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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 519 508
Rank change year-on-year +77 -11 -39
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 204 206 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.06% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 116 85 124
10th Percentile £50,000 £66,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £81,250 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.40% +43.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £98,125 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £125,000 - £102,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% -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 20,472 19,401 22,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.37% 36.15% 40.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,206 11,396 18,402
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,608 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £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 10 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 10 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 +54 178 £80,000 -25.58% 113
London +28 103 £100,000 -6.98% 19
Work from Home +90 98 £81,000 -24.65% 93
UK excluding London +32 85 £62,500 -10.71% 101
North of England +8 34 £63,750 -11.46% 20
Yorkshire 0 23 £62,500 -7.41% 7
South East +2 22 £75,000 +15.38% 34
Midlands +30 14 £50,000 -28.57% 9
West Midlands +32 13 £50,000 -28.57% 7
North West +3 10 £80,000 -8.57% 10
South West +8 9 £62,500 - 15
East of England +20 7 £85,000 +17.24% 15
Wales - 4 £54,060 - 6
North East +6 1 £65,000 -7.14% 3
East Midlands -1 1 £54,000 - 1

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 14 (6.86%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.41%) Apache
2 9 (4.41%) WebSphere
3 7 (3.43%) Tomcat
4 6 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (2.45%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.96%) Confluence
7 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.49%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 195 (95.59%) AWS
2 93 (45.59%) Serverless
3 63 (30.88%) AWS Lambda
4 59 (28.92%) Amazon ECS
5 56 (27.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (26.96%) Amazon S3
7 46 (22.55%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (20.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 41 (20.10%) Azure
8 41 (20.10%) GitHub
9 38 (18.63%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (13.24%) GCP
11 26 (12.75%) Azure AKS
11 26 (12.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (10.29%) SaaS
13 20 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (6.86%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (6.37%) OpenShift
16 12 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
16 12 (5.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.43%) SSL
2 5 (2.45%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.45%) VPN
3 3 (1.47%) AMQP
3 3 (1.47%) BGP
3 3 (1.47%) DNS
3 3 (1.47%) VLAN
4 2 (0.98%) Firewall
5 1 (0.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.06%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (18.63%) Relational Database
3 35 (17.16%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (10.29%) RDBMS
5 20 (9.80%) DynamoDB
6 11 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.90%) Flink
8 8 (3.92%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.43%) DB2
9 7 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (3.43%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.94%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.96%) Big Data
12 3 (1.47%) Apache Ignite
12 3 (1.47%) Cloudera CDH
12 3 (1.47%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.47%) MySQL
13 2 (0.98%) Redis
14 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 69 (33.82%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.18%) Git
3 24 (11.76%) GitLab
4 17 (8.33%) JUnit
4 17 (8.33%) TeamCity
5 13 (6.37%) JMeter
5 13 (6.37%) Mockito
6 7 (3.43%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.45%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.45%) JIRA
8 4 (1.96%) MLflow
9 2 (0.98%) JConsole
9 2 (0.98%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.98%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.49%) NUnit
10 1 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 59 (28.92%) Finance
2 41 (20.10%) Social Skills
3 39 (19.12%) Banking
4 24 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (11.27%) Front Office
6 22 (10.78%) Law
7 21 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (10.29%) Financial Institution
7 21 (10.29%) Retail
8 20 (9.80%) Public Sector
9 18 (8.82%) Back Office
10 6 (2.94%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.96%) Games
12 2 (0.98%) Advertising
12 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (22.06%) Developer
2 44 (21.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (20.10%) Java Developer
4 39 (19.12%) Software Engineer
5 37 (18.14%) Senior
6 33 (16.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (16.18%) Full-Stack Developer
7 32 (15.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 27 (13.24%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (7.35%) Lead
10 14 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 11 (5.39%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 10 (4.90%) Angular Developer
13 10 (4.90%) Data Warehouse Developer
13 10 (4.90%) Kafka Developer
13 10 (4.90%) Linux Engineer
13 10 (4.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (26.96%) Spring
2 45 (22.06%) Kafka
3 44 (21.57%) Node.js
4 43 (21.08%) React
5 42 (20.59%) Spring Boot
6 41 (20.10%) REST
7 23 (11.27%) Elastic Stack
7 23 (11.27%) Web Services
8 22 (10.78%) AngularJS
9 18 (8.82%) RESTful
10 17 (8.33%) Apache Camel
11 16 (7.84%) AWS CDK
11 16 (7.84%) Hibernate
12 15 (7.35%) JSON
12 15 (7.35%) XML
13 14 (6.86%) HTML
14 13 (6.37%) ActiveMQ
14 13 (6.37%) jQuery
14 13 (6.37%) WireMock
15 11 (5.39%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.06%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (20.10%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.86%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.86%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.39%) Hedge funds
5 10 (4.90%) Reference Data
6 8 (3.92%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.43%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.94%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.96%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.47%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.98%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.98%) Blog
12 2 (0.98%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (25.98%) Linux
2 15 (7.35%) Windows
3 12 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (5.88%) Unix
4 5 (2.45%) CentOS
4 5 (2.45%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.47%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (71.57%) CI/CD
2 112 (54.90%) DevOps
3 81 (39.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (39.22%) Agile
5 77 (37.75%) Microservices
6 55 (26.96%) Software Engineering
7 47 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 39 (19.12%) Observability
8 39 (19.12%) Platform Engineering
9 38 (18.63%) Containerisation
10 37 (18.14%) Test Automation
11 35 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (15.69%) Scrum
13 31 (15.20%) Mentoring
14 29 (14.22%) TDD
15 28 (13.73%) Deployment Automation
16 27 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 23 (11.27%) Workflow
19 22 (10.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 96 (47.06%) Java
2 91 (44.61%) Python
3 46 (22.55%) JavaScript
4 38 (18.63%) Bash
5 29 (14.22%) TypeScript
6 20 (9.80%) PowerShell
7 18 (8.82%) Go
8 14 (6.86%) Bicep
9 13 (6.37%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.45%) SQL
11 4 (1.96%) C#
12 3 (1.47%) C
13 1 (0.49%) C++
13 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.49%) PHP
13 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 49 (24.02%) Security Cleared
2 32 (15.69%) SC Cleared
3 31 (15.20%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.35%) Degree
5 10 (4.90%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.45%) MCP
7 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.94%) SLA
2 6 (2.94%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.45%) GDPR
4 4 (1.96%) NIST
5 3 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.98%) QA
7 1 (0.49%) CDISC
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.49%) DICOM
7 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.49%) HL7
7 1 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 61 (29.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.49%) vCloud
3 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 127 (62.25%) Kubernetes
2 117 (57.35%) Terraform
3 59 (28.92%) Grafana
4 39 (19.12%) Ansible
5 31 (15.20%) Prometheus
6 21 (10.29%) Kibana
7 18 (8.82%) Argo
8 6 (2.94%) Rancher
9 4 (1.96%) vRealize
10 3 (1.47%) Puppet
11 2 (0.98%) logstash
12 1 (0.49%) Cilium
12 1 (0.49%) Karpenter
12 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (7.84%) Splunk
2 14 (6.86%) Dynatrace
3 10 (4.90%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.90%) Red Hat
4 9 (4.41%) IBM
5 6 (2.94%) Google
6 5 (2.45%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (2.45%) VMware
7 4 (1.96%) Databricks
7 4 (1.96%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.96%) Pega
7 4 (1.96%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.96%) WSO2
8 3 (1.47%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.47%) Oracle
8 3 (1.47%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.47%) Solace
9 2 (0.98%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.49%) Mercator