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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 414 517
Rank change year-on-year -63 +103 -42
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 247 240 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.57% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 1.58% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 130 99 190
10th Percentile £49,875 £62,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +35.48% -3.13%
75th Percentile £103,063 £123,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £110,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £73,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year -15.25% -4.84% +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 27,632 15,168 34,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.38% 36.17% 36.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,281 11,124 26,785
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,225 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +8.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,450 £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 23 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 23 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 -47 226 £80,000 -25.58% 55
Work from Home +14 135 £70,000 -34.88% 40
London -27 122 £110,000 +2.33% 24
UK excluding London -73 109 £62,500 -15.25% 33
North of England -32 49 £65,000 -25.71% 9
South East -61 39 £62,500 - 11
Yorkshire -30 26 £65,000 -3.70% 1
North West -20 21 £65,000 -38.10% 5
Midlands -27 11 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands -17 9 £50,000 - 1
South West -47 8 £62,500 - 7
East of England -47 6 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Wales -19 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -28 2 £76,783 -7.49% 5
East Midlands -47 2 £75,000 -
North East - 2 £65,288 - 3

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 (4.86%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.45%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.64%) Apache
4 7 (2.83%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.21%) Confluence
6 2 (0.81%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) Drupal
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.40%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 234 (94.74%) AWS
2 84 (34.01%) Serverless
3 73 (29.55%) GCP
4 65 (26.32%) Amazon S3
4 65 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
5 56 (22.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (22.27%) Amazon ECS
7 44 (17.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (17.41%) SaaS
9 40 (16.19%) Azure
10 37 (14.98%) GitHub
11 36 (14.57%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (13.36%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (9.72%) Azure AKS
14 22 (8.91%) OpenShift
15 20 (8.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (6.48%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (5.26%) Route 53
18 12 (4.86%) Amazon Kinesis
19 11 (4.45%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.07%) Firewall
2 14 (5.67%) VPN
3 6 (2.43%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.02%) AMQP
5 4 (1.62%) BGP
5 4 (1.62%) VLAN
6 2 (0.81%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.17%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (12.15%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (8.91%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.48%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.86%) Flink
6 10 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (4.05%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.64%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.83%) MySQL
10 6 (2.43%) Redis
11 5 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (2.02%) Big Data
11 5 (2.02%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (2.02%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.62%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.21%) Looker
14 2 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.40%) InterSystems Cache
15 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (19.03%) TeamCity
2 42 (17.00%) Jenkins
3 40 (16.19%) GitLab
4 32 (12.96%) Git
5 8 (3.24%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.24%) JIRA
5 8 (3.24%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.83%) JUnit
7 5 (2.02%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.02%) MLflow
8 4 (1.62%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.62%) JMeter
9 3 (1.21%) Mockito
9 3 (1.21%) NUnit
10 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.40%) Gatling
10 1 (0.40%) Gradle
10 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 73 (29.55%) Finance
2 72 (29.15%) Banking
3 63 (25.51%) Retail
4 58 (23.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (22.67%) Social Skills
6 54 (21.86%) Law
7 38 (15.38%) Back Office
7 38 (15.38%) Financial Institution
8 20 (8.10%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.45%) Front Office
11 9 (3.64%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.21%) Advertising
12 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Games
14 1 (0.40%) iGaming
14 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (23.48%) Software Engineer
2 56 (22.67%) Senior
3 54 (21.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (20.24%) AWS Engineer
5 34 (13.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (12.15%) Developer
7 28 (11.34%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (10.12%) Lead
9 23 (9.31%) AWS DevOps
9 23 (9.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 22 (8.91%) Java Developer
11 20 (8.10%) Java Engineer
12 19 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 18 (7.29%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (6.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 17 (6.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 15 (6.07%) Java Software Engineer
16 14 (5.67%) Lead Software Engineer
16 14 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
17 11 (4.45%) Customer Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (19.03%) React
2 37 (14.98%) Kafka
2 37 (14.98%) Node.js
2 37 (14.98%) REST
3 32 (12.96%) Spring
4 27 (10.93%) Spring Boot
5 26 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (8.10%) RESTful
7 19 (7.69%) AWS CDK
8 18 (7.29%) Web Services
9 16 (6.48%) AngularJS
10 13 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (4.45%) JSON
12 10 (4.05%) Mustache
13 9 (3.64%) YAML
14 8 (3.24%) Loki
15 7 (2.83%) Sass
16 6 (2.43%) Apache Camel
17 5 (2.02%) Swagger
17 5 (2.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (29.15%) Cloud Native
2 40 (16.19%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (8.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.69%) Blog
5 16 (6.48%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.05%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.24%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.02%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.02%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.21%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.81%) Hedge funds
13 1 (0.40%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.40%) Equities
13 1 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.46%) Linux
2 10 (4.05%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.24%) CentOS
3 8 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.83%) Debian
5 3 (1.21%) Android
5 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.81%) Unix
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Windows
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (79.35%) CI/CD
2 142 (57.49%) DevOps
3 125 (50.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (34.41%) Microservices
5 84 (34.01%) Agile
6 78 (31.58%) Software Engineering
7 71 (28.74%) Observability
8 70 (28.34%) Deployment Automation
8 70 (28.34%) Test Automation
9 57 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
10 54 (21.86%) Continuous Deployment
11 51 (20.65%) Clean Code
12 48 (19.43%) Containerisation
13 47 (19.03%) Mentoring
14 42 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (16.60%) Fintech
16 40 (16.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 38 (15.38%) Cloud Security
18 35 (14.17%) Scrum
19 31 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 110 (44.53%) Java
2 96 (38.87%) Python
3 36 (14.57%) Go
4 35 (14.17%) JavaScript
5 32 (12.96%) TypeScript
6 27 (10.93%) Bash
7 14 (5.67%) SQL
8 6 (2.43%) Groovy
9 5 (2.02%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.62%) C#
10 4 (1.62%) Perl
10 4 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.62%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.21%) Bicep
12 2 (0.81%) Rust
13 1 (0.40%) C
13 1 (0.40%) C++
13 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (19.43%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.55%) AWS Certification
3 28 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.64%) Degree
5 6 (2.43%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.21%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.21%) OSCP
9 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) CISM
9 1 (0.40%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.40%) GIAC
9 1 (0.40%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.45%) QA
2 8 (3.24%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.83%) NIST
4 5 (2.02%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.62%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (27.94%) Docker
2 8 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 195 (78.95%) Terraform
2 189 (76.52%) Kubernetes
3 84 (34.01%) Grafana
4 56 (22.67%) Ansible
5 29 (11.74%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.29%) Argo
7 10 (4.05%) Istio
8 8 (3.24%) Kibana
8 8 (3.24%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.43%) Puppet
10 5 (2.02%) Packer
11 4 (1.62%) Rancher
12 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.40%) Consul
13 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (4.45%) Confluent
1 11 (4.45%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.05%) AppDynamics
3 9 (3.64%) Google
4 8 (3.24%) IBM
4 8 (3.24%) VMware
5 7 (2.83%) Splunk
6 6 (2.43%) Oracle
7 5 (2.02%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.02%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.62%) Databricks
8 4 (1.62%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.21%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.81%) Pega
10 2 (0.81%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.81%) WSO2
11 1 (0.40%) New Relic
11 1 (0.40%) Solace