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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 470 527
Rank change year-on-year +34 +57 +8
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 227 289 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.47% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.33% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 109 138 132
10th Percentile £52,300 £69,625 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £97,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £107,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +50.88% -10.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £122,000 £165,000 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 19,352 21,649 21,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.31% 34.85% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 13,206 18,135
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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 +31 200 £83,750 -22.09% 160
London +8 120 £90,000 -30.77% 33
UK excluding London +74 100 £65,000 -7.14% 150
Work from Home +33 91 £80,500 -40.37% 70
North of England +15 33 £65,000 -9.72% 30
South East +26 30 £75,000 +15.38% 36
Yorkshire +8 20 £60,000 -18.92% 10
Midlands +43 17 £52,750 -24.64% 32
West Midlands +43 12 £51,500 -26.43% 18
South West +28 11 £81,250 +20.37% 17
North West +13 11 £82,500 - 18
East of England +30 7 £92,500 +27.59% 21
East Midlands +13 5 £54,000 - 13
Wales - 5 £54,060 - 4
North East +10 2 £65,000 -7.14% 2
Scotland +3 2 - - 10

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 25 (11.01%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.41%) OpenStack
3 9 (3.96%) Apache
3 9 (3.96%) WebSphere
4 7 (3.08%) Tomcat
5 6 (2.64%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (1.76%) Confluence
7 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.88%) nginx
8 1 (0.44%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 218 (96.04%) AWS
2 89 (39.21%) Serverless
3 72 (31.72%) Amazon S3
4 64 (28.19%) Amazon ECS
5 61 (26.87%) Amazon EC2
6 55 (24.23%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (22.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 43 (18.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 42 (18.50%) GitHub
10 40 (17.62%) Azure
11 39 (17.18%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (11.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (10.57%) GCP
14 23 (10.13%) Azure AKS
15 21 (9.25%) SaaS
16 19 (8.37%) Amazon ELB
16 19 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (6.17%) Route 53
18 12 (5.29%) Amazon SQS
19 11 (4.85%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.08%) SSL
2 6 (2.64%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.64%) VPN
3 5 (2.20%) DNS
4 3 (1.32%) BGP
4 3 (1.32%) Firewall
4 3 (1.32%) VLAN
5 2 (0.88%) AMQP
6 1 (0.44%) DHCP
6 1 (0.44%) ICMP
6 1 (0.44%) Internet
6 1 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.59%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (18.94%) Relational Database
3 38 (16.74%) DynamoDB
4 31 (13.66%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (12.78%) RDBMS
6 19 (8.37%) Delta Lake
6 19 (8.37%) Metadata
6 19 (8.37%) Spark SQL
7 11 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.52%) Flink
9 7 (3.08%) DB2
9 7 (3.08%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.08%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.64%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.64%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.20%) Big Data
12 3 (1.32%) Apache Ignite
12 3 (1.32%) Redis
13 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 77 (33.92%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.33%) Git
3 25 (11.01%) JUnit
4 21 (9.25%) GitLab
4 21 (9.25%) JMeter
4 21 (9.25%) Mockito
5 19 (8.37%) MLflow
6 15 (6.61%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.64%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.20%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.20%) JIRA
9 3 (1.32%) Selenium
10 2 (0.88%) JConsole
10 2 (0.88%) Locust
10 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.88%) VisualVM
11 1 (0.44%) Protractor
11 1 (0.44%) Snyk
11 1 (0.44%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 67 (29.52%) Finance
2 58 (25.55%) Social Skills
3 42 (18.50%) Banking
4 35 (15.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (14.54%) Law
6 29 (12.78%) Public Sector
7 22 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (9.25%) Financial Institution
8 21 (9.25%) Front Office
9 18 (7.93%) Back Office
9 18 (7.93%) Retail
10 6 (2.64%) Marketing
11 5 (2.20%) Games
11 5 (2.20%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.76%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (22.47%) Developer
2 45 (19.82%) Java Developer
2 45 (19.82%) Software Engineer
3 44 (19.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (18.06%) Senior
5 38 (16.74%) Full-Stack Developer
6 37 (16.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 29 (12.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
9 23 (10.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 19 (8.37%) Operations Engineer
11 17 (7.49%) Lead
12 15 (6.61%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 13 (5.73%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (5.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (5.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 10 (4.41%) Angular Developer
14 10 (4.41%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.41%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (25.99%) Spring
2 47 (20.70%) Spring Boot
3 44 (19.38%) REST
4 43 (18.94%) Kafka
5 35 (15.42%) Node.js
6 30 (13.22%) React
7 28 (12.33%) Web Services
8 25 (11.01%) Apache Camel
8 25 (11.01%) Hibernate
9 23 (10.13%) HTML
10 22 (9.69%) AngularJS
10 22 (9.69%) jQuery
10 22 (9.69%) JSON
10 22 (9.69%) Lambda Expressions
11 21 (9.25%) ActiveMQ
11 21 (9.25%) WireMock
11 21 (9.25%) XML
12 20 (8.81%) PySpark
12 20 (8.81%) PyTorch
12 20 (8.81%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.59%) Distributed Systems
2 48 (21.15%) Cloud Native
3 25 (11.01%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (7.05%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.85%) Hedge funds
6 11 (4.85%) Public Cloud
7 10 (4.41%) Reference Data
8 8 (3.52%) Algorithms
9 7 (3.08%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.64%) Fixed Income
11 5 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.76%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
14 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (21.15%) Linux
2 31 (13.66%) Unix
3 15 (6.61%) Windows
4 11 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.76%) CentOS
5 4 (1.76%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.88%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (72.25%) CI/CD
2 107 (47.14%) DevOps
3 88 (38.77%) Agile
4 81 (35.68%) Microservices
5 71 (31.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (27.31%) Software Engineering
7 61 (26.87%) Containerisation
8 47 (20.70%) Full-Stack Development
9 42 (18.50%) Deployment Automation
10 41 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (17.18%) AI
11 39 (17.18%) Machine Learning
12 34 (14.98%) Platform Engineering
12 34 (14.98%) TDD
13 31 (13.66%) SDLC
13 31 (13.66%) Test Automation
14 30 (13.22%) Scrum
14 30 (13.22%) Workflow
15 29 (12.78%) Data Science
15 29 (12.78%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 127 (55.95%) Python
2 102 (44.93%) Java
3 51 (22.47%) JavaScript
4 37 (16.30%) Bash
5 27 (11.89%) SQL
6 21 (9.25%) Shell Script
6 21 (9.25%) TypeScript
7 20 (8.81%) Go
7 20 (8.81%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.73%) Bicep
9 4 (1.76%) C#
10 3 (1.32%) C
10 3 (1.32%) Lua
10 3 (1.32%) Scala
11 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.44%) PHP
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 52 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.33%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.61%) Degree
5 10 (4.41%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.44%) MCP
10 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.64%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.64%) SLA
2 6 (2.64%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.20%) GDPR
4 4 (1.76%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.32%) NIST
5 3 (1.32%) QA
6 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) CDISC
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.44%) DICOM
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
7 1 (0.44%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 89 (39.21%) Docker
2 4 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.44%) vCloud
3 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 153 (67.40%) Kubernetes
2 129 (56.83%) Terraform
3 53 (23.35%) Grafana
4 40 (17.62%) Ansible
5 31 (13.66%) Prometheus
6 29 (12.78%) Kibana
7 19 (8.37%) Kubeflow
8 17 (7.49%) Argo
9 5 (2.20%) Rancher
10 4 (1.76%) vRealize
11 2 (0.88%) logstash
11 2 (0.88%) Puppet
11 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.44%) Cilium
12 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.44%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 25 (11.01%) Splunk
2 22 (9.69%) Dynatrace
3 21 (9.25%) Databricks
4 9 (3.96%) IBM
4 9 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.96%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.20%) Google
5 5 (2.20%) VMware
6 4 (1.76%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (1.76%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.76%) Pega
6 4 (1.76%) WSO2
7 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.32%) MKS
7 3 (1.32%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.32%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.32%) Oracle
7 3 (1.32%) Solace
7 3 (1.32%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.88%) SaltStack