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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 436 437
Rank change year-on-year -92 +1 +89
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 287 252 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.60% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 147 73 162
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,000 £86,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £82,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -23.26% +34.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £126,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +3.70%

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 27,740 15,737 24,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.55% 31.68% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,793 10,656 16,102
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -115 236 £67,500 -20.59% 164
UK excluding London -116 131 £65,000 -13.33% 99
London -83 113 £82,500 -10.81% 100
Work from Home -27 111 £65,576 -2.85% 100
North of England -12 57 £65,000 -10.34% 20
South East -43 37 £70,000 - 20
North West +4 24 £67,500 -28.00% 9
South West -72 20 £100,000 +11.11% 11
Yorkshire -35 17 £65,000 - 6
North East -44 16 £57,500 - 5
Midlands -50 11 £62,500 +15.74% 5
West Midlands -33 6 £67,250 -1.47% 3
Wales -73 6 £80,000 +45.45% 1
East Midlands -25 5 £62,500 +15.74% 2
Scotland +4 4 £58,565 - 23
East of England -47 1 £72,500 -27.50% 15

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 8 (2.79%) Apache
2 6 (2.09%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.09%) Confluence
3 4 (1.39%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.35%) Drupal
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.09%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 268 (93.38%) AWS
2 112 (39.02%) Amazon ECS
3 109 (37.98%) Serverless
4 88 (30.66%) AWS Lambda
5 86 (29.97%) Amazon S3
6 78 (27.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 73 (25.44%) GCP
8 65 (22.65%) Amazon EC2
9 61 (21.25%) SaaS
10 59 (20.56%) Azure
11 43 (14.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (12.20%) GitHub
13 28 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (8.71%) Azure AKS
14 25 (8.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (6.97%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (6.62%) Amazon EventBridge
16 19 (6.62%) OpenShift
17 18 (6.27%) Amazon Bedrock
17 18 (6.27%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.88%) Network Security
2 8 (2.79%) Firewall
3 7 (2.44%) VPN
4 6 (2.09%) AMQP
5 4 (1.39%) Broadband
5 4 (1.39%) DNS
5 4 (1.39%) IPv4
5 4 (1.39%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.98%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (6.97%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.57%) MySQL
5 12 (4.18%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.83%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.79%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.09%) Big Data
9 6 (2.09%) Cloudera CDH
9 6 (2.09%) DocumentDB
9 6 (2.09%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.74%) Redis
11 4 (1.39%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.05%) Flink
12 3 (1.05%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 58 (20.21%) TeamCity
2 52 (18.12%) Jenkins
3 44 (15.33%) Git
4 43 (14.98%) GitLab
5 15 (5.23%) JIRA
6 10 (3.48%) JUnit
7 9 (3.14%) Mockito
8 8 (2.79%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.79%) JMeter
9 7 (2.44%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.09%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.74%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.39%) MLflow
12 4 (1.39%) Snyk
13 3 (1.05%) Maven
14 2 (0.70%) Gradle
14 2 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.70%) Terragrunt
15 1 (0.35%) Gatling
15 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 98 (34.15%) Finance
2 70 (24.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 70 (24.39%) Law
3 69 (24.04%) Banking
4 60 (20.91%) Retail
5 58 (20.21%) Public Sector
6 48 (16.72%) Social Skills
7 47 (16.38%) Back Office
7 47 (16.38%) Financial Institution
8 27 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (4.18%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.83%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.05%) Marketing
13 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.70%) Games
13 2 (0.70%) iGaming
14 1 (0.35%) Advertising
14 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (28.22%) Senior
2 76 (26.48%) Software Engineer
3 47 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (15.68%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (12.89%) Developer
6 36 (12.54%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (10.45%) Lead
8 23 (8.01%) Senior Software Engineer
9 22 (7.67%) Java Engineer
10 21 (7.32%) Consultant
11 20 (6.97%) Lead Software Engineer
11 20 (6.97%) Senior Consultant
12 19 (6.62%) Architect
13 17 (5.92%) Software Team Leader
13 17 (5.92%) Team Leader
14 16 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (5.23%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (5.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 15 (5.23%) Security Consultant
16 14 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (76.66%) Terraform
2 46 (16.03%) REST
3 36 (12.54%) Spring Boot
4 31 (10.80%) Spring
5 28 (9.76%) AWS CDK
6 27 (9.41%) Node.js
7 26 (9.06%) Kafka
7 26 (9.06%) React
8 21 (7.32%) AngularJS
8 21 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (6.97%) RESTful
10 18 (6.27%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (5.92%) FastAPI
12 15 (5.23%) Web Services
13 13 (4.53%) LangChain
13 13 (4.53%) LangGraph
14 12 (4.18%) JSON
15 11 (3.83%) Hibernate
16 10 (3.48%) Apache Camel
16 10 (3.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 105 (36.59%) Cloud Native
2 41 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 39 (13.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (12.89%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (10.80%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.36%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (4.53%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (4.53%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.83%) Low-Code
9 9 (3.14%) Blog
9 9 (3.14%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.44%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.09%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.09%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.09%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.74%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.74%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (22.65%) Linux
2 12 (4.18%) Windows
2 12 (4.18%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.79%) CentOS
3 8 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.79%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.44%) Unix
5 6 (2.09%) Debian
6 2 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.70%) Android
6 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (73.52%) CI/CD
2 164 (57.14%) DevOps
3 151 (52.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (40.77%) Microservices
5 114 (39.72%) Software Engineering
6 92 (32.06%) Agile
7 83 (28.92%) AI
8 79 (27.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 78 (27.18%) Test Automation
10 77 (26.83%) Containerisation
10 77 (26.83%) Deployment Automation
11 71 (24.74%) Cloud Security
12 67 (23.34%) Mentoring
12 67 (23.34%) Observability
13 65 (22.65%) Clean Code
14 61 (21.25%) Continuous Deployment
15 59 (20.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 48 (16.72%) Migration
17 47 (16.38%) Platform Engineering
18 45 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 139 (48.43%) Python
2 121 (42.16%) Java
3 59 (20.56%) Bash
4 30 (10.45%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.06%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.01%) Go
7 22 (7.67%) Ruby
8 19 (6.62%) PHP
9 18 (6.27%) Perl
9 18 (6.27%) SQL
10 16 (5.57%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.14%) C#
11 9 (3.14%) Groovy
11 9 (3.14%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.09%) COBOL
13 5 (1.74%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.39%) C++
14 4 (1.39%) Scala
15 3 (1.05%) Bicep
16 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 76 (26.48%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.03%) AWS Certification
3 36 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.44%) Degree
5 7 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.09%) OSCP
6 6 (2.09%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.09%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.39%) CCNA
8 4 (1.39%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.39%) RHCE
9 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.70%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.53%) QA
2 8 (2.79%) NCSC
3 6 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.09%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.39%) NIST
4 4 (1.39%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) GxP
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 105 (36.59%) Docker
2 8 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.39%) Squid
3 4 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.39%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.39%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 205 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 79 (27.53%) Grafana
3 51 (17.77%) Ansible
4 21 (7.32%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.88%) Kibana
5 14 (4.88%) Packer
6 13 (4.53%) Puppet
7 12 (4.18%) Argo
8 8 (2.79%) Istio
9 7 (2.44%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.09%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.09%) Rancher
11 4 (1.39%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 17 (5.92%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.23%) Dynatrace
3 14 (4.88%) Splunk
4 11 (3.83%) AppDynamics
4 11 (3.83%) Oracle
5 10 (3.48%) Confluent
5 10 (3.48%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.48%) VMware
6 8 (2.79%) Databricks
6 8 (2.79%) IBM
7 7 (2.44%) Google
8 6 (2.09%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.39%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.05%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.70%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.70%) Pega
11 2 (0.70%) WSO2
12 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software