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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 460 543
Rank change year-on-year +19 +83 -66
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 274 183 334
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.21% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 142 96 181
10th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% +3.33%
75th Percentile £101,250 £123,750 £96,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% -6.45% +19.23%

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 25,665 15,138 33,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.16% 37.02% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13,582 11,003 26,384
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +2 248 £80,000 -23.81% 80
Work from Home +68 147 £78,750 -26.74% 40
London +8 139 £106,250 -1.16% 38
UK excluding London -30 117 £62,500 -13.79% 42
North of England -29 55 £65,000 -25.71% 18
South East -40 39 £62,500 - 16
Yorkshire -25 30 £65,000 -3.70% 4
North West -14 24 £65,000 -38.10% 10
Midlands -22 13 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands -7 11 £50,000 - 1
South West -32 8 £62,500 +13.64% 7
East of England -20 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Wales -19 4 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -32 2 £76,783 -7.49%
East Midlands - 2 £75,000 -
North East -25 1 £65,000 -7.14% 4

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 (5.47%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.65%) Apache
4 7 (2.55%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.46%) Confluence
6 2 (0.73%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.73%) nginx
6 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.36%) Drupal
7 1 (0.36%) IIS
7 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.36%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 264 (96.35%) AWS
2 97 (35.40%) Serverless
3 78 (28.47%) GCP
4 73 (26.64%) Amazon S3
5 71 (25.91%) AWS Lambda
6 65 (23.72%) Amazon ECS
7 59 (21.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (18.98%) SaaS
9 50 (18.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (17.15%) Azure
11 45 (16.42%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (16.42%) GitHub
12 41 (14.96%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (9.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (8.39%) Azure AKS
15 20 (7.30%) OpenShift
16 16 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (5.84%) Route 53
17 13 (4.74%) Amazon Kinesis
18 11 (4.01%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.84%) VPN
2 15 (5.47%) Firewall
3 8 (2.92%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.19%) BGP
4 6 (2.19%) VLAN
5 5 (1.82%) AMQP
6 2 (0.73%) DNS
6 2 (0.73%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (12.41%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (10.95%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.20%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.74%) Flink
6 10 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.28%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.55%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.19%) MySQL
10 6 (2.19%) Redis
11 5 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.82%) Big Data
11 5 (1.82%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (1.82%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.09%) Looker
12 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 53 (19.34%) Jenkins
1 53 (19.34%) TeamCity
2 40 (14.60%) GitLab
3 39 (14.23%) Git
4 10 (3.65%) JIRA
5 9 (3.28%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.92%) JUnit
7 7 (2.55%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.82%) JMeter
8 5 (1.82%) MLflow
9 4 (1.46%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.46%) Mockito
10 3 (1.09%) NUnit
11 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.36%) Gradle
12 1 (0.36%) Maven
12 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.36%) Snyk
12 1 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 84 (30.66%) Finance
2 82 (29.93%) Banking
3 70 (25.55%) Retail
4 65 (23.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (22.26%) Law
6 55 (20.07%) Social Skills
7 45 (16.42%) Back Office
7 45 (16.42%) Financial Institution
8 23 (8.39%) Public Sector
9 14 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (5.11%) Front Office
10 8 (2.92%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.09%) Advertising
11 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.36%) Games
13 1 (0.36%) iGaming
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (25.18%) Software Engineer
2 60 (21.90%) Senior
3 59 (21.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 54 (19.71%) AWS Engineer
5 39 (14.23%) Developer
6 35 (12.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (11.31%) Java Developer
8 29 (10.58%) Platform Engineer
9 25 (9.12%) Lead
10 24 (8.76%) AWS DevOps
10 24 (8.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 21 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 20 (7.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 20 (7.30%) Java Engineer
13 19 (6.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 18 (6.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 18 (6.57%) Senior DevOps
14 18 (6.57%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (6.20%) Java Software Engineer
15 17 (6.20%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.98%) React
2 45 (16.42%) Node.js
3 43 (15.69%) REST
4 42 (15.33%) Kafka
4 42 (15.33%) Spring
5 35 (12.77%) Spring Boot
6 31 (11.31%) Elastic Stack
7 24 (8.76%) RESTful
8 22 (8.03%) AngularJS
8 22 (8.03%) Web Services
9 19 (6.93%) AWS CDK
10 13 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (4.01%) JSON
12 10 (3.65%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.28%) Mustache
13 9 (3.28%) YAML
14 8 (2.92%) Loki
15 7 (2.55%) .NET
15 7 (2.55%) Sass
16 6 (2.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (29.56%) Cloud Native
2 46 (16.79%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.93%) Blog
3 19 (6.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (6.20%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.28%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.92%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.19%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.46%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.09%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 58 (21.17%) Linux
2 10 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (3.65%) Ubuntu
3 8 (2.92%) CentOS
4 7 (2.55%) Debian
5 5 (1.82%) Windows
6 4 (1.46%) Unix
7 2 (0.73%) Android
7 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (77.01%) CI/CD
2 156 (56.93%) DevOps
3 131 (47.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (36.86%) Microservices
5 92 (33.58%) Agile
6 91 (33.21%) Software Engineering
7 77 (28.10%) Test Automation
8 75 (27.37%) Deployment Automation
8 75 (27.37%) Observability
9 62 (22.63%) Platform Engineering
10 58 (21.17%) Continuous Deployment
11 55 (20.07%) Clean Code
12 52 (18.98%) Containerisation
13 47 (17.15%) Mentoring
14 42 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (15.33%) Fintech
15 39 (14.23%) Cloud Security
15 39 (14.23%) Full-Stack Development
15 39 (14.23%) Scrum
16 38 (13.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 127 (46.35%) Java
2 107 (39.05%) Python
3 43 (15.69%) JavaScript
4 38 (13.87%) TypeScript
5 36 (13.14%) Go
6 33 (12.04%) Bash
7 12 (4.38%) SQL
8 7 (2.55%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.19%) C#
9 6 (2.19%) Groovy
9 6 (2.19%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.82%) Bicep
11 4 (1.46%) Perl
11 4 (1.46%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.73%) C++
12 2 (0.73%) Rust
13 1 (0.36%) C
13 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 56 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.41%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.74%) Degree
5 6 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.73%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.73%) OSCP
10 1 (0.36%) CCSP
10 1 (0.36%) CEH
10 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CISM
10 1 (0.36%) CISSP
10 1 (0.36%) GIAC
10 1 (0.36%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.01%) SOC 2
3 10 (3.65%) QA
4 7 (2.55%) NIST
5 6 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.82%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 76 (27.74%) Docker
2 8 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 211 (77.01%) Terraform
2 203 (74.09%) Kubernetes
3 97 (35.40%) Grafana
4 59 (21.53%) Ansible
5 34 (12.41%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.30%) Argo
7 12 (4.38%) Kibana
8 10 (3.65%) Istio
9 8 (2.92%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.19%) Puppet
11 5 (1.82%) Packer
12 3 (1.09%) Rancher
13 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.36%) Consul
14 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (4.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.01%) Confluent
3 10 (3.65%) AppDynamics
3 10 (3.65%) IBM
4 9 (3.28%) Google
4 9 (3.28%) Splunk
5 8 (2.92%) VMware
6 7 (2.55%) Oracle
6 7 (2.55%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.19%) Pega
7 6 (2.19%) WSO2
8 5 (1.82%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.46%) Databricks
9 4 (1.46%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.46%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.09%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.73%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.36%) Mercator