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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 444 460
Rank change year-on-year -84 +16 +55
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 264 257 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.61% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 132 70 167
10th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £60,937 £63,750 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -19.05% +31.25%
75th Percentile £90,625 £114,375 £142,500
90th Percentile £116,125 £127,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -12.57% +11.94% -0.74%

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 27,829 15,967 26,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.25% 32.07% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 18,416 11,057 19,133
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £42,500
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 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -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 12 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 12 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 -90 223 £73,500 -18.33% 273
London -65 122 £90,000 -14.29% 196
UK excluding London -120 112 £65,576 -12.57% 108
Work from Home -27 99 £67,500 -3.57% 122
North of England -23 44 £65,288 -17.09% 30
South East -55 36 £62,500 +92.31% 14
North West -9 20 £72,500 -30.95% 12
South West -56 18 £100,000 +11.11% 14
Yorkshire -18 15 £65,000 -7.14% 9
North East -47 9 £54,750 - 9
Midlands -28 7 £62,500 -10.07% 13
West Midlands -24 6 £67,250 -20.88% 4
Wales -53 6 £80,000 +45.45% 3
Scotland +9 5 £76,783 -19.18% 21
East Midlands -25 1 £62,500 +15.74% 9
East of England -48 1 £72,500 - 10

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 7 (2.65%) Apache
1 7 (2.65%) Confluence
2 4 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.52%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.76%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.38%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 251 (95.08%) AWS
2 102 (38.64%) Amazon ECS
2 102 (38.64%) Serverless
3 85 (32.20%) Amazon S3
4 81 (30.68%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (26.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 68 (25.76%) GCP
7 62 (23.48%) Amazon EC2
8 57 (21.59%) Azure
9 54 (20.45%) SaaS
10 37 (14.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 30 (11.36%) GitHub
12 23 (8.71%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (7.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (7.58%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (7.20%) Amazon Bedrock
15 19 (7.20%) Amazon EventBridge
15 19 (7.20%) Azure AKS
15 19 (7.20%) OpenShift
16 17 (6.44%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.30%) Network Security
2 6 (2.27%) Firewall
3 5 (1.89%) DNS
4 4 (1.52%) AMQP
4 4 (1.52%) Broadband
4 4 (1.52%) IPv4
4 4 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (1.52%) VPN
5 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.53%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.30%) MySQL
5 12 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.03%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.89%) DocumentDB
8 5 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.89%) Flink
9 4 (1.52%) Big Data
9 4 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.52%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.14%) Redis
10 3 (1.14%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.76%) Looker
Development Applications
1 50 (18.94%) TeamCity
2 48 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 45 (17.05%) GitLab
4 39 (14.77%) Git
5 16 (6.06%) JIRA
6 10 (3.79%) JUnit
7 8 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.03%) JMeter
7 8 (3.03%) Mockito
8 6 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.27%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.52%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.52%) MLflow
9 4 (1.52%) Snyk
10 2 (0.76%) Gradle
10 2 (0.76%) Maven
10 2 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.76%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.38%) Gatling
11 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 91 (34.47%) Finance
2 65 (24.62%) Banking
3 57 (21.59%) Law
4 56 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (18.94%) Retail
5 50 (18.94%) Social Skills
6 47 (17.80%) Public Sector
7 40 (15.15%) Back Office
7 40 (15.15%) Financial Institution
8 23 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (4.17%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.79%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Marketing
14 2 (0.76%) Games
15 1 (0.38%) Advertising
15 1 (0.38%) iGaming
15 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (26.52%) Senior
2 63 (23.86%) Software Engineer
3 41 (15.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (14.77%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (14.02%) Developer
6 31 (11.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (10.61%) Lead
8 23 (8.71%) Consultant
9 21 (7.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (7.58%) Architect
10 20 (7.58%) Senior Consultant
11 19 (7.20%) Java Engineer
12 18 (6.82%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.68%) Security Consultant
14 14 (5.30%) Senior Security Consultant
14 14 (5.30%) Software Team Leader
14 14 (5.30%) Team Leader
15 13 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (4.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.15%) REST
2 31 (11.74%) Spring Boot
3 28 (10.61%) AWS CDK
3 28 (10.61%) React
4 26 (9.85%) Spring
5 25 (9.47%) Node.js
6 24 (9.09%) Kafka
7 20 (7.58%) RESTful
8 18 (6.82%) AngularJS
8 18 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (6.44%) FastAPI
10 15 (5.68%) Web Services
11 14 (5.30%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.55%) JSON
12 12 (4.55%) LangChain
12 12 (4.55%) LangGraph
13 10 (3.79%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.41%) Hibernate
14 9 (3.41%) YAML
15 8 (3.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 92 (34.85%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.77%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (11.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (11.74%) Product Ownership
4 30 (11.36%) Onboarding
5 24 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (4.17%) Low-Code
7 10 (3.79%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.41%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.03%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.65%) Blog
10 7 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (2.27%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.27%) Mainframe
11 6 (2.27%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.89%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (18.94%) Linux
2 6 (2.27%) CentOS
2 6 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.27%) Ubuntu
2 6 (2.27%) Windows
2 6 (2.27%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.52%) Debian
4 3 (1.14%) Android
4 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (71.97%) CI/CD
2 144 (54.55%) DevOps
3 137 (51.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 108 (40.91%) Microservices
5 99 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 83 (31.44%) Agile
7 73 (27.65%) AI
8 67 (25.38%) Containerisation
9 66 (25.00%) Test Automation
10 62 (23.48%) Deployment Automation
11 59 (22.35%) Cloud Security
12 56 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (21.21%) Observability
13 52 (19.70%) Clean Code
13 52 (19.70%) Mentoring
14 51 (19.32%) Continuous Deployment
15 48 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 47 (17.80%) Platform Engineering
17 42 (15.91%) Migration
18 41 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 133 (50.38%) Python
2 112 (42.42%) Java
3 47 (17.80%) Bash
4 29 (10.98%) JavaScript
4 29 (10.98%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.71%) Go
6 22 (8.33%) Ruby
7 20 (7.58%) SQL
8 18 (6.82%) Perl
8 18 (6.82%) PHP
9 16 (6.06%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.41%) C#
10 9 (3.41%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.27%) COBOL
11 6 (2.27%) Groovy
12 4 (1.52%) C++
12 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.14%) Bicep
14 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (25.38%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.42%) AWS Certification
3 26 (9.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 26 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.65%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.65%) OSCP
5 6 (2.27%) Degree
5 6 (2.27%) RHCSA
5 6 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.52%) CCNA
7 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.52%) RHCE
8 3 (1.14%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.38%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.17%) QA
2 7 (2.65%) NCSC
3 6 (2.27%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.52%) NIST
4 4 (1.52%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.38%) GxP
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (36.36%) Docker
2 10 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.52%) Squid
4 4 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.52%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.52%) vSphere
5 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 206 (78.03%) Terraform
2 188 (71.21%) Kubernetes
3 60 (22.73%) Grafana
4 45 (17.05%) Ansible
5 14 (5.30%) Packer
6 13 (4.92%) Argo
6 13 (4.92%) Kibana
7 12 (4.55%) Prometheus
8 11 (4.17%) Istio
8 11 (4.17%) Puppet
9 7 (2.65%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.52%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.14%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.14%) Rancher
12 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.38%) Consul
13 1 (0.38%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (4.92%) Confluent
2 12 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.55%) Splunk
3 11 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.79%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.79%) Oracle
5 8 (3.03%) Databricks
5 8 (3.03%) IBM
5 8 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.65%) Google
6 7 (2.65%) VMware
7 4 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.52%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.14%) NVIDIA
9 2 (0.76%) Pega
9 2 (0.76%) WSO2
10 1 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.38%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.38%) Solace
10 1 (0.38%) TOWER Software