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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 428 520
Rank change year-on-year -58 +92 -23
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 233 237 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.87% 1.53% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 122 100 183
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £74,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +35.48% -8.82%
75th Percentile £103,063 £123,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £114,500
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 26,705 15,454 34,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.54% 35.20% 35.66%
Number of salaries quoted 14,913 10,937 26,762
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% +4.78% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 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 11 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 -42 217 £78,750 -26.74% 70
Work from Home +4 119 £80,000 -25.58% 47
London -43 113 £105,000 -2.33% 33
UK excluding London -75 105 £62,500 -13.79% 41
North of England -23 44 £65,000 -25.71% 13
South East -44 41 £62,500 - 11
Yorkshire -29 23 £65,000 -3.70% 3
North West -3 20 £65,000 -38.10% 7
Midlands -26 13 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands -16 11 £50,000 - 1
South West -45 9 £62,500 - 12
East of England -23 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Scotland -10 2 £76,783 -7.49% 3
East Midlands -26 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 12 (5.15%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.43%) Apache
4 6 (2.58%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.72%) Confluence
6 2 (0.86%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.43%) Drupal
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
7 1 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.43%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 221 (94.85%) AWS
2 77 (33.05%) Serverless
3 69 (29.61%) GCP
4 61 (26.18%) Amazon S3
5 56 (24.03%) Amazon ECS
5 56 (24.03%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (21.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (18.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 40 (17.17%) Amazon EC2
8 40 (17.17%) Azure
9 38 (16.31%) SaaS
10 35 (15.02%) GitHub
11 31 (13.30%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (10.30%) Azure AKS
13 22 (9.44%) OpenShift
14 20 (8.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (6.87%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (5.58%) Route 53
17 11 (4.72%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (4.72%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.01%) Firewall
2 13 (5.58%) VPN
3 5 (2.15%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.72%) AMQP
5 3 (1.29%) BGP
5 3 (1.29%) VLAN
6 2 (0.86%) DNS
7 1 (0.43%) IPv4
7 1 (0.43%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.88%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (11.59%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (9.87%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.15%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (4.29%) Flink
6 9 (3.86%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.86%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (3.00%) MySQL
9 6 (2.58%) Redis
10 5 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.72%) Big Data
11 4 (1.72%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (1.72%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.72%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.29%) Looker
13 2 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 46 (19.74%) Jenkins
2 43 (18.45%) TeamCity
3 40 (17.17%) GitLab
4 33 (14.16%) Git
5 9 (3.86%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.86%) JIRA
6 8 (3.43%) JUnit
7 7 (3.00%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.15%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.15%) JMeter
8 5 (2.15%) MLflow
9 4 (1.72%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.72%) Mockito
10 3 (1.29%) NUnit
11 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.43%) Gatling
11 1 (0.43%) Gradle
11 1 (0.43%) Maven
11 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 68 (29.18%) Finance
2 65 (27.90%) Banking
3 58 (24.89%) Retail
4 51 (21.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 51 (21.89%) Social Skills
5 49 (21.03%) Law
6 33 (14.16%) Back Office
6 33 (14.16%) Financial Institution
7 21 (9.01%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.86%) Aerospace
10 8 (3.43%) Front Office
11 4 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.29%) Advertising
12 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Games
13 1 (0.43%) iGaming
13 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (21.46%) DevOps Engineer
1 50 (21.46%) Software Engineer
2 49 (21.03%) Senior
3 44 (18.88%) AWS Engineer
4 29 (12.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (12.02%) Developer
5 28 (12.02%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (9.44%) Lead
7 20 (8.58%) AWS DevOps
7 20 (8.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 20 (8.58%) Java Developer
7 20 (8.58%) Java Engineer
8 18 (7.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 17 (7.30%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 16 (6.87%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 16 (6.87%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (6.01%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (5.58%) Java Software Engineer
13 11 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (4.72%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (18.88%) React
2 36 (15.45%) REST
3 35 (15.02%) Kafka
4 29 (12.45%) Spring
5 28 (12.02%) Node.js
6 26 (11.16%) Spring Boot
7 25 (10.73%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (8.15%) AWS CDK
8 19 (8.15%) Web Services
9 18 (7.73%) RESTful
10 15 (6.44%) AngularJS
11 12 (5.15%) JSON
11 12 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (4.29%) Mustache
13 9 (3.86%) YAML
14 8 (3.43%) Loki
15 7 (3.00%) Apache Camel
15 7 (3.00%) Sass
16 6 (2.58%) XML
17 5 (2.15%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 65 (27.90%) Cloud Native
2 35 (15.02%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (9.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (8.15%) Blog
5 15 (6.44%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.29%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.86%) Private Cloud
8 7 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.58%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.15%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.86%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
14 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
14 1 (0.43%) Equities
14 1 (0.43%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 53 (22.75%) Linux
2 9 (3.86%) Ubuntu
3 7 (3.00%) CentOS
3 7 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.58%) Debian
5 3 (1.29%) Android
5 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.86%) Windows
6 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (79.83%) CI/CD
2 134 (57.51%) DevOps
3 117 (50.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (33.91%) Microservices
5 75 (32.19%) Agile
6 69 (29.61%) Software Engineering
7 67 (28.76%) Observability
8 66 (28.33%) Deployment Automation
9 64 (27.47%) Test Automation
10 56 (24.03%) Platform Engineering
11 50 (21.46%) Continuous Deployment
12 47 (20.17%) Clean Code
12 47 (20.17%) Containerisation
13 40 (17.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 39 (16.74%) Cloud Security
14 39 (16.74%) Fintech
14 39 (16.74%) Mentoring
15 37 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (14.16%) Scrum
17 29 (12.45%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 100 (42.92%) Java
2 97 (41.63%) Python
3 35 (15.02%) Go
4 34 (14.59%) JavaScript
5 30 (12.88%) Bash
5 30 (12.88%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.01%) SQL
7 8 (3.43%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.58%) Groovy
8 6 (2.58%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.15%) Bicep
10 4 (1.72%) C#
10 4 (1.72%) Perl
10 4 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.86%) Rust
12 1 (0.43%) C++
12 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (19.31%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.73%) AWS Certification
3 27 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.86%) Degree
5 5 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.15%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (1.72%) OSCP
7 3 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.29%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CCNA
9 1 (0.43%) CCSP
9 1 (0.43%) CEH
9 1 (0.43%) CISM
9 1 (0.43%) GIAC
9 1 (0.43%) GSEC
9 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.29%) QA
2 7 (3.00%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.58%) NIST
4 5 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (30.04%) Docker
2 8 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) Squid
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 183 (78.54%) Terraform
2 181 (77.68%) Kubernetes
3 77 (33.05%) Grafana
4 56 (24.03%) Ansible
5 27 (11.59%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.15%) Argo
7 10 (4.29%) Istio
8 9 (3.86%) Kibana
9 8 (3.43%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.58%) Packer
11 5 (2.15%) Puppet
11 5 (2.15%) Rancher
12 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.43%) Consul
13 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (5.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.72%) Confluent
3 10 (4.29%) AppDynamics
4 9 (3.86%) VMware
5 8 (3.43%) Google
5 8 (3.43%) IBM
5 8 (3.43%) Splunk
6 7 (3.00%) Oracle
7 6 (2.58%) Databricks
8 5 (2.15%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.72%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.29%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.86%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.86%) Pega
11 2 (0.86%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.86%) WSO2
12 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.43%) Charles River
12 1 (0.43%) Mercator