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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 445 514
Rank change year-on-year -37 +69 -15
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 239 226 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 1.49% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 120 90 182
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £73,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -7.35%
75th Percentile £102,500 £123,438 £101,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £139,625 £114,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -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 26,494 15,158 34,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.46% 34.91% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 14,788 10,657 26,678
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £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 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 13 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 13 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 -29 221 £75,000 -28.57% 72
Work from Home +11 122 £72,500 -32.56% 45
London -29 115 £105,000 -2.33% 33
UK excluding London -77 108 £63,750 -15.00% 45
North of England +2 45 £65,000 -25.71% 14
South East -31 42 £62,500 +92.31% 10
Yorkshire -40 24 £65,000 -5.45% 3
North West +5 20 £65,000 -38.10% 7
Midlands -24 13 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands -14 11 £50,000 - 3
South West -43 10 £62,500 - 12
East of England -23 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Scotland -3 2 £76,783 -7.49% 4
East Midlands -21 2 £75,000 -
North East - 1 £65,576 - 4

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 (5.44%) OpenStack
2 10 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.77%) Apache
4 6 (2.51%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.67%) Confluence
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.42%) Drupal
7 1 (0.42%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) JBoss
7 1 (0.42%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 228 (95.40%) AWS
2 79 (33.05%) Serverless
3 74 (30.96%) GCP
4 63 (26.36%) Amazon S3
5 57 (23.85%) Amazon ECS
5 57 (23.85%) AWS Lambda
6 51 (21.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (17.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 41 (17.15%) Azure
8 41 (17.15%) SaaS
9 40 (16.74%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (14.64%) GitHub
11 31 (12.97%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (9.62%) Azure AKS
12 23 (9.62%) OpenShift
13 20 (8.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (7.11%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (5.44%) Route 53
16 11 (4.60%) AWS Fargate
16 11 (4.60%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.86%) Firewall
2 13 (5.44%) VPN
3 5 (2.09%) AMQP
3 5 (2.09%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.26%) BGP
4 3 (1.26%) VLAN
5 2 (0.84%) DNS
6 1 (0.42%) IPv4
6 1 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (16.32%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (11.72%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (10.04%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.44%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.18%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.77%) Flink
6 9 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.77%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.93%) MySQL
9 6 (2.51%) Redis
10 5 (2.09%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.09%) Big Data
10 5 (2.09%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (2.09%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.67%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.26%) Looker
13 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (19.67%) Jenkins
1 47 (19.67%) TeamCity
2 40 (16.74%) GitLab
3 34 (14.23%) Git
4 9 (3.77%) Bitbucket
4 9 (3.77%) JIRA
5 8 (3.35%) JUnit
6 7 (2.93%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.09%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.09%) JMeter
7 5 (2.09%) MLflow
8 4 (1.67%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.67%) Mockito
9 3 (1.26%) NUnit
10 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.42%) Gatling
10 1 (0.42%) Gradle
10 1 (0.42%) Maven
10 1 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 72 (30.13%) Finance
2 68 (28.45%) Banking
3 62 (25.94%) Retail
4 55 (23.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (22.18%) Law
6 52 (21.76%) Social Skills
7 35 (14.64%) Back Office
7 35 (14.64%) Financial Institution
8 21 (8.79%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (4.18%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.51%) Front Office
12 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.26%) Advertising
14 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.42%) Games
15 1 (0.42%) iGaming
15 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 56 (23.43%) Software Engineer
2 53 (22.18%) Senior
3 48 (20.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (17.99%) AWS Engineer
5 30 (12.55%) Developer
6 28 (11.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (11.72%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (8.79%) Java Developer
7 21 (8.79%) Java Engineer
7 21 (8.79%) Lead
8 19 (7.95%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (7.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 18 (7.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 17 (7.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 16 (6.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 16 (6.69%) Senior DevOps
12 15 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (5.86%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (5.86%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (5.02%) Customer Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (20.08%) React
2 37 (15.48%) REST
3 33 (13.81%) Kafka
4 31 (12.97%) Node.js
4 31 (12.97%) Spring
5 28 (11.72%) Spring Boot
6 26 (10.88%) Elastic Stack
7 20 (8.37%) Web Services
8 19 (7.95%) AWS CDK
9 18 (7.53%) RESTful
10 16 (6.69%) AngularJS
11 13 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (5.02%) JSON
13 11 (4.60%) Mustache
14 9 (3.77%) YAML
15 7 (2.93%) Apache Camel
15 7 (2.93%) Loki
15 7 (2.93%) Sass
16 6 (2.51%) Hibernate
16 6 (2.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (29.71%) Cloud Native
2 36 (15.06%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (9.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.79%) Blog
5 16 (6.69%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.60%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.77%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.51%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.09%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
14 1 (0.42%) AI Agents
14 1 (0.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 1 (0.42%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.59%) Linux
2 10 (4.18%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.35%) CentOS
3 8 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.93%) Debian
5 3 (1.26%) Android
5 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.84%) Windows
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (80.33%) CI/CD
2 133 (55.65%) DevOps
3 120 (50.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (34.73%) Microservices
5 78 (32.64%) Agile
6 76 (31.80%) Software Engineering
7 70 (29.29%) Deployment Automation
8 68 (28.45%) Test Automation
9 66 (27.62%) Observability
10 55 (23.01%) Platform Engineering
11 54 (22.59%) Continuous Deployment
12 51 (21.34%) Clean Code
13 46 (19.25%) Containerisation
14 42 (17.57%) Fintech
14 42 (17.57%) Mentoring
15 41 (17.15%) Cloud Security
16 39 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 39 (16.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 36 (15.06%) Scrum
18 30 (12.55%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 104 (43.51%) Java
2 96 (40.17%) Python
3 37 (15.48%) JavaScript
4 35 (14.64%) Go
5 32 (13.39%) TypeScript
6 30 (12.55%) Bash
7 13 (5.44%) SQL
8 8 (3.35%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.51%) Groovy
9 6 (2.51%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.09%) Bicep
11 4 (1.67%) C#
11 4 (1.67%) Perl
11 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.84%) PHP
12 2 (0.84%) Rust
13 1 (0.42%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.64%) AWS Certification
3 27 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.77%) Degree
5 6 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.51%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (1.67%) OSCP
8 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.26%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CCNA
10 1 (0.42%) CCSP
10 1 (0.42%) CEH
10 1 (0.42%) CISM
10 1 (0.42%) GIAC
10 1 (0.42%) GSEC
10 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.42%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.18%) QA
2 7 (2.93%) NIST
2 7 (2.93%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (29.29%) Docker
2 8 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Squid
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 189 (79.08%) Terraform
2 184 (76.99%) Kubernetes
3 79 (33.05%) Grafana
4 56 (23.43%) Ansible
5 25 (10.46%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.60%) Argo
7 10 (4.18%) Istio
8 9 (3.77%) Kibana
9 8 (3.35%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.51%) Packer
10 6 (2.51%) Puppet
11 5 (2.09%) Rancher
12 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.42%) Consul
13 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (5.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.60%) Confluent
3 9 (3.77%) AppDynamics
3 9 (3.77%) Google
3 9 (3.77%) VMware
4 8 (3.35%) IBM
5 7 (2.93%) Oracle
5 7 (2.93%) Splunk
6 6 (2.51%) Databricks
6 6 (2.51%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.09%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.67%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.26%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.84%) Pega
10 2 (0.84%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.84%) WSO2
11 1 (0.42%) Mercator
11 1 (0.42%) New Relic
11 1 (0.42%) TOWER Software