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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 436 466
Rank change year-on-year -81 +30 +105
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 312 250 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.51% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 1.62% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 134 81 135
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 £108,750 £120,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.89% -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 26,542 15,465 23,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.51% 31.46% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,270 10,400 14,081
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,269 £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 12 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 12 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 -111 248 £66,538 -19.35% 314
Work from Home -12 137 £68,750 +1.85% 148
London -61 131 £78,750 -7.35% 215
UK excluding London -144 124 £65,576 +0.89% 129
North of England -32 44 £65,288 +0.44% 31
South East -66 34 £60,000 - 19
South West -62 23 £102,500 +24.24% 14
North West -17 17 £72,500 -12.12% 20
North East -51 17 £57,500 - 5
Midlands -50 11 £62,500 +18.48% 10
Yorkshire -44 10 £47,000 -21.67% 6
Wales -65 7 £80,000 +45.45% 3
West Midlands -45 6 £67,250 +30.58% 3
East Midlands -31 5 £62,500 +15.74% 7
Scotland +1 3 - - 30
East of England -56 2 £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 9 (2.88%) Apache
2 7 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.92%) Confluence
4 4 (1.28%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.96%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.64%) 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 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 297 (95.19%) AWS
2 112 (35.90%) Amazon ECS
3 111 (35.58%) Serverless
4 104 (33.33%) GCP
5 89 (28.53%) AWS Lambda
5 89 (28.53%) SaaS
6 82 (26.28%) Amazon S3
7 66 (21.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (17.63%) Amazon EC2
9 47 (15.06%) Azure
10 45 (14.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (12.50%) GitHub
12 37 (11.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (9.94%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (7.05%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (7.05%) Azure AKS
15 21 (6.73%) Amazon EventBridge
16 20 (6.41%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (6.09%) Amazon Bedrock
17 19 (6.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.37%) VPN
2 21 (6.73%) Network Security
3 15 (4.81%) BGP
3 15 (4.81%) Firewall
3 15 (4.81%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.56%) VLAN
5 7 (2.24%) AMQP
6 4 (1.28%) Broadband
6 4 (1.28%) DNS
6 4 (1.28%) IPv4
6 4 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.64%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (23.40%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (20.51%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (6.09%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.13%) MySQL
5 14 (4.49%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (3.53%) DynamoDB
6 11 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.21%) DocumentDB
7 10 (3.21%) Redis
8 8 (2.56%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.24%) Big Data
9 7 (2.24%) Cloudera CDH
9 7 (2.24%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.28%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.28%) Flink
13 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.64%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 98 (31.41%) TeamCity
2 49 (15.71%) Jenkins
3 41 (13.14%) Git
4 33 (10.58%) GitLab
5 12 (3.85%) JUnit
6 11 (3.53%) Mockito
7 10 (3.21%) JIRA
8 8 (2.56%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.24%) JMeter
10 4 (1.28%) Snyk
11 3 (0.96%) Maven
11 3 (0.96%) MLflow
12 2 (0.64%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.64%) Gradle
12 2 (0.64%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 125 (40.06%) Finance
2 110 (35.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 101 (32.37%) Law
4 95 (30.45%) Banking
5 91 (29.17%) Retail
6 78 (25.00%) Back Office
6 78 (25.00%) Financial Institution
7 56 (17.95%) Public Sector
8 55 (17.63%) Social Skills
9 28 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (4.17%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.53%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.96%) Marketing
14 2 (0.64%) 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 (31.41%) Software Engineer
2 93 (29.81%) Senior
3 40 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 38 (12.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (11.22%) Lead
7 32 (10.26%) Developer
8 31 (9.94%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (9.29%) Java Engineer
10 24 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
11 23 (7.37%) Java Software Engineer
12 22 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (6.73%) Software Team Leader
13 21 (6.73%) Team Leader
14 20 (6.41%) Consultant
14 20 (6.41%) Senior Consultant
14 20 (6.41%) Senior Java Engineer
15 19 (6.09%) Architect
15 19 (6.09%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 15 (4.81%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (78.85%) Terraform
2 40 (12.82%) REST
3 38 (12.18%) Spring Boot
4 32 (10.26%) Kafka
4 32 (10.26%) Spring
5 31 (9.94%) Node.js
6 27 (8.65%) AWS CDK
6 27 (8.65%) RESTful
7 25 (8.01%) React
8 17 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (5.13%) AngularJS
9 16 (5.13%) FastAPI
10 14 (4.49%) LangChain
11 13 (4.17%) LangGraph
11 13 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 12 (3.85%) Hibernate
12 12 (3.85%) OpenAPI
12 12 (3.85%) Swagger
12 12 (3.85%) Web Services
13 11 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 139 (44.55%) Cloud Native
2 53 (16.99%) Product Ownership
3 42 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (10.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (10.26%) Blog
5 32 (10.26%) Onboarding
6 21 (6.73%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (3.85%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.53%) Low-Code
10 10 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (3.21%) Security Posture
10 10 (3.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 9 (2.88%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.88%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.88%) Replication
12 8 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (2.24%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.92%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.92%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 62 (19.87%) Linux
2 11 (3.53%) Windows
2 11 (3.53%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.88%) CentOS
3 9 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (2.88%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.24%) Debian
4 7 (2.24%) Unix
5 2 (0.64%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (80.45%) CI/CD
2 163 (52.24%) DevOps
3 150 (48.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (43.27%) Microservices
4 135 (43.27%) Software Engineering
5 103 (33.01%) Test Automation
6 95 (30.45%) AI
7 92 (29.49%) Deployment Automation
8 90 (28.85%) Clean Code
9 84 (26.92%) Agile
10 81 (25.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 79 (25.32%) Mentoring
11 79 (25.32%) Observability
12 77 (24.68%) Continuous Deployment
13 72 (23.08%) Cloud Security
14 71 (22.76%) Containerisation
15 67 (21.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 63 (20.19%) Fintech
17 57 (18.27%) Disruptive Innovation
18 56 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 156 (50.00%) Java
2 151 (48.40%) Python
3 78 (25.00%) Bash
4 33 (10.58%) Go
5 32 (10.26%) JavaScript
6 29 (9.29%) SQL
6 29 (9.29%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.05%) Ruby
8 18 (5.77%) PHP
9 16 (5.13%) PowerShell
10 14 (4.49%) Perl
11 9 (2.88%) C#
11 9 (2.88%) Groovy
11 9 (2.88%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.92%) COBOL
13 4 (1.28%) C++
13 4 (1.28%) Scala
14 3 (0.96%) Bicep
15 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.42%) AWS Certification
3 41 (13.14%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 7 (2.24%) CCSP
7 7 (2.24%) CISM
7 7 (2.24%) CISSP
7 7 (2.24%) Degree
8 6 (1.92%) RHCSA
8 6 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.28%) CCNA
9 4 (1.28%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.28%) OSCP
9 4 (1.28%) RHCE
10 3 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 16 (5.13%) SOC 2
2 15 (4.81%) PCI DSS
3 10 (3.21%) QA
4 9 (2.88%) NIST
5 7 (2.24%) NCSC
6 6 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.92%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.96%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.32%) GxP
8 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 104 (33.33%) Docker
2 6 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.28%) Squid
3 4 (1.28%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.28%) vSphere
4 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 227 (72.76%) Kubernetes
2 129 (41.35%) Grafana
3 37 (11.86%) Prometheus
4 36 (11.54%) Ansible
5 13 (4.17%) Puppet
6 12 (3.85%) Rancher
7 11 (3.53%) Argo
8 10 (3.21%) Kibana
9 9 (2.88%) Packer
9 9 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.56%) Proxmox
11 7 (2.24%) Cilium
12 6 (1.92%) Progress Chef
13 4 (1.28%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.64%) Istio
14 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.32%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.32%) Opsview
Vendors
1 24 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 22 (7.05%) Google
3 15 (4.81%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.49%) Splunk
5 12 (3.85%) VMware
6 11 (3.53%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.21%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.56%) Databricks
9 7 (2.24%) Oracle
9 7 (2.24%) SaltStack
10 6 (1.92%) Confluent
11 4 (1.28%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.96%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.64%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.64%) YouTube
14 1 (0.32%) ForgeRock
14 1 (0.32%) Okta
14 1 (0.32%) Ping Identity