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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 432 461
Rank change year-on-year -78 +29 +72
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 299 249 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 1.60% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 142 74 157
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £93,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £81,250 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% -24.42% +34.38%
75th Percentile £81,250 £100,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £125,250 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% - +1.82%

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 27,711 15,534 24,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.86% 31.62% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,656 10,516 15,581
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,625 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -92 245 £65,576 -22.85% 417
UK excluding London -104 133 £65,576 -6.32% 194
London -89 117 £80,000 -11.11% 279
Work from Home -32 115 £65,576 -4.62% 214
North of England -29 53 £65,288 -6.73% 40
South East -69 43 £62,500 - 35
South West -61 21 £101,250 +17.39% 29
North West -17 20 £70,000 -27.27% 24
North East -43 17 £57,500 - 7
Yorkshire -30 16 £56,000 -6.67% 9
Midlands -58 11 £62,500 +15.74% 18
West Midlands -52 6 £67,250 -1.47% 5
Wales -69 6 £80,000 +45.45% 6
East Midlands -33 5 £62,500 +15.74% 13
Scotland +10 3 - - 38
East of England -55 1 £72,500 -27.50% 19

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 7 (2.34%) Apache
1 7 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.67%) Confluence
3 4 (1.34%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.33%) Camunda
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 280 (93.65%) AWS
2 119 (39.80%) Serverless
3 111 (37.12%) Amazon ECS
4 95 (31.77%) AWS Lambda
5 85 (28.43%) Amazon S3
6 81 (27.09%) GCP
7 75 (25.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (23.41%) SaaS
9 64 (21.40%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (17.39%) Azure
11 44 (14.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (12.04%) GitHub
13 30 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (8.36%) Azure AKS
15 23 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (6.69%) Amazon EventBridge
16 20 (6.69%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (6.35%) Amazon Bedrock
17 19 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
18 16 (5.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.68%) Network Security
2 8 (2.68%) Firewall
2 8 (2.68%) VPN
3 7 (2.34%) AMQP
4 4 (1.34%) Broadband
4 4 (1.34%) IPv4
4 4 (1.34%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.00%) DNS
6 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (18.39%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (15.72%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (7.02%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.69%) MySQL
5 14 (4.68%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.01%) DynamoDB
7 11 (3.68%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.68%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.34%) Redis
9 9 (3.01%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.68%) DocumentDB
11 7 (2.34%) Big Data
11 7 (2.34%) Cloudera CDH
11 7 (2.34%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.34%) Delta Lake
14 3 (1.00%) Flink
15 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 72 (24.08%) TeamCity
2 59 (19.73%) Jenkins
3 51 (17.06%) Git
4 42 (14.05%) GitLab
5 14 (4.68%) JIRA
6 12 (4.01%) JUnit
7 11 (3.68%) Mockito
8 9 (3.01%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.68%) JMeter
10 7 (2.34%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.01%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.67%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.34%) Snyk
14 3 (1.00%) Maven
14 3 (1.00%) MLflow
15 2 (0.67%) Gradle
15 2 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.67%) Terragrunt
16 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 102 (34.11%) Finance
2 91 (30.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 84 (28.09%) Law
4 77 (25.75%) Banking
5 75 (25.08%) Retail
6 61 (20.40%) Public Sector
7 57 (19.06%) Back Office
7 57 (19.06%) Financial Institution
8 54 (18.06%) Social Skills
9 26 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (4.35%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.68%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.34%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.00%) Marketing
14 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.33%) Advertising
15 1 (0.33%) Games
15 1 (0.33%) iGaming
15 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (29.10%) Software Engineer
2 81 (27.09%) Senior
3 44 (14.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (13.71%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (12.37%) Developer
6 35 (11.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (10.70%) Lead
8 26 (8.70%) Java Engineer
9 24 (8.03%) Senior Software Engineer
10 23 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (6.69%) Consultant
11 20 (6.69%) Senior Consultant
11 20 (6.69%) Software Team Leader
11 20 (6.69%) Team Leader
12 19 (6.35%) Architect
13 18 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
14 14 (4.68%) Java Developer
14 14 (4.68%) Security Consultant
14 14 (4.68%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (77.26%) Terraform
2 49 (16.39%) REST
3 39 (13.04%) Spring Boot
4 34 (11.37%) Spring
5 29 (9.70%) Node.js
6 28 (9.36%) Kafka
7 27 (9.03%) AWS CDK
7 27 (9.03%) React
8 26 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
9 22 (7.36%) AngularJS
10 21 (7.02%) RESTful
11 19 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
12 16 (5.35%) FastAPI
12 16 (5.35%) Web Services
13 14 (4.68%) LangChain
14 13 (4.35%) JSON
14 13 (4.35%) LangGraph
15 12 (4.01%) Hibernate
16 11 (3.68%) OpenAPI
16 11 (3.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 115 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 48 (16.05%) Product Ownership
3 39 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (12.37%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (10.37%) Onboarding
6 22 (7.36%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (4.35%) Blog
7 13 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (4.35%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.68%) Low-Code
9 10 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (3.01%) Data Centre
10 9 (3.01%) Private Cloud
10 9 (3.01%) Replication
11 7 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (2.01%) AI Agents
12 6 (2.01%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (2.01%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 68 (22.74%) Linux
2 11 (3.68%) Windows
2 11 (3.68%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.01%) CentOS
3 9 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.01%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.34%) Debian
4 7 (2.34%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.67%) Android
5 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (77.93%) CI/CD
2 168 (56.19%) DevOps
3 154 (51.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 131 (43.81%) Microservices
5 125 (41.81%) Software Engineering
6 97 (32.44%) Test Automation
7 96 (32.11%) Agile
8 91 (30.43%) AI
9 87 (29.10%) Deployment Automation
10 81 (27.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (25.08%) Clean Code
11 75 (25.08%) Mentoring
12 74 (24.75%) Containerisation
13 70 (23.41%) Continuous Deployment
13 70 (23.41%) Observability
14 69 (23.08%) Cloud Security
15 60 (20.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 52 (17.39%) Coaching
17 51 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
18 48 (16.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 142 (47.49%) Python
2 140 (46.82%) Java
3 67 (22.41%) Bash
4 33 (11.04%) JavaScript
5 26 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.36%) Ruby
7 19 (6.35%) Go
8 18 (6.02%) Perl
8 18 (6.02%) PHP
8 18 (6.02%) SQL
9 15 (5.02%) Groovy
9 15 (5.02%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.01%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.01%) C#
12 6 (2.01%) COBOL
13 5 (1.67%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.34%) C++
14 4 (1.34%) Scala
15 3 (1.00%) Bicep
16 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 83 (27.76%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.72%) AWS Certification
3 43 (14.38%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.34%) Degree
7 6 (2.01%) OSCP
7 6 (2.01%) RHCSA
7 6 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.34%) CCNA
8 4 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.34%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.34%) RHCE
9 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.67%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.68%) QA
2 7 (2.34%) NCSC
3 6 (2.01%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.00%) NIST
6 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) GxP
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 107 (35.79%) Docker
2 6 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.34%) Squid
4 4 (1.34%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.34%) vSphere
5 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 216 (72.24%) Kubernetes
2 100 (33.44%) Grafana
3 51 (17.06%) Ansible
4 29 (9.70%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.02%) Kibana
6 13 (4.35%) Packer
6 13 (4.35%) Puppet
6 13 (4.35%) Rancher
7 11 (3.68%) Argo
8 8 (2.68%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.01%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.34%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.67%) Istio
11 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 15 (5.02%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.68%) Splunk
4 12 (4.01%) VMware
5 11 (3.68%) AppDynamics
5 11 (3.68%) Oracle
5 11 (3.68%) Red Hat
6 9 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.68%) Databricks
7 8 (2.68%) IBM
8 7 (2.34%) Google
8 7 (2.34%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.67%) Confluent
10 4 (1.34%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.00%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.33%) ForgeRock
13 1 (0.33%) Okta
13 1 (0.33%) Ping Identity
13 1 (0.33%) YouTube