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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 442 451
Rank change year-on-year -83 +9 +78
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 282 254 392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.60% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 144 75 170
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,900 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £85,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £106,250 £142,500
90th Percentile £111,375 £125,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +7.69%

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 27,504 15,836 25,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.98% 31.83% 31.63%
Number of salaries quoted 18,545 10,809 17,434
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,925 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -88 234 £65,576 -22.85% 283
UK excluding London -106 126 £65,000 -10.34% 131
London -72 116 £82,500 -8.33% 196
Work from Home -23 107 £65,576 -2.85% 128
North of England -6 54 £65,000 -13.33% 33
South East -58 36 £70,000 +115.38% 21
North West -1 22 £66,538 -36.63% 15
South West -67 20 £100,000 +11.11% 15
Yorkshire -42 17 £65,000 - 10
North East -43 15 £52,250 - 8
Midlands -48 10 £62,500 +15.74% 14
West Midlands -34 6 £67,250 -1.47% 5
Wales -59 6 £80,000 +45.45% 3
Scotland +9 4 £58,565 - 27
East Midlands -23 4 £62,500 +15.74% 9
East of England -53 1 £72,500 -27.50% 12

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 (2.48%) Apache
2 6 (2.13%) Confluence
3 5 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.42%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Drupal
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 263 (93.26%) AWS
2 108 (38.30%) Amazon ECS
3 107 (37.94%) Serverless
4 86 (30.50%) Amazon S3
4 86 (30.50%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (27.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 70 (24.82%) GCP
7 66 (23.40%) Amazon EC2
8 59 (20.92%) SaaS
9 57 (20.21%) Azure
10 42 (14.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (12.06%) GitHub
12 27 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (9.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (8.87%) Azure AKS
15 20 (7.09%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (6.74%) Amazon EventBridge
16 19 (6.74%) OpenShift
17 18 (6.38%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (6.03%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.96%) Network Security
2 7 (2.48%) Firewall
3 6 (2.13%) VPN
4 5 (1.77%) AMQP
5 4 (1.42%) Broadband
5 4 (1.42%) DNS
5 4 (1.42%) IPv4
5 4 (1.42%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (7.09%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.67%) MySQL
5 11 (3.90%) DynamoDB
5 11 (3.90%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.84%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.77%) Big Data
8 5 (1.77%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.77%) DocumentDB
8 5 (1.77%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.77%) Redis
9 4 (1.42%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.06%) Flink
10 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 56 (19.86%) TeamCity
2 52 (18.44%) Jenkins
3 44 (15.60%) GitLab
4 43 (15.25%) Git
5 15 (5.32%) JIRA
6 10 (3.55%) JUnit
7 9 (3.19%) Mockito
8 8 (2.84%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.84%) JMeter
9 7 (2.48%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.13%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.77%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.42%) MLflow
12 4 (1.42%) Snyk
13 3 (1.06%) Maven
14 2 (0.71%) Gradle
14 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.71%) Terragrunt
15 1 (0.35%) Gatling
15 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 95 (33.69%) Finance
2 68 (24.11%) Law
3 67 (23.76%) Banking
3 67 (23.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 57 (20.21%) Retail
5 56 (19.86%) Public Sector
6 48 (17.02%) Social Skills
7 45 (15.96%) Back Office
7 45 (15.96%) Financial Institution
8 28 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.90%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.90%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.06%) Marketing
12 2 (0.71%) Games
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) iGaming
13 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (27.66%) Senior
2 73 (25.89%) Software Engineer
3 46 (16.31%) AWS Engineer
3 46 (16.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (13.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 37 (13.12%) Developer
5 29 (10.28%) Lead
6 23 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 21 (7.45%) Consultant
7 21 (7.45%) Java Engineer
8 20 (7.09%) Architect
8 20 (7.09%) Senior Consultant
9 19 (6.74%) Lead Software Engineer
10 16 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (5.67%) Software Team Leader
10 16 (5.67%) Team Leader
11 15 (5.32%) AWS DevOps
11 15 (5.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.32%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (76.95%) Terraform
2 43 (15.25%) REST
3 34 (12.06%) Spring Boot
4 29 (10.28%) Spring
5 27 (9.57%) AWS CDK
6 26 (9.22%) React
7 25 (8.87%) Node.js
8 24 (8.51%) Kafka
9 21 (7.45%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (6.74%) AngularJS
10 19 (6.74%) RESTful
11 17 (6.03%) FastAPI
11 17 (6.03%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (5.32%) Web Services
13 13 (4.61%) LangChain
13 13 (4.61%) LangGraph
14 12 (4.26%) JSON
15 11 (3.90%) Hibernate
16 10 (3.55%) Apache Camel
17 9 (3.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 101 (35.82%) Cloud Native
2 39 (13.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (13.48%) Product Ownership
4 37 (13.12%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (10.99%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.51%) Enterprise Cloud
7 14 (4.96%) Public Cloud
8 13 (4.61%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (3.90%) Low-Code
10 9 (3.19%) Blog
10 9 (3.19%) Data Centre
10 9 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (2.13%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.13%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.13%) Mainframe
11 6 (2.13%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.77%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.77%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.99%) Linux
2 12 (4.26%) Windows
2 12 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.48%) CentOS
3 7 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.48%) Ubuntu
3 7 (2.48%) Unix
4 5 (1.77%) Debian
5 2 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.71%) Android
5 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (73.40%) CI/CD
2 160 (56.74%) DevOps
3 149 (52.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (40.43%) Microservices
5 110 (39.01%) Software Engineering
6 90 (31.91%) Agile
7 81 (28.72%) AI
8 76 (26.95%) Containerisation
8 76 (26.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 75 (26.60%) Test Automation
10 73 (25.89%) Deployment Automation
11 68 (24.11%) Cloud Security
12 66 (23.40%) Observability
13 63 (22.34%) Mentoring
14 62 (21.99%) Clean Code
15 59 (20.92%) Continuous Deployment
15 59 (20.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 50 (17.73%) Migration
17 47 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
18 46 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 136 (48.23%) Python
2 117 (41.49%) Java
3 57 (20.21%) Bash
4 28 (9.93%) JavaScript
5 25 (8.87%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.80%) Go
6 22 (7.80%) Ruby
7 19 (6.74%) PHP
8 18 (6.38%) Perl
8 18 (6.38%) SQL
9 16 (5.67%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.19%) C#
10 9 (3.19%) Groovy
10 9 (3.19%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.13%) COBOL
12 5 (1.77%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.42%) C++
13 4 (1.42%) Scala
14 3 (1.06%) Bicep
15 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 74 (26.24%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.31%) AWS Certification
3 34 (12.06%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.48%) Degree
6 6 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.13%) OSCP
6 6 (2.13%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.42%) CCNA
8 4 (1.42%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.42%) RHCE
9 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.71%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.26%) QA
2 7 (2.48%) NCSC
3 6 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.42%) NIST
4 4 (1.42%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) GxP
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 103 (36.52%) Docker
2 8 (2.84%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.42%) Squid
3 4 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.42%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.42%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 200 (70.92%) Kubernetes
2 75 (26.60%) Grafana
3 49 (17.38%) Ansible
4 19 (6.74%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.96%) Kibana
5 14 (4.96%) Packer
6 12 (4.26%) Argo
6 12 (4.26%) Puppet
7 8 (2.84%) Istio
8 7 (2.48%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.13%) Rancher
10 5 (1.77%) Proxmox
11 4 (1.42%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 17 (6.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.96%) Dynatrace
2 14 (4.96%) Splunk
3 11 (3.90%) Oracle
4 10 (3.55%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.19%) Confluent
5 9 (3.19%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.19%) VMware
6 8 (2.84%) Databricks
6 8 (2.84%) IBM
7 6 (2.13%) Google
8 5 (1.77%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.42%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.06%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.71%) Pega
11 2 (0.71%) WSO2
12 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software