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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 430 448
Rank change year-on-year -89 +18 +70
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 286 251 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 1.58% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 147 72 171
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £85,000
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 £112,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £127,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 27,530 15,848 25,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.02% 31.80% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18,555 10,819 17,595
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,000
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 2 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 2 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 -84 238 £66,538 -20.55% 288
UK excluding London -104 127 £65,000 -7.14% 138
London -67 119 £85,000 -10.53% 196
Work from Home -20 110 £65,576 -2.85% 187
North of England -13 54 £65,000 -13.33% 35
South East -59 37 £62,500 +92.31% 20
North West 0 22 £66,538 -36.63% 16
South West -64 20 £100,000 +11.11% 16
Yorkshire -36 17 £65,000 - 10
North East -42 15 £52,250 - 9
Midlands -47 10 £62,500 +15.74% 14
West Midlands -31 6 £67,250 -1.47% 5
Wales -66 6 £80,000 +45.45% 4
Scotland -1 4 £58,565 - 28
East Midlands -30 4 £62,500 +15.74% 9
East of England -39 1 £72,500 -27.50% 15

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 (2.45%) Apache
2 6 (2.10%) Confluence
3 5 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.40%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.70%) 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 (2.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 267 (93.36%) AWS
2 108 (37.76%) Amazon ECS
3 107 (37.41%) Serverless
4 87 (30.42%) Amazon S3
5 86 (30.07%) AWS Lambda
6 77 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 72 (25.17%) GCP
8 66 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
9 59 (20.63%) Azure
9 59 (20.63%) SaaS
10 43 (15.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (12.24%) GitHub
12 28 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (8.74%) Azure AKS
15 21 (7.34%) OpenShift
16 20 (6.99%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (6.64%) Amazon EventBridge
18 18 (6.29%) Amazon Bedrock
19 17 (5.94%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.90%) Network Security
2 8 (2.80%) Firewall
3 7 (2.45%) VPN
4 5 (1.75%) AMQP
5 4 (1.40%) Broadband
5 4 (1.40%) DNS
5 4 (1.40%) IPv4
5 4 (1.40%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (15.03%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (6.99%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.59%) MySQL
5 12 (4.20%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.85%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.50%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.80%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.75%) Big Data
9 5 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.75%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.75%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.75%) Redis
10 4 (1.40%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.05%) Flink
11 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 56 (19.58%) TeamCity
2 52 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 45 (15.73%) GitLab
4 43 (15.03%) Git
5 15 (5.24%) JIRA
6 10 (3.50%) JUnit
7 9 (3.15%) Mockito
8 8 (2.80%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.80%) JMeter
9 7 (2.45%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.10%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.75%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.40%) MLflow
12 4 (1.40%) Snyk
13 3 (1.05%) Maven
14 2 (0.70%) Gradle
14 2 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.70%) Terragrunt
15 1 (0.35%) Gatling
15 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 97 (33.92%) Finance
2 70 (24.48%) Banking
3 68 (23.78%) Law
4 67 (23.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (20.28%) Retail
6 56 (19.58%) Public Sector
7 48 (16.78%) Social Skills
8 45 (15.73%) Back Office
8 45 (15.73%) Financial Institution
9 28 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (3.85%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.85%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Marketing
13 2 (0.70%) Games
14 1 (0.35%) Advertising
14 1 (0.35%) iGaming
14 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (28.32%) Senior
2 73 (25.52%) Software Engineer
3 49 (17.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 48 (16.78%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (12.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 37 (12.94%) Developer
6 29 (10.14%) Lead
7 23 (8.04%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (7.34%) Consultant
8 21 (7.34%) Java Engineer
9 20 (6.99%) Architect
9 20 (6.99%) Senior Consultant
10 19 (6.64%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (5.94%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (5.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (5.59%) Software Team Leader
12 16 (5.59%) Team Leader
13 15 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.24%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (77.27%) Terraform
2 43 (15.03%) REST
3 34 (11.89%) Spring Boot
4 29 (10.14%) Spring
5 27 (9.44%) AWS CDK
6 26 (9.09%) Kafka
6 26 (9.09%) React
7 25 (8.74%) Node.js
8 21 (7.34%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (6.64%) AngularJS
9 19 (6.64%) RESTful
10 17 (5.94%) FastAPI
10 17 (5.94%) RabbitMQ
11 15 (5.24%) Web Services
12 13 (4.55%) LangChain
12 13 (4.55%) LangGraph
13 12 (4.20%) JSON
14 11 (3.85%) Hibernate
15 10 (3.50%) Apache Camel
16 9 (3.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 101 (35.31%) Cloud Native
2 40 (13.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (13.29%) Product Ownership
4 37 (12.94%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (10.84%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.39%) Enterprise Cloud
7 14 (4.90%) Public Cloud
8 13 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (3.85%) Low-Code
10 9 (3.15%) Blog
10 9 (3.15%) Data Centre
10 9 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.45%) Private Cloud
12 6 (2.10%) Algorithms
12 6 (2.10%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (2.10%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (2.10%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.75%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.75%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.03%) Linux
2 12 (4.20%) Windows
2 12 (4.20%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.45%) CentOS
3 7 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.45%) Ubuntu
3 7 (2.45%) Unix
4 5 (1.75%) Debian
5 2 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.70%) Android
5 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (73.08%) CI/CD
2 164 (57.34%) DevOps
3 150 (52.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (40.21%) Microservices
5 110 (38.46%) Software Engineering
6 90 (31.47%) Agile
7 82 (28.67%) AI
8 78 (27.27%) Containerisation
9 76 (26.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 75 (26.22%) Test Automation
11 73 (25.52%) Deployment Automation
12 69 (24.13%) Cloud Security
13 67 (23.43%) Observability
14 63 (22.03%) Mentoring
15 62 (21.68%) Clean Code
16 59 (20.63%) Continuous Deployment
16 59 (20.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 50 (17.48%) Migration
18 47 (16.43%) Platform Engineering
19 46 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 139 (48.60%) Python
2 117 (40.91%) Java
3 58 (20.28%) Bash
4 28 (9.79%) JavaScript
5 25 (8.74%) Go
5 25 (8.74%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.69%) Ruby
7 19 (6.64%) PHP
8 18 (6.29%) Perl
8 18 (6.29%) SQL
9 16 (5.59%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.15%) C#
10 9 (3.15%) Groovy
10 9 (3.15%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.10%) COBOL
12 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.40%) C++
13 4 (1.40%) Scala
14 3 (1.05%) Bicep
15 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 74 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 47 (16.43%) AWS Certification
3 34 (11.89%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.45%) Degree
6 6 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.10%) OSCP
6 6 (2.10%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.40%) CCNA
8 4 (1.40%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.40%) RHCE
9 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.70%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.20%) QA
2 7 (2.45%) NCSC
3 6 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.10%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.40%) NIST
4 4 (1.40%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) GxP
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 105 (36.71%) Docker
2 10 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.80%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.40%) Squid
4 4 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 204 (71.33%) Kubernetes
2 76 (26.57%) Grafana
3 50 (17.48%) Ansible
4 20 (6.99%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.90%) Kibana
5 14 (4.90%) Packer
6 13 (4.55%) Argo
7 12 (4.20%) Puppet
8 11 (3.85%) Istio
9 7 (2.45%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.10%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.10%) Rancher
11 4 (1.40%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 17 (5.94%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.90%) Dynatrace
2 14 (4.90%) Splunk
3 12 (4.20%) Oracle
4 11 (3.85%) Confluent
5 10 (3.50%) AppDynamics
5 10 (3.50%) VMware
6 9 (3.15%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.80%) Databricks
7 8 (2.80%) IBM
8 6 (2.10%) Google
9 5 (1.75%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.40%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.05%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.70%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.70%) Pega
12 2 (0.70%) WSO2
13 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
13 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software