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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 443 465
Rank change year-on-year -79 +22 +63
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 267 262 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.53% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.63% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 133 75 170
10th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £61,249 £64,375 £78,438
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 £116,000 £127,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.57% +15.38% -

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 27,872 16,034 26,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.93% 32.30% 32.11%
Number of salaries quoted 18,268 11,169 19,613
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,903 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £52,837
% change year-on-year +6.80% -2.53% -3.93%

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 2 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 2 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 -90 228 £72,500 -23.68% 160
London -56 124 £90,000 -14.29% 98
UK excluding London -92 115 £65,576 -12.57% 83
Work from Home -22 105 £66,538 -11.28% 73
North of England -9 45 £65,000 -21.21% 28
South East -48 37 £62,500 +92.31% 12
North West +7 21 £72,500 -30.95% 15
South West -61 17 £100,000 +11.11% 15
Yorkshire -24 16 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Midlands -35 9 £62,500 -10.07% 5
North East -46 8 £62,500 - 5
West Midlands -39 7 £62,000 -27.06% 5
Wales -61 6 £80,000 +45.45%
Scotland 0 4 £76,783 -19.18% 10
East Midlands -33 2 £68,750 +27.31%
East of England -39 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 99 (37.08%) Serverless
3 98 (36.70%) Amazon ECS
4 80 (29.96%) Amazon S3
5 78 (29.21%) AWS Lambda
6 74 (27.72%) GCP
7 67 (25.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 58 (21.72%) Amazon EC2
9 56 (20.97%) Azure
9 56 (20.97%) SaaS
10 37 (13.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (12.36%) GitHub
12 27 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (7.87%) Azure AKS
13 21 (7.87%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (7.12%) Amazon EventBridge
14 19 (7.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (6.74%) OpenShift
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%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.87%) MySQL
5 11 (4.12%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.12%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.00%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.25%) Flink
8 5 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.50%) Big Data
9 4 (1.50%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.50%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.50%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.50%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.50%) Redis
10 3 (1.12%) Looker
10 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (20.60%) TeamCity
2 49 (18.35%) Jenkins
3 45 (16.85%) 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%) Vagrant
General
1 92 (34.46%) Finance
2 68 (25.47%) Banking
3 59 (22.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 59 (22.10%) Law
4 56 (20.97%) Retail
5 49 (18.35%) Social Skills
6 47 (17.60%) Public Sector
7 42 (15.73%) Back Office
7 42 (15.73%) 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%) Advertising
12 2 (0.75%) Games
12 2 (0.75%) Marketing
13 1 (0.37%) iGaming
13 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (28.09%) Senior
2 65 (24.34%) Software Engineer
3 40 (14.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (14.23%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (13.11%) Developer
6 29 (10.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 29 (10.86%) Lead
7 23 (8.61%) Consultant
8 22 (8.24%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (8.24%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (7.87%) Java Engineer
10 20 (7.49%) Architect
10 20 (7.49%) Senior Consultant
11 18 (6.74%) Lead Software Engineer
12 15 (5.62%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 15 (5.62%) Security Consultant
12 15 (5.62%) Team Leader
13 14 (5.24%) Senior Security Consultant
13 14 (5.24%) Software Team Leader
14 13 (4.87%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.61%) REST
2 30 (11.24%) React
2 30 (11.24%) Spring Boot
3 28 (10.49%) AWS CDK
4 25 (9.36%) Node.js
4 25 (9.36%) Spring
5 24 (8.99%) Kafka
6 21 (7.87%) RESTful
7 18 (6.74%) AngularJS
7 18 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (5.62%) FastAPI
8 15 (5.62%) Web Services
9 13 (4.87%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (4.49%) JSON
11 10 (3.75%) Apache Camel
12 9 (3.37%) YAML
13 8 (3.00%) .NET
13 8 (3.00%) Hibernate
13 8 (3.00%) LangChain
13 8 (3.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 94 (35.21%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.61%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (11.61%) 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
1 195 (73.03%) CI/CD
2 143 (53.56%) DevOps
3 138 (51.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (41.57%) Microservices
5 98 (36.70%) Software Engineering
6 82 (30.71%) Agile
7 71 (26.59%) Test Automation
8 70 (26.22%) AI
9 67 (25.09%) Containerisation
10 65 (24.34%) Deployment Automation
11 59 (22.10%) Cloud Security
12 57 (21.35%) Observability
13 56 (20.97%) Clean Code
14 55 (20.60%) Continuous Deployment
14 55 (20.60%) Mentoring
15 51 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
16 50 (18.73%) Platform Engineering
17 45 (16.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 39 (14.61%) Fintech
19 38 (14.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 128 (47.94%) Python
2 116 (43.45%) Java
3 47 (17.60%) Bash
4 33 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 31 (11.61%) JavaScript
6 23 (8.61%) Go
7 22 (8.24%) Ruby
8 19 (7.12%) SQL
9 18 (6.74%) Perl
10 17 (6.37%) PHP
10 17 (6.37%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.37%) C#
11 9 (3.37%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.25%) COBOL
12 6 (2.25%) Groovy
13 4 (1.50%) Bicep
13 4 (1.50%) C++
13 4 (1.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (23.97%) 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%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
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
1 213 (79.78%) Terraform
2 190 (71.16%) Kubernetes
3 64 (23.97%) Grafana
4 46 (17.23%) Ansible
5 14 (5.24%) Argo
5 14 (5.24%) Packer
6 12 (4.49%) Kibana
6 12 (4.49%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.12%) Istio
7 11 (4.12%) Puppet
8 7 (2.62%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.50%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.50%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.12%) Rancher
11 1 (0.37%) Consul
11 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
11 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