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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 485 535
Rank change year-on-year +63 +50 +2
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 234 291 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.42% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.28% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 102 141 132
10th Percentile £52,600 £70,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £97,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £112,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +60.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £165,000 £109,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

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 17,754 22,775 22,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.41% 33.13% 42.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,286 13,929 18,650
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +46 208 £82,500 -26.67% 72
London +6 134 £85,000 -37.04% 33
UK excluding London +94 98 £65,000 -7.14% 59
Work from Home +31 83 £77,500 -42.59% 45
South East +34 28 - - 18
North of England +17 28 £65,000 -9.72% 16
Midlands +68 17 £52,750 -24.64% 6
Yorkshire +24 17 £60,000 -18.92% 2
South West +33 13 £80,000 +18.52% 7
West Midlands +65 12 £51,500 -26.43% 5
North West +18 9 £82,500 - 14
East of England +35 5 £100,000 +37.93% 3
East Midlands +29 5 £54,000 - 1
Wales - 5 £54,060 - 5
Scotland - 4 - - 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 29 (12.39%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.70%) Apache
3 9 (3.85%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.99%) OpenStack
4 7 (2.99%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.56%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.71%) Confluence
6 4 (1.71%) nginx
7 3 (1.28%) Traefik
8 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.85%) JBoss
8 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.43%) CMS
9 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 224 (95.73%) AWS
2 93 (39.74%) Serverless
3 74 (31.62%) Amazon S3
4 72 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
5 61 (26.07%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (25.64%) Amazon EC2
7 52 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 43 (18.38%) Azure
9 38 (16.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 37 (15.81%) GitHub
11 36 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (10.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (10.26%) GCP
14 22 (9.40%) Azure AKS
15 20 (8.55%) SaaS
16 19 (8.12%) Amazon ELB
16 19 (8.12%) Azure DevOps
17 15 (6.41%) Amazon SageMaker
17 15 (6.41%) Route 53
18 14 (5.98%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.42%) TCP/IP
1 8 (3.42%) VPN
2 7 (2.99%) DNS
2 7 (2.99%) SSL
3 4 (1.71%) Firewall
4 3 (1.28%) BGP
4 3 (1.28%) DHCP
4 3 (1.28%) ICMP
4 3 (1.28%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.28%) VLAN
5 2 (0.85%) AMQP
6 1 (0.43%) Internet
6 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (17.95%) Relational Database
3 39 (16.67%) DynamoDB
4 29 (12.39%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (12.39%) RDBMS
5 19 (8.12%) Delta Lake
5 19 (8.12%) Metadata
5 19 (8.12%) Spark SQL
6 11 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.85%) Big Data
8 8 (3.42%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.99%) DB2
10 6 (2.56%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.56%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.14%) Flink
12 4 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.28%) Apache Ignite
13 3 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 79 (33.76%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.11%) JUnit
3 25 (10.68%) Git
4 21 (8.97%) JMeter
4 21 (8.97%) Mockito
5 19 (8.12%) MLflow
6 17 (7.26%) GitLab
7 14 (5.98%) TeamCity
8 7 (2.99%) Selenium
9 6 (2.56%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.56%) Locust
10 5 (2.14%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.14%) JIRA
11 3 (1.28%) Spinnaker
12 2 (0.85%) JConsole
12 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.85%) VisualVM
13 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.43%) Karma Test Runner
13 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 82 (35.04%) Finance
2 56 (23.93%) Social Skills
3 52 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (21.37%) Law
5 46 (19.66%) Banking
6 30 (12.82%) Public Sector
7 26 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (8.55%) Financial Institution
9 18 (7.69%) Front Office
10 17 (7.26%) Back Office
10 17 (7.26%) Retail
11 16 (6.84%) Marketing
12 7 (2.99%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.14%) Games
14 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.85%) Automotive
14 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (24.79%) Software Engineer
2 50 (21.37%) Developer
3 48 (20.51%) Senior
4 44 (18.80%) Java Developer
5 43 (18.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (14.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (14.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 30 (12.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (10.68%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (9.83%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 20 (8.55%) Lead
12 19 (8.12%) Operations Engineer
13 17 (7.26%) Python Engineer
14 15 (6.41%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 15 (6.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 14 (5.98%) Senior Software Engineer
16 12 (5.13%) Python Software Engineer
17 11 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
17 11 (4.70%) Senior DevOps
17 11 (4.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (24.36%) Spring
2 45 (19.23%) Spring Boot
3 42 (17.95%) REST
4 39 (16.67%) Kafka
5 30 (12.82%) Node.js
6 28 (11.97%) Web Services
7 27 (11.54%) Apache Camel
8 25 (10.68%) Hibernate
8 25 (10.68%) React
9 23 (9.83%) HTML
10 22 (9.40%) jQuery
10 22 (9.40%) JSON
10 22 (9.40%) Lambda Expressions
10 22 (9.40%) PySpark
10 22 (9.40%) PyTorch
10 22 (9.40%) RESTful
10 22 (9.40%) TensorFlow
11 21 (8.97%) ActiveMQ
11 21 (8.97%) AngularJS
11 21 (8.97%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 58 (24.79%) Cloud Native
2 49 (20.94%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (10.68%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (8.55%) Management Information System
5 15 (6.41%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.70%) Hedge funds
8 10 (4.27%) Algorithms
8 10 (4.27%) Reference Data
9 6 (2.56%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.14%) AI Agents
10 5 (2.14%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.71%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.28%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.28%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.28%) Mobile Banking
13 2 (0.85%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.80%) Linux
2 31 (13.25%) Unix
3 16 (6.84%) Windows
4 11 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.71%) CentOS
5 4 (1.71%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.85%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (68.38%) CI/CD
2 109 (46.58%) DevOps
3 90 (38.46%) Agile
4 81 (34.62%) Microservices
5 77 (32.91%) Software Engineering
6 73 (31.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 68 (29.06%) Containerisation
8 53 (22.65%) Machine Learning
9 51 (21.79%) AI
9 51 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (18.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (15.81%) Deployment Automation
12 36 (15.38%) SDLC
13 35 (14.96%) Data Science
13 35 (14.96%) Test Automation
14 33 (14.10%) TDD
15 30 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (12.39%) BDD
16 29 (12.39%) Scrum
16 29 (12.39%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 132 (56.41%) Python
2 99 (42.31%) Java
3 47 (20.09%) JavaScript
4 36 (15.38%) Bash
5 28 (11.97%) SQL
6 24 (10.26%) Go
7 21 (8.97%) Shell Script
8 20 (8.55%) PowerShell
8 20 (8.55%) TypeScript
9 13 (5.56%) Bicep
10 7 (2.99%) Lua
11 4 (1.71%) C#
12 3 (1.28%) C
12 3 (1.28%) Rust
12 3 (1.28%) Scala
13 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.43%) C++
14 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.43%) PHP
14 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (22.65%) Security Cleared
2 33 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.39%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.98%) Degree
5 10 (4.27%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.43%) MCSA
10 1 (0.43%) MCSE
10 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.42%) SLA
3 7 (2.99%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.56%) SOC 2
5 5 (2.14%) GDPR
6 3 (1.28%) QA
7 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.85%) NIST
8 1 (0.43%) CDISC
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.43%) DICOM
8 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.43%) HL7
8 1 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 95 (40.60%) Docker
2 4 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) vCloud
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 158 (67.52%) Kubernetes
2 127 (54.27%) Terraform
3 51 (21.79%) Grafana
4 41 (17.52%) Ansible
5 29 (12.39%) Kibana
5 29 (12.39%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.12%) Kubeflow
7 14 (5.98%) Argo
8 4 (1.71%) Rancher
8 4 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.71%) vRealize
9 3 (1.28%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.85%) logstash
10 2 (0.85%) Puppet
11 1 (0.43%) Cilium
11 1 (0.43%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 27 (11.54%) Splunk
2 25 (10.68%) Databricks
3 22 (9.40%) Dynatrace
4 9 (3.85%) IBM
4 9 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.99%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.99%) MKS
5 7 (2.99%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.14%) Google
6 5 (2.14%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.14%) VMware
7 4 (1.71%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.71%) Oracle
7 4 (1.71%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.71%) Pega
7 4 (1.71%) WSO2
8 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.28%) Solace
8 3 (1.28%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.85%) SaltStack