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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 484 530
Rank change year-on-year +73 +46 0
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 237 287 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.42% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.26% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 103 141 137
10th Percentile £52,500 £70,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £97,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £112,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +60.71% -8.20%
75th Percentile £97,500 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £165,000 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

All Cloud 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 17,845 22,707 22,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.48% 33.14% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,345 13,866 18,740
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 +45 209 £82,500 -26.67% 183
London +15 135 £85,000 -37.04% 96
UK excluding London +69 102 £65,000 -7.14% 103
Work from Home +41 83 £76,250 -43.52% 114
South East +30 30 - - 25
North of England +23 28 £65,000 -9.72% 44
Midlands +73 17 £52,750 -24.64% 9
Yorkshire +22 17 £60,000 -18.92% 8
South West +33 13 £80,000 +18.52% 9
West Midlands +64 12 £51,500 -26.43% 8
North West +15 9 £82,500 - 32
Wales - 6 £39,163 - 5
East Midlands +28 5 £54,000 - 1
East of England +25 5 £100,000 +37.93% 9
Scotland - 5 - - 3
North East +19 2 £65,000 -7.14% 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 29 (12.24%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.64%) Apache
3 9 (3.80%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.95%) OpenStack
4 7 (2.95%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.53%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.69%) Confluence
6 4 (1.69%) nginx
7 3 (1.27%) JBoss
7 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Fuse
7 3 (1.27%) Traefik
8 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.42%) CMS
9 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.42%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 227 (95.78%) AWS
2 97 (40.93%) Serverless
3 74 (31.22%) Amazon ECS
3 74 (31.22%) Amazon S3
4 63 (26.58%) AWS Lambda
5 62 (26.16%) Amazon EC2
6 53 (22.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 44 (18.57%) Azure
8 38 (16.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 37 (15.61%) GitHub
10 36 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (10.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (10.13%) GCP
13 22 (9.28%) Azure AKS
14 20 (8.44%) SaaS
15 19 (8.02%) Amazon ELB
15 19 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (6.33%) Amazon SageMaker
16 15 (6.33%) Route 53
17 14 (5.91%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.38%) TCP/IP
1 8 (3.38%) VPN
2 7 (2.95%) DNS
2 7 (2.95%) SSL
3 4 (1.69%) Firewall
4 3 (1.27%) BGP
4 3 (1.27%) DHCP
4 3 (1.27%) ICMP
4 3 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.27%) VLAN
5 2 (0.84%) AMQP
6 1 (0.42%) Internet
6 1 (0.42%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.10%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (18.57%) Relational Database
3 40 (16.88%) DynamoDB
4 30 (12.66%) RDBMS
5 29 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (8.02%) Delta Lake
6 19 (8.02%) Metadata
6 19 (8.02%) Spark SQL
7 11 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.80%) Big Data
9 8 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (3.38%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.95%) DB2
11 6 (2.53%) MongoDB
11 6 (2.53%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (2.11%) Flink
13 4 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (1.27%) Apache Ignite
14 3 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 80 (33.76%) Jenkins
2 28 (11.81%) JUnit
3 26 (10.97%) Git
4 22 (9.28%) JMeter
4 22 (9.28%) Mockito
5 19 (8.02%) MLflow
6 17 (7.17%) GitLab
7 14 (5.91%) TeamCity
8 7 (2.95%) Selenium
9 6 (2.53%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.53%) Locust
10 5 (2.11%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.11%) JIRA
11 3 (1.27%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.84%) JConsole
12 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.84%) VisualVM
13 1 (0.42%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.42%) Karma Test Runner
13 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 83 (35.02%) Finance
2 56 (23.63%) Social Skills
3 54 (22.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 51 (21.52%) Law
5 46 (19.41%) Banking
6 31 (13.08%) Public Sector
7 26 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (8.44%) Financial Institution
9 18 (7.59%) Front Office
10 17 (7.17%) Back Office
10 17 (7.17%) Marketing
10 17 (7.17%) Retail
11 7 (2.95%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.11%) Games
13 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.84%) Automotive
13 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (24.89%) Software Engineer
2 52 (21.94%) Developer
3 49 (20.68%) Senior
4 46 (19.41%) Java Developer
5 42 (17.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (14.35%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (13.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 31 (13.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (10.55%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (9.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 21 (8.86%) Lead
12 19 (8.02%) Operations Engineer
13 17 (7.17%) Python Engineer
14 15 (6.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 15 (6.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 15 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
15 12 (5.06%) Python Software Engineer
16 11 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
16 11 (4.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (24.89%) Spring
2 47 (19.83%) Spring Boot
3 44 (18.57%) REST
4 38 (16.03%) Kafka
5 31 (13.08%) Node.js
6 30 (12.66%) Web Services
7 29 (12.24%) Apache Camel
8 26 (10.97%) Hibernate
9 25 (10.55%) React
10 24 (10.13%) HTML
11 23 (9.70%) jQuery
11 23 (9.70%) RESTful
12 22 (9.28%) ActiveMQ
12 22 (9.28%) JSON
12 22 (9.28%) Lambda Expressions
12 22 (9.28%) PySpark
12 22 (9.28%) PyTorch
12 22 (9.28%) TensorFlow
12 22 (9.28%) WireMock
13 21 (8.86%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 59 (24.89%) Cloud Native
2 51 (21.52%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (10.55%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (8.44%) Management Information System
5 16 (6.75%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.64%) Hedge funds
8 10 (4.22%) Algorithms
8 10 (4.22%) Reference Data
9 6 (2.53%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.11%) AI Agents
10 5 (2.11%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.69%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.27%) Mobile Banking
13 2 (0.84%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.57%) Linux
2 31 (13.08%) Unix
3 16 (6.75%) Windows
4 11 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.69%) CentOS
5 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.84%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (68.78%) CI/CD
2 110 (46.41%) DevOps
3 94 (39.66%) Agile
4 83 (35.02%) Microservices
5 78 (32.91%) Software Engineering
6 74 (31.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 68 (28.69%) Containerisation
8 54 (22.78%) Machine Learning
9 52 (21.94%) AI
9 52 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (18.14%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (15.61%) Deployment Automation
11 37 (15.61%) SDLC
12 35 (14.77%) Data Science
12 35 (14.77%) TDD
12 35 (14.77%) Test Automation
13 32 (13.50%) Platform Engineering
14 31 (13.08%) BDD
14 31 (13.08%) Scrum
15 30 (12.66%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 134 (56.54%) Python
2 101 (42.62%) Java
3 48 (20.25%) JavaScript
4 36 (15.19%) Bash
5 28 (11.81%) SQL
6 24 (10.13%) Go
7 22 (9.28%) Shell Script
8 20 (8.44%) PowerShell
8 20 (8.44%) TypeScript
9 13 (5.49%) Bicep
10 7 (2.95%) Lua
11 4 (1.69%) C#
12 3 (1.27%) C
12 3 (1.27%) Rust
12 3 (1.27%) Scala
13 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.42%) C++
14 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.42%) PHP
14 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 55 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.66%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.91%) Degree
5 10 (4.22%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.42%) MCSA
10 1 (0.42%) MCSE
10 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.80%) SLA
3 7 (2.95%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.53%) SOC 2
5 5 (2.11%) GDPR
6 3 (1.27%) QA
7 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.84%) NIST
8 1 (0.42%) CDISC
8 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.42%) DICOM
8 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.42%) HL7
8 1 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 97 (40.93%) Docker
2 4 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.42%) vCloud
3 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 160 (67.51%) Kubernetes
2 128 (54.01%) Terraform
3 51 (21.52%) Grafana
4 42 (17.72%) Ansible
5 30 (12.66%) Kibana
6 29 (12.24%) Prometheus
7 19 (8.02%) Kubeflow
8 15 (6.33%) Argo
9 4 (1.69%) Rancher
9 4 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.69%) vRealize
10 3 (1.27%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.84%) logstash
11 2 (0.84%) Puppet
12 1 (0.42%) Cilium
12 1 (0.42%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 28 (11.81%) Splunk
2 25 (10.55%) Databricks
3 23 (9.70%) Dynatrace
4 9 (3.80%) IBM
4 9 (3.80%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.95%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.95%) MKS
5 7 (2.95%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.11%) Google
6 5 (2.11%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.11%) PagerDuty
6 5 (2.11%) VMware
7 4 (1.69%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.69%) Oracle
7 4 (1.69%) Pega
7 4 (1.69%) WSO2
8 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.27%) Solace
8 3 (1.27%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.84%) SaltStack