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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 433 510
Rank change year-on-year -69 +77 +24
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 275 266 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.54% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 1.67% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 132 76 205
10th Percentile £53,949 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £90,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% -7.18% +14.71%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £116,125 £127,500 £147,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.57% - +15.38%

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 26,973 15,896 32,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.36% 33.08%
Number of salaries quoted 17,609 11,064 24,581
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -85 239 £75,000 -21.05% 85
London -27 140 £90,000 -14.29% 47
Work from Home -10 122 £70,000 -15.15% 46
UK excluding London -100 108 £65,576 -12.57% 51
North of England -5 40 £65,576 -20.51% 20
South East -48 37 £62,500 +92.31% 9
North West +6 22 £72,500 -32.56% 8
Yorkshire -25 16 £65,000 -7.14% 6
South West -49 16 £80,250 -10.83% 7
Midlands -36 9 £62,500 -10.07% 7
West Midlands -21 7 £62,000 -27.06% 4
Wales -49 6 £80,000 +45.45%
East of England -27 3 £80,150 - 1
Scotland -3 2 £76,783 -19.18% 8
East Midlands -17 2 £68,750 +27.31% 3
North East -56 2 £64,038 - 6

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 (2.55%) Apache
1 7 (2.55%) Confluence
2 5 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.45%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Qpid
5 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) Drupal
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 260 (94.55%) AWS
2 96 (34.91%) Serverless
3 91 (33.09%) Amazon ECS
4 82 (29.82%) GCP
5 79 (28.73%) Amazon S3
6 74 (26.91%) AWS Lambda
7 64 (23.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 62 (22.55%) SaaS
9 57 (20.73%) Amazon EC2
10 54 (19.64%) Azure
11 35 (12.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (12.73%) GitHub
12 31 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (8.00%) Azure AKS
14 21 (7.64%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (6.91%) Amazon EventBridge
15 19 (6.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (6.55%) AWS Control Tower
16 18 (6.55%) OpenShift
17 14 (5.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.09%) Network Security
2 11 (4.00%) Firewall
2 11 (4.00%) VPN
3 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.45%) AMQP
4 4 (1.45%) Broadband
4 4 (1.45%) DNS
4 4 (1.45%) IPv4
4 4 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.09%) BGP
5 3 (1.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.64%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.82%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (8.36%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.73%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.73%) MySQL
5 9 (3.27%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.27%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.91%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.82%) Flink
7 5 (1.82%) Redis
8 4 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.45%) Big Data
8 4 (1.45%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.45%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.45%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.09%) Looker
10 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 62 (22.55%) TeamCity
2 51 (18.55%) Jenkins
3 44 (16.00%) GitLab
4 33 (12.00%) Git
5 16 (5.82%) JIRA
6 9 (3.27%) JUnit
7 8 (2.91%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.91%) JMeter
8 7 (2.55%) Mockito
9 6 (2.18%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.82%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.45%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.45%) MLflow
12 2 (0.73%) Snyk
12 2 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.73%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.36%) Gatling
13 1 (0.36%) Maven
13 1 (0.36%) NUnit
General
1 98 (35.64%) Finance
2 78 (28.36%) Banking
3 69 (25.09%) Retail
4 66 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (22.91%) Law
6 51 (18.55%) Social Skills
7 48 (17.45%) Back Office
7 48 (17.45%) Financial Institution
8 47 (17.09%) Public Sector
9 15 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (3.64%) Aerospace
11 9 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.91%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.73%) Advertising
16 1 (0.36%) Games
16 1 (0.36%) iGaming
16 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (29.82%) Senior
2 70 (25.45%) Software Engineer
3 42 (15.27%) AWS Engineer
4 39 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (11.64%) Developer
6 30 (10.91%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (10.18%) Lead
8 25 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
9 24 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 24 (8.73%) Consultant
9 24 (8.73%) Java Engineer
10 20 (7.27%) Architect
10 20 (7.27%) Senior Consultant
11 18 (6.55%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (6.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (5.82%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (5.82%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 15 (5.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 15 (5.45%) Security Consultant
14 15 (5.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.45%) REST
2 33 (12.00%) React
3 30 (10.91%) AWS CDK
3 30 (10.91%) Spring Boot
4 25 (9.09%) Spring
5 24 (8.73%) Node.js
6 23 (8.36%) RESTful
7 22 (8.00%) Kafka
8 17 (6.18%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (5.82%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.45%) Web Services
11 13 (4.73%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.73%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.36%) JSON
13 10 (3.64%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.27%) YAML
15 8 (2.91%) .NET
15 8 (2.91%) Hibernate
16 7 (2.55%) ActiveMQ
16 7 (2.55%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 105 (38.18%) Cloud Native
2 41 (14.91%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.55%) Onboarding
4 28 (10.18%) Product Ownership
5 26 (9.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (8.73%) Enterprise Cloud
7 18 (6.55%) Blog
8 10 (3.64%) Public Cloud
9 9 (3.27%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.91%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.55%) Low-Code
11 7 (2.55%) Private Cloud
12 6 (2.18%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (2.18%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (2.18%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.82%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.82%) Security Posture
14 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
15 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (19.27%) Linux
2 8 (2.91%) Ubuntu
3 6 (2.18%) CentOS
3 6 (2.18%) Debian
3 6 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.82%) Windows
4 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.09%) Android
5 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (74.55%) CI/CD
2 140 (50.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 139 (50.55%) DevOps
4 114 (41.45%) Microservices
5 103 (37.45%) Software Engineering
6 79 (28.73%) Agile
7 74 (26.91%) Test Automation
8 72 (26.18%) Deployment Automation
9 68 (24.73%) Containerisation
10 66 (24.00%) AI
11 62 (22.55%) Clean Code
11 62 (22.55%) Continuous Deployment
11 62 (22.55%) Observability
12 61 (22.18%) Platform Engineering
13 58 (21.09%) Mentoring
14 55 (20.00%) Cloud Security
15 46 (16.73%) Fintech
16 45 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (14.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 34 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 127 (46.18%) Java
2 126 (45.82%) Python
3 42 (15.27%) Bash
4 33 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 28 (10.18%) Go
7 22 (8.00%) Ruby
8 18 (6.55%) Perl
8 18 (6.55%) SQL
9 17 (6.18%) PHP
10 16 (5.82%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.27%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.91%) C#
13 6 (2.18%) COBOL
13 6 (2.18%) Groovy
14 4 (1.45%) Bicep
14 4 (1.45%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.09%) C++
16 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 52 (18.91%) AWS Certification
3 27 (9.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 25 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.55%) OSCP
6 6 (2.18%) Degree
6 6 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.18%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.45%) CCNA
8 4 (1.45%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.45%) RHCE
9 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.09%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.27%) QA
2 8 (2.91%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.55%) NCSC
4 6 (2.18%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.45%) NIST
7 3 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.73%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.36%) GxP
9 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (30.18%) Docker
2 10 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.91%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.45%) Squid
4 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.45%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.45%) vSphere
5 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 222 (80.73%) Terraform
2 199 (72.36%) Kubernetes
3 74 (26.91%) Grafana
4 48 (17.45%) Ansible
5 15 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.09%) Packer
7 13 (4.73%) Argo
8 11 (4.00%) Kibana
8 11 (4.00%) Puppet
9 10 (3.64%) Istio
10 7 (2.55%) Progress Chef
11 6 (2.18%) Proxmox
12 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.45%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.09%) Rancher
14 1 (0.36%) Consul
14 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.36%) Confluent
2 12 (4.36%) Splunk
3 10 (3.64%) AppDynamics
3 10 (3.64%) VMware
4 9 (3.27%) Oracle
5 8 (2.91%) Databricks
5 8 (2.91%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.91%) Google
5 8 (2.91%) IBM
5 8 (2.91%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.45%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.73%) Pega
8 2 (0.73%) WSO2
9 1 (0.36%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.36%) New Relic
9 1 (0.36%) Solace
9 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.36%) TOWER Software