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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 434 545
Rank change year-on-year -60 +111 -30
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 252 251 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.56% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 1.68% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 124 77 184
10th Percentile £48,050 £55,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,500 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £95,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +15.15% -5.71%
75th Percentile £90,625 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,250 £127,500 £133,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +15.38%

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 24,991 14,947 35,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.89% 33.61% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 16,128 10,296 27,337
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,335
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -53 227 £72,500 -30.95% 51
Work from Home +14 121 £66,538 -26.07% 36
London -46 117 £92,500 -11.90% 30
UK excluding London -89 115 £65,000 -13.33% 32
North of England -18 44 £65,576 -25.06% 8
South East -41 43 £62,500 +92.31% 9
North West -3 24 £72,500 -30.95% 5
Yorkshire -31 18 £65,000 -5.45% 3
South West -46 14 £61,500 -18.00% 8
Midlands -14 12 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands -14 10 £50,000 - 3
East of England -31 5 £85,000 -
Scotland +10 2 £76,783 -19.18% 2
East Midlands -23 2 £75,000 -
Wales -45 2 £80,000 +72.54%
North East - 2 £64,038 -

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 8 (3.17%) Apache
1 8 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.78%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.38%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) Drupal
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 240 (95.24%) AWS
2 85 (33.73%) Serverless
3 79 (31.35%) GCP
4 77 (30.56%) Amazon S3
5 71 (28.17%) Amazon ECS
6 66 (26.19%) AWS Lambda
7 53 (21.03%) Amazon EC2
8 50 (19.84%) SaaS
9 48 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (18.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 45 (17.86%) Azure
12 30 (11.90%) GitHub
13 27 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (8.73%) Azure AKS
15 20 (7.94%) OpenShift
16 18 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (6.75%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (6.75%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (5.95%) Route 53
19 13 (5.16%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.16%) Firewall
1 13 (5.16%) VPN
2 5 (1.98%) AMQP
2 5 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.59%) DNS
3 4 (1.59%) IPv4
3 4 (1.59%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.19%) BGP
4 3 (1.19%) VLAN
5 1 (0.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.90%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.17%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.78%) MySQL
7 6 (2.38%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.38%) Redis
8 5 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.98%) Big Data
8 5 (1.98%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.98%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.59%) Flink
10 3 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.19%) Looker
11 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 58 (23.02%) TeamCity
2 51 (20.24%) Jenkins
3 42 (16.67%) GitLab
4 31 (12.30%) Git
5 12 (4.76%) JIRA
6 9 (3.57%) JUnit
7 8 (3.17%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.17%) JMeter
8 7 (2.78%) Mockito
8 7 (2.78%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.98%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.98%) MLflow
10 4 (1.59%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.19%) NUnit
12 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.40%) Gatling
13 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.40%) Snyk
13 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 79 (31.35%) Finance
2 72 (28.57%) Banking
3 68 (26.98%) Retail
4 62 (24.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (23.41%) Law
6 49 (19.44%) Social Skills
7 42 (16.67%) Back Office
7 42 (16.67%) Financial Institution
8 25 (9.92%) Public Sector
9 13 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.37%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.19%) Advertising
13 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.40%) Games
15 1 (0.40%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 63 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 60 (23.81%) Senior
3 46 (18.25%) AWS Engineer
4 39 (15.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (12.70%) Developer
5 32 (12.70%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (9.92%) Java Engineer
8 20 (7.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 19 (7.54%) Lead
9 19 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 17 (6.75%) Java Software Engineer
11 17 (6.75%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 16 (6.35%) Architect
12 16 (6.35%) Java Developer
12 16 (6.35%) Lead Software Engineer
13 15 (5.95%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (5.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (5.95%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.87%) React
2 38 (15.08%) REST
3 31 (12.30%) Spring
4 30 (11.90%) Spring Boot
5 25 (9.92%) Node.js
6 24 (9.52%) Kafka
7 22 (8.73%) AWS CDK
8 19 (7.54%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (7.14%) RESTful
10 17 (6.75%) AngularJS
11 16 (6.35%) Web Services
12 13 (5.16%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (4.76%) JSON
14 10 (3.97%) Apache Camel
15 9 (3.57%) YAML
16 8 (3.17%) Hibernate
17 7 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
17 7 (2.78%) HTML
17 7 (2.78%) jQuery
17 7 (2.78%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 90 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 37 (14.68%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 20 (7.94%) Blog
6 10 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.97%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.57%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.78%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.98%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.59%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.79%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.79%) Digital Wallet
12 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.79%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.62%) Linux
2 10 (3.97%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.17%) CentOS
3 8 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.78%) Debian
5 5 (1.98%) Windows
5 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.19%) Android
6 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (79.76%) CI/CD
2 134 (53.17%) DevOps
3 130 (51.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (36.90%) Microservices
5 88 (34.92%) Software Engineering
6 77 (30.56%) Agile
7 73 (28.97%) Test Automation
8 72 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
9 64 (25.40%) Observability
10 59 (23.41%) Continuous Deployment
11 58 (23.02%) Clean Code
12 54 (21.43%) Containerisation
13 53 (21.03%) Platform Engineering
14 47 (18.65%) Mentoring
15 46 (18.25%) Fintech
16 44 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 43 (17.06%) Cloud Security
18 37 (14.68%) AI
19 35 (13.89%) Scrum
20 32 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 108 (42.86%) Java
2 105 (41.67%) Python
3 37 (14.68%) TypeScript
4 34 (13.49%) Bash
5 33 (13.10%) JavaScript
6 28 (11.11%) Go
7 17 (6.75%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.76%) SQL
9 9 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.78%) C#
11 6 (2.38%) Groovy
12 5 (1.98%) Bicep
13 4 (1.59%) Perl
13 4 (1.59%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.19%) C++
15 2 (0.79%) COBOL
15 2 (0.79%) PHP
15 2 (0.79%) Ruby
15 2 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.87%) AWS Certification
3 26 (10.32%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.78%) Degree
5 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.78%) OSCP
6 6 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.98%) RHCSA
8 4 (1.59%) CCNA
8 4 (1.59%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.59%) RHCE
9 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.19%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.40%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.37%) QA
2 7 (2.78%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.38%) NIST
4 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.19%) NCSC
5 3 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (30.16%) Docker
2 10 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.59%) Squid
4 4 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.59%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.59%) vSphere
5 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 203 (80.56%) Terraform
2 190 (75.40%) Kubernetes
3 81 (32.14%) Grafana
4 51 (20.24%) Ansible
5 22 (8.73%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.56%) Packer
7 12 (4.76%) Argo
8 11 (4.37%) Kibana
9 10 (3.97%) Istio
10 8 (3.17%) Proxmox
11 6 (2.38%) Puppet
12 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.59%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.19%) Rancher
14 1 (0.40%) Consul
14 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.16%) Splunk
3 12 (4.76%) Confluent
3 12 (4.76%) VMware
4 10 (3.97%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.57%) Google
5 9 (3.57%) Oracle
5 9 (3.57%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.17%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.17%) IBM
7 7 (2.78%) Databricks
8 5 (1.98%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.79%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.79%) Pega
9 2 (0.79%) WSO2
10 1 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.40%) New Relic
10 1 (0.40%) Solace
10 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds