Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK
The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 18 Sep 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 443 | 462 | 541 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +19 | +79 | +53 |
| Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS | 247 | 367 | 244 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 0.50% | 0.47% | 0.40% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 1.58% | 1.49% | 0.95% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 72 | 157 | 168 |
| 10th Percentile | £52,500 | £65,000 | £52,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £61,250 | £93,750 | £60,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £81,250 | £107,500 | £80,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -24.42% | +34.38% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £100,000 | £142,500 | £112,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £122,250 | £165,000 | £138,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £70,000 | £70,000 | £67,500 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +3.70% | -3.57% |
All Cloud 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 | 15,669 | 24,694 | 25,570 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 31.68% | 31.62% | 42.43% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 10,603 | 15,772 | 21,307 |
| 10th Percentile | £29,750 | £34,500 | £33,500 |
| 25th Percentile | £39,500 | £45,750 | £46,250 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £60,000 | £62,500 | £62,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -4.00% | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £80,000 | £82,500 | £82,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £101,250 | £102,500 | £100,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £50,000 | £55,000 | £55,000 |
| % change year-on-year | -9.09% | - | - |
Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Amazon EKS
Salary Trend
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 18 September 2025.
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 18 September 2025. 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 | +7 | 230 | £85,000 | -20.93% | 83 |
| London | +12 | 137 | £87,500 | -23.08% | 53 |
| UK excluding London | +72 | 128 | £70,000 | - | 54 |
| Work from Home | +10 | 97 | £67,500 | -37.21% | 60 |
| South East | +61 | 57 | - | - | 19 |
| East of England | +6 | 20 | £100,000 | +73.91% | |
| Midlands | +48 | 16 | £54,000 | -22.86% | 3 |
| North of England | -38 | 14 | £70,000 | +0.72% | 15 |
| South West | +71 | 12 | £86,250 | +23.21% | 2 |
| West Midlands | +50 | 10 | £68,250 | -2.50% | 3 |
| Yorkshire | +27 | 8 | £60,000 | -18.92% | 2 |
| Scotland | +33 | 7 | - | - | 11 |
| East Midlands | +26 | 6 | £54,000 | - | |
| North West | -51 | 5 | £96,250 | +48.08% | 12 |
| Wales | +21 | 4 | £55,000 | - | |
| North East | +21 | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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