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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 439 466
Rank change year-on-year -69 +27 +88
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 316 242 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 1.57% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 136 81 134
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -30.23% +34.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £110,625 £120,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.89% -3.70% -1.82%

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 26,638 15,454 22,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.51% 31.50% 32.09%
Number of salaries quoted 18,339 10,402 13,888
10th Percentile £31,470 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,497 £37,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -106 250 £67,500 -18.18% 322
Work from Home -4 140 £70,000 +3.70% 146
London -47 133 £80,000 -5.88% 220
UK excluding London -148 124 £65,576 +0.89% 134
North of England -40 44 £65,288 +0.44% 32
South East -58 34 £60,000 - 18
South West -63 23 £102,500 +24.24% 14
North West -22 17 £72,500 -12.12% 20
North East -53 17 £57,500 - 5
Midlands -57 11 £62,500 +18.48% 10
Yorkshire -37 10 £47,000 -21.67% 7
Wales -69 7 £80,000 +45.45% 4
West Midlands -45 6 £67,250 +30.58% 3
East Midlands -32 5 £62,500 +15.74% 7
Scotland +1 3 - - 32
East of England -54 2 £72,500 -27.50% 17

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 9 (2.85%) Apache
2 7 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.90%) Confluence
4 4 (1.27%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.95%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.63%) Camunda
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 301 (95.25%) AWS
2 113 (35.76%) Amazon ECS
3 111 (35.13%) Serverless
4 106 (33.54%) GCP
5 91 (28.80%) SaaS
6 89 (28.16%) AWS Lambda
7 83 (26.27%) Amazon S3
8 66 (20.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 55 (17.41%) Amazon EC2
10 47 (14.87%) Azure
11 45 (14.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (12.66%) GitHub
13 39 (12.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (6.96%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (6.96%) Azure AKS
16 21 (6.65%) Amazon EventBridge
16 21 (6.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 20 (6.33%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (6.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.91%) VPN
2 22 (6.96%) Network Security
3 17 (5.38%) BGP
3 17 (5.38%) TCP/IP
4 16 (5.06%) Firewall
5 9 (2.85%) VLAN
6 7 (2.22%) AMQP
7 4 (1.27%) Broadband
7 4 (1.27%) DNS
7 4 (1.27%) IPv4
7 4 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.63%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (23.73%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (20.89%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (6.01%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.06%) MySQL
5 14 (4.43%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.16%) DocumentDB
7 10 (3.16%) Redis
8 8 (2.53%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.22%) Big Data
9 7 (2.22%) Cloudera CDH
9 7 (2.22%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.27%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.27%) Flink
13 2 (0.63%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.63%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 100 (31.65%) TeamCity
2 49 (15.51%) Jenkins
3 41 (12.97%) Git
4 33 (10.44%) GitLab
5 12 (3.80%) JUnit
6 11 (3.48%) Mockito
7 10 (3.16%) JIRA
8 8 (2.53%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.22%) JMeter
10 4 (1.27%) Snyk
11 3 (0.95%) Maven
11 3 (0.95%) MLflow
12 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.63%) Gradle
12 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 127 (40.19%) Finance
2 111 (35.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 102 (32.28%) Law
4 96 (30.38%) Banking
5 92 (29.11%) Retail
6 80 (25.32%) Back Office
6 80 (25.32%) Financial Institution
7 57 (18.04%) Public Sector
8 56 (17.72%) Social Skills
9 28 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (4.11%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.48%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.95%) Marketing
14 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.32%) Advertising
15 1 (0.32%) Games
15 1 (0.32%) iGaming
15 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (31.01%) Software Engineer
2 96 (30.38%) Senior
3 40 (12.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (12.34%) AWS Engineer
4 39 (12.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (11.08%) Lead
6 32 (10.13%) Developer
7 31 (9.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (9.18%) Java Engineer
9 24 (7.59%) Lead Software Engineer
10 23 (7.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (7.28%) Java Software Engineer
11 21 (6.65%) Software Team Leader
11 21 (6.65%) Team Leader
12 20 (6.33%) Consultant
12 20 (6.33%) Senior Consultant
12 20 (6.33%) Senior Java Engineer
13 19 (6.01%) Architect
13 19 (6.01%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 17 (5.38%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (78.80%) Terraform
2 40 (12.66%) REST
3 38 (12.03%) Spring Boot
4 32 (10.13%) Kafka
4 32 (10.13%) Spring
5 31 (9.81%) Node.js
6 28 (8.86%) AWS CDK
6 28 (8.86%) RESTful
7 25 (7.91%) React
8 17 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (5.06%) AngularJS
9 16 (5.06%) FastAPI
10 14 (4.43%) LangChain
10 14 (4.43%) OpenTelemetry
11 13 (4.11%) LangGraph
12 12 (3.80%) Hibernate
12 12 (3.80%) OpenAPI
12 12 (3.80%) Swagger
12 12 (3.80%) Web Services
13 11 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 141 (44.62%) Cloud Native
2 53 (16.77%) Product Ownership
3 44 (13.92%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (10.76%) Blog
4 34 (10.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (10.13%) Onboarding
6 21 (6.65%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (3.80%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.48%) Low-Code
9 11 (3.48%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (3.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 9 (2.85%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.85%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.85%) Replication
12 8 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (2.53%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.90%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (1.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 62 (19.62%) Linux
2 11 (3.48%) Windows
2 11 (3.48%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.85%) CentOS
3 9 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.85%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.22%) Debian
4 7 (2.22%) Unix
5 2 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (80.70%) CI/CD
2 164 (51.90%) DevOps
3 153 (48.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 136 (43.04%) Microservices
5 135 (42.72%) Software Engineering
6 103 (32.59%) Test Automation
7 95 (30.06%) AI
8 92 (29.11%) Deployment Automation
9 91 (28.80%) Clean Code
10 84 (26.58%) Agile
11 83 (26.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (25.95%) Observability
13 80 (25.32%) Mentoring
14 77 (24.37%) Continuous Deployment
15 74 (23.42%) Cloud Security
16 72 (22.78%) Containerisation
17 69 (21.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 65 (20.57%) Fintech
19 59 (18.67%) Disruptive Innovation
20 57 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 158 (50.00%) Java
2 155 (49.05%) Python
3 80 (25.32%) Bash
4 35 (11.08%) Go
5 32 (10.13%) JavaScript
6 31 (9.81%) SQL
7 30 (9.49%) TypeScript
8 22 (6.96%) Ruby
9 18 (5.70%) PHP
10 16 (5.06%) PowerShell
11 14 (4.43%) Perl
12 9 (2.85%) C#
12 9 (2.85%) Groovy
12 9 (2.85%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.90%) COBOL
14 4 (1.27%) C++
14 4 (1.27%) Scala
15 3 (0.95%) Bicep
16 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.56%) AWS Certification
3 42 (13.29%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 8 (2.53%) CCSP
6 8 (2.53%) CISM
6 8 (2.53%) CISSP
6 8 (2.53%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.22%) Degree
8 6 (1.90%) RHCSA
8 6 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.27%) CCNA
9 4 (1.27%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.27%) OSCP
9 4 (1.27%) RHCE
10 3 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 18 (5.70%) SOC 2
2 17 (5.38%) PCI DSS
3 10 (3.16%) NIST
3 10 (3.16%) QA
4 7 (2.22%) NCSC
5 6 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.90%) Government Security Classifications
6 3 (0.95%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.32%) GxP
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 105 (33.23%) Docker
2 6 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.27%) Squid
3 4 (1.27%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.27%) vSphere
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 230 (72.78%) Kubernetes
2 133 (42.09%) Grafana
3 39 (12.34%) Prometheus
4 36 (11.39%) Ansible
5 13 (4.11%) Puppet
6 12 (3.80%) Argo
6 12 (3.80%) Rancher
7 10 (3.16%) Kibana
7 10 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.85%) Packer
9 8 (2.53%) Cilium
9 8 (2.53%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.90%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.27%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.63%) Istio
12 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.32%) Opsview
Vendors
1 24 (7.59%) Dynatrace
1 24 (7.59%) Google
2 15 (4.75%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.43%) Splunk
4 12 (3.80%) VMware
5 11 (3.48%) Red Hat
6 10 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.53%) Databricks
8 7 (2.22%) Oracle
8 7 (2.22%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.90%) Confluent
10 4 (1.27%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.95%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.95%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.63%) YouTube
13 1 (0.32%) ForgeRock
13 1 (0.32%) Okta
13 1 (0.32%) Ping Identity