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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 436 466
Rank change year-on-year -90 +30 +60
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 270 256 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.60% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 134 69 168
10th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £90,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £72,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -9.55% +8.21% -0.74%

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 28,003 15,962 26,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.67% 32.18% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,457 11,075 19,356
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,124 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.73% -7.18% -1.82%

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 7 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 7 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 -92 230 £72,500 -19.44% 168
London -44 124 £90,000 -14.29% 108
UK excluding London -97 116 £65,576 -9.55% 79
Work from Home -19 106 £66,538 -4.95% 67
North of England -20 46 £65,000 -17.46% 26
South East -47 37 £62,500 +92.31% 11
North West +2 21 £72,500 -30.95% 11
South West -58 18 £100,000 +11.11% 13
Yorkshire -13 16 £65,000 -7.14% 8
North East -44 9 £54,750 - 7
Midlands -41 8 £67,500 -2.88% 5
West Midlands -35 6 £67,250 -20.88% 3
Wales -58 6 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Scotland +10 4 £76,783 +2.38% 13
East Midlands -31 2 £68,750 +27.31% 2
East of England -43 2 £76,325 - 8

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 7 (2.59%) Apache
1 7 (2.59%) Confluence
2 5 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.48%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
5 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
1 256 (94.81%) AWS
2 102 (37.78%) Amazon ECS
3 100 (37.04%) Serverless
4 83 (30.74%) Amazon S3
5 79 (29.26%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (27.78%) GCP
7 72 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 62 (22.96%) Amazon EC2
9 57 (21.11%) Azure
9 57 (21.11%) SaaS
10 37 (13.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (12.22%) GitHub
12 26 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (8.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (7.78%) Azure AKS
14 21 (7.78%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (7.04%) Amazon EventBridge
15 19 (7.04%) OpenShift
16 17 (6.30%) Amazon Bedrock
16 17 (6.30%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.19%) Network Security
2 7 (2.59%) Firewall
3 5 (1.85%) DNS
4 4 (1.48%) AMQP
4 4 (1.48%) Broadband
4 4 (1.48%) IPv4
4 4 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (1.48%) VPN
5 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (15.93%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (12.22%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (8.15%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.81%) MySQL
5 12 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.07%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.96%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.22%) Flink
9 5 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.85%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.48%) Big Data
10 4 (1.48%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.48%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.48%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.48%) Redis
11 3 (1.11%) Looker
11 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (20.74%) TeamCity
2 48 (17.78%) Jenkins
3 45 (16.67%) GitLab
4 38 (14.07%) Git
5 16 (5.93%) JIRA
6 9 (3.33%) JUnit
7 8 (2.96%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.96%) JMeter
8 7 (2.59%) Mockito
9 6 (2.22%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.85%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.48%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.48%) MLflow
11 4 (1.48%) Snyk
12 2 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.74%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.37%) Gatling
13 1 (0.37%) Gradle
13 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 93 (34.44%) Finance
2 70 (25.93%) Banking
3 62 (22.96%) Law
4 60 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (20.74%) Retail
6 51 (18.89%) Social Skills
7 47 (17.41%) Public Sector
8 43 (15.93%) Back Office
8 43 (15.93%) Financial Institution
9 22 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.70%) Aerospace
11 10 (3.70%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.74%) Games
13 2 (0.74%) Marketing
14 1 (0.37%) Advertising
14 1 (0.37%) iGaming
14 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.30%) Senior
2 66 (24.44%) Software Engineer
3 43 (15.93%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (12.96%) Developer
6 32 (11.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (11.11%) Lead
8 23 (8.52%) Consultant
9 22 (8.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (7.78%) Java Engineer
11 20 (7.41%) Architect
11 20 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (7.41%) Senior Consultant
12 19 (7.04%) Lead Software Engineer
13 16 (5.93%) Team Leader
14 15 (5.56%) Security Consultant
14 15 (5.56%) Software Team Leader
15 14 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (5.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 14 (5.19%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.44%) REST
2 30 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 29 (10.74%) React
4 28 (10.37%) AWS CDK
5 25 (9.26%) Node.js
5 25 (9.26%) Spring
6 24 (8.89%) Kafka
7 20 (7.41%) RESTful
8 19 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (6.67%) AngularJS
10 16 (5.93%) FastAPI
11 15 (5.56%) Web Services
12 13 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (4.44%) JSON
14 10 (3.70%) Apache Camel
15 9 (3.33%) LangChain
15 9 (3.33%) LangGraph
15 9 (3.33%) YAML
16 8 (2.96%) .NET
16 8 (2.96%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 97 (35.93%) Cloud Native
2 39 (14.44%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (11.85%) Product Ownership
4 31 (11.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (10.74%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.70%) Blog
7 10 (3.70%) Low-Code
7 10 (3.70%) Public Cloud
8 9 (3.33%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.96%) Algorithms
10 7 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (2.22%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.22%) Mainframe
11 6 (2.22%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.85%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.89%) Linux
2 7 (2.59%) Ubuntu
3 6 (2.22%) CentOS
3 6 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.22%) Windows
3 6 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.85%) Debian
5 3 (1.11%) Android
5 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 147 (54.44%) DevOps
3 139 (51.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (41.11%) Microservices
5 100 (37.04%) Software Engineering
6 84 (31.11%) Agile
7 74 (27.41%) Test Automation
8 70 (25.93%) AI
9 69 (25.56%) Containerisation
10 68 (25.19%) Deployment Automation
11 61 (22.59%) Cloud Security
12 57 (21.11%) Clean Code
12 57 (21.11%) Continuous Deployment
13 56 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (20.74%) Mentoring
13 56 (20.74%) Observability
14 49 (18.15%) Platform Engineering
15 48 (17.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 41 (15.19%) Migration
17 40 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 132 (48.89%) Python
2 117 (43.33%) Java
3 49 (18.15%) Bash
4 31 (11.48%) JavaScript
4 31 (11.48%) TypeScript
5 23 (8.52%) Go
6 22 (8.15%) Ruby
7 19 (7.04%) SQL
8 18 (6.67%) Perl
9 17 (6.30%) PHP
9 17 (6.30%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.33%) C#
10 9 (3.33%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.22%) COBOL
11 6 (2.22%) Groovy
12 4 (1.48%) Bicep
12 4 (1.48%) C++
12 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.41%) AWS Certification
3 27 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 25 (9.26%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.59%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.59%) OSCP
6 6 (2.22%) Degree
6 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.22%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.48%) CCNA
8 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.48%) RHCE
9 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.11%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.07%) QA
2 7 (2.59%) NCSC
3 6 (2.22%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.85%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.48%) NIST
6 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.37%) GxP
8 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (35.93%) 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
1 216 (80.00%) Terraform
2 193 (71.48%) Kubernetes
3 66 (24.44%) Grafana
4 46 (17.04%) Ansible
5 14 (5.19%) Argo
5 14 (5.19%) Packer
6 12 (4.44%) Kibana
7 11 (4.07%) Istio
7 11 (4.07%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.07%) Puppet
8 7 (2.59%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.48%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.11%) Proxmox
10 3 (1.11%) Rancher
11 1 (0.37%) Consul
11 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (5.19%) Confluent
1 14 (5.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.44%) Splunk
3 11 (4.07%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.70%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.33%) Oracle
6 8 (2.96%) Databricks
6 8 (2.96%) Google
6 8 (2.96%) IBM
6 8 (2.96%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.59%) VMware
8 4 (1.48%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.48%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.74%) NVIDIA
9 2 (0.74%) Pega
9 2 (0.74%) WSO2
10 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.37%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.37%) New Relic
10 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software