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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 450 437
Rank change year-on-year -73 -13 +82
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 271 249 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.50% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 1.56% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 140 66 169
10th Percentile £46,900 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £83,750 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% -20.24% +31.25%
75th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £115,125 £125,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year -12.57% +7.91% +1.09%

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 27,953 15,998 26,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.16% 31.98% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 18,487 11,064 18,830
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,779 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £43,239
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -86 229 £72,500 -14.71% 172
UK excluding London -112 120 £65,576 -12.57% 88
London -62 118 £90,000 -5.26% 115
Work from Home -29 100 £65,576 -2.85% 79
North of England -20 50 £65,000 -17.46% 24
South East -67 35 £70,000 +115.38% 13
North West +5 21 £70,000 -33.33% 9
South West -69 20 £100,000 +11.11% 12
Yorkshire -21 16 £65,000 -7.14% 9
North East -51 13 £52,250 - 6
Midlands -33 8 £62,500 -10.07% 4
West Midlands -31 6 £67,250 -20.88% 2
Wales -59 6 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Scotland 0 5 £76,783 -19.18% 22
East Midlands -28 2 £62,500 +15.74% 2
East of England -47 1 £72,500 - 7

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 8 (2.95%) Apache
2 7 (2.58%) Confluence
3 5 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.48%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) Drupal
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) JBoss
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 253 (93.36%) AWS
2 106 (39.11%) Serverless
3 105 (38.75%) Amazon ECS
4 88 (32.47%) Amazon S3
5 85 (31.37%) AWS Lambda
6 74 (27.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 65 (23.99%) Amazon EC2
7 65 (23.99%) GCP
8 58 (21.40%) Azure
9 52 (19.19%) SaaS
10 40 (14.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 31 (11.44%) GitHub
12 24 (8.86%) Azure AKS
12 24 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (8.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (7.75%) OpenShift
14 20 (7.38%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (7.01%) Amazon Bedrock
15 19 (7.01%) Amazon EventBridge
16 17 (6.27%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.17%) Network Security
2 5 (1.85%) AMQP
2 5 (1.85%) Firewall
3 4 (1.48%) Broadband
3 4 (1.48%) DNS
3 4 (1.48%) IPv4
3 4 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (1.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.76%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (13.28%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (8.12%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.17%) MySQL
5 12 (4.43%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.06%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.69%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.95%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.85%) Big Data
9 5 (1.85%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.85%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.85%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.48%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.48%) Flink
11 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (17.71%) Jenkins
1 48 (17.71%) TeamCity
2 45 (16.61%) GitLab
3 39 (14.39%) Git
4 16 (5.90%) JIRA
5 10 (3.69%) JUnit
6 8 (2.95%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.95%) JMeter
6 8 (2.95%) Mockito
7 6 (2.21%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.21%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.48%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.48%) MLflow
8 4 (1.48%) Snyk
9 2 (0.74%) Gradle
9 2 (0.74%) Maven
9 2 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.74%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 90 (33.21%) Finance
2 62 (22.88%) Banking
3 57 (21.03%) Law
4 54 (19.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (19.56%) Public Sector
6 48 (17.71%) Social Skills
7 47 (17.34%) Retail
8 38 (14.02%) Back Office
8 38 (14.02%) Financial Institution
9 26 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (4.06%) Aerospace
11 11 (4.06%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.11%) Marketing
14 2 (0.74%) Games
15 1 (0.37%) Advertising
15 1 (0.37%) iGaming
15 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (27.68%) Senior
2 64 (23.62%) Software Engineer
3 43 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (15.50%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (13.65%) Developer
6 34 (12.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (9.59%) Lead
8 23 (8.49%) Consultant
9 21 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (7.38%) Architect
10 20 (7.38%) Java Engineer
10 20 (7.38%) Senior Consultant
11 18 (6.64%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.90%) Lead Software Engineer
13 15 (5.54%) Security Consultant
14 14 (5.17%) Senior Security Consultant
15 13 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (4.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 13 (4.80%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 13 (4.80%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (15.13%) REST
2 32 (11.81%) Spring Boot
3 28 (10.33%) AWS CDK
3 28 (10.33%) React
4 27 (9.96%) Spring
5 26 (9.59%) Node.js
6 23 (8.49%) Kafka
7 20 (7.38%) RESTful
8 19 (7.01%) AngularJS
9 18 (6.64%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (6.27%) FastAPI
11 15 (5.54%) RabbitMQ
11 15 (5.54%) Web Services
12 12 (4.43%) JSON
12 12 (4.43%) LangChain
12 12 (4.43%) LangGraph
13 10 (3.69%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.32%) Hibernate
14 9 (3.32%) YAML
15 8 (2.95%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 91 (33.58%) Cloud Native
2 38 (14.02%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (12.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (11.44%) Product Ownership
5 30 (11.07%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.86%) Enterprise Cloud
7 15 (5.54%) Public Cloud
8 11 (4.06%) Low-Code
9 10 (3.69%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (3.32%) Data Centre
10 9 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.95%) Algorithms
12 7 (2.58%) Blog
13 6 (2.21%) Digital Wallet
13 6 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (2.21%) Mainframe
14 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.85%) Security Posture
14 5 (1.85%) Virtual Team
15 4 (1.48%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.66%) Linux
2 11 (4.06%) Windows
2 11 (4.06%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.58%) CentOS
3 7 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.58%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.85%) Debian
4 5 (1.85%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.74%) Android
5 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (71.22%) CI/CD
2 149 (54.98%) DevOps
3 145 (53.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 108 (39.85%) Microservices
5 102 (37.64%) Software Engineering
6 86 (31.73%) Agile
7 75 (27.68%) AI
8 74 (27.31%) Containerisation
9 65 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (23.62%) Test Automation
11 62 (22.88%) Cloud Security
11 62 (22.88%) Deployment Automation
12 58 (21.40%) Observability
13 55 (20.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 54 (19.93%) Mentoring
15 51 (18.82%) Clean Code
16 50 (18.45%) Continuous Deployment
17 48 (17.71%) Platform Engineering
18 46 (16.97%) Migration
19 44 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 135 (49.82%) Python
2 110 (40.59%) Java
3 50 (18.45%) Bash
4 28 (10.33%) JavaScript
5 27 (9.96%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.12%) Go
6 22 (8.12%) Ruby
7 20 (7.38%) SQL
8 18 (6.64%) Perl
8 18 (6.64%) PHP
9 16 (5.90%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.32%) C#
10 9 (3.32%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.21%) COBOL
11 6 (2.21%) Groovy
12 4 (1.48%) C++
12 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.11%) Bicep
14 2 (0.74%) Scala
15 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 70 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.97%) AWS Certification
3 28 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.21%) Degree
6 6 (2.21%) OSCP
6 6 (2.21%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.48%) CCNA
8 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.48%) RHCE
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.06%) QA
2 7 (2.58%) NCSC
3 6 (2.21%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.48%) NIST
5 4 (1.48%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.37%) GxP
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 99 (36.53%) Docker
2 10 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.95%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.48%) Squid
4 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.48%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 208 (76.75%) Terraform
2 188 (69.37%) Kubernetes
3 59 (21.77%) Grafana
4 47 (17.34%) Ansible
5 14 (5.17%) Packer
6 13 (4.80%) Argo
6 13 (4.80%) Kibana
7 12 (4.43%) Prometheus
7 12 (4.43%) Puppet
8 11 (4.06%) Istio
9 7 (2.58%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.48%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.11%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.11%) Rancher
12 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.37%) Consul
13 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.80%) Splunk
3 12 (4.43%) Confluent
4 11 (4.06%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.69%) AppDynamics
5 10 (3.69%) Oracle
6 9 (3.32%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.95%) Databricks
7 8 (2.95%) IBM
8 7 (2.58%) Google
8 7 (2.58%) VMware
9 5 (1.85%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.48%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.11%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.74%) Pega
12 2 (0.74%) WSO2
13 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
13 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.37%) Solace
13 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software