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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 438 461
Rank change year-on-year -82 +23 +53
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 264 259 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.63% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 131 72 167
10th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £62,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -19.05% +31.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £113,125 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £72,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -9.55% +8.21% -0.74%

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 27,968 15,935 26,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.35% 32.01% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,446 11,065 19,145
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,847 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 August 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 August 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 -100 223 £72,500 -19.44% 187
London -55 121 £90,000 -14.29% 124
UK excluding London -104 113 £65,576 -9.55% 89
Work from Home -37 100 £67,500 -1.82% 83
North of England -15 45 £65,000 -17.46% 26
South East -62 36 £62,500 +92.31% 13
North West -3 21 £72,500 -30.95% 11
South West -65 18 £100,000 +11.11% 15
Yorkshire -23 15 £65,000 -7.14% 9
North East -49 9 £54,750 - 6
Midlands -56 7 £62,500 -10.07% 6
West Midlands -39 6 £67,250 -20.88% 4
Wales -56 6 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Scotland +5 5 £76,783 +2.38% 18
East Midlands -29 1 £62,500 +15.74% 2
East of England -46 1 £72,500 - 8

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 (2.65%) Apache
1 7 (2.65%) Confluence
2 4 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.52%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.76%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.38%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 250 (94.70%) AWS
2 101 (38.26%) Amazon ECS
3 100 (37.88%) Serverless
4 83 (31.44%) Amazon S3
5 79 (29.92%) AWS Lambda
6 71 (26.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 69 (26.14%) GCP
8 61 (23.11%) Amazon EC2
9 56 (21.21%) Azure
10 55 (20.83%) SaaS
11 37 (14.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (11.36%) GitHub
13 23 (8.71%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (7.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (7.58%) Azure AKS
15 20 (7.58%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (7.20%) Amazon EventBridge
16 19 (7.20%) OpenShift
17 18 (6.82%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (6.44%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.30%) Network Security
2 7 (2.65%) Firewall
3 5 (1.89%) DNS
4 4 (1.52%) AMQP
4 4 (1.52%) Broadband
4 4 (1.52%) IPv4
4 4 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (1.52%) VPN
5 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.30%) MySQL
5 12 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.79%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.79%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.03%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.89%) DocumentDB
8 5 (1.89%) Flink
9 4 (1.52%) Big Data
9 4 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.52%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.14%) Redis
10 3 (1.14%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 51 (19.32%) TeamCity
2 47 (17.80%) Jenkins
3 45 (17.05%) GitLab
4 38 (14.39%) Git
5 16 (6.06%) JIRA
6 9 (3.41%) JUnit
7 8 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.03%) JMeter
8 7 (2.65%) Mockito
9 6 (2.27%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.89%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.52%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.52%) MLflow
11 4 (1.52%) Snyk
12 2 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.76%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.38%) Gatling
13 1 (0.38%) Maven
13 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 92 (34.85%) Finance
2 65 (24.62%) Banking
3 58 (21.97%) Law
4 56 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (19.32%) Retail
6 49 (18.56%) Social Skills
7 47 (17.80%) Public Sector
8 41 (15.53%) Back Office
8 41 (15.53%) Financial Institution
9 23 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.79%) Aerospace
11 10 (3.79%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Marketing
14 2 (0.76%) Games
15 1 (0.38%) Advertising
15 1 (0.38%) iGaming
15 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.89%) Senior
2 64 (24.24%) Software Engineer
3 42 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (14.77%) AWS Engineer
5 36 (13.64%) Developer
6 32 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (10.98%) Lead
8 23 (8.71%) Consultant
9 22 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (7.58%) Architect
10 20 (7.58%) Java Engineer
10 20 (7.58%) Senior Consultant
11 19 (7.20%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (5.68%) Security Consultant
12 15 (5.68%) Software Team Leader
12 15 (5.68%) Team Leader
13 14 (5.30%) Senior Security Consultant
14 13 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (4.92%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.77%) REST
2 30 (11.36%) Spring Boot
3 28 (10.61%) AWS CDK
3 28 (10.61%) React
4 25 (9.47%) Node.js
4 25 (9.47%) Spring
5 23 (8.71%) Kafka
6 20 (7.58%) RESTful
7 18 (6.82%) AngularJS
7 18 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (6.06%) FastAPI
9 15 (5.68%) Web Services
10 13 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (4.55%) JSON
12 10 (3.79%) Apache Camel
12 10 (3.79%) LangChain
12 10 (3.79%) LangGraph
13 9 (3.41%) YAML
14 8 (3.03%) .NET
14 8 (3.03%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 93 (35.23%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.77%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (11.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (11.74%) Product Ownership
4 30 (11.36%) Onboarding
5 24 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (3.79%) Low-Code
6 10 (3.79%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.41%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.03%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.65%) Blog
9 7 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.27%) Digital Wallet
10 6 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (2.27%) Mainframe
10 6 (2.27%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.32%) Linux
2 7 (2.65%) Ubuntu
3 6 (2.27%) CentOS
3 6 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.27%) Windows
3 6 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.89%) Debian
5 3 (1.14%) Android
5 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (71.97%) CI/CD
2 143 (54.17%) DevOps
3 138 (52.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (41.29%) Microservices
5 99 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 82 (31.06%) Agile
7 70 (26.52%) AI
8 67 (25.38%) Containerisation
8 67 (25.38%) Test Automation
9 63 (23.86%) Deployment Automation
10 59 (22.35%) Cloud Security
11 57 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (20.45%) Observability
13 52 (19.70%) Clean Code
13 52 (19.70%) Continuous Deployment
13 52 (19.70%) Mentoring
14 48 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 48 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
15 42 (15.91%) Migration
16 40 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 132 (50.00%) Python
2 112 (42.42%) Java
3 47 (17.80%) Bash
4 29 (10.98%) JavaScript
4 29 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.71%) Go
6 22 (8.33%) Ruby
7 20 (7.58%) SQL
8 18 (6.82%) Perl
8 18 (6.82%) PHP
9 16 (6.06%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.41%) C#
10 9 (3.41%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.27%) COBOL
11 6 (2.27%) Groovy
12 4 (1.52%) C++
12 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 66 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.42%) AWS Certification
3 26 (9.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 25 (9.47%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.65%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.65%) OSCP
6 6 (2.27%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.89%) Degree
7 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.52%) CCNA
8 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.52%) RHCE
9 3 (1.14%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.38%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.79%) QA
2 7 (2.65%) NCSC
3 6 (2.27%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.52%) NIST
4 4 (1.52%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.38%) GxP
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 94 (35.61%) Docker
2 10 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.52%) Squid
4 4 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.52%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.52%) vSphere
5 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 208 (78.79%) Terraform
2 188 (71.21%) Kubernetes
3 60 (22.73%) Grafana
4 46 (17.42%) Ansible
5 14 (5.30%) Packer
6 13 (4.92%) Argo
6 13 (4.92%) Kibana
7 11 (4.17%) Istio
7 11 (4.17%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.17%) Puppet
8 7 (2.65%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.52%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.14%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.14%) Rancher
11 1 (0.38%) Consul
11 1 (0.38%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (4.92%) Confluent
1 13 (4.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.55%) Splunk
3 11 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.79%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.41%) Oracle
6 8 (3.03%) Databricks
6 8 (3.03%) IBM
6 8 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.65%) Google
7 7 (2.65%) VMware
8 4 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.52%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.14%) NVIDIA
10 2 (0.76%) Pega
10 2 (0.76%) WSO2
11 1 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.38%) Solace
11 1 (0.38%) TOWER Software