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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 453 537
Rank change year-on-year -37 +84 -23
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 255 227 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.52% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.55% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 127 76 172
10th Percentile £48,350 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,500 £69,063 £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +18.75% -8.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £127,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -3.23% +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 27,179 14,601 35,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.17% 33.54% 34.21%
Number of salaries quoted 15,654 10,028 27,023
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 3 June 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 3 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 -40 233 £72,500 -30.95% 90
Work from Home +34 129 £70,000 -22.65% 65
London -17 122 £97,750 -6.90% 47
UK excluding London -56 114 £65,000 -13.33% 47
North of England -4 47 £65,576 -25.06% 13
South East -32 42 £62,500 +92.31% 10
North West +4 23 £67,500 -35.71% 8
Yorkshire -29 23 £65,000 -5.45% 3
Midlands -22 13 £50,000 - 5
South West -56 13 £61,500 -18.00% 13
West Midlands -29 11 £50,000 - 5
East of England -29 5 £85,000 -
Scotland -6 2 £76,783 -19.18%
East Midlands -14 2 £75,000 -
North East - 1 £65,576 - 2

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 11 (4.31%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.14%) Apache
4 6 (2.35%) Confluence
5 5 (1.96%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.78%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.39%) Drupal
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) JBoss
7 1 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 246 (96.47%) AWS
2 83 (32.55%) Serverless
3 82 (32.16%) GCP
4 73 (28.63%) Amazon S3
5 64 (25.10%) Amazon ECS
6 60 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
7 53 (20.78%) Amazon EC2
8 49 (19.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (19.22%) SaaS
9 45 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (16.86%) Azure
11 33 (12.94%) GitHub
12 29 (11.37%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (8.63%) Azure AKS
14 21 (8.24%) OpenShift
15 20 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
17 15 (5.88%) Route 53
18 13 (5.10%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.10%) Firewall
1 13 (5.10%) VPN
2 5 (1.96%) AMQP
2 5 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.57%) DNS
3 4 (1.57%) IPv4
3 4 (1.57%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.18%) BGP
4 3 (1.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (10.98%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.71%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.14%) Flink
6 8 (3.14%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.75%) MySQL
8 6 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.35%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.35%) Redis
9 5 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.96%) Big Data
9 5 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.96%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.18%) Looker
11 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 58 (22.75%) TeamCity
2 52 (20.39%) Jenkins
3 40 (15.69%) GitLab
4 35 (13.73%) Git
5 11 (4.31%) JIRA
6 10 (3.92%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.53%) JUnit
8 8 (3.14%) JMeter
9 7 (2.75%) Mockito
9 7 (2.75%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.96%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.96%) MLflow
11 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.18%) NUnit
13 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.39%) Gatling
14 1 (0.39%) Gradle
14 1 (0.39%) Robot Framework
14 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
General
1 80 (31.37%) Finance
2 76 (29.80%) Banking
3 70 (27.45%) Retail
4 63 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (23.92%) Law
6 50 (19.61%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.86%) Back Office
7 43 (16.86%) Financial Institution
8 22 (8.63%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.71%) Aerospace
10 11 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.57%) Front Office
11 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.18%) Advertising
13 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Games
14 1 (0.39%) iGaming
14 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (24.31%) Software Engineer
2 57 (22.35%) Senior
3 48 (18.82%) AWS Engineer
4 44 (17.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (12.94%) Developer
6 30 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (11.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (9.41%) Java Engineer
8 24 (9.41%) Lead
9 20 (7.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 20 (7.84%) Java Developer
10 18 (7.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 17 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 17 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (6.27%) Java Software Engineer
12 16 (6.27%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (5.49%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (18.82%) React
2 38 (14.90%) REST
3 33 (12.94%) Spring
4 30 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 29 (11.37%) Kafka
6 28 (10.98%) Node.js
7 22 (8.63%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (8.24%) AWS CDK
9 20 (7.84%) RESTful
9 20 (7.84%) Web Services
10 16 (6.27%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.49%) JSON
12 13 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (4.31%) Mustache
14 10 (3.92%) Apache Camel
15 9 (3.53%) YAML
16 8 (3.14%) Hibernate
17 7 (2.75%) ActiveMQ
17 7 (2.75%) jQuery
17 7 (2.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (32.94%) Cloud Native
2 36 (14.12%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (10.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.24%) Blog
4 21 (8.24%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.31%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.53%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.75%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.96%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.35%) Linux
2 10 (3.92%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.14%) CentOS
3 8 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.75%) Debian
5 5 (1.96%) Windows
5 5 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.18%) Android
6 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (81.18%) CI/CD
2 140 (54.90%) DevOps
3 127 (49.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (36.08%) Microservices
5 84 (32.94%) Software Engineering
6 80 (31.37%) Agile
7 77 (30.20%) Deployment Automation
8 75 (29.41%) Test Automation
9 64 (25.10%) Observability
10 61 (23.92%) Continuous Deployment
11 59 (23.14%) Clean Code
12 55 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
13 49 (19.22%) Containerisation
14 48 (18.82%) Mentoring
15 47 (18.43%) Fintech
16 43 (16.86%) Cloud Security
16 43 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (15.29%) Scrum
18 37 (14.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 31 (12.16%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 115 (45.10%) Java
2 103 (40.39%) Python
3 37 (14.51%) JavaScript
4 35 (13.73%) Bash
5 34 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 33 (12.94%) Go
7 16 (6.27%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.71%) SQL
9 9 (3.53%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.35%) Bicep
10 6 (2.35%) Groovy
11 4 (1.57%) C#
11 4 (1.57%) Perl
11 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.78%) PHP
12 2 (0.78%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 45 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.29%) AWS Certification
3 27 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.14%) Degree
4 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.75%) OSCP
6 6 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.57%) CCNA
8 4 (1.57%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.57%) RHCE
8 4 (1.57%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.18%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.39%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.92%) QA
2 7 (2.75%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.35%) NIST
4 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.39%) NCSC
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (30.59%) Docker
2 10 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.57%) Squid
4 4 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.57%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 206 (80.78%) Terraform
2 196 (76.86%) Kubernetes
3 86 (33.73%) Grafana
4 55 (21.57%) Ansible
5 25 (9.80%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.10%) Argo
7 12 (4.71%) Packer
8 11 (4.31%) Kibana
9 10 (3.92%) Istio
10 8 (3.14%) Proxmox
11 6 (2.35%) Puppet
12 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.57%) Rancher
12 4 (1.57%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.39%) Consul
13 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.10%) Splunk
3 12 (4.71%) VMware
4 11 (4.31%) Confluent
5 10 (3.92%) AppDynamics
6 9 (3.53%) Google
6 9 (3.53%) Oracle
6 9 (3.53%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.14%) IBM
8 7 (2.75%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.35%) Databricks
10 5 (1.96%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.78%) Pega
12 2 (0.78%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.78%) WSO2
13 1 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
13 1 (0.39%) New Relic
13 1 (0.39%) Solace