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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 408 516
Rank change year-on-year -45 +108 -46
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 260 240 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.57% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.59% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 133 100 187
10th Percentile £50,000 £62,375 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £74,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -3.13%
75th Percentile £103,250 £123,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.07% -6.45% +19.23%

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 27,607 15,119 34,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.47% 36.14% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 14,229 11,102 26,651
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -50 239 £80,000 -25.58% 64
Work from Home +6 145 £75,000 -30.23% 41
London -18 133 £110,000 +2.33% 28
UK excluding London -79 112 £63,750 -12.07% 43
North of England -31 50 £65,000 -25.71% 11
South East -67 41 £62,500 - 11
Yorkshire -35 27 £65,288 -3.28% 1
North West -25 21 £65,000 -38.10% 6
Midlands -24 11 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands -19 9 £50,000 - 1
South West -54 8 £62,500 - 9
East of England -44 6 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Wales -26 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -27 2 £76,783 -7.49% 6
North East -37 2 £65,288 -6.73% 4
East Midlands -55 2 £75,000 -

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 12 (4.62%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.46%) Apache
4 7 (2.69%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.15%) Confluence
6 2 (0.77%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) Drupal
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 247 (95.00%) AWS
2 86 (33.08%) Serverless
3 80 (30.77%) GCP
4 66 (25.38%) Amazon S3
4 66 (25.38%) AWS Lambda
5 57 (21.92%) Amazon ECS
5 57 (21.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 51 (19.62%) SaaS
7 44 (16.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 39 (15.00%) Azure
8 39 (15.00%) GitHub
9 38 (14.62%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (13.46%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (9.23%) Azure AKS
12 22 (8.46%) OpenShift
13 21 (8.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (5.00%) Route 53
16 10 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.77%) Firewall
1 15 (5.77%) VPN
2 7 (2.69%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.92%) AMQP
3 5 (1.92%) BGP
3 5 (1.92%) VLAN
4 2 (0.77%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (8.85%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.54%) DynamoDB
5 13 (5.00%) Flink
6 10 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.46%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.69%) MySQL
10 6 (2.31%) Redis
11 5 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.92%) Big Data
11 5 (1.92%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.92%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.92%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.15%) Looker
13 2 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (20.77%) TeamCity
2 44 (16.92%) Jenkins
3 40 (15.38%) GitLab
4 32 (12.31%) Git
5 8 (3.08%) JIRA
5 8 (3.08%) JUnit
5 8 (3.08%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.69%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.92%) JMeter
7 5 (1.92%) MLflow
8 4 (1.54%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.54%) Mockito
9 3 (1.15%) NUnit
10 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.38%) Gradle
10 1 (0.38%) Maven
10 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.38%) Vagrant
General
1 82 (31.54%) Finance
2 81 (31.15%) Banking
3 71 (27.31%) Retail
4 66 (25.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 62 (23.85%) Law
6 56 (21.54%) Social Skills
7 46 (17.69%) Back Office
7 46 (17.69%) Financial Institution
8 22 (8.46%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (4.62%) Front Office
10 9 (3.46%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.15%) Advertising
11 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.38%) Games
13 1 (0.38%) iGaming
13 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (26.15%) Software Engineer
2 59 (22.69%) Senior
3 55 (21.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 53 (20.38%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (13.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (11.92%) Developer
7 29 (11.15%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (9.62%) Lead
9 24 (9.23%) AWS DevOps
9 24 (9.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 23 (8.85%) Java Developer
10 23 (8.85%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 18 (6.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 18 (6.92%) Java Software Engineer
12 18 (6.92%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (6.54%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 17 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
15 12 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (18.85%) React
2 39 (15.00%) Kafka
3 38 (14.62%) Node.js
3 38 (14.62%) REST
4 34 (13.08%) Spring
5 29 (11.15%) Spring Boot
6 26 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
7 23 (8.85%) RESTful
8 19 (7.31%) AWS CDK
8 19 (7.31%) Web Services
9 16 (6.15%) AngularJS
10 13 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (4.62%) JSON
12 10 (3.85%) Mustache
13 9 (3.46%) YAML
14 8 (3.08%) Loki
15 7 (2.69%) Apache Camel
15 7 (2.69%) Sass
16 6 (2.31%) XML
17 5 (1.92%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 81 (31.15%) Cloud Native
2 42 (16.15%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.31%) Blog
5 18 (6.92%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.08%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.31%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.92%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.15%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.77%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.77%) Hedge funds
13 1 (0.38%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 52 (20.00%) Linux
2 9 (3.46%) Ubuntu
3 7 (2.69%) CentOS
3 7 (2.69%) Debian
3 7 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.15%) Android
4 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) Windows
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 146 (56.15%) DevOps
3 127 (48.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (36.54%) Microservices
5 89 (34.23%) Software Engineering
6 88 (33.85%) Agile
7 77 (29.62%) Deployment Automation
7 77 (29.62%) Test Automation
8 74 (28.46%) Observability
9 61 (23.46%) Continuous Deployment
10 60 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
11 58 (22.31%) Clean Code
12 49 (18.85%) Mentoring
13 48 (18.46%) Containerisation
14 43 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (16.54%) Fintech
15 41 (15.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 38 (14.62%) Cloud Security
17 35 (13.46%) Scrum
18 34 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 121 (46.54%) Java
2 100 (38.46%) Python
3 37 (14.23%) Go
4 36 (13.85%) JavaScript
5 35 (13.46%) TypeScript
6 27 (10.38%) Bash
7 14 (5.38%) SQL
8 6 (2.31%) Groovy
8 6 (2.31%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.92%) C#
10 4 (1.54%) Perl
10 4 (1.54%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.54%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.15%) Bicep
12 2 (0.77%) C++
12 2 (0.77%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) C
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.92%) AWS Certification
3 29 (11.15%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.85%) Degree
5 6 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.15%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.15%) OSCP
9 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) CCSP
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.23%) QA
2 9 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (3.46%) SOC 2
3 8 (3.08%) NIST
4 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (26.54%) Docker
2 8 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 204 (78.46%) Terraform
2 198 (76.15%) Kubernetes
3 91 (35.00%) Grafana
4 56 (21.54%) Ansible
5 29 (11.15%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.31%) Argo
7 10 (3.85%) Istio
7 10 (3.85%) Kibana
8 8 (3.08%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.31%) Puppet
10 5 (1.92%) Packer
11 4 (1.54%) Rancher
12 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.38%) Consul
13 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (4.23%) Confluent
2 10 (3.85%) AppDynamics
2 10 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.46%) Google
4 8 (3.08%) IBM
4 8 (3.08%) Splunk
4 8 (3.08%) VMware
5 6 (2.31%) Oracle
6 5 (1.92%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.92%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.54%) Databricks
7 4 (1.54%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.54%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.15%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.77%) Pega
9 2 (0.77%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.77%) WSO2
10 1 (0.38%) New Relic
10 1 (0.38%) Solace