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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 421 517
Rank change year-on-year -56 +96 +39
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 285 272 410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 1.71% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 135 79 205
10th Percentile £52,922 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,625 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £91,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.84% -9.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £127,500 £147,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £78,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.73% +5.00% +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 27,041 15,883 33,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.37% 32.32% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,570 11,064 25,443
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
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 £80,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 15 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 15 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 -65 247 £75,000 -21.05% 113
London -45 142 £92,500 -11.90% 51
Work from Home -2 127 £70,000 -15.15% 73
UK excluding London -93 114 £65,576 -16.73% 74
North of England -11 42 £65,576 -37.55% 24
South East -45 40 £62,500 +92.31% 14
North West +3 24 £72,500 -30.95% 10
South West -60 17 £80,250 -10.83% 10
Yorkshire -22 16 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Midlands -35 9 £72,500 +4.32% 13
West Midlands -29 7 £62,000 -27.06% 7
Wales -51 6 £80,000 +45.45% 1
East of England -35 3 £80,150 - 6
Scotland +7 2 £76,783 -19.18% 5
East Midlands -28 2 £75,000 +38.89% 6
North East -56 2 £64,038 - 6

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 9 (3.16%) Apache
2 7 (2.46%) Confluence
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.40%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) Drupal
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 270 (94.74%) AWS
2 100 (35.09%) Serverless
3 93 (32.63%) Amazon ECS
4 86 (30.18%) GCP
5 81 (28.42%) Amazon S3
6 78 (27.37%) AWS Lambda
7 68 (23.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 62 (21.75%) SaaS
9 59 (20.70%) Azure
10 58 (20.35%) Amazon EC2
11 41 (14.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (13.33%) GitHub
13 34 (11.93%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (8.77%) Azure AKS
15 21 (7.37%) Cloud Computing
15 21 (7.37%) OpenShift
16 19 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
16 19 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (6.32%) AWS Control Tower
18 16 (5.61%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.91%) Network Security
2 13 (4.56%) Firewall
2 13 (4.56%) VPN
3 6 (2.11%) AMQP
4 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.40%) Broadband
5 4 (1.40%) DNS
5 4 (1.40%) IPv4
5 4 (1.40%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.05%) BGP
6 3 (1.05%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (8.42%) Relational Database
4 15 (5.26%) MySQL
5 14 (4.91%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.16%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.81%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.11%) Big Data
9 6 (2.11%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.11%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.11%) Redis
10 5 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.75%) Flink
11 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.40%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.05%) Looker
13 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 63 (22.11%) TeamCity
2 52 (18.25%) Jenkins
3 46 (16.14%) GitLab
4 34 (11.93%) Git
5 16 (5.61%) JIRA
6 9 (3.16%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.16%) JUnit
7 8 (2.81%) JMeter
8 7 (2.46%) Mockito
8 7 (2.46%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.75%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.40%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.40%) MLflow
11 2 (0.70%) NUnit
11 2 (0.70%) Snyk
11 2 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.70%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.35%) Gradle
12 1 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 99 (34.74%) Finance
2 79 (27.72%) Banking
3 72 (25.26%) Retail
4 67 (23.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 64 (22.46%) Law
6 52 (18.25%) Social Skills
7 48 (16.84%) Back Office
7 48 (16.84%) Financial Institution
8 47 (16.49%) Public Sector
9 15 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (3.86%) Aerospace
11 9 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.81%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.70%) Advertising
16 1 (0.35%) Games
16 1 (0.35%) iGaming
16 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (29.82%) Senior
2 72 (25.26%) Software Engineer
3 44 (15.44%) AWS Engineer
4 40 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (11.23%) Developer
6 31 (10.88%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (10.18%) Lead
8 25 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 25 (8.77%) Java Engineer
9 24 (8.42%) Consultant
9 24 (8.42%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (7.37%) Architect
11 20 (7.02%) Senior Consultant
12 19 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
13 17 (5.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 17 (5.96%) Java Software Engineer
13 17 (5.96%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 16 (5.61%) Team Leader
15 15 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 15 (5.26%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.68%) REST
2 34 (11.93%) React
3 32 (11.23%) Spring Boot
4 31 (10.88%) AWS CDK
5 27 (9.47%) Spring
6 25 (8.77%) Node.js
7 24 (8.42%) RESTful
8 22 (7.72%) Kafka
9 18 (6.32%) AngularJS
10 17 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (5.26%) Web Services
12 14 (4.91%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (4.56%) FastAPI
14 12 (4.21%) JSON
15 10 (3.51%) Apache Camel
16 9 (3.16%) .NET
16 9 (3.16%) YAML
17 8 (2.81%) gRPC
17 8 (2.81%) Hibernate
17 8 (2.81%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 109 (38.25%) Cloud Native
2 41 (14.39%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.18%) Onboarding
4 28 (9.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (9.82%) Product Ownership
5 24 (8.42%) Enterprise Cloud
6 19 (6.67%) Blog
7 11 (3.86%) Public Cloud
8 10 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (3.16%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.16%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.81%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.46%) Low-Code
12 6 (2.11%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (2.11%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.75%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.75%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (20.70%) Linux
2 11 (3.86%) Ubuntu
3 9 (3.16%) CentOS
3 9 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.81%) Debian
5 5 (1.75%) Windows
5 5 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.05%) Android
6 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (74.74%) CI/CD
2 148 (51.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 144 (50.53%) DevOps
4 117 (41.05%) Microservices
5 105 (36.84%) Software Engineering
6 83 (29.12%) Agile
7 75 (26.32%) Deployment Automation
7 75 (26.32%) Test Automation
8 74 (25.96%) Containerisation
9 67 (23.51%) AI
10 65 (22.81%) Observability
11 63 (22.11%) Clean Code
11 63 (22.11%) Continuous Deployment
12 62 (21.75%) Platform Engineering
13 58 (20.35%) Cloud Security
13 58 (20.35%) Mentoring
14 48 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (16.84%) Fintech
15 40 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 36 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 133 (46.67%) Python
2 131 (45.96%) Java
3 45 (15.79%) Bash
4 32 (11.23%) JavaScript
4 32 (11.23%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.88%) Go
6 22 (7.72%) Ruby
7 19 (6.67%) SQL
8 18 (6.32%) Perl
9 17 (5.96%) PHP
9 17 (5.96%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.16%) C#
10 9 (3.16%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.11%) COBOL
11 6 (2.11%) Groovy
12 5 (1.75%) Bicep
13 4 (1.40%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.05%) C++
15 2 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.30%) AWS Certification
3 27 (9.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 27 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.46%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (2.46%) OSCP
5 6 (2.11%) Degree
5 6 (2.11%) RHCSA
5 6 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.40%) CCNA
7 4 (1.40%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.40%) RHCE
8 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.05%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.51%) QA
2 8 (2.81%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.46%) NCSC
4 6 (2.11%) Government Security Classifications
5 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.75%) NIST
6 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.70%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) GxP
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (30.18%) Docker
2 10 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.81%) 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
1 231 (81.05%) Terraform
2 206 (72.28%) Kubernetes
3 80 (28.07%) Grafana
4 53 (18.60%) Ansible
5 17 (5.96%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.91%) Packer
7 13 (4.56%) Argo
7 13 (4.56%) Puppet
8 11 (3.86%) Kibana
9 10 (3.51%) Istio
10 8 (2.81%) Proxmox
11 7 (2.46%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.40%) Rancher
12 4 (1.40%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.56%) Splunk
3 12 (4.21%) Confluent
3 12 (4.21%) VMware
4 10 (3.51%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.51%) Google
4 10 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.16%) Oracle
6 8 (2.81%) Databricks
6 8 (2.81%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.81%) IBM
7 6 (2.11%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.70%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.70%) Pega
9 2 (0.70%) WSO2
10 1 (0.35%) New Relic
10 1 (0.35%) Solace
10 1 (0.35%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software