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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 422 504
Rank change year-on-year -63 +82 +37
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 284 275 419
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.56% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 1.74% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 133 81 211
10th Percentile £52,711 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £91,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.84% -6.67% +14.71%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £121,250 £127,500 £147,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £83,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -21.70% +11.67% +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 26,886 15,833 33,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.46% 32.35% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 17,488 11,041 25,867
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 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,842
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.26% -7.56%

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 10 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 10 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 -67 248 £75,000 -21.05% 90
London -31 141 £92,500 -11.90% 55
Work from Home +22 129 £72,500 -17.14% 46
UK excluding London -99 115 £65,576 -21.70% 43
North of England -19 42 £65,576 -30.97% 18
South East -62 42 £62,500 +92.31% 7
North West +6 24 £72,500 -30.95% 9
South West -53 17 £80,250 -10.83% 8
Yorkshire -21 16 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Midlands -34 9 £72,500 -21.62% 5
West Midlands -15 7 £62,000 -32.97% 4
Wales -47 5 £80,000 +72.54% 1
East of England -24 3 £80,150 - 2
Scotland +5 2 £76,783 -19.18% 1
East Midlands -25 2 £75,000 - 1
North East -45 2 £64,038 - 5

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 (3.17%) Apache
2 7 (2.46%) Confluence
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.41%) 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 5 (1.76%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 268 (94.37%) AWS
2 96 (33.80%) Serverless
3 88 (30.99%) Amazon ECS
4 87 (30.63%) GCP
5 79 (27.82%) Amazon S3
6 75 (26.41%) AWS Lambda
7 66 (23.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 63 (22.18%) SaaS
9 58 (20.42%) Amazon EC2
9 58 (20.42%) Azure
10 42 (14.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (13.03%) GitHub
12 33 (11.62%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (9.15%) Azure AKS
14 22 (7.75%) OpenShift
15 20 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (6.34%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (5.99%) Amazon EventBridge
18 16 (5.63%) AWS CloudTrail
18 16 (5.63%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.58%) Firewall
1 13 (4.58%) VPN
2 12 (4.23%) Network Security
3 6 (2.11%) AMQP
4 5 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.41%) Broadband
5 4 (1.41%) DNS
5 4 (1.41%) IPv4
5 4 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.06%) BGP
6 3 (1.06%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (9.86%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (8.45%) Relational Database
4 14 (4.93%) MySQL
5 13 (4.58%) DynamoDB
6 9 (3.17%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.17%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.82%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.11%) Big Data
8 6 (2.11%) Cloudera CDH
8 6 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.11%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.11%) Redis
9 5 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.76%) Flink
10 4 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.41%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.06%) Looker
Development Applications
1 64 (22.54%) TeamCity
2 52 (18.31%) Jenkins
3 47 (16.55%) GitLab
4 34 (11.97%) Git
5 16 (5.63%) JIRA
6 9 (3.17%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.17%) JUnit
7 8 (2.82%) JMeter
8 7 (2.46%) Mockito
8 7 (2.46%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.76%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.41%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.41%) 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 98 (34.51%) Finance
2 80 (28.17%) Banking
3 73 (25.70%) Retail
4 68 (23.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (22.89%) Law
6 55 (19.37%) Social Skills
7 48 (16.90%) Back Office
7 48 (16.90%) Financial Institution
8 44 (15.49%) Public Sector
9 15 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (4.23%) Aerospace
11 9 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.82%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.70%) Advertising
14 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Games
15 1 (0.35%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 81 (28.52%) Senior
2 73 (25.70%) Software Engineer
3 45 (15.85%) AWS Engineer
4 41 (14.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (11.27%) Platform Engineer
6 31 (10.92%) Developer
7 29 (10.21%) Lead
8 26 (9.15%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (8.80%) Java Engineer
10 24 (8.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (7.39%) Architect
11 21 (7.39%) Consultant
12 19 (6.69%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (6.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 17 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
14 17 (5.99%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 17 (5.99%) Senior Consultant
15 16 (5.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 16 (5.63%) Team Leader
16 15 (5.28%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.38%) REST
2 35 (12.32%) React
3 31 (10.92%) Spring Boot
4 27 (9.51%) AWS CDK
4 27 (9.51%) Spring
5 24 (8.45%) Node.js
6 23 (8.10%) RESTful
7 22 (7.75%) Kafka
8 18 (6.34%) AngularJS
9 17 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (5.28%) Web Services
11 14 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.23%) FastAPI
12 12 (4.23%) JSON
13 10 (3.52%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.17%) .NET
14 9 (3.17%) YAML
15 8 (2.82%) gRPC
15 8 (2.82%) Hibernate
15 8 (2.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 108 (38.03%) Cloud Native
2 40 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (9.86%) Product Ownership
5 25 (8.80%) Onboarding
6 21 (7.39%) Enterprise Cloud
7 20 (7.04%) Blog
8 11 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (3.87%) Public Cloud
9 9 (3.17%) Private Cloud
10 8 (2.82%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.82%) Data Centre
11 6 (2.11%) Low-Code
11 6 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.76%) Digital Wallet
12 5 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.76%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.76%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.76%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.48%) Linux
2 11 (3.87%) Ubuntu
3 9 (3.17%) CentOS
3 9 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.82%) Debian
5 5 (1.76%) Windows
5 5 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.06%) Android
6 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 145 (51.06%) DevOps
2 145 (51.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 114 (40.14%) Microservices
4 105 (36.97%) Software Engineering
5 85 (29.93%) Agile
6 77 (27.11%) Deployment Automation
7 76 (26.76%) Test Automation
8 71 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 65 (22.89%) Continuous Deployment
10 64 (22.54%) AI
10 64 (22.54%) Clean Code
10 64 (22.54%) Observability
11 60 (21.13%) Platform Engineering
12 58 (20.42%) Mentoring
13 56 (19.72%) Cloud Security
14 49 (17.25%) Fintech
15 48 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 37 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 131 (46.13%) Python
2 129 (45.42%) Java
3 44 (15.49%) Bash
4 33 (11.62%) JavaScript
4 33 (11.62%) TypeScript
5 31 (10.92%) Go
6 19 (6.69%) Ruby
7 18 (6.34%) SQL
8 17 (5.99%) PowerShell
9 16 (5.63%) Perl
10 15 (5.28%) PHP
11 10 (3.52%) C#
12 9 (3.17%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.11%) Groovy
14 5 (1.76%) Bicep
14 5 (1.76%) COBOL
15 4 (1.41%) C++
15 4 (1.41%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 67 (23.59%) Security Cleared
2 53 (18.66%) AWS Certification
3 27 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.82%) Degree
6 7 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.46%) OSCP
7 6 (2.11%) RHCSA
8 5 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.41%) CCNA
9 4 (1.41%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.41%) RHCE
10 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.06%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.52%) QA
2 8 (2.82%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.11%) NCSC
4 5 (1.76%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.76%) NIST
5 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.35%) GxP
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (29.93%) Docker
2 10 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.41%) Squid
4 4 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.41%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.41%) vSphere
5 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 231 (81.34%) Terraform
2 207 (72.89%) Kubernetes
3 81 (28.52%) Grafana
4 54 (19.01%) Ansible
5 17 (5.99%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.93%) Packer
7 13 (4.58%) Argo
8 12 (4.23%) Puppet
9 11 (3.87%) Kibana
10 10 (3.52%) Istio
11 8 (2.82%) Proxmox
12 6 (2.11%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.41%) Rancher
13 4 (1.41%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.35%) Consul
14 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.58%) Splunk
3 12 (4.23%) Confluent
3 12 (4.23%) VMware
4 10 (3.52%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.52%) Google
4 10 (3.52%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.17%) Oracle
6 8 (2.82%) Databricks
6 8 (2.82%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.82%) IBM
7 6 (2.11%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.06%) 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