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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 469 552
Rank change year-on-year +24 +83 -78
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 270 182 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.15% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 140 95 174
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +35.48% -
75th Percentile £102,688 £123,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £105,000
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 24,632 15,804 32,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.21% 37.27% 37.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,133 11,051 25,991
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £80,250 £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 22 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 22 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 +44 241 £77,500 -26.19% 79
Work from Home +65 143 £80,000 -25.58% 41
London +12 141 £108,750 +1.16% 38
UK excluding London -14 110 £62,500 -13.79% 43
North of England -25 48 £65,000 -25.71% 13
South East -34 31 £62,500 - 17
Yorkshire -18 26 £63,750 -5.56% 1
North West -15 21 £65,000 -38.10% 9
Midlands -18 14 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +11 12 £50,000 - 1
South West -25 10 £62,500 - 10
East of England -8 6 £85,000 +17.24% 2
Wales -19 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -26 2 £76,783 -7.49%
East Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
North East -28 1 £65,000 -7.14% 3

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 14 (5.19%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.07%) Apache
2 11 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.59%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.85%) Confluence
5 3 (1.11%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.11%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 2 (0.74%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.37%) Drupal
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 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
1 261 (96.67%) AWS
2 93 (34.44%) Serverless
3 75 (27.78%) GCP
4 74 (27.41%) Amazon S3
5 68 (25.19%) AWS Lambda
6 65 (24.07%) Amazon ECS
7 62 (22.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 56 (20.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 48 (17.78%) GitHub
9 48 (17.78%) SaaS
10 45 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
10 45 (16.67%) Azure
11 44 (16.30%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (8.89%) Azure AKS
14 20 (7.41%) OpenShift
15 17 (6.30%) Route 53
16 16 (5.93%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (4.81%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (4.81%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.56%) VPN
2 14 (5.19%) Firewall
3 8 (2.96%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.22%) BGP
4 6 (2.22%) VLAN
5 5 (1.85%) AMQP
6 3 (1.11%) SSL
7 2 (0.74%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.41%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (14.07%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 19 (7.04%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.81%) Flink
6 11 (4.07%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.70%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.33%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.22%) MySQL
9 6 (2.22%) Redis
10 5 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.85%) Big Data
10 5 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.85%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.11%) DB2
11 3 (1.11%) Looker
11 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (18.89%) Jenkins
1 51 (18.89%) TeamCity
2 36 (13.33%) GitLab
3 32 (11.85%) Git
4 11 (4.07%) JUnit
5 8 (2.96%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.59%) JMeter
7 6 (2.22%) JIRA
7 6 (2.22%) Mockito
8 5 (1.85%) MLflow
9 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.11%) NUnit
10 3 (1.11%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.37%) Gatling
11 1 (0.37%) Gradle
11 1 (0.37%) Maven
11 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.37%) Snyk
11 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 84 (31.11%) Finance
2 79 (29.26%) Banking
3 66 (24.44%) Retail
4 62 (22.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (21.48%) Law
6 51 (18.89%) Social Skills
7 43 (15.93%) Back Office
7 43 (15.93%) Financial Institution
8 18 (6.67%) Public Sector
9 16 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (5.93%) Front Office
10 8 (2.96%) 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 70 (25.93%) Software Engineer
2 60 (22.22%) Senior
3 56 (20.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (19.26%) AWS Engineer
5 36 (13.33%) Developer
6 34 (12.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 29 (10.74%) Java Developer
7 29 (10.74%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (8.89%) AWS DevOps
8 24 (8.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 24 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (8.89%) Lead
9 23 (8.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 20 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 18 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 18 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (6.30%) Java Engineer
12 17 (6.30%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 16 (5.93%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (5.93%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (19.26%) React
2 46 (17.04%) Kafka
2 46 (17.04%) Node.js
3 42 (15.56%) Spring
4 37 (13.70%) REST
5 34 (12.59%) Spring Boot
6 24 (8.89%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (8.89%) RESTful
7 20 (7.41%) AWS CDK
8 19 (7.04%) Web Services
9 18 (6.67%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.07%) Apache Camel
11 9 (3.33%) Hibernate
11 9 (3.33%) Mustache
12 8 (2.96%) JSON
12 8 (2.96%) Loki
12 8 (2.96%) XML
13 7 (2.59%) .NET
13 7 (2.59%) Sass
14 6 (2.22%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 81 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 38 (14.07%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.67%) Blog
4 16 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.93%) Product Ownership
5 14 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.59%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.22%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.22%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.85%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.11%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.11%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 57 (21.11%) Linux
2 11 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.96%) CentOS
5 7 (2.59%) Debian
6 6 (2.22%) Windows
7 5 (1.85%) Unix
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (77.41%) CI/CD
2 148 (54.81%) DevOps
3 124 (45.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (35.56%) Microservices
5 94 (34.81%) Software Engineering
6 86 (31.85%) Agile
7 74 (27.41%) Observability
8 71 (26.30%) Test Automation
9 67 (24.81%) Deployment Automation
10 63 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
11 54 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
12 52 (19.26%) Containerisation
13 51 (18.89%) Clean Code
14 49 (18.15%) Mentoring
15 44 (16.30%) Full-Stack Development
16 40 (14.81%) Fintech
17 38 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
18 36 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 34 (12.59%) Cloud Security
19 34 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 121 (44.81%) Java
2 107 (39.63%) Python
3 47 (17.41%) JavaScript
4 43 (15.93%) TypeScript
5 36 (13.33%) Bash
6 34 (12.59%) Go
7 9 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.96%) SQL
9 7 (2.59%) Bicep
10 6 (2.22%) C#
10 6 (2.22%) Shell Script
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 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.96%) AWS Certification
3 33 (12.22%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.81%) Degree
5 7 (2.59%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) CEH
10 1 (0.37%) CISM
10 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.37%) GIAC
10 1 (0.37%) GSEC
10 1 (0.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.70%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.22%) NIST
3 6 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.85%) QA
5 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 73 (27.04%) Docker
2 8 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 201 (74.44%) Terraform
2 191 (70.74%) Kubernetes
3 99 (36.67%) Grafana
4 46 (17.04%) Ansible
5 37 (13.70%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.04%) Argo
7 13 (4.81%) Kibana
8 10 (3.70%) Istio
9 7 (2.59%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.22%) Puppet
11 3 (1.11%) Rancher
12 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) Packer
13 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (4.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.07%) Confluent
2 11 (4.07%) Splunk
3 9 (3.33%) Google
4 7 (2.59%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.59%) VMware
5 6 (2.22%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.85%) Pega
6 5 (1.85%) SaltStack
6 5 (1.85%) WSO2
7 4 (1.48%) Databricks
7 4 (1.48%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.48%) Oracle
7 4 (1.48%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.11%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.11%) IBM
8 3 (1.11%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.37%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.37%) New Relic
9 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow