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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 440 546
Rank change year-on-year -49 +106 -29
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 248 251 383
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.57% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.69% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 122 76 176
10th Percentile £47,850 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £59,500 £69,063 £64,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £95,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +15.15% -2.94%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £127,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +15.38%

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 24,822 14,837 35,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.06% 33.56% 33.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,841 10,199 27,255
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 June 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 June 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 -74 225 £72,500 -30.95% 58
Work from Home +32 123 £65,576 -27.54% 49
London -34 118 £95,500 -9.05% 31
UK excluding London -57 111 £65,000 -13.33% 36
North of England -10 44 £65,288 -25.39% 9
South East -35 41 £62,500 +92.31% 11
North West +12 24 £70,000 -33.33% 6
Yorkshire -31 18 £65,000 -5.45% 3
Midlands -9 13 £50,000 - 3
South West -48 13 £61,500 -18.00% 8
West Midlands -13 11 £50,000 - 3
East of England -23 4 £85,000 -
Scotland +6 2 £76,783 -19.18% 2
East Midlands -22 2 £75,000 -
North East - 2 £64,038 -
Wales -46 1 £80,000 +72.54% 1

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 (3.23%) Apache
1 8 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.82%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.42%) Confluence
4 5 (2.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) Drupal
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Magento
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 238 (95.97%) AWS
2 82 (33.06%) Serverless
3 81 (32.66%) GCP
4 74 (29.84%) Amazon S3
5 66 (26.61%) Amazon ECS
6 63 (25.40%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (20.97%) Amazon EC2
8 49 (19.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (19.35%) SaaS
10 45 (18.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 44 (17.74%) Azure
12 32 (12.90%) GitHub
13 29 (11.69%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (9.27%) Azure AKS
15 21 (8.47%) OpenShift
16 18 (7.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
17 16 (6.45%) AWS CloudTrail
18 15 (6.05%) Route 53
19 13 (5.24%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.24%) Firewall
1 13 (5.24%) VPN
2 5 (2.02%) AMQP
2 5 (2.02%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.61%) DNS
3 4 (1.61%) IPv4
3 4 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.21%) BGP
4 3 (1.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.69%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (10.89%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.03%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.63%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.82%) MySQL
6 7 (2.82%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.82%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.42%) Flink
7 6 (2.42%) Redis
8 5 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.02%) Big Data
8 5 (2.02%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (2.02%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.21%) Looker
10 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.40%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 58 (23.39%) TeamCity
2 50 (20.16%) Jenkins
3 41 (16.53%) GitLab
4 31 (12.50%) Git
5 11 (4.44%) JIRA
6 9 (3.63%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.63%) JUnit
7 8 (3.23%) JMeter
8 7 (2.82%) Mockito
8 7 (2.82%) SonarQube
9 5 (2.02%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.02%) MLflow
10 4 (1.61%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.21%) NUnit
12 2 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.81%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.40%) Gatling
13 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.40%) Snyk
13 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 78 (31.45%) Finance
2 74 (29.84%) Banking
3 69 (27.82%) Retail
4 63 (25.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (24.19%) Law
6 49 (19.76%) Social Skills
7 42 (16.94%) Back Office
7 42 (16.94%) Financial Institution
8 24 (9.68%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.44%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.21%) Advertising
14 2 (0.81%) Front Office
14 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.40%) Games
15 1 (0.40%) iGaming
15 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (23.79%) Software Engineer
2 57 (22.98%) Senior
3 45 (18.15%) AWS Engineer
4 41 (16.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (12.50%) Developer
5 31 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (9.68%) Java Engineer
8 21 (8.47%) Lead
9 19 (7.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 17 (6.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 17 (6.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 17 (6.85%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (6.45%) Java Developer
11 16 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
11 16 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
12 15 (6.05%) AWS DevOps
12 15 (6.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 15 (6.05%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (5.65%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.53%) React
2 36 (14.52%) REST
3 29 (11.69%) Spring
4 27 (10.89%) Spring Boot
5 25 (10.08%) Kafka
6 24 (9.68%) Node.js
7 21 (8.47%) AWS CDK
8 18 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (7.26%) RESTful
9 17 (6.85%) AngularJS
10 16 (6.45%) Web Services
11 13 (5.24%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (4.84%) JSON
13 10 (4.03%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.63%) YAML
15 8 (3.23%) Hibernate
16 7 (2.82%) ActiveMQ
16 7 (2.82%) HTML
16 7 (2.82%) jQuery
16 7 (2.82%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 87 (35.08%) Cloud Native
2 34 (13.71%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (11.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.47%) Blog
4 21 (8.47%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.44%) Public Cloud
6 10 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.63%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.82%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.02%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.81%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.40%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 55 (22.18%) Linux
2 10 (4.03%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.23%) CentOS
3 8 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.82%) Debian
5 5 (2.02%) Windows
5 5 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.21%) Android
6 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (81.05%) CI/CD
2 134 (54.03%) DevOps
3 127 (51.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (35.89%) Microservices
5 83 (33.47%) Software Engineering
6 76 (30.65%) Agile
7 74 (29.84%) Deployment Automation
7 74 (29.84%) Test Automation
8 63 (25.40%) Observability
9 60 (24.19%) Continuous Deployment
10 59 (23.79%) Clean Code
11 52 (20.97%) Containerisation
11 52 (20.97%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (18.95%) Mentoring
13 46 (18.55%) Fintech
14 43 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (16.94%) Cloud Security
16 35 (14.11%) Scrum
17 33 (13.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 31 (12.50%) AI
Programming Languages
1 109 (43.95%) Java
2 103 (41.53%) Python
3 34 (13.71%) Bash
3 34 (13.71%) JavaScript
3 34 (13.71%) TypeScript
4 31 (12.50%) Go
5 17 (6.85%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.84%) SQL
7 9 (3.63%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.42%) Bicep
8 6 (2.42%) Groovy
9 4 (1.61%) C#
9 4 (1.61%) Perl
9 4 (1.61%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.81%) PHP
10 2 (0.81%) Rust
11 1 (0.40%) C++
11 1 (0.40%) COBOL
11 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.73%) AWS Certification
3 26 (10.48%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.82%) OSCP
6 6 (2.42%) Degree
6 6 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.61%) CCNA
8 4 (1.61%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.61%) RHCE
8 4 (1.61%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.21%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.40%) CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) CISM
10 1 (0.40%) CISSP
10 1 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.44%) QA
2 7 (2.82%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.42%) NIST
4 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.21%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (29.84%) Docker
2 10 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.61%) Squid
4 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.61%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 203 (81.85%) Terraform
2 189 (76.21%) Kubernetes
3 82 (33.06%) Grafana
4 52 (20.97%) Ansible
5 22 (8.87%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.24%) Argo
6 13 (5.24%) Packer
7 11 (4.44%) Kibana
8 10 (4.03%) Istio
9 8 (3.23%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.42%) Puppet
11 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.61%) Rancher
11 4 (1.61%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.40%) Consul
12 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.24%) Splunk
3 12 (4.84%) Confluent
3 12 (4.84%) VMware
4 10 (4.03%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.63%) Google
5 9 (3.63%) Oracle
5 9 (3.63%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.23%) IBM
7 6 (2.42%) Databricks
8 5 (2.02%) SaltStack
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%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.40%) New Relic
11 1 (0.40%) Solace