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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 449 459
Rank change year-on-year -84 +10 +62
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 278 249 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 1.56% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 142 69 174
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,150 £65,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £61,250 £85,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £86,875 £100,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £123,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +1.82%

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 27,640 15,966 26,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.26% 31.94% 31.55%
Number of salaries quoted 18,542 10,900 18,355
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,936 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -89 231 £67,500 -16.92% 250
UK excluding London -101 123 £65,000 -7.14% 105
London -53 116 £90,000 - 179
Work from Home -22 109 £65,576 -2.85% 114
North of England -10 53 £65,000 -13.33% 25
South East -68 35 £70,000 +115.38% 15
North West -9 21 £66,538 -36.63% 12
South West -66 20 £100,000 +11.11% 16
Yorkshire -31 17 £65,000 - 6
North East -39 15 £52,250 - 7
Midlands -37 9 £62,500 +15.74% 10
West Midlands -33 6 £67,250 -1.47% 3
Wales -70 6 £80,000 +45.45% 4
Scotland +5 4 £58,565 - 19
East Midlands -31 3 £62,500 +15.74% 7
East of England -42 1 £72,500 -27.50% 12

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 (2.52%) Apache
2 6 (2.16%) Confluence
3 5 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.44%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.16%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 259 (93.17%) AWS
2 108 (38.85%) Amazon ECS
3 105 (37.77%) Serverless
4 86 (30.94%) Amazon S3
5 84 (30.22%) AWS Lambda
6 76 (27.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 71 (25.54%) GCP
8 67 (24.10%) Amazon EC2
9 59 (21.22%) Azure
9 59 (21.22%) SaaS
10 41 (14.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (11.87%) GitHub
12 26 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (9.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (8.99%) Azure AKS
14 21 (7.55%) OpenShift
15 20 (7.19%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (6.83%) Amazon EventBridge
17 18 (6.47%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (6.12%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.04%) Network Security
2 6 (2.16%) Firewall
3 5 (1.80%) AMQP
3 5 (1.80%) VPN
4 4 (1.44%) Broadband
4 4 (1.44%) DNS
4 4 (1.44%) IPv4
4 4 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.39%) Amazon RDS
1 40 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.19%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.40%) MySQL
4 12 (4.32%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.96%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.60%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.88%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.80%) Big Data
8 5 (1.80%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.80%) DocumentDB
8 5 (1.80%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.44%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.08%) Flink
10 3 (1.08%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 55 (19.78%) TeamCity
2 48 (17.27%) Jenkins
3 44 (15.83%) GitLab
4 40 (14.39%) Git
5 15 (5.40%) JIRA
6 11 (3.96%) JUnit
7 9 (3.24%) Mockito
8 8 (2.88%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.88%) JMeter
9 7 (2.52%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.16%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.44%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.44%) MLflow
11 4 (1.44%) Snyk
12 3 (1.08%) Gradle
12 3 (1.08%) Maven
13 2 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.72%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.36%) Gatling
General
1 98 (35.25%) Finance
2 69 (24.82%) Banking
3 67 (24.10%) Law
4 63 (22.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (19.78%) Public Sector
5 55 (19.78%) Retail
6 48 (17.27%) Social Skills
7 45 (16.19%) Back Office
7 45 (16.19%) Financial Institution
8 27 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.96%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.96%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.44%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Marketing
12 2 (0.72%) Games
13 1 (0.36%) Advertising
13 1 (0.36%) iGaming
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (27.70%) Senior
2 72 (25.90%) Software Engineer
3 44 (15.83%) AWS Engineer
3 44 (15.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (13.31%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (12.95%) Developer
6 29 (10.43%) Lead
7 22 (7.91%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (7.55%) Consultant
8 21 (7.55%) Java Engineer
9 20 (7.19%) Architect
9 20 (7.19%) Senior Consultant
10 19 (6.83%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.76%) Software Team Leader
11 16 (5.76%) Team Leader
12 15 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (5.40%) Security Consultant
13 14 (5.04%) Senior Security Consultant
14 13 (4.68%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (76.62%) Terraform
2 42 (15.11%) REST
3 33 (11.87%) Spring Boot
4 28 (10.07%) Spring
5 27 (9.71%) AWS CDK
6 25 (8.99%) Node.js
6 25 (8.99%) React
7 23 (8.27%) Kafka
8 19 (6.83%) AngularJS
8 19 (6.83%) RESTful
9 18 (6.47%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (6.12%) FastAPI
11 16 (5.76%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (5.40%) Web Services
13 13 (4.68%) LangChain
13 13 (4.68%) LangGraph
14 12 (4.32%) JSON
15 10 (3.60%) Apache Camel
15 10 (3.60%) Hibernate
16 9 (3.24%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 98 (35.25%) Cloud Native
2 38 (13.67%) Distributed Systems
2 38 (13.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (13.31%) Product Ownership
4 31 (11.15%) Onboarding
5 24 (8.63%) Enterprise Cloud
6 14 (5.04%) Public Cloud
7 13 (4.68%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (3.96%) Low-Code
9 9 (3.24%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.88%) Blog
11 6 (2.16%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.16%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.16%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.16%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.80%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.80%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.80%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (21.22%) Linux
2 12 (4.32%) Windows
2 12 (4.32%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.52%) CentOS
3 7 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.52%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.16%) Unix
5 5 (1.80%) Debian
6 2 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.72%) Android
6 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (72.30%) CI/CD
2 158 (56.83%) DevOps
3 144 (51.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (41.01%) Microservices
5 107 (38.49%) Software Engineering
6 85 (30.58%) Agile
7 78 (28.06%) AI
8 76 (27.34%) Containerisation
9 74 (26.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 70 (25.18%) Deployment Automation
10 70 (25.18%) Test Automation
11 66 (23.74%) Cloud Security
12 61 (21.94%) Mentoring
13 60 (21.58%) Clean Code
13 60 (21.58%) Observability
14 59 (21.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 58 (20.86%) Continuous Deployment
16 49 (17.63%) Migration
17 45 (16.19%) Platform Engineering
17 45 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 134 (48.20%) Python
2 116 (41.73%) Java
3 53 (19.06%) Bash
4 27 (9.71%) JavaScript
5 24 (8.63%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.27%) Go
7 22 (7.91%) Ruby
8 19 (6.83%) PHP
9 18 (6.47%) Perl
10 17 (6.12%) SQL
11 16 (5.76%) PowerShell
12 9 (3.24%) C#
12 9 (3.24%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.16%) COBOL
13 6 (2.16%) Groovy
14 4 (1.44%) C++
14 4 (1.44%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.44%) Scala
15 3 (1.08%) Bicep
16 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 70 (25.18%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.19%) AWS Certification
3 30 (10.79%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.52%) Degree
6 6 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.16%) OSCP
6 6 (2.16%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.44%) CCNA
8 4 (1.44%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.44%) RHCE
9 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.72%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.32%) QA
2 7 (2.52%) NCSC
3 6 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.16%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.44%) NIST
4 4 (1.44%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) GxP
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 99 (35.61%) Docker
2 10 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.88%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.44%) Squid
4 4 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.44%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.44%) vSphere
5 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 196 (70.50%) Kubernetes
2 70 (25.18%) Grafana
3 48 (17.27%) Ansible
4 15 (5.40%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.04%) Kibana
5 14 (5.04%) Packer
6 13 (4.68%) Argo
7 12 (4.32%) Puppet
8 11 (3.96%) Istio
9 7 (2.52%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.44%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.44%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.08%) Rancher
12 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.36%) Consul
13 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.04%) Splunk
3 11 (3.96%) Confluent
3 11 (3.96%) Dynatrace
3 11 (3.96%) Oracle
4 10 (3.60%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.24%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.88%) Databricks
6 8 (2.88%) IBM
6 8 (2.88%) VMware
7 6 (2.16%) Google
8 5 (1.80%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.44%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.08%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.72%) Pega
11 2 (0.72%) WSO2
12 1 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.36%) Solace
12 1 (0.36%) TOWER Software