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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 425 520
Rank change year-on-year -84 +95 +17
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 278 268 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.55% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.69% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 135 78 208
10th Percentile £55,133 £52,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,313 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £93,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £117,813
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 27,025 15,903 33,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.36% 32.37% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 17,563 11,080 25,330
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 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,364
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.21% -6.61%

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 16 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 16 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 -72 242 £75,000 -21.05% 92
London -37 140 £92,500 -11.90% 48
Work from Home 0 124 £70,000 -15.15% 49
UK excluding London -112 111 £65,576 -16.73% 53
North of England -10 40 £65,576 -37.55% 21
South East -35 39 £62,500 +92.31% 10
North West +8 22 £72,500 -30.95% 9
Yorkshire -23 16 £65,000 -7.14% 6
South West -53 16 £80,250 -10.83% 9
Midlands -24 10 £67,500 -2.88% 9
West Midlands -31 7 £62,000 -27.06% 6
Wales -51 6 £80,000 +45.45%
East of England -27 3 £80,150 - 1
East Midlands -38 3 £75,000 +38.89% 3
Scotland +5 2 £76,783 -19.18% 3
North East -53 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 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 96 (34.53%) Serverless
3 91 (32.73%) Amazon ECS
4 82 (29.50%) GCP
5 79 (28.42%) Amazon S3
6 74 (26.62%) AWS Lambda
7 64 (23.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 62 (22.30%) SaaS
9 57 (20.50%) Amazon EC2
10 55 (19.78%) Azure
11 39 (14.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (13.31%) GitHub
13 33 (11.87%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (8.27%) Azure AKS
15 21 (7.55%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (6.83%) Amazon EventBridge
16 19 (6.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (6.47%) AWS Control Tower
17 18 (6.47%) OpenShift
18 15 (5.40%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.04%) Network Security
2 13 (4.68%) Firewall
2 13 (4.68%) 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 43 (15.47%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.71%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (8.27%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.68%) DynamoDB
4 13 (4.68%) MySQL
5 9 (3.24%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.88%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.88%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.80%) Flink
7 5 (1.80%) Redis
8 4 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.44%) Big Data
8 4 (1.44%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.44%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.44%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.08%) Looker
10 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 62 (22.30%) TeamCity
2 52 (18.71%) 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%) Gradle
13 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
General
1 98 (35.25%) Finance
2 78 (28.06%) Banking
3 71 (25.54%) Retail
4 66 (23.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (22.66%) Law
6 50 (17.99%) Social Skills
7 48 (17.27%) Back Office
7 48 (17.27%) Financial Institution
8 47 (16.91%) Public Sector
9 15 (5.40%) 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 84 (30.22%) Senior
2 69 (24.82%) Software Engineer
3 43 (15.47%) AWS Engineer
4 40 (14.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (11.51%) Developer
6 31 (11.15%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (10.07%) Lead
8 24 (8.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (8.63%) Consultant
8 24 (8.63%) Java Engineer
8 24 (8.63%) Senior Software Engineer
9 20 (7.19%) Architect
9 20 (7.19%) Senior Consultant
10 18 (6.47%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (6.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 17 (6.12%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 16 (5.76%) Java Software Engineer
13 15 (5.40%) Security Consultant
13 15 (5.40%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (5.40%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.95%) REST
2 32 (11.51%) React
3 30 (10.79%) AWS CDK
3 30 (10.79%) Spring Boot
4 25 (8.99%) Spring
5 23 (8.27%) Node.js
5 23 (8.27%) RESTful
6 21 (7.55%) Kafka
7 17 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (5.76%) AngularJS
9 15 (5.40%) Web Services
10 13 (4.68%) FastAPI
11 12 (4.32%) JSON
11 12 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (3.60%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.24%) YAML
14 8 (2.88%) .NET
14 8 (2.88%) Hibernate
15 7 (2.52%) ActiveMQ
15 7 (2.52%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 105 (37.77%) Cloud Native
2 40 (14.39%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (10.43%) 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
8 9 (3.24%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.88%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.52%) Low-Code
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 55 (19.78%) 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
4 113 (40.65%) Microservices
5 102 (36.69%) Software Engineering
6 79 (28.42%) Agile
7 73 (26.26%) Test Automation
8 72 (25.90%) Deployment Automation
9 69 (24.82%) Containerisation
10 67 (24.10%) AI
11 65 (23.38%) Observability
12 62 (22.30%) Clean Code
12 62 (22.30%) Continuous Deployment
12 62 (22.30%) Platform Engineering
13 58 (20.86%) Cloud Security
13 58 (20.86%) Mentoring
14 46 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (16.55%) Fintech
15 39 (14.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 34 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 129 (46.40%) Python
2 127 (45.68%) Java
3 45 (16.19%) Bash
4 32 (11.51%) TypeScript
5 30 (10.79%) Go
5 30 (10.79%) JavaScript
6 22 (7.91%) Ruby
7 18 (6.47%) Perl
7 18 (6.47%) SQL
8 17 (6.12%) PHP
8 17 (6.12%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.24%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.88%) C#
11 6 (2.16%) COBOL
11 6 (2.16%) Groovy
12 5 (1.80%) Bicep
13 4 (1.44%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.08%) C++
15 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.42%) AWS Certification
3 27 (9.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 25 (8.99%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.52%) OSCP
6 6 (2.16%) Degree
6 6 (2.16%) DV Cleared
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%) CISM
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
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 83 (29.86%) 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
1 226 (81.29%) Terraform
2 201 (72.30%) Kubernetes
3 77 (27.70%) Grafana
4 50 (17.99%) Ansible
5 16 (5.76%) 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 8 (2.88%) Proxmox
11 7 (2.52%) Progress Chef
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 15 (5.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.32%) Confluent
2 12 (4.32%) Splunk
2 12 (4.32%) VMware
3 10 (3.60%) AppDynamics
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%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.72%) Pega
8 2 (0.72%) WSO2
9 1 (0.36%) New Relic
9 1 (0.36%) Solace
9 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.36%) TOWER Software