6 51 (19.03%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.04%) Financial Institution
8 42 (15.67%) Back Office
9 17 (6.34%) Front Office
9 17 (6.34%) Public Sector
10 16 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (2.99%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.12%) Advertising
12 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.37%) Games
14 1 (0.37%) iGaming
14 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (25.75%) Software Engineer
2 60 (22.39%) Senior
3 54 (20.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (18.28%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (13.81%) Developer
6 33 (12.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (10.82%) Java Developer
7 29 (10.82%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (9.33%) Lead
9 24 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (8.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 22 (8.21%) AWS DevOps
11 22 (8.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 20 (7.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 18 (6.72%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 17 (6.34%) Java Engineer
14 17 (6.34%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 17 (6.34%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
15 16 (5.97%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.40%) React
2 48 (17.91%) Kafka
3 46 (17.16%) Node.js
4 43 (16.04%) Spring
5 37 (13.81%) REST
6 35 (13.06%) Spring Boot
7 24 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
7 24 (8.96%) RESTful
8 20 (7.46%) AWS CDK
9 19 (7.09%) Web Services
10 18 (6.72%) AngularJS
11 11 (4.10%) Apache Camel
12 9 (3.36%) Hibernate
12 9 (3.36%) Mustache
13 8 (2.99%) JSON
13 8 (2.99%) Loki
13 8 (2.99%) XML
14 7 (2.61%) Sass
15 6 (2.24%) jQuery
15 6 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 80 (29.85%) Cloud Native
2 40 (14.93%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.72%) Blog
4 17 (6.34%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.36%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.61%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.24%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.24%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.24%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.87%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 57 (21.27%) Linux
2 11 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.73%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.99%) CentOS
5 7 (2.61%) Debian
6 6 (2.24%) Windows
7 5 (1.87%) Unix
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (77.24%) CI/CD
2 148 (55.22%) DevOps
3 122 (45.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (35.45%) Microservices
5 92 (34.33%) Software Engineering
6 85 (31.72%) Agile
7 74 (27.61%) Observability
8 69 (25.75%) Test Automation
9 65 (24.25%) Deployment Automation
10 62 (23.13%) Platform Engineering
11 53 (19.78%) Continuous Deployment
12 51 (19.03%) Containerisation
13 50 (18.66%) Clean Code
14 49 (18.28%) Mentoring
15 44 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
16 40 (14.93%) Fintech
17 39 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 36 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 35 (13.06%) Scrum
20 34 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 122 (45.52%) Java
2 107 (39.93%) Python
3 47 (17.54%) JavaScript
4 43 (16.04%) TypeScript
5 36 (13.43%) Bash
6 34 (12.69%) Go
7 9 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.99%) Bicep
8 8 (2.99%) SQL
9 6 (2.24%) C#
9 6 (2.24%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.75%) C++
10 2 (0.75%) Rust
11 1 (0.37%) C
11 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 51 (19.03%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.31%) AWS Certification
3 32 (11.94%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.85%) Degree
5 6 (2.24%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.24%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.36%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.24%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.87%) NIST
4 5 (1.87%) QA
5 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.75%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (27.24%) Docker
2 8 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 199 (74.25%) Terraform
2 189 (70.52%) Kubernetes
3 99 (36.94%) Grafana
4 46 (17.16%) Ansible
5 39 (14.55%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.46%) Argo
7 13 (4.85%) Kibana
8 10 (3.73%) Istio
9 7 (2.61%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.87%) Puppet
11 3 (1.12%) Rancher
12 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.37%) Cilium
13 1 (0.37%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.37%) logstash
13 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (4.10%) Confluent
1 11 (4.10%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.73%) Splunk
3 9 (3.36%) Google
4 7 (2.61%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.61%) VMware
5 6 (2.24%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.87%) Pega
6 5 (1.87%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.87%) WSO2
7 4 (1.49%) Databricks
7 4 (1.49%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.49%) Oracle
7 4 (1.49%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.12%) IBM
8 3 (1.12%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.75%) Solace
10 1 (0.37%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow