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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 434 460
Rank change year-on-year -99 +26 +83
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 300 247 332
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 1.60% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 136 77 141
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -30.23% +34.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £120,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +3.70% -

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 27,082 15,471 23,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.89% 31.22% 31.94%
Number of salaries quoted 18,453 10,358 14,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -103 243 £65,576 -20.51% 382
UK excluding London -142 126 £65,576 -6.32% 208
Work from Home -12 125 £65,576 -2.85% 216
London -75 122 £78,750 -7.35% 229
North of England -33 47 £65,576 +9.29% 40
South East -59 35 £60,000 - 40
South West -65 23 £102,500 +24.24% 27
North West -16 18 £72,500 -24.68% 18
North East -48 18 £57,500 - 10
Yorkshire -32 11 £47,000 -21.67% 12
Midlands -61 11 £62,500 +18.48% 18
West Midlands -39 6 £67,250 +30.58% 8
Wales -64 6 £80,000 +45.45% 10
East Midlands -31 5 £62,500 +15.74% 10
Scotland -5 3 - - 40
East of England -48 1 £72,500 -27.50% 24

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 8 (2.67%) Apache
2 7 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.00%) Confluence
4 4 (1.33%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.67%) Camunda
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 282 (94.00%) AWS
2 111 (37.00%) Amazon ECS
2 111 (37.00%) Serverless
3 92 (30.67%) GCP
4 88 (29.33%) AWS Lambda
5 81 (27.00%) Amazon S3
6 78 (26.00%) SaaS
7 71 (23.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (18.67%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (16.00%) Azure
10 45 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (12.67%) GitHub
12 30 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (9.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (8.67%) Azure AKS
15 21 (7.00%) Amazon EventBridge
15 21 (7.00%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (6.33%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (5.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.67%) Network Security
2 15 (5.00%) VPN
3 11 (3.67%) Firewall
4 7 (2.33%) AMQP
4 7 (2.33%) BGP
4 7 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.33%) Broadband
5 4 (1.33%) DNS
5 4 (1.33%) IPv4
5 4 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (1.33%) VLAN
6 2 (0.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (21.33%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (18.33%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (6.33%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.67%) MySQL
5 15 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 12 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.67%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.33%) DocumentDB
8 10 (3.33%) Redis
9 9 (3.00%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.33%) Big Data
10 7 (2.33%) Cloudera CDH
10 7 (2.33%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.33%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.33%) Flink
13 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 84 (28.00%) TeamCity
2 50 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 42 (14.00%) Git
4 37 (12.33%) GitLab
5 13 (4.33%) JUnit
6 12 (4.00%) Mockito
7 10 (3.33%) JIRA
8 9 (3.00%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.67%) JMeter
10 4 (1.33%) Snyk
11 3 (1.00%) Maven
11 3 (1.00%) MLflow
12 2 (0.67%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.67%) Gradle
12 2 (0.67%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 111 (37.00%) Finance
2 100 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 92 (30.67%) Law
4 85 (28.33%) Banking
5 82 (27.33%) Retail
6 67 (22.33%) Back Office
6 67 (22.33%) Financial Institution
7 59 (19.67%) Public Sector
8 56 (18.67%) Social Skills
9 28 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (4.33%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.67%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.33%) 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 91 (30.33%) Software Engineer
2 87 (29.00%) Senior
3 40 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (12.67%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (11.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (11.33%) Lead
7 32 (10.67%) Developer
8 26 (8.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 25 (8.33%) Java Engineer
10 24 (8.00%) Lead Software Engineer
11 21 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (7.00%) Software Team Leader
11 21 (7.00%) Team Leader
12 20 (6.67%) Consultant
12 20 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
13 19 (6.33%) Java Software Engineer
14 18 (6.00%) Architect
15 15 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
16 14 (4.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 14 (4.67%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (77.67%) Terraform
2 40 (13.33%) REST
3 37 (12.33%) Spring Boot
4 31 (10.33%) Kafka
4 31 (10.33%) Spring
5 30 (10.00%) Node.js
6 27 (9.00%) AWS CDK
7 24 (8.00%) RESTful
8 23 (7.67%) React
9 17 (5.67%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (5.33%) AngularJS
10 16 (5.33%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.67%) LangChain
12 13 (4.33%) Hibernate
12 13 (4.33%) LangGraph
12 13 (4.33%) Web Services
13 11 (3.67%) OpenAPI
13 11 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (3.67%) Swagger
14 10 (3.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 125 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 51 (17.00%) Product Ownership
3 37 (12.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (10.33%) Onboarding
6 21 (7.00%) Blog
6 21 (7.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (4.33%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (4.33%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.67%) Low-Code
9 10 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (3.00%) Data Centre
10 9 (3.00%) Private Cloud
10 9 (3.00%) Replication
11 8 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (2.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (2.33%) Security Posture
13 6 (2.00%) AI Agents
13 6 (2.00%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.00%) Linux
2 11 (3.67%) Windows
2 11 (3.67%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.00%) CentOS
3 9 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.00%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.33%) Debian
4 7 (2.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 161 (53.67%) DevOps
3 150 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (43.00%) Software Engineering
5 128 (42.67%) Microservices
6 98 (32.67%) Test Automation
7 92 (30.67%) AI
8 87 (29.00%) Agile
8 87 (29.00%) Deployment Automation
9 81 (27.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 80 (26.67%) Clean Code
11 79 (26.33%) Mentoring
12 74 (24.67%) Observability
13 72 (24.00%) Containerisation
14 70 (23.33%) Continuous Deployment
15 69 (23.00%) Cloud Security
16 64 (21.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 56 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
18 54 (18.00%) Coaching
19 52 (17.33%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 145 (48.33%) Python
2 143 (47.67%) Java
3 74 (24.67%) Bash
4 33 (11.00%) JavaScript
5 27 (9.00%) Go
5 27 (9.00%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.33%) Ruby
7 20 (6.67%) SQL
8 18 (6.00%) PHP
9 16 (5.33%) PowerShell
10 14 (4.67%) Perl
11 10 (3.33%) Shell Script
12 9 (3.00%) C#
12 9 (3.00%) Groovy
13 6 (2.00%) COBOL
14 4 (1.33%) C++
14 4 (1.33%) Scala
15 3 (1.00%) Bicep
16 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 45 (15.00%) AWS Certification
3 40 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.33%) Degree
7 6 (2.00%) RHCSA
7 6 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.67%) OSCP
9 4 (1.33%) CCNA
9 4 (1.33%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.33%) RHCE
10 3 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.00%) CCSP
10 3 (1.00%) CISM
10 3 (1.00%) CISSP
10 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.33%) QA
2 8 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.67%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.33%) NCSC
3 7 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.67%) NIST
6 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.33%) GxP
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 104 (34.67%) Docker
2 6 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.33%) Squid
3 4 (1.33%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.33%) vSphere
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 218 (72.67%) Kubernetes
2 114 (38.00%) Grafana
3 40 (13.33%) Ansible
4 33 (11.00%) Prometheus
5 13 (4.33%) Puppet
5 13 (4.33%) Rancher
6 11 (3.67%) Argo
6 11 (3.67%) Kibana
7 9 (3.00%) Packer
8 8 (2.67%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.00%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.33%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.00%) Cilium
13 2 (0.67%) Istio
13 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.33%) Opsview
Vendors
1 25 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 15 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.67%) Google
3 14 (4.67%) Splunk
4 12 (4.00%) VMware
5 11 (3.67%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.67%) Databricks
8 7 (2.33%) Oracle
8 7 (2.33%) SaltStack
9 6 (2.00%) Confluent
10 4 (1.33%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.00%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.67%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.67%) YouTube
13 1 (0.33%) ForgeRock
13 1 (0.33%) Okta
13 1 (0.33%) Ping Identity