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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 432 529
Rank change year-on-year -67 +97 -7
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 253 249 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.56% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.66% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 127 77 197
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,500 £57,200
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £95,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.58% +11.76% -1.45%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £127,500 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +15.38%

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 25,343 15,000 35,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.99% 33.44% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16,408 10,346 27,551
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,252 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.75%
75th Percentile £84,750 £82,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 June 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 19 June 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 -72 228 £72,500 -30.95% 56
Work from Home +14 122 £72,500 -19.44% 30
London -52 122 £90,000 -14.29% 32
UK excluding London -75 111 £65,000 -13.33% 33
North of England -5 43 £65,576 -25.06% 13
South East -43 41 £62,500 +92.31% 6
North West +10 23 £72,500 -30.95% 6
Yorkshire -26 18 £65,000 -5.45% 5
South West -49 16 £62,500 -16.67% 8
Midlands -15 9 £62,000 - 3
West Midlands -10 7 £50,000 - 3
East of England -28 5 £85,000 -
Scotland +1 2 £76,783 -19.18%
East Midlands -24 2 £75,000 -
Wales -48 2 £80,000 +72.54% 1
North East - 2 £64,038 - 2

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 (3.16%) Apache
1 8 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.37%) Confluence
2 6 (2.37%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) Drupal
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 240 (94.86%) AWS
2 84 (33.20%) Serverless
3 78 (30.83%) GCP
4 76 (30.04%) Amazon S3
5 69 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
6 65 (25.69%) AWS Lambda
7 54 (21.34%) Amazon EC2
8 52 (20.55%) SaaS
9 48 (18.97%) Azure
10 47 (18.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (11.86%) GitHub
13 26 (10.28%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (9.09%) Azure AKS
15 19 (7.51%) OpenShift
16 18 (7.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (6.32%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (5.93%) Route 53
19 14 (5.53%) Amazon SQS
20 13 (5.14%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.14%) Firewall
1 13 (5.14%) VPN
2 5 (1.98%) AMQP
2 5 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.58%) DNS
3 4 (1.58%) IPv4
3 4 (1.58%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.19%) BGP
4 3 (1.19%) Broadband
4 3 (1.19%) VLAN
5 2 (0.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.62%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (10.67%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (10.28%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.95%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.16%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.16%) MySQL
5 8 (3.16%) RDBMS
6 6 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.37%) Redis
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.98%) Big Data
7 5 (1.98%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.98%) Flink
7 5 (1.98%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.19%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.19%) Looker
Development Applications
1 57 (22.53%) TeamCity
2 47 (18.58%) Jenkins
3 42 (16.60%) GitLab
4 32 (12.65%) Git
5 14 (5.53%) JIRA
6 9 (3.56%) JUnit
7 8 (3.16%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.16%) JMeter
8 7 (2.77%) MLflow
8 7 (2.77%) Mockito
8 7 (2.77%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.98%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.58%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.79%) NUnit
11 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.40%) Gatling
12 1 (0.40%) Maven
12 1 (0.40%) Snyk
General
1 81 (32.02%) Finance
2 72 (28.46%) Banking
3 66 (26.09%) Retail
4 61 (24.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (22.92%) Law
6 50 (19.76%) Social Skills
7 42 (16.60%) Back Office
7 42 (16.60%) Financial Institution
8 27 (10.67%) Public Sector
9 14 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (3.95%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.37%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.79%) Advertising
15 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.40%) Games
16 1 (0.40%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 65 (25.69%) Senior
2 64 (25.30%) Software Engineer
3 45 (17.79%) AWS Engineer
4 40 (15.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
6 31 (12.25%) Developer
7 27 (10.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (9.88%) Java Engineer
9 21 (8.30%) Lead
9 21 (8.30%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (7.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (7.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 17 (6.72%) Java Software Engineer
12 17 (6.72%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 16 (6.32%) Architect
13 16 (6.32%) Lead Software Engineer
14 15 (5.93%) AWS DevOps
14 15 (5.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (5.93%) Java Developer
14 15 (5.93%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.62%) React
2 36 (14.23%) REST
3 29 (11.46%) Spring
3 29 (11.46%) Spring Boot
4 24 (9.49%) Kafka
5 23 (9.09%) Node.js
6 20 (7.91%) AWS CDK
6 20 (7.91%) RESTful
7 18 (7.11%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (6.72%) AngularJS
9 15 (5.93%) Web Services
10 13 (5.14%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (4.74%) JSON
12 10 (3.95%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.56%) FastAPI
13 9 (3.56%) YAML
14 8 (3.16%) Hibernate
15 7 (2.77%) ActiveMQ
15 7 (2.77%) HTML
15 7 (2.77%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 90 (35.57%) Cloud Native
2 38 (15.02%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (11.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.30%) Product Ownership
5 19 (7.51%) Blog
6 10 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.95%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.56%) Private Cloud
8 8 (3.16%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.77%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.98%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.58%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.58%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 3 (1.19%) Low-Code
13 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.79%) Digital Wallet
14 2 (0.79%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 56 (22.13%) Linux
2 10 (3.95%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.16%) CentOS
3 8 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.77%) Debian
5 5 (1.98%) Windows
5 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.19%) Android
6 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 133 (52.57%) DevOps
3 128 (50.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (37.55%) Microservices
5 92 (36.36%) Software Engineering
6 78 (30.83%) Agile
7 71 (28.06%) Test Automation
8 70 (27.67%) Deployment Automation
9 63 (24.90%) Observability
10 57 (22.53%) Clean Code
10 57 (22.53%) Continuous Deployment
11 56 (22.13%) Containerisation
12 54 (21.34%) Platform Engineering
13 46 (18.18%) Mentoring
14 45 (17.79%) AI
14 45 (17.79%) Fintech
15 44 (17.39%) Cloud Security
16 42 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (13.44%) Scrum
18 32 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 112 (44.27%) Python
2 107 (42.29%) Java
3 36 (14.23%) Bash
4 33 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 31 (12.25%) JavaScript
6 28 (11.07%) Go
7 17 (6.72%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.53%) SQL
9 9 (3.56%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.16%) C#
11 6 (2.37%) Groovy
11 6 (2.37%) Perl
12 5 (1.98%) Bicep
13 4 (1.58%) PHP
13 4 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.58%) Ruby
14 3 (1.19%) C++
15 2 (0.79%) COBOL
15 2 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.21%) AWS Certification
3 26 (10.28%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.56%) Degree
6 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.77%) OSCP
7 6 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.98%) RHCSA
9 4 (1.58%) CCNA
9 4 (1.58%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.58%) RHCE
10 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.19%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.40%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.95%) QA
2 7 (2.77%) SOC 2
3 5 (1.98%) NIST
4 4 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.19%) NCSC
5 3 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (31.62%) Docker
2 10 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.16%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.58%) Squid
4 4 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.58%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.58%) vSphere
5 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 203 (80.24%) Terraform
2 193 (76.28%) Kubernetes
3 79 (31.23%) Grafana
4 51 (20.16%) Ansible
5 22 (8.70%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.53%) Packer
7 12 (4.74%) Argo
8 11 (4.35%) Kibana
9 10 (3.95%) Istio
10 8 (3.16%) Proxmox
11 7 (2.77%) Puppet
12 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.58%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.19%) Rancher
14 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.40%) Consul
15 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.14%) Splunk
3 12 (4.74%) Confluent
3 12 (4.74%) VMware
4 10 (3.95%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.95%) Databricks
5 9 (3.56%) Google
5 9 (3.56%) Oracle
5 9 (3.56%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.16%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.16%) IBM
7 5 (1.98%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.79%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.79%) Pega
9 2 (0.79%) WSO2
10 1 (0.40%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.40%) New Relic
10 1 (0.40%) Solace
10 1 (0.40%) TOWER Software