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

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 505 550
Rank change year-on-year +82 +45 -9
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 246 262 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.39% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 1.20% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 103 119 139
10th Percentile £52,500 £73,700 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £97,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £130,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% +73.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £147,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £120,000 £165,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year -7.14% -8.20% +8.93%

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 16,710 21,809 23,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.60% 32.39% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11,037 13,067 19,253
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £79,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -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 10 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 10 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 +48 215 £80,000 -38.46% 152
London +29 139 £85,000 -37.04% 73
UK excluding London +92 109 £65,000 -7.14% 92
Work from Home +12 83 £69,479 -48.53% 86
South East +32 32 - - 42
North of England +5 30 £65,000 -9.72% 19
Yorkshire +31 18 £60,000 -18.92% 4
Midlands +58 16 £52,750 -24.64% 9
South West +31 14 £80,000 +18.52% 9
West Midlands +44 11 £51,500 -26.43% 7
North West -8 10 £88,750 - 14
Wales - 8 £55,000 - 5
Scotland - 6 - - 1
East of England +28 5 £100,000 - 3
East Midlands +24 5 £54,000 -
North East +7 2 £65,000 -7.14% 1

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 (11.79%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.88%) Apache
3 9 (3.66%) WebSphere
4 7 (2.85%) OpenStack
4 7 (2.85%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (2.03%) nginx
7 4 (1.63%) Confluence
7 4 (1.63%) JBoss
7 4 (1.63%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (1.63%) Traefik
8 1 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.41%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 237 (96.34%) AWS
2 102 (41.46%) Serverless
3 81 (32.93%) Amazon ECS
4 79 (32.11%) Amazon S3
5 67 (27.24%) Amazon EC2
5 67 (27.24%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (22.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (19.11%) Azure
8 41 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 36 (14.63%) GitHub
9 36 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (11.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (9.76%) GCP
12 20 (8.13%) Azure AKS
13 19 (7.72%) Amazon ELB
13 19 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (7.32%) Amazon SageMaker
14 18 (7.32%) SaaS
15 17 (6.91%) Amazon Bedrock
16 16 (6.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.66%) TCP/IP
1 9 (3.66%) VPN
2 8 (3.25%) DNS
3 7 (2.85%) SSL
4 4 (1.63%) DHCP
4 4 (1.63%) ICMP
4 4 (1.63%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.22%) BGP
5 3 (1.22%) Firewall
5 3 (1.22%) VLAN
6 2 (0.81%) AMQP
7 1 (0.41%) Internet
7 1 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (20.73%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (18.70%) Relational Database
3 41 (16.67%) DynamoDB
4 34 (13.82%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (12.20%) RDBMS
6 19 (7.72%) Delta Lake
6 19 (7.72%) Metadata
6 19 (7.72%) Spark SQL
7 11 (4.47%) Big Data
7 11 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.66%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.85%) DB2
10 7 (2.85%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.44%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (1.63%) MySQL
14 3 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 86 (34.96%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.20%) JUnit
3 29 (11.79%) Git
4 23 (9.35%) Mockito
5 22 (8.94%) JMeter
6 19 (7.72%) MLflow
7 18 (7.32%) GitLab
8 13 (5.28%) TeamCity
9 8 (3.25%) Selenium
10 7 (2.85%) Locust
11 6 (2.44%) Bitbucket
12 5 (2.03%) Cypress.io
12 5 (2.03%) JIRA
13 4 (1.63%) Spinnaker
14 2 (0.81%) IntelliJ
14 2 (0.81%) JConsole
14 2 (0.81%) Maven
14 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.81%) VisualVM
15 1 (0.41%) Ant
General
1 88 (35.77%) Finance
2 61 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 58 (23.58%) Law
3 58 (23.58%) Social Skills
4 47 (19.11%) Banking
5 32 (13.01%) Public Sector
6 28 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (8.54%) Marketing
8 19 (7.72%) Financial Institution
9 16 (6.50%) Back Office
9 16 (6.50%) Retail
10 15 (6.10%) Front Office
11 8 (3.25%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.03%) Games
13 3 (1.22%) Automotive
14 2 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (26.42%) Software Engineer
2 54 (21.95%) Developer
3 53 (21.54%) Senior
4 48 (19.51%) Java Developer
5 43 (17.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (13.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 33 (13.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 32 (13.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 27 (10.98%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (9.35%) Lead
10 23 (9.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 19 (7.72%) Operations Engineer
12 18 (7.32%) Python Engineer
13 16 (6.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 16 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (6.10%) Mid-Level Java Developer
14 15 (6.10%) Python Software Engineer
15 13 (5.28%) Lead Software Engineer
16 12 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
16 12 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (24.80%) Spring
2 49 (19.92%) Spring Boot
3 44 (17.89%) REST
4 34 (13.82%) Kafka
5 31 (12.60%) Node.js
5 31 (12.60%) Web Services
6 30 (12.20%) Apache Camel
7 26 (10.57%) Hibernate
7 26 (10.57%) RESTful
8 25 (10.16%) React
9 24 (9.76%) HTML
10 23 (9.35%) ActiveMQ
10 23 (9.35%) jQuery
10 23 (9.35%) PySpark
10 23 (9.35%) PyTorch
10 23 (9.35%) TensorFlow
11 22 (8.94%) JSON
11 22 (8.94%) Lambda Expressions
11 22 (8.94%) WireMock
12 21 (8.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (26.83%) Cloud Native
2 53 (21.54%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (10.16%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (9.35%) Management Information System
5 18 (7.32%) Public Cloud
6 13 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (4.47%) Hedge funds
8 10 (4.07%) Algorithms
8 10 (4.07%) Reference Data
9 6 (2.44%) AI Agents
9 6 (2.44%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.63%) Mobile Banking
10 4 (1.63%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.22%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (18.70%) Linux
2 30 (12.20%) Unix
3 17 (6.91%) Windows
4 11 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.63%) CentOS
5 4 (1.63%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.81%) Debian
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (68.29%) CI/CD
2 119 (48.37%) DevOps
3 100 (40.65%) Agile
4 90 (36.59%) Software Engineering
5 83 (33.74%) Microservices
6 82 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 71 (28.86%) Containerisation
8 60 (24.39%) Machine Learning
9 57 (23.17%) AI
9 57 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
11 42 (17.07%) SDLC
12 38 (15.45%) Data Science
13 37 (15.04%) Deployment Automation
14 36 (14.63%) TDD
14 36 (14.63%) Test Automation
15 32 (13.01%) BDD
15 32 (13.01%) Platform Engineering
15 32 (13.01%) Scrum
16 30 (12.20%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 142 (57.72%) Python
2 102 (41.46%) Java
3 47 (19.11%) JavaScript
4 40 (16.26%) Bash
5 30 (12.20%) SQL
6 26 (10.57%) Go
7 23 (9.35%) PowerShell
8 22 (8.94%) Shell Script
9 20 (8.13%) TypeScript
10 13 (5.28%) Bicep
11 9 (3.66%) Lua
12 4 (1.63%) C#
12 4 (1.63%) Rust
13 3 (1.22%) C
13 3 (1.22%) Scala
14 2 (0.81%) C++
14 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.81%) PHP
15 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 54 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.41%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.10%) Degree
5 10 (4.07%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.41%) MCSA
10 1 (0.41%) MCSE
10 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.07%) SLA
3 7 (2.85%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.44%) SOC 2
5 5 (2.03%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.03%) GDPR
5 5 (2.03%) QA
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.81%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) CDISC
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.41%) DICOM
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.41%) HL7
7 1 (0.41%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 101 (41.06%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) vCloud
3 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 164 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 133 (54.07%) Terraform
3 49 (19.92%) Grafana
4 44 (17.89%) Ansible
5 31 (12.60%) Prometheus
6 30 (12.20%) Kibana
7 19 (7.72%) Kubeflow
8 15 (6.10%) Argo
9 5 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.63%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.63%) Rancher
10 4 (1.63%) vRealize
11 2 (0.81%) logstash
11 2 (0.81%) Puppet
12 1 (0.41%) Cilium
12 1 (0.41%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (11.79%) Splunk
2 26 (10.57%) Databricks
3 23 (9.35%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.07%) IBM
5 9 (3.66%) MKS
5 9 (3.66%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.66%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.85%) Microsoft
7 6 (2.44%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.03%) Google
8 5 (2.03%) PagerDuty
8 5 (2.03%) VMware
9 4 (1.63%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.63%) Oracle
9 4 (1.63%) Pega
9 4 (1.63%) WSO2
10 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.22%) Solace
10 3 (1.22%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.81%) SaltStack