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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 445 514
Rank change year-on-year -28 +69 -15
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 245 226 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.92% 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 26,658 15,158 34,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.40% 34.91% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 14,898 10,657 26,678
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 14 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 14 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 -32 226 £75,000 -28.57% 84
Work from Home -3 124 £72,500 -32.56% 54
London -23 119 £105,000 -2.33% 39
UK excluding London -74 111 £63,750 -15.00% 49
North of England +2 45 £65,000 -25.71% 16
South East -31 45 £62,500 +92.31% 11
Yorkshire -42 24 £65,000 -5.45% 3
North West +7 20 £65,000 -38.10% 8
Midlands -24 13 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands -15 11 £50,000 - 3
South West -40 10 £62,500 - 13
East of England -26 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Scotland -8 2 £76,783 -7.49% 3
East Midlands -24 2 £75,000 -
North East - 1 £65,576 - 5

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 (5.31%) OpenStack
2 10 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.67%) Apache
4 6 (2.45%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.63%) Confluence
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 234 (95.51%) AWS
2 82 (33.47%) Serverless
3 76 (31.02%) GCP
4 64 (26.12%) Amazon S3
5 60 (24.49%) Amazon ECS
6 57 (23.27%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (20.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (17.96%) Amazon EC2
9 43 (17.55%) SaaS
10 42 (17.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (16.73%) Azure
12 35 (14.29%) GitHub
13 31 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (9.39%) Azure AKS
14 23 (9.39%) OpenShift
15 20 (8.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (5.31%) Route 53
18 11 (4.49%) AWS Fargate
18 11 (4.49%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.71%) Firewall
2 13 (5.31%) VPN
3 5 (2.04%) AMQP
3 5 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.22%) BGP
4 3 (1.22%) VLAN
5 2 (0.82%) DNS
6 1 (0.41%) IPv4
6 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.84%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (11.02%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.31%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.67%) Flink
6 9 (3.67%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.67%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.86%) MySQL
9 6 (2.45%) Redis
10 5 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.04%) Big Data
10 5 (2.04%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (2.04%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.04%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.22%) Looker
12 2 (0.82%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 50 (20.41%) Jenkins
2 49 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 40 (16.33%) GitLab
4 35 (14.29%) Git
5 11 (4.49%) JUnit
6 9 (3.67%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.67%) JIRA
7 8 (3.27%) JMeter
8 7 (2.86%) Mockito
8 7 (2.86%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.04%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.04%) MLflow
10 4 (1.63%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.22%) NUnit
12 2 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.41%) Gradle
13 1 (0.41%) Maven
13 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 74 (30.20%) Finance
2 70 (28.57%) Banking
3 64 (26.12%) Retail
4 57 (23.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (22.45%) Law
6 54 (22.04%) Social Skills
7 37 (15.10%) Back Office
7 37 (15.10%) Financial Institution
8 24 (9.80%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (4.08%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.45%) Front Office
12 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.22%) Advertising
14 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.41%) Games
15 1 (0.41%) iGaming
15 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 58 (23.67%) Software Engineer
2 53 (21.63%) Senior
3 48 (19.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (17.55%) AWS Engineer
5 33 (13.47%) Developer
6 28 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (9.39%) Java Developer
7 23 (9.39%) Java Engineer
8 22 (8.98%) Lead
9 19 (7.76%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (7.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 18 (7.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 17 (6.94%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 16 (6.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 16 (6.53%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (6.12%) Java Software Engineer
13 15 (6.12%) Lead Software Engineer
13 15 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (4.90%) Customer Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (19.59%) React
2 39 (15.92%) REST
3 34 (13.88%) Spring
4 33 (13.47%) Kafka
5 31 (12.65%) Node.js
5 31 (12.65%) Spring Boot
6 26 (10.61%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (8.57%) Web Services
8 20 (8.16%) RESTful
9 19 (7.76%) AWS CDK
10 17 (6.94%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.71%) JSON
12 13 (5.31%) Mustache
12 13 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (4.08%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.67%) Hibernate
14 9 (3.67%) YAML
15 7 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
15 7 (2.86%) jQuery
15 7 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (31.02%) Cloud Native
2 37 (15.10%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (8.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.57%) Blog
5 17 (6.94%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.49%) Public Cloud
7 10 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.67%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.45%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.04%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 2 (0.82%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
15 1 (0.41%) AI Agents
15 1 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 1 (0.41%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.04%) Linux
2 10 (4.08%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.27%) CentOS
3 8 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.86%) Debian
5 3 (1.22%) Android
5 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Windows
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (80.82%) CI/CD
2 136 (55.51%) DevOps
3 120 (48.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (36.33%) Microservices
5 82 (33.47%) Agile
6 78 (31.84%) Software Engineering
7 72 (29.39%) Deployment Automation
8 70 (28.57%) Test Automation
9 66 (26.94%) Observability
10 56 (22.86%) Continuous Deployment
11 55 (22.45%) Platform Engineering
12 53 (21.63%) Clean Code
13 48 (19.59%) Containerisation
14 45 (18.37%) Mentoring
15 43 (17.55%) Fintech
16 41 (16.73%) Cloud Security
17 40 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 39 (15.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 38 (15.51%) Scrum
20 30 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (44.90%) Java
2 100 (40.82%) Python
3 41 (16.73%) JavaScript
4 35 (14.29%) Go
5 32 (13.06%) TypeScript
6 30 (12.24%) Bash
7 13 (5.31%) SQL
8 9 (3.67%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.27%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.45%) Groovy
11 5 (2.04%) Bicep
12 4 (1.63%) C#
12 4 (1.63%) Perl
12 4 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.82%) PHP
13 2 (0.82%) Rust
14 1 (0.41%) C++
Qualifications
1 49 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 29 (11.84%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.67%) Degree
5 6 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.45%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (1.63%) OSCP
8 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.22%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.41%) CCNA
10 1 (0.41%) CCSP
10 1 (0.41%) CEH
10 1 (0.41%) CISM
10 1 (0.41%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) GIAC
10 1 (0.41%) GSEC
10 1 (0.41%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.08%) QA
2 7 (2.86%) NIST
2 7 (2.86%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (30.20%) Docker
2 8 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.41%) Squid
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 191 (77.96%) Terraform
2 190 (77.55%) Kubernetes
3 81 (33.06%) Grafana
4 56 (22.86%) Ansible
5 25 (10.20%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.90%) Kibana
7 11 (4.49%) Argo
8 10 (4.08%) Istio
9 8 (3.27%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.45%) Packer
10 6 (2.45%) Puppet
11 5 (2.04%) Rancher
12 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.41%) Consul
13 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (5.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.49%) Confluent
3 10 (4.08%) Splunk
4 9 (3.67%) AppDynamics
4 9 (3.67%) Google
4 9 (3.67%) VMware
5 8 (3.27%) IBM
6 7 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.86%) Oracle
7 6 (2.45%) Databricks
7 6 (2.45%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.04%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.22%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.82%) Pega
10 2 (0.82%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.82%) WSO2
11 1 (0.41%) Mercator
11 1 (0.41%) New Relic
11 1 (0.41%) TOWER Software