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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 432 488 512
Rank change year-on-year +56 +24 0
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 229 249 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.44% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.22% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 119 109 130
10th Percentile £50,750 £68,500 £56,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £97,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £107,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.91% +53.57% -11.11%
75th Percentile £98,750 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £122,000 - £90,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +14.29%

All Cloud 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 20,611 20,485 21,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.99% 36.06% 43.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11,349 12,306 17,435
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +58 202 £81,000 -24.65% 129
London +15 112 £95,000 -15.56% 21
UK excluding London +57 105 £65,000 -7.14% 121
Work from Home +49 98 £80,000 -38.46% 85
North of England +23 39 £65,000 -9.72% 30
South East +17 27 £75,000 +15.38% 28
Yorkshire +2 24 £62,500 -15.54% 16
Midlands +24 19 £51,500 -26.43% 34
West Midlands +41 14 £51,500 -26.43% 23
North West +8 13 £82,500 - 14
South West +25 11 £80,000 +28.00% 9
East of England +34 7 £92,500 +27.59% 14
East Midlands -10 5 £54,000 - 10
Wales - 5 £54,060 - 6
North East +10 2 £65,000 -7.14%

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 24 (10.48%) Apache Spark
2 14 (6.11%) OpenStack
3 9 (3.93%) Apache
3 9 (3.93%) WebSphere
4 7 (3.06%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.62%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.75%) Confluence
7 3 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 220 (96.07%) AWS
2 94 (41.05%) Serverless
3 73 (31.88%) Amazon S3
4 62 (27.07%) Amazon ECS
5 60 (26.20%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (24.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (22.71%) Amazon EC2
8 46 (20.09%) GitHub
9 43 (18.78%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (17.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 41 (17.90%) Azure
11 27 (11.79%) GCP
12 26 (11.35%) Azure AKS
12 26 (11.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (9.17%) SaaS
14 20 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (8.30%) Amazon ELB
16 14 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (5.68%) OpenShift
17 13 (5.68%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.06%) SSL
2 5 (2.18%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.18%) VPN
3 4 (1.75%) DNS
4 3 (1.31%) AMQP
4 3 (1.31%) BGP
4 3 (1.31%) Firewall
4 3 (1.31%) VLAN
5 1 (0.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.40%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (18.34%) Relational Database
3 39 (17.03%) DynamoDB
4 32 (13.97%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (10.92%) RDBMS
6 19 (8.30%) Delta Lake
6 19 (8.30%) Metadata
6 19 (8.30%) Spark SQL
7 11 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (4.37%) Flink
9 8 (3.49%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.06%) DB2
10 7 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (3.06%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.62%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.75%) Big Data
14 3 (1.31%) Apache Ignite
14 3 (1.31%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.31%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 77 (33.62%) Jenkins
2 33 (14.41%) Git
3 25 (10.92%) GitLab
4 21 (9.17%) JUnit
5 20 (8.73%) MLflow
6 17 (7.42%) JMeter
6 17 (7.42%) Mockito
6 17 (7.42%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.06%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.18%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.18%) JIRA
9 2 (0.87%) JConsole
9 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.87%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.44%) NUnit
10 1 (0.44%) Snyk
General
1 59 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 58 (25.33%) Finance
3 39 (17.03%) Banking
4 25 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 24 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (10.04%) Front Office
7 22 (9.61%) Law
8 21 (9.17%) Financial Institution
8 21 (9.17%) Retail
9 20 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (7.86%) Back Office
11 6 (2.62%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.75%) Games
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (21.83%) Developer
2 46 (20.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (19.65%) Java Developer
4 38 (16.59%) Senior
5 37 (16.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 37 (16.16%) Software Engineer
6 36 (15.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 28 (12.23%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (12.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (10.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 19 (8.30%) Operations Engineer
10 16 (6.99%) Lead
11 14 (6.11%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 13 (5.68%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (5.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (5.24%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 11 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 10 (4.37%) Angular Developer
15 10 (4.37%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (25.33%) Spring
2 46 (20.09%) Kafka
2 46 (20.09%) Spring Boot
3 45 (19.65%) REST
4 42 (18.34%) Node.js
4 42 (18.34%) React
5 27 (11.79%) Web Services
6 23 (10.04%) Elastic Stack
7 22 (9.61%) AngularJS
8 21 (9.17%) Apache Camel
8 21 (9.17%) Lambda Expressions
9 20 (8.73%) Hibernate
10 19 (8.30%) JSON
10 19 (8.30%) Keras
10 19 (8.30%) NumPy
10 19 (8.30%) PySpark
10 19 (8.30%) PyTorch
10 19 (8.30%) scikit-learn
10 19 (8.30%) XML
10 19 (8.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.40%) Distributed Systems
2 44 (19.21%) Cloud Native
3 25 (10.92%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (6.11%) Management Information System
4 14 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.80%) Hedge funds
6 10 (4.37%) Public Cloud
6 10 (4.37%) Reference Data
7 7 (3.06%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.62%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.31%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.87%) Blog
12 2 (0.87%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (23.14%) Linux
2 31 (13.54%) Unix
3 15 (6.55%) Windows
4 12 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.18%) CentOS
5 5 (2.18%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.31%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (73.80%) CI/CD
2 114 (49.78%) DevOps
3 85 (37.12%) Agile
4 81 (35.37%) Microservices
5 76 (33.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (26.20%) Containerisation
7 54 (23.58%) Software Engineering
8 50 (21.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (19.65%) Deployment Automation
10 38 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (16.16%) Platform Engineering
12 35 (15.28%) Observability
13 33 (14.41%) TDD
13 33 (14.41%) Test Automation
14 32 (13.97%) Scrum
15 30 (13.10%) Mentoring
16 29 (12.66%) AI
16 29 (12.66%) Machine Learning
17 27 (11.79%) Workflow
18 26 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 121 (52.84%) Python
2 104 (45.41%) Java
3 53 (23.14%) JavaScript
4 37 (16.16%) Bash
5 27 (11.79%) TypeScript
6 24 (10.48%) SQL
7 21 (9.17%) PowerShell
8 19 (8.30%) Go
9 17 (7.42%) Shell Script
10 14 (6.11%) Bicep
11 4 (1.75%) C#
12 3 (1.31%) C
12 3 (1.31%) Scala
13 1 (0.44%) C++
13 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 54 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 33 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.10%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.68%) Degree
5 10 (4.37%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.62%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.87%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.62%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.62%) SLA
2 6 (2.62%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.18%) GDPR
4 4 (1.75%) NIST
4 4 (1.75%) QA
5 3 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) CDISC
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.44%) DICOM
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 87 (37.99%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.44%) vCloud
3 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 151 (65.94%) Kubernetes
2 137 (59.83%) Terraform
3 56 (24.45%) Grafana
4 44 (19.21%) Ansible
5 31 (13.54%) Prometheus
6 25 (10.92%) Kibana
7 19 (8.30%) Argo
7 19 (8.30%) Kubeflow
8 6 (2.62%) Rancher
9 4 (1.75%) vRealize
10 3 (1.31%) Puppet
11 2 (0.87%) logstash
12 1 (0.44%) Cilium
12 1 (0.44%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (8.73%) Databricks
1 20 (8.73%) Splunk
2 18 (7.86%) Dynatrace
3 10 (4.37%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.37%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.93%) IBM
5 6 (2.62%) Google
6 5 (2.18%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (2.18%) VMware
7 4 (1.75%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.75%) Pega
7 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.75%) WSO2
8 3 (1.31%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.31%) Oracle
8 3 (1.31%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.31%) Solace
9 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.44%) Mercator