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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 431 462
Rank change year-on-year -89 +31 +59
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 276 246 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.54% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 139 67 173
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £62,900
25th Percentile £59,500 £62,250 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £113,000 £124,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.57% +7.14% +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 27,688 15,968 26,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.41% 31.95% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 18,509 10,948 18,460
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,847 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -90 229 £67,500 -20.59% 156
UK excluding London -103 121 £65,576 -12.57% 71
London -65 117 £90,000 - 109
Work from Home +3 109 £65,576 -2.85% 74
North of England -14 51 £65,000 -13.33% 22
South East -57 35 £70,000 +115.38% 10
North West +5 21 £66,538 -36.63% 11
South West -65 20 £100,000 +11.11% 12
Yorkshire -28 16 £65,000 - 6
North East -49 14 £57,500 - 5
Midlands -42 8 £62,500 -10.07% 7
West Midlands -32 6 £67,250 -20.88% 1
Wales -57 6 £80,000 +45.45% 3
Scotland +2 5 £76,783 -19.18% 12
East Midlands -24 2 £62,500 +15.74% 6
East of England -42 1 £72,500 -27.50% 3

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 (2.54%) Apache
2 6 (2.17%) Confluence
3 5 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.45%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 257 (93.12%) AWS
2 106 (38.41%) Amazon ECS
3 104 (37.68%) Serverless
4 85 (30.80%) Amazon S3
5 83 (30.07%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (27.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 71 (25.72%) GCP
8 65 (23.55%) Amazon EC2
9 59 (21.38%) Azure
9 59 (21.38%) SaaS
10 40 (14.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (11.96%) GitHub
12 26 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (9.06%) Azure AKS
14 24 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (7.61%) OpenShift
16 20 (7.25%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (6.88%) Amazon Bedrock
17 19 (6.88%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (6.16%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.07%) Network Security
2 6 (2.17%) Firewall
3 5 (1.81%) AMQP
3 5 (1.81%) VPN
4 4 (1.45%) Broadband
4 4 (1.45%) DNS
4 4 (1.45%) IPv4
4 4 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (13.77%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (7.25%) Relational Database
4 15 (5.43%) MySQL
5 12 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.99%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.62%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.90%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.81%) Big Data
9 5 (1.81%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.81%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.81%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.45%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.09%) Flink
11 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 55 (19.93%) TeamCity
2 49 (17.75%) Jenkins
3 45 (16.30%) GitLab
4 40 (14.49%) Git
5 15 (5.43%) JIRA
6 11 (3.99%) JUnit
7 9 (3.26%) Mockito
8 8 (2.90%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.90%) JMeter
9 7 (2.54%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.17%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.45%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.45%) MLflow
11 4 (1.45%) Snyk
12 3 (1.09%) Gradle
12 3 (1.09%) Maven
13 2 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.72%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.36%) Gatling
14 1 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 98 (35.51%) Finance
2 69 (25.00%) Banking
3 65 (23.55%) Law
4 63 (22.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (19.93%) Public Sector
5 55 (19.93%) Retail
6 49 (17.75%) Social Skills
7 45 (16.30%) Back Office
7 45 (16.30%) Financial Institution
8 27 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.99%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.99%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.09%) Marketing
13 2 (0.72%) Games
14 1 (0.36%) Advertising
14 1 (0.36%) iGaming
14 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (27.54%) Senior
2 72 (26.09%) Software Engineer
3 43 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (15.22%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (13.41%) Developer
6 35 (12.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (10.51%) Lead
8 22 (7.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (7.61%) Consultant
9 21 (7.61%) Java Engineer
10 20 (7.25%) Architect
10 20 (7.25%) Senior Consultant
11 19 (6.88%) Lead Software Engineer
12 16 (5.80%) Software Team Leader
12 16 (5.80%) Team Leader
13 15 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.43%) Security Consultant
14 14 (5.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (5.07%) Senior Security Consultant
15 13 (4.71%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (76.81%) Terraform
2 42 (15.22%) REST
3 33 (11.96%) Spring Boot
4 28 (10.14%) Spring
5 26 (9.42%) AWS CDK
5 26 (9.42%) React
6 25 (9.06%) Node.js
7 23 (8.33%) Kafka
8 19 (6.88%) AngularJS
8 19 (6.88%) RESTful
9 18 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (6.16%) FastAPI
11 16 (5.80%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (5.43%) Web Services
13 13 (4.71%) LangChain
13 13 (4.71%) LangGraph
14 12 (4.35%) JSON
15 10 (3.62%) Apache Camel
15 10 (3.62%) Hibernate
16 9 (3.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 98 (35.51%) Cloud Native
2 38 (13.77%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (13.41%) Product Ownership
4 36 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (11.23%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 15 (5.43%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.99%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (3.99%) Low-Code
9 9 (3.26%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.90%) Blog
11 7 (2.54%) Algorithms
12 6 (2.17%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (2.17%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.81%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.81%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (21.01%) Linux
2 12 (4.35%) Windows
2 12 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.54%) CentOS
3 7 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.54%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.17%) Unix
5 5 (1.81%) Debian
6 2 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.72%) Android
6 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (72.10%) CI/CD
2 155 (56.16%) DevOps
3 141 (51.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (41.30%) Microservices
5 107 (38.77%) Software Engineering
6 85 (30.80%) Agile
7 78 (28.26%) AI
8 75 (27.17%) Containerisation
9 71 (25.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 70 (25.36%) Test Automation
11 69 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
12 62 (22.46%) Cloud Security
13 60 (21.74%) Clean Code
13 60 (21.74%) Mentoring
14 58 (21.01%) Continuous Deployment
14 58 (21.01%) Observability
15 57 (20.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 47 (17.03%) Migration
17 44 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
17 44 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 133 (48.19%) Python
2 116 (42.03%) Java
3 51 (18.48%) Bash
4 27 (9.78%) JavaScript
5 24 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.33%) Go
7 22 (7.97%) Ruby
8 19 (6.88%) PHP
9 18 (6.52%) Perl
10 17 (6.16%) SQL
11 16 (5.80%) PowerShell
12 9 (3.26%) C#
12 9 (3.26%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.17%) COBOL
13 6 (2.17%) Groovy
14 4 (1.45%) C++
14 4 (1.45%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.45%) Scala
15 3 (1.09%) Bicep
16 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 69 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 29 (10.51%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.54%) Degree
6 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.17%) OSCP
6 6 (2.17%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.45%) CCNA
8 4 (1.45%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.45%) RHCE
9 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.72%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.35%) QA
2 7 (2.54%) NCSC
3 6 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.17%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.45%) NIST
4 4 (1.45%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) GxP
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (35.14%) Docker
2 10 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.90%) 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
1 194 (70.29%) Kubernetes
2 69 (25.00%) Grafana
3 48 (17.39%) Ansible
4 14 (5.07%) Kibana
4 14 (5.07%) Packer
4 14 (5.07%) Prometheus
5 13 (4.71%) Argo
6 12 (4.35%) Puppet
7 11 (3.99%) Istio
8 7 (2.54%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.45%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.45%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.09%) Rancher
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.36%) Consul
12 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.07%) Splunk
3 11 (3.99%) Confluent
3 11 (3.99%) Dynatrace
3 11 (3.99%) Oracle
4 10 (3.62%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.26%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.90%) Databricks
6 8 (2.90%) IBM
6 8 (2.90%) VMware
7 6 (2.17%) Google
8 5 (1.81%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.45%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.09%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.72%) Pega
11 2 (0.72%) WSO2
12 1 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.36%) Solace
12 1 (0.36%) TOWER Software