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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 449 458
Rank change year-on-year -81 +9 +64
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 270 261 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.63% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 133 73 167
10th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £85,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% -19.05% +31.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £72,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -9.55% +8.21% -0.74%

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 27,997 16,022 26,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.57% 32.11% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 18,449 11,136 19,203
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 9 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 9 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 -91 229 £72,500 -19.44% 167
London -69 124 £90,000 -14.29% 106
UK excluding London -100 116 £65,576 -9.55% 84
Work from Home -32 106 £66,538 -3.22% 69
North of England -9 46 £65,000 -17.46% 25
South East -64 37 £62,500 +92.31% 13
North West +5 21 £72,500 -30.95% 10
South West -55 18 £100,000 +11.11% 12
Yorkshire -27 16 £65,000 -7.14% 8
North East -44 9 £54,750 - 7
Midlands -36 7 £62,500 -10.07% 6
West Midlands -32 6 £67,250 -20.88% 3
Wales -61 6 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Scotland 0 5 £76,783 +2.38% 17
East of England -45 2 £76,325 - 8
East Midlands -30 1 £62,500 +15.74% 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 (2.59%) Apache
1 7 (2.59%) Confluence
2 5 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.48%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 256 (94.81%) AWS
2 102 (37.78%) Amazon ECS
3 100 (37.04%) Serverless
4 83 (30.74%) Amazon S3
5 79 (29.26%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (27.78%) GCP
7 71 (26.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 62 (22.96%) Amazon EC2
9 57 (21.11%) SaaS
10 56 (20.74%) Azure
11 36 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (11.85%) GitHub
13 25 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (8.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (7.78%) Cloud Computing
16 20 (7.41%) Azure AKS
17 19 (7.04%) Amazon EventBridge
17 19 (7.04%) OpenShift
18 18 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
19 17 (6.30%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.19%) Network Security
2 7 (2.59%) Firewall
3 5 (1.85%) DNS
4 4 (1.48%) AMQP
4 4 (1.48%) Broadband
4 4 (1.48%) IPv4
4 4 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (1.48%) VPN
5 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.93%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (12.22%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (8.15%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.81%) MySQL
5 12 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.07%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.96%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.22%) Flink
9 5 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.85%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.48%) Big Data
10 4 (1.48%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.48%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.48%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.48%) Redis
11 3 (1.11%) Looker
11 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (20.74%) TeamCity
2 47 (17.41%) Jenkins
3 45 (16.67%) GitLab
4 38 (14.07%) Git
5 16 (5.93%) JIRA
6 9 (3.33%) JUnit
7 8 (2.96%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.96%) JMeter
8 7 (2.59%) Mockito
9 6 (2.22%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.85%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.48%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.48%) MLflow
11 4 (1.48%) Snyk
12 2 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.74%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.37%) Gatling
13 1 (0.37%) Gradle
13 1 (0.37%) Maven
13 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 94 (34.81%) Finance
2 70 (25.93%) Banking
3 63 (23.33%) Law
4 61 (22.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (20.74%) Retail
6 50 (18.52%) Social Skills
7 47 (17.41%) Public Sector
8 43 (15.93%) Back Office
8 43 (15.93%) Financial Institution
9 22 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.70%) Aerospace
11 10 (3.70%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.11%) Marketing
14 2 (0.74%) Games
15 1 (0.37%) Advertising
15 1 (0.37%) iGaming
15 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.30%) Senior
2 67 (24.81%) Software Engineer
3 42 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (14.44%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (12.96%) Developer
6 32 (11.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (11.48%) Lead
8 23 (8.52%) Consultant
9 22 (8.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (7.78%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.41%) Architect
11 20 (7.41%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (7.41%) Senior Consultant
12 16 (5.93%) Team Leader
13 15 (5.56%) Security Consultant
13 15 (5.56%) Software Team Leader
14 14 (5.19%) Senior Security Consultant
15 13 (4.81%) Java Developer
15 13 (4.81%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.44%) REST
2 30 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 29 (10.74%) React
4 28 (10.37%) AWS CDK
5 25 (9.26%) Node.js
5 25 (9.26%) Spring
6 24 (8.89%) Kafka
7 20 (7.41%) RESTful
8 19 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (6.67%) AngularJS
10 16 (5.93%) FastAPI
11 15 (5.56%) Web Services
12 13 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (4.44%) JSON
14 10 (3.70%) Apache Camel
14 10 (3.70%) LangChain
14 10 (3.70%) LangGraph
15 9 (3.33%) YAML
16 8 (2.96%) .NET
16 8 (2.96%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 97 (35.93%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.44%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (11.85%) Product Ownership
4 31 (11.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (10.74%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.70%) Blog
7 10 (3.70%) Low-Code
7 10 (3.70%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.33%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.96%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (2.22%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.22%) Mainframe
11 6 (2.22%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.85%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.89%) Linux
2 7 (2.59%) Ubuntu
3 6 (2.22%) CentOS
3 6 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.22%) Windows
3 6 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.85%) Debian
5 3 (1.11%) Android
5 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (72.96%) CI/CD
2 146 (54.07%) DevOps
3 139 (51.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (41.11%) Microservices
5 101 (37.41%) Software Engineering
6 84 (31.11%) Agile
7 74 (27.41%) Test Automation
8 71 (26.30%) AI
9 68 (25.19%) Containerisation
9 68 (25.19%) Deployment Automation
10 60 (22.22%) Cloud Security
11 57 (21.11%) Clean Code
11 57 (21.11%) Continuous Deployment
11 57 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (20.74%) Observability
13 55 (20.37%) Mentoring
14 49 (18.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 49 (18.15%) Platform Engineering
15 41 (15.19%) Migration
16 40 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 132 (48.89%) Python
2 117 (43.33%) Java
3 48 (17.78%) Bash
4 31 (11.48%) JavaScript
4 31 (11.48%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.52%) Go
6 22 (8.15%) Ruby
7 19 (7.04%) SQL
8 18 (6.67%) Perl
9 17 (6.30%) PHP
10 16 (5.93%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.33%) C#
11 9 (3.33%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.22%) COBOL
12 6 (2.22%) Groovy
13 4 (1.48%) C++
13 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 66 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.04%) AWS Certification
3 26 (9.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 25 (9.26%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.59%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.59%) OSCP
6 6 (2.22%) Degree
6 6 (2.22%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.48%) CCNA
8 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.48%) RHCE
9 3 (1.11%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.07%) QA
2 7 (2.59%) NCSC
3 6 (2.22%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.85%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.48%) NIST
6 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.37%) GxP
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (35.93%) Docker
2 10 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.96%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.48%) Squid
4 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.48%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 216 (80.00%) Terraform
2 194 (71.85%) Kubernetes
3 66 (24.44%) Grafana
4 46 (17.04%) Ansible
5 14 (5.19%) Argo
5 14 (5.19%) Packer
6 12 (4.44%) Kibana
7 11 (4.07%) Istio
7 11 (4.07%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.07%) Puppet
8 7 (2.59%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.48%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.11%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.11%) Rancher
11 1 (0.37%) Consul
11 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.19%) Confluent
2 13 (4.81%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.44%) Splunk
4 11 (4.07%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.70%) AppDynamics
6 9 (3.33%) Oracle
7 8 (2.96%) Databricks
7 8 (2.96%) Google
7 8 (2.96%) IBM
7 8 (2.96%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.59%) VMware
9 4 (1.48%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.48%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.11%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.74%) Pega
11 2 (0.74%) WSO2
12 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.37%) New Relic
12 1 (0.37%) Solace
12 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software