Amazon EKS Job Trends

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 490 502
Rank change year-on-year +53 +12 -4
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 202 225 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.98% 1.14% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 113 88 120
10th Percentile £50,150 £67,125 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £84,063 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +43.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £128,000 - £99,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -12.50% +14.29%

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 20,518 19,807 21,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 36.05% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,206 11,679 17,619
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,813 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,000
90th Percentile £98,375 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 2 January 2026.

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 2 January 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 +20 176 £80,000 -25.58% 58
London +20 105 £100,000 -6.98% 23
Work from Home +74 97 £81,000 -24.65% 34
UK excluding London +21 83 £61,250 -12.50% 43
North of England +6 33 £65,000 -9.72% 12
South East 0 24 £75,000 +15.38% 13
Yorkshire +8 22 £61,250 -9.26% 3
Midlands +24 13 £50,750 -27.50% 8
West Midlands +34 12 £50,000 -28.57% 8
North West +7 10 £80,000 -8.57% 9
South West +17 8 £62,500 - 4
East of England +32 6 £85,000 +17.24% 2
Wales - 4 £54,060 - 4
North East +7 1 £65,000 -7.14%
East Midlands -21 1 £54,000 -

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 15 (7.43%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.46%) Apache
2 9 (4.46%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.47%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.97%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.48%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.98%) Confluence
7 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.50%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 193 (95.54%) AWS
2 92 (45.54%) Serverless
3 60 (29.70%) Amazon ECS
3 60 (29.70%) AWS Lambda
4 56 (27.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 54 (26.73%) Amazon S3
6 47 (23.27%) Amazon EC2
7 42 (20.79%) GitHub
8 41 (20.30%) Azure
9 40 (19.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 39 (19.31%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (13.37%) GCP
12 26 (12.87%) Azure AKS
13 25 (12.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (10.40%) SaaS
15 20 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (6.93%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (6.44%) OpenShift
18 12 (5.94%) Amazon Kinesis
18 12 (5.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) SSL
2 5 (2.48%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.48%) VPN
3 3 (1.49%) AMQP
3 3 (1.49%) BGP
3 3 (1.49%) DNS
3 3 (1.49%) VLAN
4 2 (0.99%) Firewall
5 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (23.27%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (19.80%) Relational Database
3 34 (16.83%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (10.89%) RDBMS
5 19 (9.41%) DynamoDB
6 11 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.95%) Flink
8 8 (3.96%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.47%) DB2
9 7 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (3.47%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.97%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.98%) Big Data
13 3 (1.49%) Apache Ignite
13 3 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
13 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.49%) MySQL
14 2 (0.99%) Redis
15 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 72 (35.64%) Jenkins
2 34 (16.83%) Git
3 24 (11.88%) GitLab
4 18 (8.91%) JUnit
5 17 (8.42%) TeamCity
6 14 (6.93%) JMeter
6 14 (6.93%) Mockito
7 7 (3.47%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.48%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.48%) JIRA
9 3 (1.49%) MLflow
10 2 (0.99%) JConsole
10 2 (0.99%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.99%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.50%) NUnit
11 1 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 58 (28.71%) Finance
2 40 (19.80%) Social Skills
3 39 (19.31%) Banking
4 24 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (11.39%) Front Office
6 22 (10.89%) Law
7 21 (10.40%) Financial Institution
7 21 (10.40%) Public Sector
7 21 (10.40%) Retail
8 20 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (8.91%) Back Office
10 6 (2.97%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.98%) Games
12 2 (0.99%) Advertising
12 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (23.27%) Developer
2 44 (21.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (21.29%) Java Developer
4 37 (18.32%) Senior
4 37 (18.32%) Software Engineer
5 34 (16.83%) Full-Stack Developer
6 33 (16.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 31 (15.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (13.37%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (7.43%) Lead
10 13 (6.44%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (6.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (6.44%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.94%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 12 (5.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.95%) Angular Developer
12 10 (4.95%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 10 (4.95%) Kafka Developer
12 10 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (4.46%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (27.72%) Spring
2 46 (22.77%) Kafka
3 44 (21.78%) Spring Boot
4 43 (21.29%) Node.js
4 43 (21.29%) REST
5 42 (20.79%) React
6 25 (12.38%) Web Services
7 24 (11.88%) Elastic Stack
8 22 (10.89%) AngularJS
9 18 (8.91%) Apache Camel
10 17 (8.42%) Hibernate
10 17 (8.42%) RESTful
11 16 (7.92%) JSON
11 16 (7.92%) XML
12 15 (7.43%) HTML
13 14 (6.93%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (6.93%) AWS CDK
13 14 (6.93%) jQuery
13 14 (6.93%) WireMock
14 12 (5.94%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.27%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (20.30%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.93%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.93%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.45%) Hedge funds
5 10 (4.95%) Reference Data
6 8 (3.96%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.97%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.98%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.49%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.99%) Blog
12 2 (0.99%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (26.24%) Linux
2 15 (7.43%) Windows
3 12 (5.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (5.94%) Unix
4 5 (2.48%) CentOS
4 5 (2.48%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.49%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (71.78%) CI/CD
2 109 (53.96%) DevOps
3 82 (40.59%) Agile
4 78 (38.61%) Microservices
5 77 (38.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (26.24%) Software Engineering
7 47 (23.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 39 (19.31%) Containerisation
9 37 (18.32%) Platform Engineering
10 36 (17.82%) Observability
11 35 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (17.33%) Test Automation
12 33 (16.34%) Scrum
13 31 (15.35%) TDD
14 30 (14.85%) Mentoring
15 27 (13.37%) Deployment Automation
16 26 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 24 (11.88%) Workflow
18 23 (11.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 97 (48.02%) Java
2 92 (45.54%) Python
3 48 (23.76%) JavaScript
4 38 (18.81%) Bash
5 27 (13.37%) TypeScript
6 20 (9.90%) PowerShell
7 18 (8.91%) Go
8 14 (6.93%) Bicep
8 14 (6.93%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.48%) SQL
10 4 (1.98%) C#
11 3 (1.49%) C
12 1 (0.50%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.50%) PHP
12 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (24.75%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.85%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.93%) Degree
5 10 (4.95%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.97%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.98%) MCP
9 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.97%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.97%) SLA
2 6 (2.97%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.48%) GDPR
4 4 (1.98%) NIST
5 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.49%) QA
6 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) CDISC
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.50%) DICOM
7 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 63 (31.19%) Docker
2 4 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) vCloud
3 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 126 (62.38%) Kubernetes
2 114 (56.44%) Terraform
3 58 (28.71%) Grafana
4 39 (19.31%) Ansible
5 30 (14.85%) Prometheus
6 22 (10.89%) Kibana
7 18 (8.91%) Argo
8 6 (2.97%) Rancher
9 4 (1.98%) vRealize
10 3 (1.49%) Puppet
11 2 (0.99%) logstash
12 1 (0.50%) Cilium
12 1 (0.50%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (8.42%) Splunk
2 15 (7.43%) Dynatrace
3 10 (4.95%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.95%) Red Hat
4 9 (4.46%) IBM
5 6 (2.97%) Google
6 5 (2.48%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (2.48%) VMware
7 4 (1.98%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.98%) Pega
7 4 (1.98%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.98%) WSO2
8 3 (1.49%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.49%) Databricks
8 3 (1.49%) Oracle
8 3 (1.49%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.49%) Solace
9 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.50%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.50%) Mercator