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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 439 532
Rank change year-on-year -56 +93 -10
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 255 226 389
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.52% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.55% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 128 76 174
10th Percentile £48,450 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,500 £69,063 £64,625
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 27,266 14,584 34,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.28% 33.63% 34.69%
Number of salaries quoted 15,707 10,034 26,917
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -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 30 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 30 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 -43 232 £72,500 -30.95% 67
Work from Home +31 131 £70,000 -22.65% 33
London -38 121 £97,750 -6.90% 43
UK excluding London -60 114 £65,000 -13.33% 34
North of England -28 47 £65,576 -25.06% 11
South East -36 42 £62,500 +92.31% 8
North West +7 23 £67,500 -35.71% 6
Yorkshire -27 23 £65,000 -5.45% 3
Midlands -26 13 £50,000 - 5
South West -49 12 £62,500 -16.67% 7
West Midlands -25 11 £50,000 - 5
East of England -24 6 £85,000 -
Scotland 0 2 £76,783 -19.18%
East Midlands -20 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 5 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.96%) Confluence
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) Drupal
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
6 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 82 (32.16%) GCP
3 81 (31.76%) Serverless
4 71 (27.84%) Amazon S3
5 64 (25.10%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (22.75%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (20.39%) 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
14 21 (8.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (5.88%) Route 53
17 13 (5.10%) AWS CloudTrail
17 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
4 3 (1.18%) BGP
4 3 (1.18%) IPv4
4 3 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.16%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (10.98%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.71%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.14%) Flink
7 8 (3.14%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.75%) MySQL
9 6 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.35%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.35%) Redis
10 5 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.96%) Big Data
10 5 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.96%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.18%) Looker
12 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 57 (22.35%) TeamCity
2 50 (19.61%) Jenkins
3 39 (15.29%) GitLab
4 34 (13.33%) Git
5 10 (3.92%) JIRA
6 9 (3.53%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.53%) JUnit
7 8 (3.14%) JMeter
8 7 (2.75%) Mockito
8 7 (2.75%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.96%) MLflow
10 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.18%) NUnit
12 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.39%) Gatling
13 1 (0.39%) Gradle
13 1 (0.39%) Robot Framework
General
1 79 (30.98%) Finance
2 76 (29.80%) Banking
3 70 (27.45%) Retail
4 63 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (23.92%) Law
6 52 (20.39%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.86%) Back Office
7 43 (16.86%) Financial Institution
8 22 (8.63%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.31%) Aerospace
9 11 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Front Office
10 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Advertising
12 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Games
13 1 (0.39%) iGaming
13 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (24.71%) 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%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (9.41%) Java Engineer
7 24 (9.41%) Lead
8 20 (7.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 20 (7.84%) Java Developer
9 18 (7.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 17 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 17 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
10 17 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (6.27%) Java Software Engineer
11 16 (6.27%) Senior DevOps
12 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
5 29 (11.37%) Node.js
6 22 (8.63%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (8.24%) AWS CDK
8 20 (7.84%) RESTful
8 20 (7.84%) Web Services
9 16 (6.27%) AngularJS
10 14 (5.49%) JSON
11 13 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (4.31%) Mustache
13 10 (3.92%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.53%) YAML
15 8 (3.14%) Hibernate
16 7 (2.75%) ActiveMQ
16 7 (2.75%) jQuery
16 7 (2.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (32.94%) Cloud Native
2 37 (14.51%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (10.59%) 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%) Hedge funds
13 1 (0.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.96%) 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 4 (1.57%) Windows
5 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.18%) Android
6 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (80.78%) CI/CD
2 141 (55.29%) DevOps
3 127 (49.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (36.08%) Microservices
5 85 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 79 (30.98%) Agile
7 78 (30.59%) Deployment Automation
8 75 (29.41%) Test Automation
9 66 (25.88%) Observability
10 61 (23.92%) Continuous Deployment
11 59 (23.14%) Clean Code
12 56 (21.96%) Platform Engineering
13 48 (18.82%) Containerisation
13 48 (18.82%) Mentoring
14 47 (18.43%) Fintech
15 44 (17.25%) Cloud Security
16 43 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (14.90%) Scrum
17 38 (14.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 31 (12.16%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (44.71%) Java
2 103 (40.39%) Python
3 37 (14.51%) JavaScript
4 35 (13.73%) TypeScript
5 34 (13.33%) Bash
6 33 (12.94%) Go
7 14 (5.49%) 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 38 (14.90%) AWS Certification
3 27 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.53%) Degree
5 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.35%) OSCP
7 4 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) CCNA
8 3 (1.18%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.18%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.18%) RHCE
8 3 (1.18%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.39%) CISM
9 1 (0.39%) GIAC
9 1 (0.39%) GSEC
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 76 (29.80%) Docker
2 10 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.18%) Squid
4 3 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.18%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 205 (80.39%) Terraform
2 196 (76.86%) Kubernetes
3 87 (34.12%) Grafana
4 54 (21.18%) Ansible
5 26 (10.20%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.71%) Argo
7 11 (4.31%) Kibana
8 10 (3.92%) Istio
8 10 (3.92%) Packer
9 8 (3.14%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.35%) Puppet
11 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.57%) Rancher
12 3 (1.18%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.39%) Consul
13 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.71%) Splunk
3 11 (4.31%) Confluent
3 11 (4.31%) VMware
4 10 (3.92%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.53%) Google
6 8 (3.14%) IBM
6 8 (3.14%) Oracle
6 8 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.75%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.35%) Databricks
9 5 (1.96%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.78%) Pega
11 2 (0.78%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.78%) WSO2
12 1 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.39%) New Relic
12 1 (0.39%) Solace