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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 472 529
Rank change year-on-year +36 +57 +11
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 228 301 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.37% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 103 150 125
10th Percentile £51,700 £70,450 £55,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £97,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £112,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +60.71% -11.11%
75th Percentile £97,500 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £165,000 £93,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +14.29%

All Cloud 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 17,974 21,901 21,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.72% 34.54% 42.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,290 13,338 17,877
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,382 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +1.41% -2.95%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% -3.00%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 +36 200 £81,750 -27.33% 83
London -3 122 £85,000 -37.04% 36
UK excluding London +95 100 £65,000 -7.14% 61
Work from Home +18 86 £77,500 -42.59% 42
North of England +26 32 £65,000 -9.72% 19
South East +27 29 - - 22
Yorkshire +18 19 £60,000 -18.92% 6
Midlands +58 17 £52,750 -24.64% 8
West Midlands +55 12 £51,500 -26.43% 7
South West +23 12 £81,250 +20.37% 6
North West +17 11 £82,500 - 13
East of England +29 6 £100,000 +37.93% 2
East Midlands +17 5 £54,000 - 1
Wales - 5 £54,060 - 2
Scotland +25 3 - -
North East +17 2 £65,000 -7.14%

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 27 (11.84%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.39%) Apache
3 9 (3.95%) OpenStack
3 9 (3.95%) WebSphere
4 7 (3.07%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.63%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.75%) Confluence
7 3 (1.32%) nginx
8 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.88%) Traefik
9 1 (0.44%) JBoss
9 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 218 (95.61%) AWS
2 92 (40.35%) Serverless
3 73 (32.02%) Amazon S3
4 69 (30.26%) Amazon ECS
5 60 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
6 58 (25.44%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (22.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 42 (18.42%) Azure
9 41 (17.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 39 (17.11%) GitHub
11 37 (16.23%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (10.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (10.53%) GCP
14 23 (10.09%) Azure AKS
15 20 (8.77%) SaaS
16 19 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
16 19 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (6.14%) Route 53
18 12 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
19 11 (4.82%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.07%) SSL
1 7 (3.07%) TCP/IP
1 7 (3.07%) VPN
2 6 (2.63%) DNS
3 3 (1.32%) BGP
3 3 (1.32%) Firewall
3 3 (1.32%) VLAN
4 2 (0.88%) AMQP
4 2 (0.88%) DHCP
4 2 (0.88%) ICMP
4 2 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.44%) Internet
5 1 (0.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.93%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (18.86%) Relational Database
3 38 (16.67%) DynamoDB
4 30 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (12.72%) RDBMS
6 19 (8.33%) Delta Lake
6 19 (8.33%) Metadata
6 19 (8.33%) Spark SQL
7 11 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.51%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.07%) Big Data
9 7 (3.07%) DB2
9 7 (3.07%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.63%) Flink
10 6 (2.63%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.32%) MySQL
11 3 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (34.65%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.28%) Git
3 26 (11.40%) JUnit
4 21 (9.21%) GitLab
4 21 (9.21%) JMeter
4 21 (9.21%) Mockito
5 19 (8.33%) MLflow
6 14 (6.14%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.19%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.19%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.19%) JIRA
8 4 (1.75%) Selenium
9 3 (1.32%) Locust
10 2 (0.88%) JConsole
10 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.88%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.88%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.44%) Protractor
11 1 (0.44%) Snyk
11 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 72 (31.58%) Finance
2 57 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 43 (18.86%) Banking
4 42 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (17.54%) Law
6 30 (13.16%) Public Sector
7 24 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (8.77%) Financial Institution
9 19 (8.33%) Front Office
10 17 (7.46%) Back Office
10 17 (7.46%) Retail
11 10 (4.39%) Marketing
12 6 (2.63%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.19%) Games
14 3 (1.32%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (22.37%) Developer
1 51 (22.37%) Software Engineer
2 45 (19.74%) Java Developer
3 42 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (18.42%) Senior
4 37 (16.23%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (15.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 27 (11.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (10.96%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (10.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 19 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
10 17 (7.46%) Lead
11 15 (6.58%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 13 (5.70%) Python Engineer
13 12 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 12 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
14 11 (4.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (4.39%) Kafka Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (25.88%) Spring
2 47 (20.61%) Spring Boot
3 44 (19.30%) REST
4 41 (17.98%) Kafka
5 34 (14.91%) Node.js
6 28 (12.28%) Web Services
7 27 (11.84%) React
8 26 (11.40%) Apache Camel
9 25 (10.96%) Hibernate
10 23 (10.09%) HTML
11 22 (9.65%) AngularJS
11 22 (9.65%) jQuery
11 22 (9.65%) JSON
11 22 (9.65%) Lambda Expressions
12 21 (9.21%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (9.21%) PySpark
12 21 (9.21%) PyTorch
12 21 (9.21%) TensorFlow
12 21 (9.21%) WireMock
12 21 (9.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.81%) Cloud Native
2 50 (21.93%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (10.96%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (7.89%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.70%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (4.39%) Hedge funds
6 10 (4.39%) Reference Data
7 9 (3.95%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.63%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.88%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.74%) Linux
2 31 (13.60%) Unix
3 15 (6.58%) Windows
4 11 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.75%) CentOS
5 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.88%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (70.61%) CI/CD
2 107 (46.93%) DevOps
3 90 (39.47%) Agile
4 82 (35.96%) Microservices
5 71 (31.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 69 (30.26%) Software Engineering
7 65 (28.51%) Containerisation
8 46 (20.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (19.74%) AI
9 45 (19.74%) Machine Learning
9 45 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (17.11%) Deployment Automation
11 34 (14.91%) SDLC
11 34 (14.91%) TDD
12 32 (14.04%) Data Science
12 32 (14.04%) Test Automation
13 31 (13.60%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (13.16%) Scrum
14 30 (13.16%) Workflow
15 28 (12.28%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 129 (56.58%) Python
2 101 (44.30%) Java
3 50 (21.93%) JavaScript
4 36 (15.79%) Bash
5 28 (12.28%) SQL
6 21 (9.21%) Go
6 21 (9.21%) Shell Script
6 21 (9.21%) TypeScript
7 20 (8.77%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.70%) Bicep
9 5 (2.19%) Lua
10 4 (1.75%) C#
11 3 (1.32%) C
11 3 (1.32%) Scala
12 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.88%) Rust
13 1 (0.44%) C++
13 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.28%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.14%) Degree
5 10 (4.39%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.44%) MCP
10 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.07%) SLA
3 6 (2.63%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.63%) SOC 2
4 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.19%) GDPR
5 3 (1.32%) NIST
5 3 (1.32%) QA
6 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) CDISC
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.44%) DICOM
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 91 (39.91%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.44%) vCloud
3 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 153 (67.11%) Kubernetes
2 125 (54.82%) Terraform
3 51 (22.37%) Grafana
4 41 (17.98%) Ansible
5 30 (13.16%) Prometheus
6 29 (12.72%) Kibana
7 19 (8.33%) Kubeflow
8 15 (6.58%) Argo
9 5 (2.19%) Rancher
10 4 (1.75%) vRealize
11 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.88%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.88%) logstash
12 2 (0.88%) Puppet
13 1 (0.44%) Cilium
13 1 (0.44%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 26 (11.40%) Splunk
2 22 (9.65%) Databricks
2 22 (9.65%) Dynatrace
3 9 (3.95%) IBM
3 9 (3.95%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.95%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.19%) Google
4 5 (2.19%) MKS
4 5 (2.19%) MuleSoft
4 5 (2.19%) VMware
5 4 (1.75%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.75%) PagerDuty
5 4 (1.75%) Pega
5 4 (1.75%) WSO2
6 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.32%) Oracle
6 3 (1.32%) Solace
6 3 (1.32%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.88%) SaltStack