Amazon EKS Job Trends

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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 494 542
Rank change year-on-year +61 +48 -51
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 259 175 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.03% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 132 85 172
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,625 £123,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £71,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.97% -8.39% +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 23,438 17,012 31,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.50% 37.49% 38.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,601 11,119 25,531
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,059
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 8 March 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 8 March 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 +38 229 £80,000 -23.81% 86
Work from Home +83 136 £81,000 -24.65% 56
London +23 134 £110,000 +2.33% 42
UK excluding London +21 105 £62,500 -11.97% 44
North of England -4 43 £65,000 -25.71% 17
South East -19 32 £62,500 - 14
Yorkshire -11 26 £62,500 -7.41% 4
North West +1 16 £72,500 -30.95% 11
Midlands +5 14 £50,000 -
West Midlands +18 12 £50,000 -
South West -12 10 £62,500 - 10
East of England +12 6 £85,000 +17.24% 2
Wales -2 4 £54,060 +43.27% 1
East Midlands -21 2 £75,000 -
North East -14 1 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Scotland -16 1 £95,000 +14.46%

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 13 (5.02%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.25%) Apache
3 10 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.54%) Confluence
5 4 (1.54%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.54%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.16%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.77%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 248 (95.75%) AWS
2 92 (35.52%) Serverless
3 70 (27.03%) Amazon S3
4 67 (25.87%) AWS Lambda
5 66 (25.48%) GCP
6 62 (23.94%) Amazon ECS
7 60 (23.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (22.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 47 (18.15%) GitHub
10 44 (16.99%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (16.99%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (16.99%) SaaS
11 39 (15.06%) Azure
12 28 (10.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (9.65%) Azure AKS
14 16 (6.18%) Route 53
15 15 (5.79%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 14 (5.41%) OpenShift
17 13 (5.02%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.41%) VPN
2 12 (4.63%) Firewall
3 7 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.32%) BGP
4 6 (2.32%) VLAN
5 5 (1.93%) AMQP
6 4 (1.54%) SSL
7 1 (0.39%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (18.92%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (13.90%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (11.97%) Relational Database
4 20 (7.72%) DynamoDB
5 13 (5.02%) Flink
5 13 (5.02%) RDBMS
6 12 (4.63%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.47%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.70%) Redis
11 6 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.32%) MySQL
12 5 (1.93%) Big Data
12 5 (1.93%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.93%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.54%) DB2
14 3 (1.16%) Looker
14 3 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 48 (18.53%) TeamCity
3 31 (11.97%) Git
3 31 (11.97%) GitLab
4 12 (4.63%) JUnit
5 8 (3.09%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.70%) JMeter
6 7 (2.70%) Mockito
7 5 (1.93%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.93%) JIRA
8 4 (1.54%) MLflow
9 3 (1.16%) NUnit
9 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.77%) JConsole
10 2 (0.77%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.39%) Gradle
11 1 (0.39%) Maven
11 1 (0.39%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.39%) Snyk
General
1 81 (31.27%) Finance
2 73 (28.19%) Banking
3 63 (24.32%) Retail
4 59 (22.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (21.24%) Law
6 51 (19.69%) Social Skills
7 42 (16.22%) Financial Institution
8 40 (15.44%) Back Office
9 19 (7.34%) Front Office
10 18 (6.95%) Public Sector
11 17 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (3.09%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.16%) Advertising
14 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.39%) Games
15 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (26.25%) Software Engineer
2 57 (22.01%) Senior
3 47 (18.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (16.22%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (14.67%) Developer
6 31 (11.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (11.97%) Java Developer
7 27 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (9.65%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (9.65%) Lead
9 24 (9.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 20 (7.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (6.95%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 17 (6.56%) Java Engineer
13 16 (6.18%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (6.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 16 (6.18%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (6.18%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
15 12 (4.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.85%) React
2 46 (17.76%) Kafka
2 46 (17.76%) Node.js
2 46 (17.76%) Spring
3 38 (14.67%) REST
4 37 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 24 (9.27%) RESTful
6 22 (8.49%) Elastic Stack
7 20 (7.72%) AWS CDK
8 19 (7.34%) Web Services
9 18 (6.95%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.25%) Apache Camel
11 10 (3.86%) Hibernate
12 9 (3.47%) JSON
12 9 (3.47%) Mustache
12 9 (3.47%) XML
13 8 (3.09%) Loki
14 7 (2.70%) gRPC
14 7 (2.70%) jQuery
14 7 (2.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 79 (30.50%) Cloud Native
2 42 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.95%) Blog
4 16 (6.18%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.47%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.09%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.70%) Hedge funds
9 7 (2.70%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.32%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.32%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.16%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.77%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.78%) Linux
2 12 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.86%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.09%) CentOS
4 8 (3.09%) Windows
5 7 (2.70%) Debian
6 6 (2.32%) Unix
7 1 (0.39%) Android
7 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (78.38%) CI/CD
2 139 (53.67%) DevOps
3 116 (44.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (36.68%) Microservices
5 89 (34.36%) Software Engineering
6 84 (32.43%) Agile
7 69 (26.64%) Observability
8 68 (26.25%) Test Automation
9 64 (24.71%) Deployment Automation
10 59 (22.78%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (19.69%) Continuous Deployment
12 50 (19.31%) Mentoring
13 48 (18.53%) Clean Code
14 44 (16.99%) Containerisation
14 44 (16.99%) Full-Stack Development
15 37 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (14.29%) Fintech
16 36 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (13.13%) Scrum
18 31 (11.97%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 125 (48.26%) Java
2 101 (39.00%) Python
3 48 (18.53%) JavaScript
4 45 (17.37%) TypeScript
5 36 (13.90%) Bash
6 28 (10.81%) Go
7 11 (4.25%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.47%) Bicep
9 7 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.70%) SQL
10 6 (2.32%) C#
11 2 (0.77%) C++
11 2 (0.77%) Rust
12 1 (0.39%) C
12 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 51 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.36%) AWS Certification
2 32 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.41%) Degree
4 7 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.32%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.09%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.32%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.93%) NIST
4 5 (1.93%) QA
5 3 (1.16%) SLA
6 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.77%) GDPR
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 67 (25.87%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 184 (71.04%) Terraform
2 175 (67.57%) Kubernetes
3 99 (38.22%) Grafana
4 45 (17.37%) Ansible
5 40 (15.44%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.34%) Argo
7 15 (5.79%) Kibana
8 7 (2.70%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.93%) Puppet
10 4 (1.54%) Istio
10 4 (1.54%) Rancher
11 2 (0.77%) logstash
11 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.39%) Cilium
12 1 (0.39%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (4.25%) Microsoft
1 11 (4.25%) Splunk
2 10 (3.86%) Google
3 8 (3.09%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.09%) VMware
4 7 (2.70%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.93%) Confluent
5 5 (1.93%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.54%) Databricks
6 4 (1.54%) IBM
6 4 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (1.54%) Oracle
6 4 (1.54%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.54%) Pega
6 4 (1.54%) WSO2
7 3 (1.16%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.16%) Solace
7 3 (1.16%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.39%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.39%) New Relic