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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 452 442
Rank change year-on-year -77 -10 +83
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 270 249 393
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 1.56% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 139 66 168
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £83,750 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% -20.24% +31.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £125,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -12.57% +7.91% +2.96%

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 27,850 15,969 26,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.92% 31.96% 31.68%
Number of salaries quoted 18,492 11,011 18,724
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,083
25th Percentile £44,222 £40,000 £43,500
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 £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 18 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 18 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 -79 228 £70,000 -17.65% 50
UK excluding London -99 121 £65,576 -12.57% 36
London -55 116 £90,000 -5.26% 27
Work from Home -18 102 £65,576 -2.85% 23
North of England -2 51 £65,000 -17.46% 14
South East -50 35 £70,000 +115.38% 10
North West +12 21 £66,538 -36.63% 6
South West -59 20 £100,000 +11.11% 4
Yorkshire -19 17 £65,000 -7.14% 3
North East -48 13 £52,250 - 5
Midlands -40 8 £62,500 -10.07% 1
West Midlands -27 6 £67,250 -20.88%
Wales -60 6 £80,000 +45.45%
Scotland -4 5 £76,783 -19.18% 7
East Midlands -27 2 £62,500 +15.74% 1
East of England -46 1 £72,500 -

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 (2.96%) Apache
2 7 (2.59%) Confluence
3 5 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.48%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) Drupal
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) JBoss
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 251 (92.96%) AWS
2 106 (39.26%) Amazon ECS
3 105 (38.89%) Serverless
4 86 (31.85%) Amazon S3
5 84 (31.11%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 66 (24.44%) GCP
8 64 (23.70%) Amazon EC2
9 58 (21.48%) Azure
10 53 (19.63%) SaaS
11 40 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (11.48%) GitHub
13 25 (9.26%) Azure AKS
13 25 (9.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (7.78%) OpenShift
16 20 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (7.04%) Amazon Bedrock
17 19 (7.04%) Amazon EventBridge
18 17 (6.30%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.19%) Network Security
2 5 (1.85%) AMQP
2 5 (1.85%) Firewall
3 4 (1.48%) Broadband
3 4 (1.48%) DNS
3 4 (1.48%) IPv4
3 4 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (1.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (13.70%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.19%) MySQL
5 12 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.07%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.70%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.96%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.85%) Big Data
9 5 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.85%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.85%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.48%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.48%) Flink
11 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (18.15%) TeamCity
2 48 (17.78%) Jenkins
3 45 (16.67%) GitLab
4 39 (14.44%) Git
5 16 (5.93%) JIRA
6 10 (3.70%) JUnit
7 8 (2.96%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.96%) JMeter
7 8 (2.96%) Mockito
8 6 (2.22%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.22%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.48%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.48%) MLflow
9 4 (1.48%) Snyk
10 2 (0.74%) Gradle
10 2 (0.74%) Maven
10 2 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.74%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 91 (33.70%) Finance
2 63 (23.33%) Banking
3 59 (21.85%) Law
4 55 (20.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 48 (17.78%) Retail
6 48 (17.78%) Social Skills
7 39 (14.44%) Back Office
7 39 (14.44%) Financial Institution
8 26 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (4.07%) Aerospace
10 11 (4.07%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.11%) Marketing
13 2 (0.74%) Games
14 1 (0.37%) Advertising
14 1 (0.37%) iGaming
14 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (27.78%) Senior
2 65 (24.07%) Software Engineer
3 43 (15.93%) AWS Engineer
3 43 (15.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (13.33%) Developer
5 35 (12.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (10.00%) Lead
7 21 (7.78%) Consultant
7 21 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (7.41%) Architect
8 20 (7.41%) Java Engineer
8 20 (7.41%) Senior Consultant
9 17 (6.30%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (5.56%) Security Consultant
11 14 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (5.19%) Senior Security Consultant
11 14 (5.19%) Software Team Leader
11 14 (5.19%) Team Leader
12 13 (4.81%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (15.19%) REST
2 32 (11.85%) Spring Boot
3 27 (10.00%) React
3 27 (10.00%) Spring
4 26 (9.63%) AWS CDK
4 26 (9.63%) Node.js
5 23 (8.52%) Kafka
6 20 (7.41%) RESTful
7 19 (7.04%) AngularJS
8 18 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (6.30%) FastAPI
10 15 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
10 15 (5.56%) Web Services
11 12 (4.44%) JSON
11 12 (4.44%) LangChain
11 12 (4.44%) LangGraph
12 10 (3.70%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.33%) Hibernate
13 9 (3.33%) YAML
14 8 (2.96%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 92 (34.07%) Cloud Native
2 38 (14.07%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (12.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (11.85%) Product Ownership
5 30 (11.11%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 15 (5.56%) Public Cloud
8 11 (4.07%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (4.07%) Low-Code
9 9 (3.33%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.59%) Blog
11 6 (2.22%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.22%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.85%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.85%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (21.11%) Linux
2 12 (4.44%) Windows
2 12 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.59%) CentOS
3 7 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.59%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.22%) Unix
5 5 (1.85%) Debian
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.74%) Android
6 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (71.48%) CI/CD
2 149 (55.19%) DevOps
3 144 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (40.37%) Microservices
5 100 (37.04%) Software Engineering
6 85 (31.48%) Agile
7 76 (28.15%) AI
8 75 (27.78%) Containerisation
9 68 (25.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (24.07%) Test Automation
11 63 (23.33%) Deployment Automation
12 61 (22.59%) Cloud Security
13 57 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 57 (21.11%) Observability
14 56 (20.74%) Mentoring
15 52 (19.26%) Clean Code
16 51 (18.89%) Continuous Deployment
17 47 (17.41%) Migration
17 47 (17.41%) Platform Engineering
18 45 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 133 (49.26%) Python
2 109 (40.37%) Java
3 51 (18.89%) Bash
4 28 (10.37%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.63%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.15%) Go
6 22 (8.15%) Ruby
7 18 (6.67%) Perl
7 18 (6.67%) PHP
7 18 (6.67%) SQL
8 16 (5.93%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.33%) C#
9 9 (3.33%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.22%) COBOL
10 6 (2.22%) Groovy
11 4 (1.48%) C++
11 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.11%) Bicep
13 2 (0.74%) Scala
14 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 68 (25.19%) Security Cleared
2 45 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 28 (10.37%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (2.22%) Degree
5 6 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.22%) OSCP
5 6 (2.22%) RHCSA
5 6 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.48%) CCNA
7 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.48%) RHCE
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.07%) QA
2 7 (2.59%) NCSC
3 6 (2.22%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.48%) NIST
5 4 (1.48%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.37%) GxP
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 98 (36.30%) Docker
2 10 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.96%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.48%) Squid
4 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.48%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 208 (77.04%) Terraform
2 186 (68.89%) Kubernetes
3 60 (22.22%) Grafana
4 47 (17.41%) Ansible
5 14 (5.19%) Packer
6 13 (4.81%) Argo
6 13 (4.81%) Kibana
7 12 (4.44%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.44%) Puppet
8 11 (4.07%) Istio
9 7 (2.59%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.48%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.11%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.11%) Rancher
12 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.81%) Splunk
3 12 (4.44%) Confluent
4 11 (4.07%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.70%) AppDynamics
5 10 (3.70%) Oracle
6 9 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.96%) Databricks
7 8 (2.96%) IBM
8 7 (2.59%) Google
8 7 (2.59%) VMware
9 5 (1.85%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.48%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.11%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.74%) Pega
12 2 (0.74%) WSO2
13 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
13 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.37%) Solace
13 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software