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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 454 523
Rank change year-on-year -30 +69 -10
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 255 220 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.50% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.48% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 122 82 179
10th Percentile £48,750 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,500 £70,688 £63,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £101,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.41% +26.56% -5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £116,250 £101,875
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -3.23% +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 26,917 14,896 34,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.18% 33.92% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,192 10,448 26,660
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,686 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.45% +7.37% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -32 231 £74,500 -29.05% 78
Work from Home +30 130 £70,000 -33.33% 52
London -28 120 £105,000 -2.33% 43
UK excluding London -60 114 £63,750 -15.00% 42
North of England -8 47 £65,000 -25.71% 11
South East -37 45 £62,500 +92.31% 9
Yorkshire -19 25 £65,000 -5.45% 1
North West +11 21 £65,288 -37.82% 7
Midlands -18 13 £50,000 - 5
West Midlands -32 11 £50,000 - 5
South West -50 11 £62,500 - 12
East of England -22 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Scotland -9 2 £76,783 -7.49% 4
East Midlands -21 2 £75,000 -
North East - 1 £65,576 - 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 13 (5.10%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.53%) Apache
2 9 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.39%) Drupal
5 1 (0.39%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) JBoss
5 1 (0.39%) nginx
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 245 (96.08%) AWS
2 83 (32.55%) Serverless
3 81 (31.76%) GCP
4 68 (26.67%) Amazon S3
5 64 (25.10%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (22.75%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (19.22%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (18.82%) SaaS
10 45 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (16.47%) Azure
12 35 (13.73%) GitHub
13 31 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (9.02%) OpenShift
15 22 (8.63%) Azure AKS
16 21 (8.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (7.06%) Amazon SQS
18 14 (5.49%) Route 53
19 13 (5.10%) AWS Fargate
20 12 (4.71%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.10%) Firewall
1 13 (5.10%) VPN
2 5 (1.96%) AMQP
2 5 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.18%) BGP
3 3 (1.18%) DNS
3 3 (1.18%) VLAN
4 2 (0.78%) IPv4
4 2 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.47%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (10.98%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.10%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (3.92%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.53%) Flink
7 8 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.14%) MySQL
8 6 (2.35%) Redis
9 5 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.96%) Big Data
9 5 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.96%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.96%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.18%) Looker
11 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.39%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 55 (21.57%) TeamCity
2 53 (20.78%) Jenkins
3 42 (16.47%) GitLab
4 36 (14.12%) Git
5 11 (4.31%) JUnit
6 10 (3.92%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.92%) JIRA
7 8 (3.14%) JMeter
8 7 (2.75%) Mockito
8 7 (2.75%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.96%) MLflow
10 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.18%) NUnit
12 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.39%) Gatling
13 1 (0.39%) Gradle
13 1 (0.39%) Maven
13 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
General
1 80 (31.37%) Finance
2 75 (29.41%) Banking
3 69 (27.06%) Retail
4 62 (24.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (23.53%) Law
6 55 (21.57%) Social Skills
7 42 (16.47%) Back Office
7 42 (16.47%) Financial Institution
8 24 (9.41%) Public Sector
9 13 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.31%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.35%) Front Office
12 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.18%) Advertising
13 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.39%) Games
15 1 (0.39%) iGaming
15 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (24.71%) Software Engineer
2 54 (21.18%) Senior
3 47 (18.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (18.04%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (13.33%) Developer
6 29 (11.37%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (10.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (9.41%) Java Engineer
9 23 (9.02%) Java Developer
9 23 (9.02%) Lead
10 19 (7.45%) AWS DevOps
10 19 (7.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 19 (7.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 17 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 17 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 17 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (6.27%) Java Software Engineer
13 15 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (5.49%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (19.22%) React
2 39 (15.29%) REST
3 34 (13.33%) Spring
4 32 (12.55%) Kafka
5 31 (12.16%) Node.js
5 31 (12.16%) Spring Boot
6 25 (9.80%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (8.24%) RESTful
7 21 (8.24%) Web Services
8 20 (7.84%) AWS CDK
9 17 (6.67%) AngularJS
10 14 (5.49%) JSON
11 13 (5.10%) Mustache
11 13 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (3.92%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.53%) Hibernate
13 9 (3.53%) YAML
14 7 (2.75%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (2.75%) jQuery
14 7 (2.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (31.76%) Cloud Native
2 38 (14.90%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (9.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.24%) Blog
5 20 (7.84%) Product Ownership
6 12 (4.71%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.53%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.75%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.96%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
14 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
14 1 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.96%) Linux
2 10 (3.92%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.14%) CentOS
3 8 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.75%) Debian
5 3 (1.18%) Android
5 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.18%) Windows
5 3 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (81.18%) CI/CD
2 141 (55.29%) DevOps
3 122 (47.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (36.86%) Microservices
5 85 (33.33%) Agile
6 84 (32.94%) Software Engineering
7 78 (30.59%) Deployment Automation
8 75 (29.41%) Test Automation
9 65 (25.49%) Observability
10 61 (23.92%) Continuous Deployment
11 58 (22.75%) Clean Code
12 57 (22.35%) Platform Engineering
13 49 (19.22%) Containerisation
14 48 (18.82%) Mentoring
15 46 (18.04%) Fintech
16 44 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 43 (16.86%) Cloud Security
18 41 (16.08%) Scrum
19 40 (15.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 31 (12.16%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 117 (45.88%) Java
2 104 (40.78%) Python
3 40 (15.69%) JavaScript
4 34 (13.33%) Go
4 34 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 31 (12.16%) Bash
6 13 (5.10%) SQL
7 11 (4.31%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.53%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.35%) Groovy
10 5 (1.96%) Bicep
11 4 (1.57%) C#
11 4 (1.57%) Perl
11 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.78%) PHP
12 2 (0.78%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (18.43%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.90%) AWS Certification
3 28 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.53%) Degree
5 6 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.96%) OSCP
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.18%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.78%) CCNA
9 2 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.78%) RHCE
9 2 (0.78%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.39%) CISM
10 1 (0.39%) CISSP
10 1 (0.39%) GIAC
10 1 (0.39%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.92%) QA
2 7 (2.75%) NIST
2 7 (2.75%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) NCSC
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (29.80%) Docker
2 9 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.78%) Squid
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 199 (78.04%) Terraform
2 197 (77.25%) Kubernetes
3 86 (33.73%) Grafana
4 56 (21.96%) Ansible
5 26 (10.20%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.71%) Argo
6 12 (4.71%) Kibana
7 10 (3.92%) Istio
8 8 (3.14%) Packer
8 8 (3.14%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.35%) Puppet
10 5 (1.96%) Rancher
11 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.78%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.39%) Consul
13 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.31%) Confluent
2 11 (4.31%) Splunk
3 10 (3.92%) AppDynamics
3 10 (3.92%) VMware
4 9 (3.53%) Google
5 8 (3.14%) IBM
5 8 (3.14%) Oracle
6 7 (2.75%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.75%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.35%) Databricks
8 5 (1.96%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.78%) Pega
10 2 (0.78%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.78%) WSO2
11 1 (0.39%) Mercator
11 1 (0.39%) New Relic
11 1 (0.39%) TOWER Software