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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 430 521
Rank change year-on-year -22 +91 -35
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 266 201 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.98% 1.33% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 133 100 185
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -3.13%
75th Percentile £103,250 £123,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £111,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.07% -6.45% +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 27,198 15,067 34,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 36.23% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 14,110 11,081 26,851
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,633 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.67% +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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -31 244 £80,000 -24.71% 76
Work from Home +45 148 £75,000 -30.23% 46
London -3 136 £110,000 +2.33% 37
UK excluding London -52 113 £63,750 -12.07% 46
North of England -22 52 £65,000 -25.71% 14
South East -46 39 £62,500 - 12
Yorkshire -35 27 £65,288 -3.28% 3
North West -10 23 £65,000 -38.10% 8
Midlands -41 12 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands -15 10 £50,000 - 2
South West -43 8 £62,500 +13.64% 9
East of England -19 6 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Wales -25 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -30 2 £76,783 -7.49% 3
North East -36 2 £65,288 -6.73% 3
East Midlands -45 2 £75,000 -

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 11 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (4.14%) OpenStack
2 10 (3.76%) Apache
3 8 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.13%) Confluence
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) Drupal
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 253 (95.11%) AWS
2 86 (32.33%) Serverless
3 83 (31.20%) GCP
4 67 (25.19%) Amazon S3
4 67 (25.19%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (22.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 57 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
7 55 (20.68%) SaaS
8 45 (16.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (15.79%) Azure
10 39 (14.66%) GitHub
11 38 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (9.77%) Azure AKS
14 23 (8.65%) OpenShift
15 22 (8.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (5.64%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (5.26%) Route 53
18 13 (4.89%) Amazon Kinesis
19 11 (4.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.02%) VPN
2 15 (5.64%) Firewall
3 8 (3.01%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.26%) AMQP
4 6 (2.26%) BGP
4 6 (2.26%) VLAN
5 2 (0.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (11.65%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (8.65%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.39%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.89%) Flink
6 10 (3.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.76%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.38%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.63%) MySQL
10 6 (2.26%) Big Data
10 6 (2.26%) Cloudera CDH
10 6 (2.26%) Hadoop
10 6 (2.26%) Redis
11 5 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.88%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.13%) Looker
13 2 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.38%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 56 (21.05%) TeamCity
2 43 (16.17%) Jenkins
3 41 (15.41%) GitLab
4 32 (12.03%) Git
5 9 (3.38%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.01%) JIRA
7 7 (2.63%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.26%) JUnit
9 5 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.88%) MLflow
10 4 (1.50%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.50%) JMeter
11 3 (1.13%) Mockito
11 3 (1.13%) NUnit
12 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.38%) Gatling
12 1 (0.38%) Gradle
12 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 86 (32.33%) Finance
2 84 (31.58%) Banking
3 74 (27.82%) Retail
4 69 (25.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (24.44%) Law
6 59 (22.18%) Social Skills
7 49 (18.42%) Back Office
7 49 (18.42%) Financial Institution
8 21 (7.89%) Public Sector
9 13 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (4.89%) Front Office
10 10 (3.76%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.13%) Advertising
11 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.38%) Games
13 1 (0.38%) iGaming
13 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.69%) Software Engineer
2 60 (22.56%) Senior
3 56 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (20.30%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (12.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (12.03%) Developer
7 29 (10.90%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (9.40%) Lead
9 24 (9.02%) AWS DevOps
9 24 (9.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (9.02%) Java Developer
10 22 (8.27%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 19 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
13 18 (6.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 18 (6.77%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (6.77%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (6.39%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 14 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (18.80%) React
2 40 (15.04%) Kafka
3 39 (14.66%) Node.js
4 38 (14.29%) REST
5 35 (13.16%) Spring
6 29 (10.90%) Spring Boot
7 25 (9.40%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (9.02%) RESTful
9 19 (7.14%) AWS CDK
10 18 (6.77%) AngularJS
11 17 (6.39%) Web Services
12 14 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (4.14%) JSON
14 9 (3.38%) Mustache
14 9 (3.38%) YAML
15 8 (3.01%) Loki
16 7 (2.63%) Sass
17 6 (2.26%) gRPC
17 6 (2.26%) Material-UI
17 6 (2.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 85 (31.95%) Cloud Native
2 41 (15.41%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (8.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.14%) Blog
4 19 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.76%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.01%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.26%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.88%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.13%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.13%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.75%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 54 (20.30%) Linux
2 11 (4.14%) Ubuntu
3 9 (3.38%) CentOS
3 9 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.01%) Debian
5 3 (1.13%) Android
5 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.75%) Unix
7 1 (0.38%) Windows
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 148 (55.64%) DevOps
3 130 (48.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (36.47%) Microservices
5 93 (34.96%) Software Engineering
6 88 (33.08%) Agile
7 80 (30.08%) Test Automation
8 79 (29.70%) Deployment Automation
9 75 (28.20%) Observability
10 63 (23.68%) Continuous Deployment
11 61 (22.93%) Platform Engineering
12 59 (22.18%) Clean Code
13 50 (18.80%) Containerisation
13 50 (18.80%) Mentoring
14 43 (16.17%) Fintech
15 42 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (15.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 39 (14.66%) Cloud Security
18 36 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
19 35 (13.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 125 (46.99%) Java
2 101 (37.97%) Python
3 38 (14.29%) Go
4 37 (13.91%) JavaScript
5 35 (13.16%) TypeScript
6 27 (10.15%) Bash
7 14 (5.26%) SQL
8 6 (2.26%) Groovy
9 5 (1.88%) C#
9 5 (1.88%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.50%) Perl
10 4 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.13%) Bicep
12 2 (0.75%) C++
12 2 (0.75%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) C
13 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (19.55%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.65%) AWS Certification
2 31 (11.65%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.76%) Degree
4 7 (2.63%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.13%) CREST Certified
7 3 (1.13%) OSCP
8 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.38%) CISM
8 1 (0.38%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.38%) GIAC
8 1 (0.38%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.76%) QA
2 10 (3.76%) SOC 2
3 8 (3.01%) NIST
4 6 (2.26%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 68 (25.56%) Docker
2 8 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 209 (78.57%) Terraform
2 201 (75.56%) Kubernetes
3 94 (35.34%) Grafana
4 57 (21.43%) Ansible
5 30 (11.28%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.14%) Argo
7 10 (3.76%) Istio
8 9 (3.38%) Kibana
9 8 (3.01%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.63%) Puppet
11 5 (1.88%) Packer
12 4 (1.50%) Rancher
13 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.38%) Consul
14 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (4.14%) Confluent
1 11 (4.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.76%) AppDynamics
2 10 (3.76%) Google
3 8 (3.01%) IBM
3 8 (3.01%) Splunk
3 8 (3.01%) VMware
4 6 (2.26%) Oracle
4 6 (2.26%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.26%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.50%) Databricks
5 4 (1.50%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.13%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.75%) Pega
7 2 (0.75%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.75%) WSO2
8 1 (0.38%) New Relic
8 1 (0.38%) Solace