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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 489 560
Rank change year-on-year +45 +71 -6
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 231 263 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 1.19% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 90 122 139
10th Percentile £52,500 £74,100 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £97,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £121,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.14% +51.56% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £147,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £165,000 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

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 15,733 22,057 23,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.87% 32.39% 42.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,623 13,370 19,663
10th Percentile £28,750 £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 £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +23 205 £81,250 -37.50% 155
London +42 134 £85,000 -37.04% 84
UK excluding London +47 102 £67,500 -3.57% 110
Work from Home -14 69 £70,000 -48.15% 69
South East +32 35 - - 54
North of England -5 25 £65,000 -7.14% 27
Midlands +47 17 £52,750 -24.64% 6
Yorkshire +19 15 £60,000 -18.92% 5
West Midlands +63 12 £51,500 -26.43% 6
South West +49 12 £82,500 +22.22% 13
North West -23 9 £88,750 +36.54% 21
Scotland - 6 - - 3
East Midlands +16 5 £54,000 - 1
East of England +13 5 £100,000 -
Wales - 4 £55,000 - 6
North East +13 1 - - 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 28 (12.12%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.76%) Apache
3 9 (3.90%) WebSphere
4 7 (3.03%) OpenStack
4 7 (3.03%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.60%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (2.16%) JBoss
6 5 (2.16%) nginx
6 5 (2.16%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (1.73%) Confluence
7 4 (1.73%) Traefik
8 1 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.43%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 223 (96.54%) AWS
2 97 (41.99%) Serverless
3 83 (35.93%) Amazon ECS
4 76 (32.90%) Amazon S3
5 70 (30.30%) Amazon EC2
6 60 (25.97%) AWS Lambda
7 48 (20.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 41 (17.75%) Azure
9 39 (16.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (15.58%) GitHub
10 36 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (12.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (8.23%) Amazon ELB
12 19 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (8.23%) GCP
13 18 (7.79%) Amazon SageMaker
13 18 (7.79%) Azure AKS
14 17 (7.36%) Amazon Bedrock
15 16 (6.93%) Route 53
16 15 (6.49%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.46%) DNS
1 8 (3.46%) TCP/IP
1 8 (3.46%) VPN
2 7 (3.03%) SSL
3 4 (1.73%) DHCP
3 4 (1.73%) ICMP
3 4 (1.73%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.87%) BGP
4 2 (0.87%) Firewall
4 2 (0.87%) VLAN
5 1 (0.43%) AMQP
5 1 (0.43%) Internet
5 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (22.94%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (20.35%) Relational Database
3 37 (16.02%) DynamoDB
4 31 (13.42%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (12.99%) RDBMS
6 20 (8.66%) Spark SQL
7 19 (8.23%) Delta Lake
7 19 (8.23%) Metadata
8 10 (4.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (4.33%) Big Data
8 10 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.46%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.03%) DB2
10 7 (3.03%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.60%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.73%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (1.73%) MySQL
14 3 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (38.96%) Jenkins
2 33 (14.29%) JUnit
3 31 (13.42%) Git
4 25 (10.82%) Mockito
5 23 (9.96%) JMeter
6 19 (8.23%) MLflow
7 18 (7.79%) GitLab
8 10 (4.33%) TeamCity
9 8 (3.46%) Selenium
10 7 (3.03%) Locust
11 5 (2.16%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.16%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.16%) JIRA
12 4 (1.73%) Spinnaker
13 3 (1.30%) IntelliJ
13 3 (1.30%) Maven
14 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.87%) JConsole
14 2 (0.87%) VisualVM
15 1 (0.43%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 80 (34.63%) Finance
2 54 (23.38%) Law
3 53 (22.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (22.51%) Social Skills
5 41 (17.75%) Banking
6 35 (15.15%) Public Sector
7 26 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (9.09%) Marketing
9 15 (6.49%) Financial Institution
10 12 (5.19%) Back Office
10 12 (5.19%) Front Office
10 12 (5.19%) Retail
11 8 (3.46%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.16%) Games
13 4 (1.73%) Automotive
14 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 58 (25.11%) Software Engineer
2 53 (22.94%) Developer
3 51 (22.08%) Senior
4 48 (20.78%) Java Developer
5 39 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (13.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 31 (13.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 27 (11.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (9.96%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (9.96%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 20 (8.66%) Lead
10 19 (8.23%) Operations Engineer
11 16 (6.93%) Python Engineer
11 16 (6.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 15 (6.49%) Python Software Engineer
13 14 (6.06%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 14 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (5.63%) Lead Software Engineer
15 12 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (25.54%) Spring
2 49 (21.21%) Spring Boot
3 43 (18.61%) REST
4 33 (14.29%) Web Services
5 32 (13.85%) Apache Camel
6 30 (12.99%) Kafka
7 27 (11.69%) Hibernate
8 25 (10.82%) ActiveMQ
8 25 (10.82%) HTML
8 25 (10.82%) RESTful
9 24 (10.39%) jQuery
9 24 (10.39%) PySpark
10 23 (9.96%) PyTorch
10 23 (9.96%) TensorFlow
10 23 (9.96%) WireMock
11 22 (9.52%) JSON
11 22 (9.52%) Lambda Expressions
12 21 (9.09%) Node.js
12 21 (9.09%) React
12 21 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.54%) Cloud Native
2 49 (21.21%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (10.82%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (9.96%) Management Information System
5 16 (6.93%) Public Cloud
6 11 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (4.33%) Algorithms
7 10 (4.33%) Hedge funds
8 9 (3.90%) Reference Data
9 6 (2.60%) AI Agents
10 5 (2.16%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.73%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (1.73%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (19.05%) Linux
2 29 (12.55%) Unix
3 17 (7.36%) Windows
4 9 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.87%) CentOS
5 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Debian
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (68.40%) CI/CD
2 109 (47.19%) DevOps
3 91 (39.39%) Agile
4 83 (35.93%) Software Engineering
5 79 (34.20%) Microservices
6 73 (31.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 68 (29.44%) Containerisation
8 60 (25.97%) Machine Learning
9 57 (24.68%) AI
10 54 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (18.18%) SDLC
12 39 (16.88%) Full-Stack Development
13 38 (16.45%) Data Science
13 38 (16.45%) TDD
14 34 (14.72%) BDD
14 34 (14.72%) Deployment Automation
15 31 (13.42%) Test Automation
15 31 (13.42%) Workflow
16 30 (12.99%) Scrum
17 28 (12.12%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 140 (60.61%) Python
2 94 (40.69%) Java
3 45 (19.48%) JavaScript
4 40 (17.32%) Bash
5 31 (13.42%) SQL
6 25 (10.82%) Go
7 23 (9.96%) PowerShell
7 23 (9.96%) Shell Script
8 17 (7.36%) TypeScript
9 13 (5.63%) Bicep
10 9 (3.90%) Lua
11 4 (1.73%) C#
11 4 (1.73%) Rust
12 3 (1.30%) C++
12 3 (1.30%) Scala
13 2 (0.87%) C
13 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.87%) PHP
14 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.85%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.49%) Degree
5 10 (4.33%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.43%) MCSA
11 1 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.76%) SLA
2 9 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.60%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.16%) GDPR
4 5 (2.16%) QA
4 5 (2.16%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) CDISC
6 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.43%) DICOM
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) HL7
6 1 (0.43%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 102 (44.16%) Docker
2 4 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) vCloud
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 156 (67.53%) Kubernetes
2 121 (52.38%) Terraform
3 45 (19.48%) Grafana
4 43 (18.61%) Ansible
5 31 (13.42%) Kibana
6 30 (12.99%) Prometheus
7 19 (8.23%) Kubeflow
8 9 (3.90%) Argo
9 5 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.73%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.73%) Rancher
10 4 (1.73%) vRealize
11 2 (0.87%) logstash
12 1 (0.43%) Cilium
12 1 (0.43%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (12.55%) Splunk
2 26 (11.26%) Databricks
3 24 (10.39%) Dynatrace
4 11 (4.76%) IBM
5 9 (3.90%) MKS
5 9 (3.90%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.46%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.60%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.16%) VMware
9 4 (1.73%) Google
9 4 (1.73%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.73%) Oracle
9 4 (1.73%) Pega
9 4 (1.73%) WSO2
10 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.30%) Solace
10 3 (1.30%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.43%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow