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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 532 550
Rank change year-on-year +113 +18 -76
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 245 172 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.33% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 0.91% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 129 80 154
10th Percentile £50,000 £66,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £74,750 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +43.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £129,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £123,500 £147,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -9.68% +10.71%

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 21,358 18,979 27,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.47% 36.59% 39.08%
Number of salaries quoted 11,580 11,101 23,038
10th Percentile £28,745 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,619 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -9.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,711
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,499
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.80% -6.37%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +99 212 £80,000 -25.58% 81
Work from Home +104 128 £81,000 -24.65% 44
London +58 124 £102,500 -4.65% 34
UK excluding London +23 96 £62,500 -10.71% 55
North of England +14 39 £62,500 -26.47% 12
South East +9 28 £62,500 -3.85% 19
Yorkshire +2 25 £62,500 -10.71% 5
North West +27 13 £65,000 -32.47% 6
Midlands +18 13 £50,000 -28.57% 6
West Midlands +40 12 £50,000 -28.57% 5
South West +9 10 £62,500 - 13
East of England +27 7 £85,000 +17.24% 2
Wales +5 4 £54,060 +43.27% 2
North East -1 1 £65,000 -7.14% 1
East Midlands -12 1 £75,000 - 1

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 (5.71%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.49%) Apache
3 8 (3.27%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.86%) Apache Spark
5 6 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (2.45%) Tomcat
6 5 (2.04%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (1.22%) Confluence
8 2 (0.82%) Apache Qpid
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 235 (95.92%) AWS
2 98 (40.00%) Serverless
3 70 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 66 (26.94%) Amazon S3
5 65 (26.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 63 (25.71%) Amazon ECS
7 54 (22.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 51 (20.82%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (19.59%) GCP
9 48 (19.59%) GitHub
10 45 (18.37%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (17.55%) Azure
12 35 (14.29%) SaaS
13 32 (13.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (12.24%) Azure AKS
15 17 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (6.53%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (6.53%) OpenShift
16 16 (6.53%) Route 53
17 13 (5.31%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.31%) VPN
2 8 (3.27%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.86%) Firewall
4 6 (2.45%) BGP
4 6 (2.45%) SSL
4 6 (2.45%) VLAN
5 5 (2.04%) AMQP
6 3 (1.22%) DNS
7 1 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (19.18%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (16.33%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 23 (9.39%) DynamoDB
5 18 (7.35%) RDBMS
6 10 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (4.08%) Flink
7 9 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.67%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.86%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.45%) DB2
10 6 (2.45%) MySQL
11 5 (2.04%) Big Data
11 5 (2.04%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (2.04%) Hadoop
11 5 (2.04%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.63%) Redis
13 3 (1.22%) Apache Ignite
14 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 67 (27.35%) Jenkins
2 35 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 32 (13.06%) Git
4 29 (11.84%) GitLab
5 14 (5.71%) JUnit
6 10 (4.08%) JMeter
6 10 (4.08%) Mockito
7 8 (3.27%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.04%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.63%) JIRA
9 4 (1.63%) MLflow
10 3 (1.22%) NUnit
10 3 (1.22%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.82%) JConsole
11 2 (0.82%) VisualVM
12 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.41%) Snyk
General
1 74 (30.20%) Finance
2 59 (24.08%) Banking
3 49 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 46 (18.78%) Retail
5 45 (18.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (17.14%) Law
7 34 (13.88%) Financial Institution
8 31 (12.65%) Back Office
9 22 (8.98%) Front Office
10 20 (8.16%) Public Sector
11 18 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (3.27%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.22%) Games
14 2 (0.82%) Advertising
14 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (24.08%) Software Engineer
2 50 (20.41%) Senior
3 47 (19.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (16.73%) Developer
5 39 (15.92%) AWS Engineer
6 37 (15.10%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (15.10%) Java Developer
7 30 (12.24%) Full-Stack Developer
8 29 (11.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 23 (9.39%) Platform Engineer
10 21 (8.57%) Lead
11 17 (6.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (6.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 14 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (5.31%) Java Engineer
14 13 (5.31%) Java Software Engineer
15 12 (4.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 12 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
16 11 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (21.63%) Spring
2 50 (20.41%) React
3 48 (19.59%) Node.js
4 46 (18.78%) Kafka
5 42 (17.14%) REST
6 41 (16.73%) Spring Boot
7 23 (9.39%) AngularJS
7 23 (9.39%) Elastic Stack
7 23 (9.39%) RESTful
8 21 (8.57%) Web Services
9 20 (8.16%) AWS CDK
10 14 (5.71%) Apache Camel
11 13 (5.31%) Hibernate
12 12 (4.90%) JSON
12 12 (4.90%) XML
13 10 (4.08%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (4.08%) jQuery
13 10 (4.08%) Mustache
13 10 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (4.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 69 (28.16%) Cloud Native
2 47 (19.18%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (5.31%) Blog
5 12 (4.90%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.90%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.08%) Hedge funds
6 10 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.67%) Reference Data
8 8 (3.27%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.86%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.45%) Fixed Income
11 5 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.22%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.22%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 65 (26.53%) Linux
2 14 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 14 (5.71%) Windows
3 11 (4.49%) Unix
4 9 (3.67%) Ubuntu
5 8 (3.27%) CentOS
6 6 (2.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (75.51%) CI/CD
2 131 (53.47%) DevOps
3 106 (43.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (37.14%) Microservices
5 84 (34.29%) Agile
6 77 (31.43%) Software Engineering
7 57 (23.27%) Observability
8 55 (22.45%) Test Automation
9 54 (22.04%) Platform Engineering
10 51 (20.82%) Deployment Automation
11 48 (19.59%) Full-Stack Development
12 46 (18.78%) Containerisation
13 43 (17.55%) Mentoring
14 41 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (15.51%) Continuous Deployment
15 38 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (14.29%) Clean Code
16 35 (14.29%) Scrum
17 28 (11.43%) Cloud Security
17 28 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 116 (47.35%) Java
2 102 (41.63%) Python
3 48 (19.59%) JavaScript
4 41 (16.73%) Bash
5 35 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 26 (10.61%) Go
7 17 (6.94%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.31%) Bicep
9 10 (4.08%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.45%) C#
11 4 (1.63%) SQL
12 3 (1.22%) C
13 2 (0.82%) C++
13 2 (0.82%) Rust
14 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 56 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.51%) AWS Certification
3 37 (15.10%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.12%) Degree
5 10 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.67%) PCI DSS
2 9 (3.67%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.04%) NIST
3 5 (2.04%) SLA
4 4 (1.63%) GDPR
4 4 (1.63%) QA
5 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 63 (25.71%) Docker
2 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) vCloud
3 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 161 (65.71%) Kubernetes
2 160 (65.31%) Terraform
3 87 (35.51%) Grafana
4 47 (19.18%) Ansible
5 39 (15.92%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.35%) Argo
6 18 (7.35%) Kibana
7 6 (2.45%) Rancher
8 5 (2.04%) Puppet
9 4 (1.63%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.22%) vRealize
11 2 (0.82%) logstash
12 1 (0.41%) Cilium
12 1 (0.41%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.71%) Splunk
2 11 (4.49%) Dynatrace
2 11 (4.49%) Red Hat
3 9 (3.67%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.27%) Google
4 8 (3.27%) IBM
4 8 (3.27%) VMware
5 5 (2.04%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.63%) Databricks
6 4 (1.63%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (1.63%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.63%) Pega
6 4 (1.63%) WSO2
7 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.22%) Oracle
7 3 (1.22%) Solace
7 3 (1.22%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.41%) Mercator