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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 430 524
Rank change year-on-year -62 +94 -11
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 254 224 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.53% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.57% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 122 81 180
10th Percentile £47,850 £57,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £58,938 £70,500 £64,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +31.25% -7.25%
75th Percentile £92,500 £116,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £127,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% -3.23% +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 27,075 14,304 34,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.19% 33.56% 35.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15,348 9,803 26,671
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% +9.00% -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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -58 229 £72,500 -30.95% 91
Work from Home +11 129 £68,750 -34.52% 56
London -27 118 £105,000 -3.45% 47
UK excluding London -53 114 £62,500 -16.67% 51
North of England -25 47 £65,000 -25.71% 14
South East -35 45 £62,500 +92.31% 11
Yorkshire -21 25 £65,000 -5.45% 1
North West +1 21 £65,288 -37.82% 10
Midlands -23 12 £50,000 - 5
South West -48 12 £61,500 - 15
West Midlands -27 10 £50,000 - 5
East of England -18 6 £85,000 - 1
Scotland -5 2 £76,783 -7.49% 4
East Midlands -31 2 £75,000 -
North East - 1 £65,576 - 3

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 13 (5.12%) OpenStack
2 9 (3.54%) Apache
2 9 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.36%) Confluence
4 5 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Qpid
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) Drupal
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 244 (96.06%) AWS
2 84 (33.07%) Serverless
3 82 (32.28%) GCP
4 69 (27.17%) Amazon S3
5 64 (25.20%) Amazon ECS
6 59 (23.23%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (20.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 50 (19.69%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (18.90%) SaaS
10 45 (17.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (16.54%) Azure
12 33 (12.99%) GitHub
13 30 (11.81%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (9.06%) OpenShift
15 22 (8.66%) Azure AKS
16 21 (8.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (7.09%) Amazon SQS
18 14 (5.51%) AWS Fargate
18 14 (5.51%) Route 53
19 13 (5.12%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.12%) Firewall
1 13 (5.12%) VPN
2 5 (1.97%) AMQP
2 5 (1.97%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.18%) BGP
3 3 (1.18%) DNS
3 3 (1.18%) IPv4
3 3 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (1.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.54%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (11.81%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (11.02%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.12%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (3.94%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.94%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.15%) Flink
6 8 (3.15%) MySQL
7 6 (2.36%) Redis
8 5 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.97%) Big Data
8 5 (1.97%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.97%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.97%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.18%) Looker
10 2 (0.79%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.39%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 56 (22.05%) TeamCity
2 53 (20.87%) Jenkins
3 43 (16.93%) GitLab
4 37 (14.57%) Git
5 11 (4.33%) Bitbucket
5 11 (4.33%) JIRA
5 11 (4.33%) JUnit
6 8 (3.15%) JMeter
7 7 (2.76%) Mockito
7 7 (2.76%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.97%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.97%) MLflow
9 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.18%) NUnit
11 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.39%) Gatling
12 1 (0.39%) Gradle
12 1 (0.39%) Maven
12 1 (0.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 79 (31.10%) Finance
2 75 (29.53%) Banking
3 70 (27.56%) Retail
4 63 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (24.02%) Law
6 55 (21.65%) Social Skills
7 43 (16.93%) Back Office
7 43 (16.93%) Financial Institution
8 23 (9.06%) Public Sector
9 13 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (4.72%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.97%) Front Office
12 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.18%) Advertising
13 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.39%) Games
15 1 (0.39%) iGaming
15 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (25.20%) Software Engineer
2 54 (21.26%) Senior
3 45 (17.72%) AWS Engineer
3 45 (17.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (13.39%) Developer
5 29 (11.42%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (11.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (9.45%) Java Engineer
8 23 (9.06%) Java Developer
8 23 (9.06%) Lead
9 19 (7.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 18 (7.09%) AWS DevOps
10 18 (7.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (6.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 17 (6.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 17 (6.69%) Lead Software Engineer
11 17 (6.69%) Senior Software Engineer
12 16 (6.30%) Java Software Engineer
13 15 (5.91%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (5.51%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (19.29%) React
2 39 (15.35%) REST
3 34 (13.39%) Spring
4 31 (12.20%) Node.js
4 31 (12.20%) Spring Boot
5 30 (11.81%) Kafka
6 25 (9.84%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (8.27%) RESTful
7 21 (8.27%) Web Services
8 20 (7.87%) AWS CDK
9 17 (6.69%) AngularJS
10 14 (5.51%) JSON
11 13 (5.12%) Mustache
11 13 (5.12%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (3.94%) Apache Camel
13 9 (3.54%) Hibernate
13 9 (3.54%) YAML
14 7 (2.76%) ActiveMQ
14 7 (2.76%) jQuery
14 7 (2.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (32.28%) Cloud Native
2 38 (14.96%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (9.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (8.27%) Blog
4 21 (8.27%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.72%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.54%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.76%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.97%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.79%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
13 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.39%) Fixed Income
13 1 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.44%) Linux
2 10 (3.94%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.15%) CentOS
3 8 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.76%) Debian
5 4 (1.57%) Windows
5 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.18%) Android
6 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (81.89%) CI/CD
2 140 (55.12%) DevOps
3 123 (48.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (37.01%) Microservices
5 85 (33.46%) Agile
5 85 (33.46%) Software Engineering
6 79 (31.10%) Deployment Automation
7 76 (29.92%) Test Automation
8 65 (25.59%) Observability
9 62 (24.41%) Continuous Deployment
10 59 (23.23%) Clean Code
11 56 (22.05%) Platform Engineering
12 49 (19.29%) Containerisation
12 49 (19.29%) Mentoring
13 46 (18.11%) Fintech
14 44 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (16.93%) Cloud Security
16 42 (16.54%) Scrum
17 39 (15.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 31 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 118 (46.46%) Java
2 104 (40.94%) Python
3 40 (15.75%) JavaScript
4 34 (13.39%) Go
4 34 (13.39%) TypeScript
5 32 (12.60%) Bash
6 13 (5.12%) SQL
7 12 (4.72%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.54%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.36%) Groovy
10 5 (1.97%) Bicep
11 4 (1.57%) C#
11 4 (1.57%) Perl
11 4 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.79%) PHP
12 2 (0.79%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 46 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.35%) AWS Certification
3 27 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.54%) Degree
5 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.36%) OSCP
7 4 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) CCNA
8 3 (1.18%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.18%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.18%) RHCE
8 3 (1.18%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.39%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.94%) QA
2 7 (2.76%) NIST
2 7 (2.76%) SOC 2
3 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) NCSC
5 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (29.92%) Docker
2 9 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.36%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.18%) Squid
4 3 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.18%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 200 (78.74%) Terraform
2 196 (77.17%) Kubernetes
3 87 (34.25%) Grafana
4 56 (22.05%) Ansible
5 26 (10.24%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.72%) Kibana
7 11 (4.33%) Argo
8 10 (3.94%) Istio
9 9 (3.54%) Packer
10 8 (3.15%) Proxmox
11 6 (2.36%) Puppet
12 5 (1.97%) Rancher
13 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.18%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.39%) Consul
14 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (6.30%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.72%) Splunk
3 11 (4.33%) Confluent
3 11 (4.33%) VMware
4 10 (3.94%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.54%) Google
5 9 (3.54%) Oracle
6 8 (3.15%) IBM
6 8 (3.15%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.76%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.36%) Databricks
9 5 (1.97%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.18%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.79%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.79%) Pega
11 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.79%) WSO2
12 1 (0.39%) Mercator
12 1 (0.39%) New Relic
12 1 (0.39%) TOWER Software