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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 450 460
Rank change year-on-year -65 +10 +56
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 275 247 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.50% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 1.55% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 141 65 173
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £62,900
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £121,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.55% +3.57% -

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 27,768 15,898 26,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.73% 31.90% 31.63%
Number of salaries quoted 18,489 10,916 18,536
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,241 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 August 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 August 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 -95 230 £70,000 -16.42% 160
UK excluding London -96 121 £65,576 -9.55% 74
London -61 118 £90,000 - 111
Work from Home -21 106 £65,576 -2.85% 76
North of England -18 52 £65,000 -13.33% 23
South East -53 34 £77,500 +138.46% 10
North West +2 21 £66,538 -36.63% 9
South West -65 20 £100,000 +11.11% 11
Yorkshire -26 17 £65,000 - 8
North East -38 14 £57,500 - 6
Midlands -46 8 £62,500 -10.07% 8
West Midlands -29 6 £67,250 -20.88% 2
Wales -54 6 £80,000 +45.45% 4
Scotland +7 5 £76,783 -19.18% 12
East Midlands -27 2 £62,500 +15.74% 6
East of England -42 1 £72,500 - 4

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 8 (2.91%) Apache
2 7 (2.55%) Confluence
3 5 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.45%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 256 (93.09%) AWS
2 106 (38.55%) Amazon ECS
2 106 (38.55%) Serverless
3 88 (32.00%) Amazon S3
4 85 (30.91%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 68 (24.73%) GCP
7 65 (23.64%) Amazon EC2
8 59 (21.45%) Azure
9 56 (20.36%) SaaS
10 41 (14.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (12.00%) GitHub
12 26 (9.45%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (9.09%) Azure AKS
13 25 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (7.64%) OpenShift
15 20 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (6.91%) Amazon Bedrock
16 19 (6.91%) Amazon EventBridge
17 18 (6.55%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.09%) Network Security
2 5 (1.82%) AMQP
2 5 (1.82%) Firewall
3 4 (1.45%) Broadband
3 4 (1.45%) DNS
3 4 (1.45%) IPv4
3 4 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (1.45%) VPN
4 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (13.82%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (7.27%) Relational Database
4 15 (5.45%) MySQL
5 12 (4.36%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.36%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.64%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.91%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.82%) Big Data
8 5 (1.82%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.82%) DocumentDB
8 5 (1.82%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.45%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.09%) Flink
10 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 52 (18.91%) TeamCity
2 49 (17.82%) Jenkins
3 46 (16.73%) GitLab
4 40 (14.55%) Git
5 16 (5.82%) JIRA
6 11 (4.00%) JUnit
7 9 (3.27%) Mockito
8 8 (2.91%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.91%) JMeter
9 7 (2.55%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.18%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.45%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.45%) MLflow
11 4 (1.45%) Snyk
12 3 (1.09%) Gradle
12 3 (1.09%) Maven
13 2 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.73%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.36%) Gatling
14 1 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 95 (34.55%) Finance
2 66 (24.00%) Banking
3 62 (22.55%) Law
4 60 (21.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 51 (18.55%) Retail
7 49 (17.82%) Social Skills
8 42 (15.27%) Back Office
8 42 (15.27%) Financial Institution
9 27 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (4.00%) Aerospace
11 11 (4.00%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.09%) Marketing
14 2 (0.73%) Games
15 1 (0.36%) Advertising
15 1 (0.36%) iGaming
15 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (28.00%) Senior
2 69 (25.09%) Software Engineer
3 43 (15.64%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (15.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (13.45%) Developer
5 35 (12.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (10.18%) Lead
7 22 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (7.64%) Consultant
8 21 (7.64%) Java Engineer
9 20 (7.27%) Architect
9 20 (7.27%) Senior Consultant
10 18 (6.55%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (5.45%) Security Consultant
12 15 (5.45%) Software Team Leader
12 15 (5.45%) Team Leader
13 14 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (5.09%) Senior Security Consultant
14 13 (4.73%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (76.73%) Terraform
2 42 (15.27%) REST
3 33 (12.00%) Spring Boot
4 28 (10.18%) Spring
5 27 (9.82%) React
6 26 (9.45%) AWS CDK
6 26 (9.45%) Node.js
7 23 (8.36%) Kafka
8 20 (7.27%) RESTful
9 19 (6.91%) AngularJS
10 18 (6.55%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (6.18%) FastAPI
12 16 (5.82%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (5.45%) Web Services
14 13 (4.73%) LangChain
14 13 (4.73%) LangGraph
15 12 (4.36%) JSON
16 10 (3.64%) Apache Camel
16 10 (3.64%) Hibernate
17 9 (3.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 95 (34.55%) Cloud Native
2 38 (13.82%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (12.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (12.36%) Product Ownership
5 31 (11.27%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.73%) Enterprise Cloud
7 15 (5.45%) Public Cloud
8 11 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (4.00%) Low-Code
9 9 (3.27%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.91%) Blog
11 7 (2.55%) Algorithms
12 6 (2.18%) Digital Wallet
12 6 (2.18%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (2.18%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.82%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.82%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (20.73%) Linux
2 12 (4.36%) Windows
2 12 (4.36%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.55%) CentOS
3 7 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.55%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.18%) Unix
5 5 (1.82%) Debian
6 2 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.73%) Android
6 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 152 (55.27%) DevOps
3 144 (52.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (40.73%) Microservices
5 105 (38.18%) Software Engineering
6 86 (31.27%) Agile
7 76 (27.64%) AI
7 76 (27.64%) Containerisation
8 70 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 67 (24.36%) Test Automation
10 66 (24.00%) Deployment Automation
11 61 (22.18%) Cloud Security
12 59 (21.45%) Observability
13 57 (20.73%) Clean Code
13 57 (20.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 57 (20.73%) Mentoring
14 55 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
15 47 (17.09%) Migration
15 47 (17.09%) Platform Engineering
16 45 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 133 (48.36%) Python
2 113 (41.09%) Java
3 51 (18.55%) Bash
4 27 (9.82%) JavaScript
5 25 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.00%) Go
6 22 (8.00%) Ruby
7 19 (6.91%) PHP
8 18 (6.55%) Perl
8 18 (6.55%) SQL
9 16 (5.82%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.27%) C#
10 9 (3.27%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.18%) COBOL
11 6 (2.18%) Groovy
12 4 (1.45%) C++
12 4 (1.45%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.45%) Scala
13 3 (1.09%) Bicep
14 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 69 (25.09%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.36%) AWS Certification
3 29 (10.55%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.55%) Degree
6 6 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.18%) OSCP
6 6 (2.18%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.45%) CCNA
8 4 (1.45%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.45%) RHCE
9 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.73%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.36%) QA
2 7 (2.55%) NCSC
3 6 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.18%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.45%) NIST
4 4 (1.45%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.73%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.36%) GxP
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 98 (35.64%) Docker
2 10 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.91%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.45%) Squid
4 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.45%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.45%) vSphere
5 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 191 (69.45%) Kubernetes
2 65 (23.64%) Grafana
3 47 (17.09%) Ansible
4 14 (5.09%) Kibana
4 14 (5.09%) Packer
5 13 (4.73%) Argo
5 13 (4.73%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.36%) Puppet
7 11 (4.00%) Istio
8 7 (2.55%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.45%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.09%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.09%) Rancher
11 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.36%) Consul
12 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (6.55%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.09%) Splunk
3 11 (4.00%) Confluent
3 11 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 11 (4.00%) Oracle
4 10 (3.64%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.27%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.91%) Databricks
6 8 (2.91%) IBM
7 7 (2.55%) VMware
8 6 (2.18%) Google
9 5 (1.82%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.45%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.09%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.73%) Pega
12 2 (0.73%) WSO2
13 1 (0.36%) CrowdStrike
13 1 (0.36%) Solace
13 1 (0.36%) TOWER Software