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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 435 464
Rank change year-on-year -87 +29 +78
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 265 257 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.62% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 133 72 179
10th Percentile £48,200 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £64,688 £74,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £92,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% -11.90% +31.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £127,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.57% +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 27,568 15,912 28,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.11% 32.25% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 18,019 11,067 20,788
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £84,128 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -4.55%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -89 227 £74,500 -21.58% 109
London -40 125 £90,000 -14.29% 67
UK excluding London -103 112 £65,576 -12.57% 61
Work from Home -33 106 £65,576 -12.57% 51
North of England -8 43 £65,000 -21.21% 21
South East -56 37 £62,500 +92.31% 12
North West -3 21 £72,500 -30.95% 9
South West -55 17 £100,000 +11.11% 8
Yorkshire -18 16 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Midlands -42 9 £62,500 -10.07% 4
West Midlands -31 7 £62,000 -27.06% 3
North East -46 6 £62,500 - 7
Wales -54 6 £80,000 +45.45%
Scotland +5 3 £76,783 -19.18% 11
East Midlands -31 2 £68,750 +27.31% 1
East of England -40 2 £76,325 - 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 7 (2.64%) Apache
1 7 (2.64%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.51%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.51%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.38%) Drupal
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 251 (94.72%) AWS
2 99 (37.36%) Serverless
3 96 (36.23%) Amazon ECS
4 79 (29.81%) Amazon S3
5 77 (29.06%) AWS Lambda
6 73 (27.55%) GCP
7 68 (25.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 58 (21.89%) Amazon EC2
9 55 (20.75%) Azure
9 55 (20.75%) SaaS
10 37 (13.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (13.21%) GitHub
12 29 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (8.30%) Azure AKS
14 21 (7.92%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (7.17%) Amazon EventBridge
15 19 (7.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (6.79%) OpenShift
17 17 (6.42%) AWS Control Tower
18 15 (5.66%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.28%) Network Security
2 9 (3.40%) Firewall
3 7 (2.64%) VPN
4 5 (1.89%) DNS
5 4 (1.51%) AMQP
5 4 (1.51%) Broadband
5 4 (1.51%) IPv4
5 4 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.23%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (8.30%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.91%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.91%) MySQL
5 11 (4.15%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.02%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.26%) Flink
9 5 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.51%) Big Data
10 4 (1.51%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.51%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.51%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.51%) Redis
11 3 (1.13%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.13%) Looker
11 3 (1.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (20.38%) TeamCity
2 50 (18.87%) Jenkins
3 45 (16.98%) GitLab
4 36 (13.58%) Git
5 16 (6.04%) JIRA
6 9 (3.40%) JUnit
7 8 (3.02%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.02%) JMeter
8 7 (2.64%) Mockito
9 6 (2.26%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.89%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.51%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.51%) MLflow
12 3 (1.13%) Snyk
13 2 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.75%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.38%) Gatling
14 1 (0.38%) Gradle
14 1 (0.38%) Maven
General
1 90 (33.96%) Finance
2 67 (25.28%) Banking
3 56 (21.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 56 (21.13%) Law
3 56 (21.13%) Retail
4 49 (18.49%) Social Skills
5 46 (17.36%) Public Sector
6 41 (15.47%) Back Office
6 41 (15.47%) Financial Institution
7 19 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.77%) Aerospace
8 10 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.40%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.75%) Advertising
12 2 (0.75%) Games
13 1 (0.38%) iGaming
13 1 (0.38%) Marketing
13 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (28.68%) Senior
2 62 (23.40%) Software Engineer
3 41 (15.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (14.72%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (12.83%) Developer
6 28 (10.57%) Lead
7 27 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (9.06%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (8.68%) Consultant
10 22 (8.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (7.92%) Java Engineer
12 20 (7.55%) Architect
12 20 (7.55%) Senior Consultant
13 17 (6.42%) Lead Software Engineer
14 15 (5.66%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 15 (5.66%) Security Consultant
14 15 (5.66%) Team Leader
15 14 (5.28%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (5.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 14 (5.28%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.34%) REST
2 30 (11.32%) React
2 30 (11.32%) Spring Boot
3 28 (10.57%) AWS CDK
4 25 (9.43%) Spring
5 24 (9.06%) Node.js
6 23 (8.68%) Kafka
7 20 (7.55%) RESTful
8 18 (6.79%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (6.42%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.66%) FastAPI
10 15 (5.66%) Web Services
11 13 (4.91%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.53%) JSON
13 10 (3.77%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.40%) YAML
15 8 (3.02%) .NET
15 8 (3.02%) Hibernate
16 7 (2.64%) ActiveMQ
16 7 (2.64%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 93 (35.09%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.72%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (11.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (10.94%) Onboarding
4 29 (10.94%) Product Ownership
5 24 (9.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (3.77%) Blog
6 10 (3.77%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.40%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.40%) Low-Code
8 8 (3.02%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.26%) Digital Wallet
9 6 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (2.26%) Mainframe
9 6 (2.26%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.26%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (19.62%) Linux
2 7 (2.64%) Ubuntu
3 6 (2.26%) CentOS
3 6 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.26%) Windows
3 6 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.89%) Debian
5 3 (1.13%) Android
5 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (73.58%) CI/CD
2 143 (53.96%) DevOps
3 139 (52.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (41.51%) Microservices
5 96 (36.23%) Software Engineering
6 80 (30.19%) Agile
7 69 (26.04%) AI
7 69 (26.04%) Test Automation
8 67 (25.28%) Containerisation
9 63 (23.77%) Deployment Automation
10 59 (22.26%) Cloud Security
11 58 (21.89%) Observability
12 55 (20.75%) Mentoring
13 54 (20.38%) Clean Code
13 54 (20.38%) Continuous Deployment
14 52 (19.62%) Platform Engineering
15 50 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (16.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 39 (14.72%) Fintech
18 37 (13.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 128 (48.30%) Python
2 115 (43.40%) Java
3 47 (17.74%) Bash
4 31 (11.70%) TypeScript
5 30 (11.32%) JavaScript
6 24 (9.06%) Go
7 22 (8.30%) Ruby
8 19 (7.17%) SQL
9 18 (6.79%) Perl
10 17 (6.42%) PHP
10 17 (6.42%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.40%) Shell Script
12 8 (3.02%) C#
13 6 (2.26%) COBOL
13 6 (2.26%) Groovy
14 4 (1.51%) Bicep
14 4 (1.51%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 64 (24.15%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.87%) AWS Certification
3 27 (10.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 25 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.64%) OSCP
6 6 (2.26%) Degree
6 6 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.26%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.51%) CCNA
8 4 (1.51%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.51%) RHCE
9 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.13%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.38%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.77%) QA
2 7 (2.64%) NCSC
3 6 (2.26%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.89%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.51%) NIST
6 3 (1.13%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.38%) GxP
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 91 (34.34%) Docker
2 10 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.51%) Squid
4 4 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.51%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.51%) vSphere
5 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 212 (80.00%) Terraform
2 189 (71.32%) Kubernetes
3 64 (24.15%) Grafana
4 47 (17.74%) Ansible
5 14 (5.28%) Argo
5 14 (5.28%) Packer
6 13 (4.91%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.53%) Kibana
8 11 (4.15%) Istio
8 11 (4.15%) Puppet
9 7 (2.64%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.89%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.51%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.13%) Rancher
13 1 (0.38%) Consul
13 1 (0.38%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.91%) Confluent
3 12 (4.53%) Splunk
4 10 (3.77%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.77%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.40%) Oracle
5 9 (3.40%) VMware
6 8 (3.02%) Databricks
6 8 (3.02%) Google
6 8 (3.02%) IBM
6 8 (3.02%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.51%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.51%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.75%) Pega
8 2 (0.75%) WSO2
9 1 (0.38%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.38%) New Relic
9 1 (0.38%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.38%) TOWER Software