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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 435 460
Rank change year-on-year -95 +25 +76
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 267 259 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.62% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 131 73 169
10th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.57% +15.38% -3.70%

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 27,757 15,994 27,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.79% 32.24% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 18,218 11,106 19,504
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,425 £42,500
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 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% -3.77% -3.64%

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 4 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 4 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 -79 227 £72,500 -21.62% 193
London -59 123 £90,000 -14.29% 126
UK excluding London -97 115 £65,576 -12.57% 89
Work from Home -23 107 £65,576 -12.57% 87
North of England -8 44 £65,288 -20.86% 27
South East -50 38 £62,500 +92.31% 14
North West +6 21 £72,500 -30.95% 13
South West -53 18 £100,000 +11.11% 15
Yorkshire -23 15 £65,000 -7.14% 9
North East -45 8 £62,500 - 5
Midlands -46 8 £67,500 -2.88% 7
West Midlands -35 6 £67,250 -20.88% 6
Wales -49 6 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Scotland 0 4 £76,783 -19.18% 12
East Midlands -23 2 £68,750 +27.31% 1
East of England -41 2 £76,325 - 10

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 (2.62%) Apache
1 7 (2.62%) Confluence
2 5 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.50%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.25%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 253 (94.76%) AWS
2 98 (36.70%) Amazon ECS
3 97 (36.33%) Serverless
4 80 (29.96%) Amazon S3
5 76 (28.46%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (28.09%) GCP
7 68 (25.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 59 (22.10%) Amazon EC2
9 57 (21.35%) SaaS
10 56 (20.97%) Azure
11 37 (13.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (12.36%) GitHub
13 27 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (7.87%) Azure AKS
14 21 (7.87%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (7.12%) Amazon EventBridge
15 19 (7.12%) OpenShift
15 19 (7.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (6.37%) AWS Control Tower
17 16 (5.99%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.24%) Network Security
2 8 (3.00%) Firewall
3 5 (1.87%) DNS
3 5 (1.87%) VPN
4 4 (1.50%) AMQP
4 4 (1.50%) Broadband
4 4 (1.50%) IPv4
4 4 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.10%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.24%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (8.24%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.87%) MySQL
5 12 (4.49%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.12%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.00%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.25%) Flink
9 5 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.87%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.50%) Big Data
10 4 (1.50%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.50%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.50%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.50%) Redis
11 3 (1.12%) Looker
11 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (20.97%) TeamCity
2 48 (17.98%) Jenkins
3 44 (16.48%) GitLab
4 37 (13.86%) Git
5 16 (5.99%) JIRA
6 9 (3.37%) JUnit
7 8 (3.00%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.00%) JMeter
8 7 (2.62%) Mockito
9 6 (2.25%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.87%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.50%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.50%) MLflow
12 3 (1.12%) Snyk
13 2 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.75%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.37%) Gatling
14 1 (0.37%) Gradle
14 1 (0.37%) Maven
General
1 93 (34.83%) Finance
2 69 (25.84%) Banking
3 60 (22.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 60 (22.47%) Law
4 57 (21.35%) Retail
5 50 (18.73%) Social Skills
6 47 (17.60%) Public Sector
7 43 (16.10%) Back Office
7 43 (16.10%) Financial Institution
8 20 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (3.75%) Aerospace
9 10 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.37%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.75%) Games
12 2 (0.75%) Marketing
13 1 (0.37%) Advertising
13 1 (0.37%) iGaming
13 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (27.34%) Senior
2 66 (24.72%) Software Engineer
3 42 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (13.86%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (13.11%) Developer
6 30 (11.24%) Lead
7 29 (10.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (8.61%) Consultant
9 22 (8.24%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (7.87%) Java Engineer
10 21 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (7.49%) Architect
11 20 (7.49%) Senior Consultant
12 19 (7.12%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (5.99%) Team Leader
14 15 (5.62%) Security Consultant
14 15 (5.62%) Software Team Leader
15 14 (5.24%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 14 (5.24%) Senior Security Consultant
16 13 (4.87%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.61%) REST
2 30 (11.24%) Spring Boot
3 29 (10.86%) React
4 27 (10.11%) AWS CDK
5 25 (9.36%) Spring
6 24 (8.99%) Kafka
6 24 (8.99%) Node.js
7 20 (7.49%) RESTful
8 18 (6.74%) AngularJS
8 18 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (5.62%) FastAPI
9 15 (5.62%) Web Services
10 13 (4.87%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (4.49%) JSON
12 10 (3.75%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.37%) YAML
14 8 (3.00%) .NET
14 8 (3.00%) Hibernate
14 8 (3.00%) LangChain
14 8 (3.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 96 (35.96%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.61%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (11.99%) Product Ownership
4 30 (11.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (10.86%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.75%) Blog
7 10 (3.75%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.37%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.37%) Low-Code
9 8 (3.00%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.25%) Digital Wallet
10 6 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (2.25%) Mainframe
10 6 (2.25%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.87%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.87%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.10%) Linux
2 7 (2.62%) Ubuntu
3 6 (2.25%) CentOS
3 6 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.25%) Windows
3 6 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.87%) Debian
5 3 (1.12%) Android
5 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (73.41%) CI/CD
2 144 (53.93%) DevOps
3 137 (51.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (41.57%) Microservices
5 99 (37.08%) Software Engineering
6 83 (31.09%) Agile
7 73 (27.34%) Test Automation
8 70 (26.22%) AI
9 68 (25.47%) Containerisation
10 67 (25.09%) Deployment Automation
11 59 (22.10%) Cloud Security
12 57 (21.35%) Clean Code
13 56 (20.97%) Continuous Deployment
13 56 (20.97%) Mentoring
13 56 (20.97%) Observability
14 53 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (18.35%) Platform Engineering
16 45 (16.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 39 (14.61%) Fintech
17 39 (14.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 129 (48.31%) Python
2 117 (43.82%) Java
3 48 (17.98%) Bash
4 31 (11.61%) JavaScript
4 31 (11.61%) TypeScript
5 24 (8.99%) Go
6 22 (8.24%) Ruby
7 19 (7.12%) SQL
8 18 (6.74%) Perl
9 17 (6.37%) PHP
9 17 (6.37%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.37%) C#
10 9 (3.37%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.25%) COBOL
11 6 (2.25%) Groovy
12 4 (1.50%) Bicep
12 4 (1.50%) C++
12 4 (1.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (24.34%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.98%) AWS Certification
3 27 (10.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 25 (9.36%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.62%) OSCP
6 6 (2.25%) Degree
6 6 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.25%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.50%) CCNA
8 4 (1.50%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.50%) RHCE
9 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.12%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.12%) QA
2 7 (2.62%) NCSC
3 6 (2.25%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.87%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.50%) NIST
6 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.12%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.37%) GxP
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 93 (34.83%) Docker
2 10 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.50%) Squid
4 4 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.50%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.50%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 214 (80.15%) Terraform
2 192 (71.91%) Kubernetes
3 66 (24.72%) Grafana
4 47 (17.60%) Ansible
5 14 (5.24%) Packer
6 13 (4.87%) Argo
7 12 (4.49%) Kibana
7 12 (4.49%) Prometheus
8 11 (4.12%) Istio
8 11 (4.12%) Puppet
9 7 (2.62%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.50%) Proxmox
10 4 (1.50%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.12%) Rancher
12 1 (0.37%) Consul
12 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.24%) Confluent
1 14 (5.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.49%) Splunk
3 11 (4.12%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.75%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.37%) Oracle
6 8 (3.00%) Databricks
6 8 (3.00%) Google
6 8 (3.00%) IBM
6 8 (3.00%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.00%) VMware
7 4 (1.50%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.50%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.75%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.75%) Pega
8 2 (0.75%) WSO2
9 1 (0.37%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.37%) New Relic
9 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software