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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 439 467
Rank change year-on-year -86 +28 +74
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 299 251 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 1.61% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 135 79 143
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £63,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% -27.91% +34.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £98,750 £145,000
90th Percentile £107,250 £120,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +3.70% +3.85%

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 27,107 15,588 23,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.93% 31.34% 31.91%
Number of salaries quoted 18,490 10,465 14,593
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,496 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% +0.80%
75th Percentile £84,128 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -112 243 £65,576 -20.51% 482
Work from Home -17 125 £65,576 -2.85% 313
UK excluding London -135 125 £65,576 -6.32% 310
London -75 123 £78,750 -12.50% 253
North of England -30 47 £65,576 +9.29% 73
South East -66 35 £60,000 - 56
South West -61 22 £102,500 +24.24% 38
North West -6 18 £72,500 -24.68% 33
North East -43 18 £57,500 - 19
Yorkshire -42 11 £47,000 -21.67% 21
Midlands -50 11 £62,500 +18.48% 32
West Midlands -44 6 £67,250 +30.58% 10
Wales -70 6 £80,000 +45.45% 13
East Midlands -46 5 £62,500 +15.74% 22
Scotland -2 3 - - 57
East of England -53 1 £72,500 -27.50% 32

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 (2.34%) Apache
1 7 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.01%) Confluence
3 4 (1.34%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.67%) Camunda
5 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 281 (93.98%) AWS
2 111 (37.12%) Serverless
3 110 (36.79%) Amazon ECS
4 91 (30.43%) GCP
5 88 (29.43%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (27.42%) Amazon S3
7 77 (25.75%) SaaS
8 71 (23.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 57 (19.06%) Amazon EC2
10 48 (16.05%) Azure
11 45 (15.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (12.37%) GitHub
13 30 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
14 28 (9.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 25 (8.36%) Azure AKS
16 21 (7.02%) Amazon EventBridge
16 21 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (6.69%) Cloud Computing
18 19 (6.35%) Amazon Bedrock
19 17 (5.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.69%) Network Security
2 14 (4.68%) VPN
3 11 (3.68%) Firewall
4 7 (2.34%) AMQP
5 6 (2.01%) BGP
5 6 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.34%) Broadband
6 4 (1.34%) DNS
6 4 (1.34%) IPv4
6 4 (1.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (1.00%) VLAN
8 2 (0.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (21.07%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (18.39%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (6.35%) Relational Database
4 17 (5.69%) MySQL
5 15 (5.02%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.01%) DynamoDB
6 12 (4.01%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.34%) DocumentDB
8 10 (3.34%) Redis
9 9 (3.01%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.34%) Big Data
10 7 (2.34%) Cloudera CDH
10 7 (2.34%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.34%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.00%) Flink
14 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 83 (27.76%) TeamCity
2 50 (16.72%) Jenkins
3 43 (14.38%) Git
4 36 (12.04%) GitLab
5 13 (4.35%) JUnit
6 12 (4.01%) Mockito
7 10 (3.34%) JIRA
8 9 (3.01%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.68%) JMeter
10 4 (1.34%) Snyk
11 3 (1.00%) Maven
11 3 (1.00%) MLflow
12 2 (0.67%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.67%) Gradle
12 2 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.67%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 110 (36.79%) Finance
2 99 (33.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 91 (30.43%) Law
4 84 (28.09%) Banking
5 81 (27.09%) Retail
6 66 (22.07%) Back Office
6 66 (22.07%) Financial Institution
7 59 (19.73%) Public Sector
8 55 (18.39%) Social Skills
9 27 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (4.35%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.68%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.34%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.00%) Marketing
14 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.33%) Advertising
15 1 (0.33%) Games
15 1 (0.33%) iGaming
15 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (30.43%) Software Engineer
2 87 (29.10%) Senior
3 39 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (12.71%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (11.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (11.04%) Developer
6 33 (11.04%) Lead
7 26 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 25 (8.36%) Java Engineer
9 24 (8.03%) Lead Software Engineer
10 21 (7.02%) Software Team Leader
10 21 (7.02%) Team Leader
11 20 (6.69%) Consultant
11 20 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (6.69%) Senior Consultant
12 19 (6.35%) Java Software Engineer
13 18 (6.02%) Architect
14 15 (5.02%) Senior Java Engineer
15 14 (4.68%) Senior Java Software Engineer
15 14 (4.68%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (77.26%) Terraform
2 41 (13.71%) REST
3 37 (12.37%) Spring Boot
4 31 (10.37%) Spring
5 30 (10.03%) Kafka
5 30 (10.03%) Node.js
6 27 (9.03%) AWS CDK
7 24 (8.03%) RESTful
8 23 (7.69%) React
9 17 (5.69%) AngularJS
9 17 (5.69%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (5.35%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.68%) LangChain
12 13 (4.35%) Hibernate
12 13 (4.35%) LangGraph
12 13 (4.35%) Web Services
13 11 (3.68%) OpenAPI
13 11 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (3.68%) Swagger
14 10 (3.34%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 124 (41.47%) Cloud Native
2 52 (17.39%) Product Ownership
3 36 (12.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (11.37%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (10.37%) Onboarding
6 21 (7.02%) Enterprise Cloud
7 20 (6.69%) Blog
8 13 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (4.35%) Public Cloud
9 11 (3.68%) Low-Code
10 10 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (3.01%) Data Centre
11 9 (3.01%) Private Cloud
11 9 (3.01%) Replication
12 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (2.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (2.34%) Security Posture
14 6 (2.01%) AI Agents
14 6 (2.01%) Digital Wallet
14 6 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.07%) Linux
2 11 (3.68%) Windows
2 11 (3.68%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.01%) CentOS
3 9 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.01%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.34%) Debian
4 7 (2.34%) Unix
5 2 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (79.93%) CI/CD
2 161 (53.85%) DevOps
3 149 (49.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (43.14%) Microservices
4 129 (43.14%) Software Engineering
5 97 (32.44%) Test Automation
6 92 (30.77%) AI
7 87 (29.10%) Agile
8 86 (28.76%) Deployment Automation
9 80 (26.76%) Clean Code
9 80 (26.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 79 (26.42%) Mentoring
11 73 (24.41%) Observability
12 72 (24.08%) Containerisation
13 71 (23.75%) Continuous Deployment
14 68 (22.74%) Cloud Security
15 63 (21.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 56 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
17 54 (18.06%) Coaching
18 51 (17.06%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 145 (48.49%) Python
2 143 (47.83%) Java
3 73 (24.41%) Bash
4 34 (11.37%) JavaScript
5 27 (9.03%) TypeScript
6 26 (8.70%) Go
7 22 (7.36%) Ruby
8 20 (6.69%) SQL
9 18 (6.02%) PHP
10 16 (5.35%) PowerShell
11 14 (4.68%) Perl
12 10 (3.34%) Shell Script
13 9 (3.01%) C#
13 9 (3.01%) Groovy
14 6 (2.01%) COBOL
15 4 (1.34%) C++
15 4 (1.34%) Scala
16 3 (1.00%) Bicep
17 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
18 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (25.75%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.72%) AWS Certification
3 39 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.34%) Degree
7 6 (2.01%) RHCSA
7 6 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.67%) OSCP
9 4 (1.34%) CCNA
9 4 (1.34%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.34%) RHCE
10 3 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.00%) CCSP
10 3 (1.00%) CISM
10 3 (1.00%) CISSP
10 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.34%) QA
2 7 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.34%) NCSC
2 7 (2.34%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.01%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (2.01%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.67%) NIST
5 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.33%) GxP
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 104 (34.78%) Docker
2 6 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.34%) Squid
3 4 (1.34%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.34%) vSphere
4 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 217 (72.58%) Kubernetes
2 113 (37.79%) Grafana
3 39 (13.04%) Ansible
4 32 (10.70%) Prometheus
5 13 (4.35%) Puppet
5 13 (4.35%) Rancher
6 11 (3.68%) Argo
6 11 (3.68%) Kibana
7 9 (3.01%) Packer
8 8 (2.68%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.01%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.34%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.00%) Cilium
12 2 (0.67%) Istio
12 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.33%) Opsview
Vendors
1 25 (8.36%) Dynatrace
2 15 (5.02%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.68%) Splunk
4 13 (4.35%) Google
5 12 (4.01%) VMware
6 11 (3.68%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.34%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.68%) Databricks
9 7 (2.34%) Oracle
9 7 (2.34%) SaltStack
10 6 (2.01%) Confluent
11 3 (1.00%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.00%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.67%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.67%) YouTube
13 1 (0.33%) ForgeRock
13 1 (0.33%) Okta
13 1 (0.33%) Ping Identity