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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 442 540
Rank change year-on-year +3 +98 -65
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 273 189 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 1.25% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 140 100 182
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £74,375 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% +1.61%
75th Percentile £102,500 £123,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £109,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% -6.45% +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 25,845 15,113 33,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.88% 36.93% 36.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,749 11,071 26,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 5 April 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 5 April 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 +17 248 £80,000 -24.71% 80
Work from Home +54 146 £78,750 -26.74% 40
London -6 139 £107,500 - 38
UK excluding London -37 117 £62,500 -13.79% 42
North of England -20 55 £65,000 -25.71% 18
South East -36 39 £62,500 - 16
Yorkshire -28 30 £65,000 -3.70% 4
North West -16 24 £65,000 -38.10% 10
Midlands -27 13 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands -6 11 £50,000 - 1
South West -36 8 £62,500 +13.64% 7
East of England -18 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Wales -24 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -37 2 £76,783 -7.49%
East Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
North East -22 1 £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 15 (5.49%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.66%) Apache
4 7 (2.56%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.47%) Confluence
6 2 (0.73%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.73%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) Drupal
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 263 (96.34%) AWS
2 96 (35.16%) Serverless
3 78 (28.57%) GCP
4 73 (26.74%) Amazon S3
5 70 (25.64%) AWS Lambda
6 65 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
7 57 (20.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (19.05%) SaaS
9 49 (17.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (17.22%) Azure
11 45 (16.48%) Amazon EC2
12 44 (16.12%) GitHub
13 40 (14.65%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (8.06%) Azure AKS
16 20 (7.33%) OpenShift
17 16 (5.86%) Amazon SQS
18 15 (5.49%) Route 53
19 13 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
20 12 (4.40%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.86%) VPN
2 15 (5.49%) Firewall
3 8 (2.93%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.20%) BGP
4 6 (2.20%) VLAN
5 5 (1.83%) AMQP
6 2 (0.73%) DNS
7 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.75%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (12.45%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (10.99%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.23%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.76%) Flink
6 10 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.30%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.56%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.20%) MySQL
10 6 (2.20%) Redis
11 5 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.83%) Big Data
11 5 (1.83%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.83%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.10%) Looker
13 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (19.41%) TeamCity
2 52 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 40 (14.65%) Git
3 40 (14.65%) GitLab
4 10 (3.66%) JIRA
5 9 (3.30%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.93%) JUnit
7 7 (2.56%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.83%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.83%) JMeter
8 5 (1.83%) MLflow
9 4 (1.47%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.47%) Mockito
10 3 (1.10%) NUnit
11 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.37%) Gatling
12 1 (0.37%) Gradle
12 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.37%) Snyk
12 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 83 (30.40%) Finance
2 81 (29.67%) Banking
3 70 (25.64%) Retail
4 65 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (22.34%) Law
6 55 (20.15%) Social Skills
7 45 (16.48%) Back Office
7 45 (16.48%) Financial Institution
8 23 (8.42%) Public Sector
9 14 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (5.13%) Front Office
10 8 (2.93%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.10%) Advertising
11 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Games
13 1 (0.37%) iGaming
13 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (25.27%) Software Engineer
2 59 (21.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (21.61%) Senior
3 54 (19.78%) AWS Engineer
4 40 (14.65%) Developer
5 34 (12.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (11.36%) Java Developer
7 29 (10.62%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (9.16%) Lead
9 24 (8.79%) AWS DevOps
9 24 (8.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 21 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 20 (7.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 20 (7.33%) Java Engineer
12 19 (6.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 18 (6.59%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 18 (6.59%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (6.23%) Java Software Engineer
14 17 (6.23%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.05%) React
2 45 (16.48%) Node.js
3 44 (16.12%) REST
4 42 (15.38%) Kafka
4 42 (15.38%) Spring
5 35 (12.82%) Spring Boot
6 31 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (9.16%) RESTful
8 23 (8.42%) AngularJS
9 22 (8.06%) Web Services
10 19 (6.96%) AWS CDK
11 13 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.40%) JSON
13 10 (3.66%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.30%) Mustache
14 9 (3.30%) YAML
15 8 (2.93%) Loki
16 7 (2.56%) .NET
16 7 (2.56%) Sass
17 6 (2.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (30.04%) Cloud Native
2 46 (16.85%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.96%) Blog
3 19 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (6.59%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.30%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.93%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.20%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.47%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.10%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.10%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.73%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.51%) Linux
2 10 (3.66%) Ubuntu
3 9 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.93%) CentOS
5 7 (2.56%) Debian
6 3 (1.10%) Unix
6 3 (1.10%) Windows
7 2 (0.73%) Android
7 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (77.29%) CI/CD
2 156 (57.14%) DevOps
3 130 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (37.36%) Microservices
5 93 (34.07%) Agile
6 91 (33.33%) Software Engineering
7 77 (28.21%) Test Automation
8 75 (27.47%) Deployment Automation
8 75 (27.47%) Observability
9 62 (22.71%) Platform Engineering
10 59 (21.61%) Continuous Deployment
11 56 (20.51%) Clean Code
12 53 (19.41%) Containerisation
13 47 (17.22%) Mentoring
14 42 (15.38%) Fintech
15 41 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (14.65%) Scrum
17 39 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
18 38 (13.92%) Cloud Security
18 38 (13.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 128 (46.89%) Java
2 106 (38.83%) Python
3 44 (16.12%) JavaScript
4 38 (13.92%) TypeScript
5 36 (13.19%) Go
6 32 (11.72%) Bash
7 13 (4.76%) SQL
8 6 (2.20%) C#
8 6 (2.20%) Groovy
8 6 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.20%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.47%) Bicep
9 4 (1.47%) Perl
9 4 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.73%) C++
10 2 (0.73%) Rust
11 1 (0.37%) C
11 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 55 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.72%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.40%) Degree
5 6 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.73%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.73%) OSCP
10 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.37%) CISM
10 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) GIAC
10 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.03%) SOC 2
3 10 (3.66%) QA
4 7 (2.56%) NIST
5 6 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.83%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) GDPR
8 1 (0.37%) NCSC
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 77 (28.21%) Docker
2 8 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 210 (76.92%) Terraform
2 203 (74.36%) Kubernetes
3 96 (35.16%) Grafana
4 58 (21.25%) Ansible
5 34 (12.45%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.33%) Argo
7 12 (4.40%) Kibana
8 10 (3.66%) Istio
9 8 (2.93%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.20%) Puppet
11 5 (1.83%) Packer
12 3 (1.10%) Rancher
13 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.37%) Consul
14 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (4.40%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.03%) Confluent
3 10 (3.66%) AppDynamics
4 9 (3.30%) Google
4 9 (3.30%) IBM
4 9 (3.30%) Splunk
5 8 (2.93%) VMware
6 7 (2.56%) Oracle
7 6 (2.20%) Pega
7 6 (2.20%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.20%) WSO2
8 5 (1.83%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.47%) Databricks
9 4 (1.47%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.47%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.10%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.10%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.73%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.37%) New Relic
12 1 (0.37%) Solace