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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 454 533
Rank change year-on-year +10 +79 -65
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 271 193 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.47% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 1.29% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 138 101 186
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £105,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -27.38% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £102,500 £123,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% -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 26,443 15,012 33,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 36.59% 36.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,976 11,072 26,647
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £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 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% +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 11 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 11 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 -16 248 £80,000 -23.81% 80
Work from Home +58 148 £77,500 -27.91% 40
London -3 138 £108,750 +1.16% 38
UK excluding London -41 116 £62,500 -13.79% 42
North of England -31 53 £65,000 -25.71% 18
South East -48 39 £62,500 - 16
Yorkshire -31 28 £65,000 -3.70% 4
North West -23 23 £65,000 -38.10% 10
Midlands -32 13 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands -4 11 £50,000 - 1
South West -47 9 £62,500 +13.64% 7
East of England -26 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Wales -27 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -24 2 £76,783 -7.49%
North East -26 2 £65,288 -6.73% 4
East Midlands - 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 (4.06%) Apache
1 11 (4.06%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (4.06%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.48%) Confluence
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 259 (95.57%) AWS
2 90 (33.21%) Serverless
3 81 (29.89%) GCP
4 71 (26.20%) Amazon S3
5 69 (25.46%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (22.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (21.40%) Amazon ECS
8 53 (19.56%) SaaS
9 47 (17.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (15.87%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (15.50%) Azure
12 41 (15.13%) GitHub
13 37 (13.65%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (9.23%) Azure AKS
15 24 (8.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (8.12%) OpenShift
17 16 (5.90%) Amazon SQS
18 15 (5.54%) Route 53
19 13 (4.80%) Amazon Kinesis
20 11 (4.06%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.90%) VPN
2 15 (5.54%) Firewall
3 8 (2.95%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.21%) AMQP
4 6 (2.21%) BGP
4 6 (2.21%) VLAN
5 2 (0.74%) DNS
6 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (12.18%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (9.23%) Relational Database
4 18 (6.64%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.80%) Flink
6 10 (3.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.69%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.69%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.58%) MySQL
8 7 (2.58%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.21%) Big Data
9 6 (2.21%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (2.21%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.21%) Redis
10 5 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.11%) Looker
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (19.93%) TeamCity
2 45 (16.61%) Jenkins
3 43 (15.87%) GitLab
4 34 (12.55%) Git
5 9 (3.32%) JIRA
5 9 (3.32%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.95%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.95%) JUnit
7 5 (1.85%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.85%) JMeter
7 5 (1.85%) MLflow
8 4 (1.48%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.48%) Mockito
9 3 (1.11%) NUnit
10 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.37%) Gradle
11 1 (0.37%) Maven
11 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 85 (31.37%) Finance
2 83 (30.63%) Banking
3 72 (26.57%) Retail
4 67 (24.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (23.25%) Law
6 58 (21.40%) Social Skills
7 47 (17.34%) Back Office
7 47 (17.34%) Financial Institution
8 22 (8.12%) Public Sector
9 14 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (5.17%) Front Office
10 9 (3.32%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.11%) Advertising
11 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.37%) Games
13 1 (0.37%) iGaming
13 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.20%) Software Engineer
2 61 (22.51%) Senior
3 57 (21.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (19.93%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (12.92%) Developer
6 34 (12.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (10.70%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (9.59%) Java Developer
9 24 (8.86%) AWS DevOps
9 24 (8.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 24 (8.86%) Lead
10 21 (7.75%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 18 (6.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 18 (6.64%) Java Software Engineer
12 18 (6.64%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (6.27%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 16 (5.90%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (5.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.56%) React
2 42 (15.50%) Kafka
3 41 (15.13%) Node.js
4 40 (14.76%) REST
5 38 (14.02%) Spring
6 31 (11.44%) Spring Boot
7 26 (9.59%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (9.23%) RESTful
9 19 (7.01%) AngularJS
9 19 (7.01%) AWS CDK
10 18 (6.64%) Web Services
11 14 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.43%) JSON
13 9 (3.32%) Mustache
13 9 (3.32%) YAML
14 8 (2.95%) Loki
15 7 (2.58%) Sass
16 6 (2.21%) gRPC
16 6 (2.21%) Material-UI
16 6 (2.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 84 (31.00%) Cloud Native
2 42 (15.50%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (8.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.01%) Blog
5 18 (6.64%) Product Ownership
6 12 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.69%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.95%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.21%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.85%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.48%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.11%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.11%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.74%) AI Agents
13 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.66%) Linux
2 11 (4.06%) Ubuntu
3 10 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.32%) CentOS
5 8 (2.95%) Debian
6 3 (1.11%) Android
6 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.11%) Unix
7 2 (0.74%) Windows
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (78.23%) CI/CD
2 149 (54.98%) DevOps
3 131 (48.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (36.90%) Microservices
5 94 (34.69%) Software Engineering
6 92 (33.95%) Agile
7 79 (29.15%) Test Automation
8 77 (28.41%) Deployment Automation
9 75 (27.68%) Observability
10 62 (22.88%) Platform Engineering
11 60 (22.14%) Continuous Deployment
12 57 (21.03%) Clean Code
13 53 (19.56%) Containerisation
14 50 (18.45%) Mentoring
15 42 (15.50%) Fintech
16 41 (15.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
18 38 (14.02%) Cloud Security
18 38 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
19 36 (13.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 127 (46.86%) Java
2 106 (39.11%) Python
3 40 (14.76%) JavaScript
4 38 (14.02%) Go
4 38 (14.02%) TypeScript
5 29 (10.70%) Bash
6 14 (5.17%) SQL
7 6 (2.21%) Groovy
7 6 (2.21%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.85%) C#
9 4 (1.48%) Perl
9 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.11%) Bicep
11 2 (0.74%) C++
11 2 (0.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.37%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (19.56%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.44%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.06%) Degree
5 7 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.11%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.11%) OSCP
9 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.37%) CISM
9 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) GIAC
9 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.69%) QA
2 10 (3.69%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.58%) NIST
4 6 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (26.20%) Docker
2 8 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 209 (77.12%) Terraform
2 201 (74.17%) Kubernetes
3 94 (34.69%) Grafana
4 57 (21.03%) Ansible
5 32 (11.81%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.38%) Argo
7 12 (4.43%) Kibana
8 10 (3.69%) Istio
9 8 (2.95%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.58%) Puppet
11 5 (1.85%) Packer
12 4 (1.48%) Rancher
13 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.37%) Consul
14 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (4.06%) Confluent
1 11 (4.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.69%) AppDynamics
2 10 (3.69%) Google
3 9 (3.32%) IBM
3 9 (3.32%) Splunk
4 8 (2.95%) VMware
5 7 (2.58%) Oracle
5 7 (2.58%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.21%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.48%) Databricks
7 4 (1.48%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.48%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.11%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.11%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.74%) Pega
9 2 (0.74%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.74%) WSO2
10 1 (0.37%) New Relic
10 1 (0.37%) Solace