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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 437 515
Rank change year-on-year -60 +78 -3
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 253 229 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.52% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.53% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 123 91 180
10th Percentile £48,750 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.05% +31.25% -7.25%
75th Percentile £97,500 £120,000 £101,563
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -3.23% +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 26,802 15,010 34,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.12% 34.07% 35.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,126 10,547 26,688
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 19 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 15 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 19 May 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 -50 230 £74,750 -28.81% 83
Work from Home +26 130 £70,000 -34.88% 52
London -31 120 £105,000 -2.33% 38
UK excluding London -69 113 £63,750 -15.00% 49
North of England +1 46 £65,000 -25.71% 13
South East -37 45 £62,500 +92.31% 9
Yorkshire -29 24 £65,000 -5.45% 2
North West +11 21 £65,288 -37.82% 7
Midlands -19 13 £50,000 - 5
West Midlands -9 11 £50,000 - 5
South West -49 11 £62,500 - 16
East of England -27 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Scotland -9 2 £76,783 -7.49% 3
East Midlands -25 2 £75,000 -
North East - 1 £65,576 - 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 13 (5.14%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.56%) Apache
2 9 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Qpid
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) Drupal
5 1 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 243 (96.05%) AWS
2 83 (32.81%) Serverless
3 80 (31.62%) GCP
4 67 (26.48%) Amazon S3
5 62 (24.51%) Amazon ECS
6 58 (22.92%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (20.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 47 (18.58%) Amazon EC2
8 47 (18.58%) SaaS
9 44 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (16.60%) Azure
11 35 (13.83%) GitHub
12 31 (12.25%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (9.09%) OpenShift
14 22 (8.70%) Azure AKS
15 21 (8.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (6.72%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (5.53%) Route 53
18 12 (4.74%) AWS Fargate
19 11 (4.35%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.53%) Firewall
2 13 (5.14%) VPN
3 5 (1.98%) AMQP
3 5 (1.98%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.19%) BGP
4 3 (1.19%) DNS
4 3 (1.19%) VLAN
5 2 (0.79%) IPv4
5 2 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.21%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.86%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (10.67%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.14%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.56%) Flink
6 9 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.56%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.77%) MySQL
9 6 (2.37%) Redis
10 5 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.98%) Big Data
10 5 (1.98%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.98%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.98%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.19%) Looker
12 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 53 (20.95%) TeamCity
2 52 (20.55%) Jenkins
3 42 (16.60%) GitLab
4 36 (14.23%) Git
5 11 (4.35%) JUnit
6 10 (3.95%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.95%) JIRA
7 8 (3.16%) JMeter
8 7 (2.77%) Mockito
8 7 (2.77%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.98%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.98%) MLflow
10 4 (1.58%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.19%) NUnit
12 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.40%) Gatling
13 1 (0.40%) Gradle
13 1 (0.40%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (30.83%) Finance
2 74 (29.25%) Banking
3 68 (26.88%) Retail
4 61 (24.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (23.32%) Law
6 55 (21.74%) Social Skills
7 41 (16.21%) Back Office
7 41 (16.21%) Financial Institution
8 24 (9.49%) Public Sector
9 13 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.35%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.37%) Front Office
12 4 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.19%) Advertising
13 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.40%) Games
15 1 (0.40%) iGaming
15 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (24.51%) Software Engineer
2 55 (21.74%) Senior
3 48 (18.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (17.79%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (13.44%) Developer
6 28 (11.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (11.07%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (9.49%) Java Engineer
8 23 (9.09%) Java Developer
9 22 (8.70%) Lead
10 19 (7.51%) AWS DevOps
10 19 (7.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (7.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 17 (6.72%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 17 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (6.32%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 16 (6.32%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (6.32%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (6.32%) Senior DevOps
14 13 (5.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (19.37%) React
2 39 (15.42%) REST
3 34 (13.44%) Spring
4 32 (12.65%) Kafka
5 31 (12.25%) Node.js
5 31 (12.25%) Spring Boot
6 26 (10.28%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (8.30%) Web Services
8 20 (7.91%) AWS CDK
8 20 (7.91%) RESTful
9 17 (6.72%) AngularJS
10 14 (5.53%) JSON
11 13 (5.14%) Mustache
11 13 (5.14%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (3.95%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.56%) Hibernate
13 9 (3.56%) YAML
14 7 (2.77%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (2.77%) jQuery
14 7 (2.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (31.62%) Cloud Native
2 38 (15.02%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (9.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.30%) Blog
5 19 (7.51%) Product Ownership
6 12 (4.74%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.56%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.77%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.98%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.79%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
14 1 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 1 (0.40%) Hedge funds
14 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 56 (22.13%) Linux
2 10 (3.95%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.16%) CentOS
3 8 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.77%) Debian
5 3 (1.19%) Android
5 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.19%) Windows
5 3 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (81.03%) CI/CD
2 140 (55.34%) DevOps
3 122 (48.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (36.76%) Microservices
5 84 (33.20%) Agile
6 83 (32.81%) Software Engineering
7 77 (30.43%) Deployment Automation
8 74 (29.25%) Test Automation
9 66 (26.09%) Observability
10 60 (23.72%) Continuous Deployment
11 57 (22.53%) Clean Code
12 56 (22.13%) Platform Engineering
13 49 (19.37%) Containerisation
14 47 (18.58%) Mentoring
15 45 (17.79%) Fintech
16 43 (17.00%) Cloud Security
16 43 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (15.81%) Scrum
17 40 (15.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 31 (12.25%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (45.85%) Java
2 103 (40.71%) Python
3 41 (16.21%) JavaScript
4 35 (13.83%) Go
5 34 (13.44%) TypeScript
6 31 (12.25%) Bash
7 13 (5.14%) SQL
8 10 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.56%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.37%) Groovy
11 5 (1.98%) Bicep
12 4 (1.58%) C#
12 4 (1.58%) Perl
12 4 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.79%) PHP
13 2 (0.79%) Rust
14 1 (0.40%) C++
Qualifications
1 48 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.02%) AWS Certification
3 28 (11.07%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.56%) Degree
5 6 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.37%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.98%) OSCP
7 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.19%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.79%) CCNA
9 2 (0.79%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.79%) RHCE
9 2 (0.79%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.40%) CISM
10 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.95%) QA
2 7 (2.77%) NIST
2 7 (2.77%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (30.04%) Docker
2 9 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.98%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.79%) Squid
4 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 198 (78.26%) Terraform
2 196 (77.47%) Kubernetes
3 86 (33.99%) Grafana
4 57 (22.53%) Ansible
5 26 (10.28%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.74%) Kibana
7 11 (4.35%) Argo
8 10 (3.95%) Istio
9 8 (3.16%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.77%) Packer
11 6 (2.37%) Puppet
12 5 (1.98%) Rancher
13 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.79%) ZABBIX
15 1 (0.40%) Consul
15 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.35%) Confluent
2 11 (4.35%) Splunk
3 10 (3.95%) AppDynamics
3 10 (3.95%) VMware
4 9 (3.56%) Google
5 8 (3.16%) IBM
5 8 (3.16%) Oracle
6 7 (2.77%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.77%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.37%) Databricks
8 5 (1.98%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.19%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.79%) Pega
10 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.79%) WSO2
11 1 (0.40%) Mercator
11 1 (0.40%) New Relic
11 1 (0.40%) TOWER Software