Amazon EKS Jobs

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 507 543
Rank change year-on-year +25 +36 +2
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 249 462 433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.41% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.25% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 77 197 256
10th Percentile £55,500 £57,200 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £85,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -1.45% +15.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £142,500 £138,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.14%

All Cloud 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 15,683 36,893 39,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.96% 33.11% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,381 27,549 26,775
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £63,650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -9.66% +1.84%
75th Percentile £81,703 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,200 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +4.76%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon EKS.

Salary trend for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the UK

Amazon EKS
Top 15 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 19 June 2025. 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 +42 230 £105,000 +23.53% 1,029
London +52 145 £105,000 +5.00% 398
UK excluding London +48 123 £75,000 - 697
Work from Home +33 112 £90,000 -5.26% 581
South East +80 60 £32,500 -60.61% 145
North of England +12 19 £87,500 +45.83% 203
East of England +49 15 - - 93
North West -25 15 £105,000 +75.00% 109
Scotland +52 12 £95,000 +104.30% 50
South West +85 10 £75,000 +15.38% 77
Midlands +90 5 - - 102
West Midlands +74 4 - - 56
Yorkshire +62 4 £68,750 - 80
Wales +42 4 £46,367 - 19
East Midlands +41 1 - - 46

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.43%) Apache
2 13 (5.22%) JBoss
2 13 (5.22%) Red Hat Fuse
3 11 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (4.02%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.01%) nginx
6 4 (1.61%) Confluence
6 4 (1.61%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.61%) Traefik
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 242 (97.19%) AWS
2 91 (36.55%) Serverless
3 90 (36.14%) Amazon ECS
4 86 (34.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 81 (32.53%) Azure
6 72 (28.92%) Amazon EC2
7 56 (22.49%) Amazon S3
7 56 (22.49%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (10.44%) GCP
9 20 (8.03%) Datadog
10 17 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (6.02%) Amazon Bedrock
11 15 (6.02%) Amazon SageMaker
12 14 (5.62%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (5.22%) GitHub
14 12 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (4.42%) Dagster
15 11 (4.42%) dbt
15 11 (4.42%) Snowflake
16 10 (4.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.01%) VPN
2 4 (1.61%) DHCP
2 4 (1.61%) DNS
2 4 (1.61%) ICMP
2 4 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
2 4 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.80%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (20.48%) Elasticsearch
1 51 (20.48%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (14.86%) Relational Database
3 19 (7.63%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (7.23%) DynamoDB
5 17 (6.83%) RDBMS
6 16 (6.43%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (6.02%) Data Lake
8 14 (5.62%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (5.22%) MySQL
10 11 (4.42%) Apache Arrow
10 11 (4.42%) Apache Iceberg
10 11 (4.42%) Apache Ignite
10 11 (4.42%) Dremio
11 8 (3.21%) Big Data
11 8 (3.21%) MongoDB
11 8 (3.21%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.01%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
14 3 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (29.72%) Jenkins
2 45 (18.07%) JUnit
3 38 (15.26%) Git
4 30 (12.05%) GitLab
5 29 (11.65%) Mockito
6 17 (6.83%) JMeter
7 15 (6.02%) Cucumber
8 14 (5.62%) Maven
9 13 (5.22%) IntelliJ
10 10 (4.02%) Bitbucket
11 8 (3.21%) Selenium
12 7 (2.81%) JIRA
12 7 (2.81%) Locust
13 4 (1.61%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.61%) Spinnaker
14 3 (1.20%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.80%) CircleCI
16 1 (0.40%) Protractor
16 1 (0.40%) TestRail
16 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 92 (36.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 91 (36.55%) Finance
3 64 (25.70%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (18.47%) Banking
5 40 (16.06%) Law
6 32 (12.85%) Public Sector
7 27 (10.84%) Social Skills
8 21 (8.43%) Investment Banking
8 21 (8.43%) Marketing
9 11 (4.42%) Front Office
10 4 (1.61%) Automotive
11 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Games
13 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Electronics
13 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (40.56%) Developer
2 58 (23.29%) Senior
3 55 (22.09%) Software Engineer
4 49 (19.68%) Java Developer
4 49 (19.68%) Software Developer
5 45 (18.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 38 (15.26%) AWS Engineer
7 32 (12.85%) AWS DevOps
8 30 (12.05%) Senior DevOps
9 28 (11.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 24 (9.64%) Lead
11 18 (7.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (7.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 18 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (6.02%) Python Engineer
12 15 (6.02%) Python Software Engineer
13 14 (5.62%) Java Engineer
13 14 (5.62%) Java Software Engineer
14 13 (5.22%) Lead Software Engineer
14 13 (5.22%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (24.90%) Node.js
1 62 (24.90%) Spring
2 60 (24.10%) Pandas
3 58 (23.29%) .NET
3 58 (23.29%) Spring Boot
4 44 (17.67%) REST
5 35 (14.06%) Web Services
6 32 (12.85%) Kafka
7 30 (12.05%) Apache Camel
8 29 (11.65%) ActiveMQ
9 22 (8.84%) RESTful
10 19 (7.63%) Hibernate
11 18 (7.23%) HTML
11 18 (7.23%) jQuery
12 17 (6.83%) J2EE
12 17 (6.83%) WireMock
13 16 (6.43%) PySpark
14 14 (5.62%) React
15 13 (5.22%) JMS
15 13 (5.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.68%) Cyberattack
2 45 (18.07%) Cloud Native
3 44 (17.67%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (8.03%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.82%) Credit Derivative
5 12 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.82%) Hedge funds
5 12 (4.82%) Public Cloud
6 11 (4.42%) Derivative
6 11 (4.42%) Equities
6 11 (4.42%) Fixed Income
6 11 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (3.21%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.61%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.61%) Mobile Banking
10 3 (1.20%) BBC
10 3 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.20%) Wiki
11 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 78 (31.33%) Linux
2 49 (19.68%) Android
3 5 (2.01%) Windows
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (67.87%) CI/CD
2 160 (64.26%) Agile
3 137 (55.02%) Software Engineering
4 122 (49.00%) DevOps
5 99 (39.76%) Containerisation
6 82 (32.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 73 (29.32%) Microservices
8 71 (28.51%) Kanban
9 60 (24.10%) Collaborative Working
10 52 (20.88%) Mathematics
11 50 (20.08%) Statistics
12 49 (19.68%) Android Development
12 49 (19.68%) Design Patterns
12 49 (19.68%) Line Management
12 49 (19.68%) OO
12 49 (19.68%) OOP
12 49 (19.68%) OWASP
12 49 (19.68%) Secure Coding
13 39 (15.66%) SDLC
13 39 (15.66%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 156 (62.65%) Python
2 145 (58.23%) Java
3 91 (36.55%) JavaScript
4 71 (28.51%) Go
5 61 (24.50%) C++
6 54 (21.69%) Rust
7 25 (10.04%) Bash
8 22 (8.84%) Shell Script
9 20 (8.03%) TypeScript
10 18 (7.23%) SQL
11 9 (3.61%) Lua
12 4 (1.61%) Groovy
13 3 (1.20%) Perl
13 3 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.20%) Ruby
14 2 (0.80%) C#
14 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 84 (33.73%) Security Cleared
2 52 (20.88%) DV Cleared
3 26 (10.44%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.02%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.02%) Degree
6 6 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.40%) MCSA
8 1 (0.40%) MCSE
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.22%) SLA
2 10 (4.02%) QA
3 5 (2.01%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) SEPA
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 145 (58.23%) Docker
2 6 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 186 (74.70%) Kubernetes
2 147 (59.04%) Terraform
3 103 (41.37%) Ansible
4 28 (11.24%) Grafana
5 23 (9.24%) Prometheus
6 19 (7.63%) Kibana
7 14 (5.62%) Argo
8 7 (2.81%) Istio
9 5 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.61%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.61%) Packer
11 2 (0.80%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.40%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.40%) Consul
12 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.40%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.40%) logstash
12 1 (0.40%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (9.24%) Splunk
2 19 (7.63%) Dynatrace
3 15 (6.02%) IBM
4 9 (3.61%) MKS
4 9 (3.61%) MuleSoft
5 7 (2.81%) Databricks
6 6 (2.41%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.41%) Confluent
7 4 (1.61%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.61%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle
8 2 (0.80%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.40%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.40%) Imperva
9 1 (0.40%) Okta
9 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.40%) Sawtooth Software