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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 435 451
Rank change year-on-year -89 +16 +69
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 293 252 385
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 1.60% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 146 74 161
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,438 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £83,750 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% -22.09% +34.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £109,375 £142,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £127,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.55% +3.57% +7.69%

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 27,559 15,732 24,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.30% 31.71% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18,622 10,630 16,115
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -101 240 £66,538 -21.72% 203
UK excluding London -126 129 £65,576 -9.55% 98
London -62 119 £80,000 -13.51% 143
Work from Home -17 115 £65,576 -2.85% 519
North of England -14 54 £65,000 -7.14% 22
South East -54 38 £70,000 - 19
North West -4 21 £72,500 -30.95% 12
South West -72 20 £100,000 +11.11% 13
Yorkshire -39 17 £65,000 - 6
North East -47 16 £57,500 - 4
Midlands -43 11 £62,500 +15.74% 3
West Midlands -44 6 £67,250 -1.47% 2
Wales -68 6 £80,000 +45.45%
East Midlands -36 5 £62,500 +15.74% 1
Scotland +6 4 £58,565 - 25
East of England -46 1 £72,500 -27.50% 10

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 (2.73%) Apache
2 6 (2.05%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.05%) Confluence
3 3 (1.02%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) Drupal
5 1 (0.34%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 274 (93.52%) AWS
2 112 (38.23%) Amazon ECS
3 111 (37.88%) Serverless
4 90 (30.72%) AWS Lambda
5 86 (29.35%) Amazon S3
6 80 (27.30%) GCP
7 76 (25.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 66 (22.53%) Amazon EC2
8 66 (22.53%) SaaS
9 58 (19.80%) Azure
10 43 (14.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (11.95%) GitHub
12 28 (9.56%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (8.53%) Azure AKS
13 25 (8.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (6.83%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (6.48%) Amazon EventBridge
15 19 (6.48%) OpenShift
16 18 (6.14%) Amazon Bedrock
16 18 (6.14%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.78%) Network Security
2 8 (2.73%) Firewall
3 7 (2.39%) VPN
4 6 (2.05%) AMQP
5 4 (1.37%) Broadband
5 4 (1.37%) DNS
5 4 (1.37%) IPv4
5 4 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (16.38%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (15.02%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (6.83%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.46%) MySQL
5 12 (4.10%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.75%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.41%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.07%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.73%) Redis
10 6 (2.05%) Big Data
10 6 (2.05%) Cloudera CDH
10 6 (2.05%) DocumentDB
10 6 (2.05%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.37%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.02%) Flink
13 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (22.18%) TeamCity
2 55 (18.77%) Jenkins
3 46 (15.70%) Git
4 41 (13.99%) GitLab
5 15 (5.12%) JIRA
6 11 (3.75%) JUnit
7 10 (3.41%) Mockito
8 9 (3.07%) JMeter
9 8 (2.73%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.39%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.05%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.71%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.37%) MLflow
13 4 (1.37%) Snyk
14 3 (1.02%) Maven
15 2 (0.68%) Gradle
15 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.68%) Terragrunt
16 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 1 (0.34%) Gatling
General
1 103 (35.15%) Finance
2 80 (27.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 77 (26.28%) Law
4 76 (25.94%) Banking
5 67 (22.87%) Retail
6 59 (20.14%) Public Sector
7 52 (17.75%) Back Office
7 52 (17.75%) Financial Institution
8 48 (16.38%) Social Skills
9 27 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (4.10%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.75%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.02%) Marketing
14 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.34%) Advertising
15 1 (0.34%) Games
15 1 (0.34%) iGaming
15 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (27.99%) Senior
1 82 (27.99%) Software Engineer
2 48 (16.38%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (12.63%) Developer
4 34 (11.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (10.58%) Lead
6 24 (8.19%) Java Engineer
6 24 (8.19%) Senior Software Engineer
7 22 (7.51%) Lead Software Engineer
8 21 (7.17%) Consultant
9 20 (6.83%) Senior Consultant
10 19 (6.48%) Architect
10 19 (6.48%) Software Team Leader
10 19 (6.48%) Team Leader
11 18 (6.14%) AWS DevOps
11 18 (6.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (5.46%) Java Software Engineer
13 15 (5.12%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (77.13%) Terraform
2 46 (15.70%) REST
3 36 (12.29%) Spring Boot
4 31 (10.58%) Spring
5 29 (9.90%) Kafka
6 28 (9.56%) AWS CDK
7 26 (8.87%) Node.js
7 26 (8.87%) React
8 23 (7.85%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (6.83%) AngularJS
9 20 (6.83%) RESTful
10 18 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (5.80%) FastAPI
12 15 (5.12%) Web Services
13 13 (4.44%) JSON
13 13 (4.44%) LangChain
13 13 (4.44%) LangGraph
14 12 (4.10%) Hibernate
15 10 (3.41%) Apache Camel
15 10 (3.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 111 (37.88%) Cloud Native
2 44 (15.02%) Product Ownership
3 37 (12.63%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (12.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (10.58%) Onboarding
5 22 (7.51%) Enterprise Cloud
6 13 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (4.44%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.75%) Blog
7 11 (3.75%) Low-Code
8 10 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (3.07%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.39%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.05%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.05%) Mainframe
11 6 (2.05%) Replication
11 6 (2.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (22.18%) Linux
2 12 (4.10%) Windows
2 12 (4.10%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.73%) CentOS
3 8 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.73%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.39%) Unix
5 6 (2.05%) Debian
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.68%) Android
6 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (74.74%) CI/CD
2 167 (57.00%) DevOps
3 151 (51.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (41.64%) Microservices
5 119 (40.61%) Software Engineering
6 92 (31.40%) Agile
7 87 (29.69%) Test Automation
8 85 (29.01%) AI
9 83 (28.33%) Deployment Automation
10 78 (26.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 77 (26.28%) Containerisation
12 72 (24.57%) Mentoring
13 71 (24.23%) Clean Code
13 71 (24.23%) Cloud Security
14 69 (23.55%) Observability
15 67 (22.87%) Continuous Deployment
16 59 (20.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 49 (16.72%) Coaching
18 48 (16.38%) Migration
19 46 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 141 (48.12%) Python
2 128 (43.69%) Java
3 61 (20.82%) Bash
4 30 (10.24%) JavaScript
5 26 (8.87%) TypeScript
6 22 (7.51%) Ruby
7 21 (7.17%) Go
8 19 (6.48%) PHP
9 18 (6.14%) Perl
9 18 (6.14%) SQL
10 16 (5.46%) PowerShell
11 12 (4.10%) Groovy
12 10 (3.41%) Shell Script
13 9 (3.07%) C#
14 6 (2.05%) COBOL
15 5 (1.71%) PL/SQL
16 4 (1.37%) C++
16 4 (1.37%) Scala
17 3 (1.02%) Bicep
18 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 77 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 45 (15.36%) AWS Certification
3 37 (12.63%) SC Cleared
4 24 (8.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.39%) Degree
5 7 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.05%) OSCP
6 6 (2.05%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.37%) CCNA
8 4 (1.37%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.37%) RHCE
9 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.44%) QA
2 8 (2.73%) NCSC
3 6 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.05%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.37%) NIST
4 4 (1.37%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) GxP
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 108 (36.86%) Docker
2 8 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.37%) Squid
3 4 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.37%) vSphere
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 211 (72.01%) Kubernetes
2 89 (30.38%) Grafana
3 48 (16.38%) Ansible
4 24 (8.19%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.12%) Kibana
6 14 (4.78%) Packer
7 13 (4.44%) Puppet
8 12 (4.10%) Argo
9 9 (3.07%) Rancher
10 8 (2.73%) Istio
11 7 (2.39%) Progress Chef
12 6 (2.05%) Proxmox
13 4 (1.37%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.34%) Consul
15 1 (0.34%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 19 (6.48%) Dynatrace
2 17 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.12%) Splunk
4 11 (3.75%) AppDynamics
4 11 (3.75%) Oracle
5 10 (3.41%) Confluent
5 10 (3.41%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.41%) VMware
6 8 (2.73%) Databricks
6 8 (2.73%) IBM
7 7 (2.39%) Google
8 6 (2.05%) SaltStack
8 6 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.02%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.68%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.34%) Okta
12 1 (0.34%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.34%) YouTube