Amazon EKS Job Trends

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 490 557
Rank change year-on-year +62 +67 -68
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 260 173 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.06% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 132 86 175
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,688 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.38% +35.48% +1.64%
75th Percentile £102,813 £121,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £129,750 £147,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £71,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.89% -7.42% +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 23,614 16,386 31,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.35% 37.37% 37.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,625 11,035 25,668
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £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 £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 March 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 March 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 +31 231 £80,000 -23.81% 88
Work from Home +76 135 £81,750 -23.95% 52
London +28 135 £110,000 +2.33% 36
UK excluding London +5 105 £62,500 -12.89% 43
North of England -7 44 £65,000 -24.64% 15
South East -23 31 £62,500 - 13
Yorkshire -17 26 £62,500 -7.41% 3
North West -6 17 £65,000 -32.47% 10
Midlands -2 14 £50,000 -
West Midlands +7 12 £50,000 -
South West -13 10 £62,500 - 12
East of England +3 6 £85,000 +17.24% 2
Wales -5 4 £54,060 +43.27% 1
East Midlands -32 2 £75,000 -
North East -17 1 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Scotland -21 1 £95,000 +14.46%

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 13 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.23%) Apache
3 10 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.69%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.54%) Confluence
6 3 (1.15%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.77%) Apache Qpid
7 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 249 (95.77%) AWS
2 91 (35.00%) Serverless
3 71 (27.31%) Amazon S3
4 67 (25.77%) AWS Lambda
5 66 (25.38%) GCP
6 61 (23.46%) Amazon ECS
7 59 (22.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (21.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 46 (17.69%) GitHub
10 44 (16.92%) SaaS
11 43 (16.54%) Amazon EC2
11 43 (16.54%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (14.23%) Azure
13 28 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (9.23%) Azure AKS
15 16 (6.15%) Route 53
16 15 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (5.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 14 (5.38%) OpenShift
18 13 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.38%) VPN
2 12 (4.62%) Firewall
3 7 (2.69%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.31%) BGP
4 6 (2.31%) VLAN
5 5 (1.92%) AMQP
6 3 (1.15%) SSL
7 1 (0.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.08%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (13.85%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 20 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 13 (5.00%) Flink
6 12 (4.62%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.62%) RDBMS
7 11 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.46%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.69%) Redis
11 6 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.31%) MySQL
12 5 (1.92%) Big Data
12 5 (1.92%) Cloudera CDH
12 5 (1.92%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (1.15%) DB2
14 3 (1.15%) Looker
15 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (20.38%) Jenkins
2 48 (18.46%) TeamCity
3 33 (12.69%) GitLab
4 30 (11.54%) Git
5 11 (4.23%) JUnit
6 8 (3.08%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.31%) JMeter
7 6 (2.31%) Mockito
8 5 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.92%) JIRA
9 4 (1.54%) MLflow
10 3 (1.15%) NUnit
10 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.77%) JConsole
11 2 (0.77%) VisualVM
12 1 (0.38%) Gradle
12 1 (0.38%) Maven
12 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.38%) Snyk
General
1 80 (30.77%) Finance
2 72 (27.69%) Banking
3 63 (24.23%) Retail
4 59 (22.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (21.15%) Law
6 52 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 42 (16.15%) Financial Institution
8 40 (15.38%) Back Office
9 19 (7.31%) Front Office
10 17 (6.54%) Public Sector
11 16 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (3.08%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.15%) Advertising
13 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.38%) Games
15 1 (0.38%) iGaming
15 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (26.15%) Software Engineer
2 56 (21.54%) Senior
3 47 (18.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (16.54%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (14.23%) Developer
6 32 (12.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (11.54%) Java Developer
8 28 (10.77%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (10.00%) Lead
10 24 (9.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 23 (8.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 20 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 18 (6.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 17 (6.54%) Java Engineer
15 16 (6.15%) AWS DevOps
15 16 (6.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 16 (6.15%) Java Software Engineer
15 16 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
16 13 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
17 12 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (20.77%) React
2 46 (17.69%) Kafka
2 46 (17.69%) Node.js
3 45 (17.31%) Spring
4 37 (14.23%) REST
5 36 (13.85%) Spring Boot
6 24 (9.23%) RESTful
7 22 (8.46%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (7.69%) AWS CDK
9 18 (6.92%) AngularJS
9 18 (6.92%) Web Services
10 10 (3.85%) Apache Camel
11 9 (3.46%) Hibernate
11 9 (3.46%) Mustache
12 8 (3.08%) JSON
12 8 (3.08%) Loki
12 8 (3.08%) XML
13 7 (2.69%) gRPC
13 7 (2.69%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.69%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 80 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 40 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.92%) Blog
4 17 (6.54%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.08%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.69%) Hedge funds
8 7 (2.69%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.31%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.31%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.31%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.31%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.77%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.54%) Linux
2 11 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.85%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.08%) CentOS
5 7 (2.69%) Debian
6 6 (2.31%) Windows
7 5 (1.92%) Unix
8 1 (0.38%) Android
8 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (78.85%) CI/CD
2 140 (53.85%) DevOps
3 118 (45.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (36.15%) Microservices
5 90 (34.62%) Software Engineering
6 85 (32.69%) Agile
7 72 (27.69%) Observability
8 68 (26.15%) Test Automation
9 63 (24.23%) Deployment Automation
10 61 (23.46%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (19.62%) Continuous Deployment
12 49 (18.85%) Mentoring
13 48 (18.46%) Clean Code
14 44 (16.92%) Containerisation
15 43 (16.54%) Full-Stack Development
16 38 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (14.62%) Fintech
17 36 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (13.08%) Scrum
19 31 (11.92%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 124 (47.69%) Java
2 99 (38.08%) Python
3 47 (18.08%) JavaScript
4 45 (17.31%) TypeScript
5 35 (13.46%) Bash
6 29 (11.15%) Go
7 9 (3.46%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.08%) Bicep
9 7 (2.69%) SQL
10 6 (2.31%) C#
10 6 (2.31%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.77%) C++
11 2 (0.77%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) C
12 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 52 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 32 (12.31%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.00%) Degree
5 6 (2.31%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.08%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.92%) NIST
4 5 (1.92%) QA
5 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.77%) GDPR
5 2 (0.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 65 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 186 (71.54%) Terraform
2 177 (68.08%) Kubernetes
3 97 (37.31%) Grafana
4 44 (16.92%) Ansible
5 40 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.31%) Argo
7 14 (5.38%) Kibana
8 7 (2.69%) Proxmox
9 5 (1.92%) Puppet
10 4 (1.54%) Istio
11 3 (1.15%) Rancher
12 2 (0.77%) logstash
12 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.38%) Cilium
13 1 (0.38%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (4.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.85%) Google
2 10 (3.85%) Splunk
3 7 (2.69%) Red Hat
3 7 (2.69%) VMware
4 6 (2.31%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.92%) Confluent
5 5 (1.92%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.54%) Databricks
6 4 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (1.54%) Oracle
6 4 (1.54%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.54%) Pega
6 4 (1.54%) WSO2
7 3 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.15%) IBM
7 3 (1.15%) Solace
7 3 (1.15%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow