Amazon EKS Jobs

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 506 562
Rank change year-on-year +41 +56 +11
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 273 454 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.26% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 81 203 256
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £142,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £83,750 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.67% +15.38% -7.14%

All Cloud 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 16,073 36,055 37,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.50% 33.39% 42.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10,754 26,968 26,470
10th Percentile £30,625 £30,463 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.73% +0.80%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +4.76%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS.

Salary trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 July 2025. 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 +37 253 £95,000 - 693
London +52 149 £105,000 - 346
UK excluding London +84 144 £83,750 +11.67% 394
Work from Home +24 110 £90,000 -10.00% 310
South East +86 63 £32,500 -60.61% 97
North of England -2 23 £95,000 +58.33% 91
East of England +43 17 - - 56
North West -32 16 £105,000 +75.00% 56
South West +95 13 £90,000 +38.46% 45
Midlands +68 13 £92,500 +58.12% 48
Scotland +57 12 £95,000 +104.30% 37
West Midlands +72 8 £92,500 +38.58% 31
Yorkshire +59 6 £70,000 - 27
Wales +46 5 £46,367 - 12
East Midlands +37 5 - - 17
North East +46 1 - - 8

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (10.62%) Apache Spark
2 16 (5.86%) Apache
3 12 (4.40%) JBoss
3 12 (4.40%) Red Hat Fuse
4 11 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.83%) nginx
5 5 (1.83%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.47%) Confluence
6 4 (1.47%) Traefik
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 266 (97.44%) AWS
2 95 (34.80%) Serverless
3 91 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 89 (32.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 81 (29.67%) Azure
6 75 (27.47%) Amazon EC2
6 75 (27.47%) Amazon S3
7 58 (21.25%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (9.52%) GCP
9 21 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (6.96%) Amazon ELB
10 19 (6.96%) Datadog
11 18 (6.59%) Amazon SageMaker
12 15 (5.49%) Amazon Bedrock
12 15 (5.49%) GitHub
13 14 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (4.03%) Dagster
14 11 (4.03%) dbt
14 11 (4.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.83%) VPN
2 4 (1.47%) DHCP
2 4 (1.47%) DNS
2 4 (1.47%) ICMP
2 4 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.73%) Firewall
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (18.68%) Elasticsearch
1 51 (18.68%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 34 (12.45%) DynamoDB
4 20 (7.33%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (7.33%) Spark SQL
5 19 (6.96%) Delta Lake
5 19 (6.96%) Metadata
5 19 (6.96%) RDBMS
6 16 (5.86%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (5.49%) Data Lake
8 13 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (4.03%) Apache Arrow
9 11 (4.03%) Apache Iceberg
9 11 (4.03%) Apache Ignite
9 11 (4.03%) Dremio
10 9 (3.30%) MySQL
11 8 (2.93%) Big Data
11 8 (2.93%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 77 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 44 (16.12%) JUnit
3 36 (13.19%) Git
4 29 (10.62%) Mockito
5 28 (10.26%) GitLab
6 19 (6.96%) JMeter
6 19 (6.96%) MLflow
7 13 (4.76%) Cucumber
8 12 (4.40%) Maven
9 11 (4.03%) IntelliJ
10 10 (3.66%) Bitbucket
11 8 (2.93%) Selenium
12 7 (2.56%) JIRA
12 7 (2.56%) Locust
13 4 (1.47%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.47%) Spinnaker
14 3 (1.10%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
16 1 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
16 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 92 (33.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 89 (32.60%) Finance
3 63 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (17.22%) Social Skills
5 45 (16.48%) Banking
6 40 (14.65%) Law
7 34 (12.45%) Public Sector
8 21 (7.69%) Marketing
9 20 (7.33%) Investment Banking
10 11 (4.03%) Front Office
11 4 (1.47%) Automotive
11 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.73%) Games
13 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Electronics
14 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.37%) Publishing
14 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 102 (37.36%) Developer
2 57 (20.88%) Senior
3 54 (19.78%) Software Engineer
4 49 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (17.95%) Java Developer
4 49 (17.95%) Software Developer
5 40 (14.65%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (10.99%) AWS DevOps
7 28 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (10.26%) Senior DevOps
8 24 (8.79%) Lead
9 22 (8.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 20 (7.33%) Operations Engineer
11 18 (6.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (6.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 17 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (5.49%) Python Engineer
13 15 (5.49%) Python Software Engineer
14 14 (5.13%) Java Engineer
14 14 (5.13%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (28.94%) Pandas
2 61 (22.34%) Node.js
3 60 (21.98%) Spring
4 57 (20.88%) .NET
5 56 (20.51%) Spring Boot
6 44 (16.12%) REST
7 37 (13.55%) Web Services
8 35 (12.82%) PySpark
9 32 (11.72%) Kafka
10 31 (11.36%) Apache Camel
11 30 (10.99%) NumPy
12 29 (10.62%) ActiveMQ
13 23 (8.42%) PyTorch
13 23 (8.42%) TensorFlow
14 21 (7.69%) Hibernate
14 21 (7.69%) Lambda Expressions
14 21 (7.69%) RESTful
15 20 (7.33%) HTML
15 20 (7.33%) jQuery
16 19 (6.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.95%) Cyberattack
2 46 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 46 (16.85%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.96%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (6.59%) Management Information System
5 14 (5.13%) Public Cloud
6 12 (4.40%) Hedge funds
7 11 (4.03%) Derivative
7 11 (4.03%) Equities
7 11 (4.03%) Fixed Income
7 11 (4.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (3.66%) Credit Derivative
8 10 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.93%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.47%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.47%) Mobile Banking
12 3 (1.10%) BBC
12 3 (1.10%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.10%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 77 (28.21%) Linux
2 49 (17.95%) Android
3 20 (7.33%) Unix
4 5 (1.83%) Windows
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (69.60%) CI/CD
2 160 (58.61%) Agile
3 136 (49.82%) Software Engineering
4 124 (45.42%) DevOps
5 120 (43.96%) Containerisation
6 81 (29.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 72 (26.37%) Microservices
8 69 (25.27%) Kanban
9 68 (24.91%) OO
9 68 (24.91%) OOP
9 68 (24.91%) OWASP
10 59 (21.61%) Collaborative Working
11 55 (20.15%) Machine Learning
12 53 (19.41%) Artificial Intelligence
13 52 (19.05%) Mathematics
14 50 (18.32%) Statistics
15 49 (17.95%) Android Development
15 49 (17.95%) Design Patterns
15 49 (17.95%) Line Management
15 49 (17.95%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 184 (67.40%) Python
2 148 (54.21%) Java
3 95 (34.80%) JavaScript
4 72 (26.37%) Go
5 59 (21.61%) C++
6 54 (19.78%) Rust
7 37 (13.55%) SQL
8 24 (8.79%) Bash
8 24 (8.79%) Shell Script
9 18 (6.59%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.30%) Lua
11 4 (1.47%) Groovy
11 4 (1.47%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.10%) Perl
12 3 (1.10%) Ruby
12 3 (1.10%) Scala
13 2 (0.73%) C#
13 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 86 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.41%) DV Cleared
3 25 (9.16%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.49%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.30%) Degree
6 6 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.37%) MCSA
8 1 (0.37%) MCSE
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.40%) SLA
2 11 (4.03%) QA
3 5 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.10%) SEPA
5 2 (0.73%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 170 (62.27%) Docker
2 6 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 212 (77.66%) Kubernetes
2 166 (60.81%) Terraform
3 104 (38.10%) Ansible
4 29 (10.62%) Grafana
5 27 (9.89%) Prometheus
6 21 (7.69%) Kibana
7 19 (6.96%) Kubeflow
8 15 (5.49%) Argo
9 7 (2.56%) Istio
10 5 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.47%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.47%) Packer
12 2 (0.73%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.37%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.37%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.37%) logstash
13 1 (0.37%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (9.52%) Databricks
2 25 (9.16%) Splunk
3 21 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 13 (4.76%) IBM
5 9 (3.30%) MKS
5 9 (3.30%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.20%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.20%) Confluent
7 4 (1.47%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle
8 2 (0.73%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.37%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.37%) Imperva
9 1 (0.37%) Okta
9 1 (0.37%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.37%) Sawtooth Software