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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 435 497
Rank change year-on-year -59 +62 +38
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 278 265 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.54% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.67% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 135 76 203
10th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.36% -9.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £91,250 £115,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £115,750 £127,500 £147,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.57% - +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 27,071 15,856 32,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.34% 33.06%
Number of salaries quoted 17,695 11,039 24,474
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,400 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,482 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -85 242 £75,000 -21.05% 84
London -23 141 £90,000 -14.29% 45
Work from Home +7 122 £70,000 -15.15% 45
UK excluding London -104 110 £65,576 -12.57% 52
North of England -24 42 £65,000 -21.21% 20
South East -48 37 £62,500 +92.31% 11
North West +13 22 £72,500 -32.56% 8
Yorkshire -22 17 £65,000 -7.14% 6
South West -55 16 £80,250 -10.83% 7
Midlands -38 9 £62,500 -10.07% 6
West Midlands -23 7 £62,000 -27.06% 3
Wales -51 6 £80,000 +45.45%
East of England -26 3 £80,150 - 1
North East -51 3 £62,500 - 6
Scotland +4 2 £76,783 -19.18% 8
East Midlands -19 2 £68,750 +27.31% 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 (2.52%) Apache
1 7 (2.52%) Confluence
2 5 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.44%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Qpid
5 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) Drupal
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.16%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 263 (94.60%) AWS
2 98 (35.25%) Serverless
3 93 (33.45%) Amazon ECS
4 82 (29.50%) Amazon S3
4 82 (29.50%) GCP
5 76 (27.34%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (23.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 62 (22.30%) SaaS
8 60 (21.58%) Amazon EC2
9 55 (19.78%) Azure
10 37 (13.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (12.59%) GitHub
12 31 (11.15%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (7.91%) Azure AKS
14 21 (7.55%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (6.83%) Amazon EventBridge
16 18 (6.47%) AWS Control Tower
16 18 (6.47%) OpenShift
17 15 (5.40%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.04%) Network Security
2 11 (3.96%) Firewall
2 11 (3.96%) VPN
3 5 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.44%) AMQP
4 4 (1.44%) Broadband
4 4 (1.44%) DNS
4 4 (1.44%) IPv4
4 4 (1.44%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.08%) BGP
5 3 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.83%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (10.43%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (8.27%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.04%) DynamoDB
4 14 (5.04%) MySQL
5 10 (3.60%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.24%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.88%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.80%) Flink
8 5 (1.80%) Redis
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.44%) Big Data
9 4 (1.44%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.44%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.44%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.08%) Looker
11 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 62 (22.30%) TeamCity
2 51 (18.35%) Jenkins
3 44 (15.83%) GitLab
4 33 (11.87%) Git
5 16 (5.76%) JIRA
6 9 (3.24%) JUnit
7 8 (2.88%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.88%) JMeter
8 7 (2.52%) Mockito
9 6 (2.16%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.80%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.44%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.44%) MLflow
12 2 (0.72%) Snyk
12 2 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.72%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.36%) Gatling
13 1 (0.36%) Maven
13 1 (0.36%) NUnit
General
1 98 (35.25%) Finance
2 78 (28.06%) Banking
3 69 (24.82%) Retail
4 66 (23.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (23.38%) Law
6 51 (18.35%) Social Skills
7 48 (17.27%) Back Office
7 48 (17.27%) Financial Institution
8 47 (16.91%) Public Sector
9 17 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (3.60%) Aerospace
11 9 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.88%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.72%) Advertising
16 1 (0.36%) Games
16 1 (0.36%) iGaming
16 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (29.50%) Senior
2 70 (25.18%) Software Engineer
3 44 (15.83%) AWS Engineer
4 39 (14.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (11.87%) Developer
6 30 (10.79%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (10.07%) Lead
8 26 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (8.99%) Senior Software Engineer
10 24 (8.63%) Consultant
10 24 (8.63%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.19%) Architect
11 20 (7.19%) Senior Consultant
12 18 (6.47%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 16 (5.76%) Java Software Engineer
14 16 (5.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 15 (5.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 15 (5.40%) Security Consultant
15 15 (5.40%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.31%) REST
2 33 (11.87%) React
3 30 (10.79%) AWS CDK
3 30 (10.79%) Spring Boot
4 25 (8.99%) Spring
5 24 (8.63%) Node.js
5 24 (8.63%) RESTful
6 22 (7.91%) Kafka
7 17 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (5.76%) AngularJS
9 15 (5.40%) Web Services
10 14 (5.04%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.32%) JSON
13 10 (3.60%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.24%) YAML
15 8 (2.88%) .NET
15 8 (2.88%) Hibernate
16 7 (2.52%) ActiveMQ
16 7 (2.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 105 (37.77%) Cloud Native
2 42 (15.11%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (10.79%) Onboarding
4 28 (10.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (10.07%) Product Ownership
5 24 (8.63%) Enterprise Cloud
6 18 (6.47%) Blog
7 10 (3.60%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.24%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.88%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.88%) Low-Code
10 7 (2.52%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.16%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.16%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.16%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.80%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.80%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
14 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (19.06%) Linux
2 8 (2.88%) Ubuntu
3 6 (2.16%) CentOS
3 6 (2.16%) Debian
3 6 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.80%) Windows
4 5 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.08%) Android
5 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (74.82%) CI/CD
2 143 (51.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 142 (51.08%) DevOps
4 115 (41.37%) Microservices
5 103 (37.05%) Software Engineering
6 79 (28.42%) Agile
7 74 (26.62%) Test Automation
8 72 (25.90%) Deployment Automation
9 68 (24.46%) Containerisation
10 67 (24.10%) AI
11 63 (22.66%) Observability
12 62 (22.30%) Clean Code
12 62 (22.30%) Continuous Deployment
12 62 (22.30%) Platform Engineering
13 58 (20.86%) Mentoring
14 57 (20.50%) Cloud Security
15 47 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
16 46 (16.55%) Fintech
17 41 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 36 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 129 (46.40%) Python
2 127 (45.68%) Java
3 44 (15.83%) Bash
4 33 (11.87%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.79%) JavaScript
6 28 (10.07%) Go
7 22 (7.91%) Ruby
8 19 (6.83%) SQL
9 18 (6.47%) Perl
10 17 (6.12%) PHP
11 16 (5.76%) PowerShell
12 9 (3.24%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.88%) C#
14 6 (2.16%) COBOL
14 6 (2.16%) Groovy
15 4 (1.44%) Bicep
15 4 (1.44%) PL/SQL
16 3 (1.08%) C++
17 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 52 (18.71%) AWS Certification
3 27 (9.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 25 (8.99%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.52%) OSCP
6 6 (2.16%) Degree
6 6 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.16%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.44%) CCNA
8 4 (1.44%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.44%) RHCE
9 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.08%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.24%) QA
2 8 (2.88%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.52%) NCSC
4 6 (2.16%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.44%) NIST
7 3 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.36%) GxP
9 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (30.58%) Docker
2 10 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.88%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.44%) Squid
4 4 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.44%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.44%) vSphere
5 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 225 (80.94%) Terraform
2 199 (71.58%) Kubernetes
3 74 (26.62%) Grafana
4 48 (17.27%) Ansible
5 15 (5.40%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.04%) Packer
7 13 (4.68%) Argo
8 11 (3.96%) Kibana
8 11 (3.96%) Puppet
9 10 (3.60%) Istio
10 7 (2.52%) Progress Chef
11 6 (2.16%) Proxmox
12 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.44%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.08%) Rancher
14 1 (0.36%) Consul
14 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.32%) Confluent
2 12 (4.32%) Splunk
3 10 (3.60%) AppDynamics
3 10 (3.60%) VMware
4 9 (3.24%) Oracle
5 8 (2.88%) Databricks
5 8 (2.88%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.88%) Google
5 8 (2.88%) IBM
5 8 (2.88%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.44%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.72%) Pega
8 2 (0.72%) WSO2
9 1 (0.36%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.36%) New Relic
9 1 (0.36%) Solace
9 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.36%) TOWER Software