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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 439 457
Rank change year-on-year -85 +18 +61
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 283 252 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.58% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 146 72 171
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £80,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% -23.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £127,000 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 27,511 15,930 25,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.04% 31.86% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 18,545 10,882 17,592
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,875
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 1 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 1 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 -103 236 £66,538 -20.55% 275
UK excluding London -106 125 £65,000 -7.14% 130
London -60 119 £85,000 -10.53% 190
Work from Home -13 110 £65,576 -2.85% 129
North of England -9 53 £65,000 -13.33% 33
South East -62 37 £62,500 +92.31% 18
North West -5 21 £66,538 -36.63% 16
South West -67 20 £100,000 +11.11% 16
Yorkshire -28 17 £65,000 - 9
North East -46 15 £52,250 - 8
Midlands -50 9 £62,500 +15.74% 11
West Midlands -27 6 £67,250 -1.47% 4
Wales -64 6 £80,000 +45.45% 4
Scotland -5 4 £58,565 - 27
East Midlands -23 3 £62,500 +15.74% 7
East of England -38 1 £72,500 -27.50% 14

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 (2.47%) Apache
2 6 (2.12%) Confluence
3 5 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.41%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.35%) Drupal
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 264 (93.29%) AWS
2 108 (38.16%) Amazon ECS
3 107 (37.81%) Serverless
4 86 (30.39%) Amazon S3
4 86 (30.39%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (26.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 72 (25.44%) GCP
7 66 (23.32%) Amazon EC2
8 59 (20.85%) Azure
8 59 (20.85%) SaaS
9 43 (15.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (12.37%) GitHub
11 28 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (9.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (8.83%) Azure AKS
14 21 (7.42%) OpenShift
15 20 (7.07%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (6.71%) Amazon EventBridge
17 18 (6.36%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (6.01%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.95%) Network Security
2 8 (2.83%) Firewall
3 7 (2.47%) VPN
4 5 (1.77%) AMQP
5 4 (1.41%) Broadband
5 4 (1.41%) DNS
5 4 (1.41%) IPv4
5 4 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.55%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (15.19%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (7.07%) Relational Database
4 15 (5.30%) MySQL
5 12 (4.24%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.89%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.53%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.83%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.77%) Big Data
9 5 (1.77%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.77%) DocumentDB
9 5 (1.77%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.41%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.41%) Redis
11 3 (1.06%) Flink
11 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 56 (19.79%) TeamCity
2 51 (18.02%) Jenkins
3 44 (15.55%) GitLab
4 42 (14.84%) Git
5 15 (5.30%) JIRA
6 10 (3.53%) JUnit
7 9 (3.18%) Mockito
8 8 (2.83%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.83%) JMeter
9 7 (2.47%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.12%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.41%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.41%) MLflow
11 4 (1.41%) Snyk
12 2 (0.71%) Gradle
12 2 (0.71%) Maven
12 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.71%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 97 (34.28%) Finance
2 70 (24.73%) Banking
3 68 (24.03%) Law
4 67 (23.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (20.49%) Retail
6 55 (19.43%) Public Sector
7 48 (16.96%) Social Skills
8 45 (15.90%) Back Office
8 45 (15.90%) Financial Institution
9 27 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (3.89%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.89%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Marketing
13 2 (0.71%) Games
14 1 (0.35%) Advertising
14 1 (0.35%) iGaming
14 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (28.27%) Senior
2 73 (25.80%) Software Engineer
3 47 (16.61%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (16.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 37 (13.07%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (12.72%) Developer
6 29 (10.25%) Lead
7 23 (8.13%) Senior Software Engineer
8 21 (7.42%) Consultant
8 21 (7.42%) Java Engineer
9 20 (7.07%) Architect
9 20 (7.07%) Senior Consultant
10 19 (6.71%) Lead Software Engineer
11 16 (5.65%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.65%) Software Team Leader
11 16 (5.65%) Team Leader
12 15 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (5.30%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (77.39%) Terraform
2 42 (14.84%) REST
3 33 (11.66%) Spring Boot
4 28 (9.89%) Spring
5 27 (9.54%) AWS CDK
6 25 (8.83%) Kafka
6 25 (8.83%) Node.js
6 25 (8.83%) React
7 21 (7.42%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (6.71%) AngularJS
8 19 (6.71%) RESTful
9 17 (6.01%) FastAPI
10 16 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
11 15 (5.30%) Web Services
12 13 (4.59%) LangChain
12 13 (4.59%) LangGraph
13 12 (4.24%) JSON
14 10 (3.53%) Apache Camel
14 10 (3.53%) Hibernate
15 9 (3.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 99 (34.98%) Cloud Native
2 40 (14.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (13.07%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (13.07%) Product Ownership
4 31 (10.95%) Onboarding
5 24 (8.48%) Enterprise Cloud
6 14 (4.95%) Public Cloud
7 13 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (3.89%) Low-Code
9 9 (3.18%) Blog
9 9 (3.18%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.47%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.12%) Algorithms
11 6 (2.12%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.12%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.12%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.77%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.55%) Linux
2 12 (4.24%) Windows
2 12 (4.24%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.47%) CentOS
3 7 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.47%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.12%) Unix
5 5 (1.77%) Debian
6 2 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.71%) Android
6 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (72.79%) CI/CD
2 162 (57.24%) DevOps
3 147 (51.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (40.28%) Microservices
5 108 (38.16%) Software Engineering
6 88 (31.10%) Agile
7 80 (28.27%) AI
8 76 (26.86%) Containerisation
9 74 (26.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (26.15%) Test Automation
10 71 (25.09%) Deployment Automation
11 68 (24.03%) Cloud Security
12 65 (22.97%) Observability
13 62 (21.91%) Mentoring
14 61 (21.55%) Clean Code
15 59 (20.85%) Continuous Deployment
15 59 (20.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 49 (17.31%) Migration
17 47 (16.61%) Platform Engineering
18 45 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 139 (49.12%) Python
2 116 (40.99%) Java
3 58 (20.49%) Bash
4 27 (9.54%) JavaScript
5 25 (8.83%) Go
6 24 (8.48%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.77%) Ruby
8 19 (6.71%) PHP
9 18 (6.36%) Perl
10 17 (6.01%) SQL
11 16 (5.65%) PowerShell
12 9 (3.18%) C#
12 9 (3.18%) Groovy
12 9 (3.18%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.12%) COBOL
14 4 (1.41%) C++
14 4 (1.41%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.41%) Scala
15 3 (1.06%) Bicep
16 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 73 (25.80%) Security Cleared
2 47 (16.61%) AWS Certification
3 33 (11.66%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.47%) Degree
6 6 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.12%) OSCP
6 6 (2.12%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.41%) CCNA
8 4 (1.41%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.41%) RHCE
9 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.71%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.24%) QA
2 7 (2.47%) NCSC
3 6 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.12%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.41%) NIST
4 4 (1.41%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) GxP
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 102 (36.04%) Docker
2 10 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.83%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.41%) Squid
4 4 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.41%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.41%) vSphere
5 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 201 (71.02%) Kubernetes
2 76 (26.86%) Grafana
3 50 (17.67%) Ansible
4 20 (7.07%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.95%) Kibana
5 14 (4.95%) Packer
6 13 (4.59%) Argo
7 12 (4.24%) Puppet
8 11 (3.89%) Istio
9 7 (2.47%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.12%) Proxmox
10 6 (2.12%) Rancher
11 4 (1.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (6.01%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.95%) Dynatrace
2 14 (4.95%) Splunk
3 11 (3.89%) Confluent
3 11 (3.89%) Oracle
4 10 (3.53%) AppDynamics
4 10 (3.53%) VMware
5 9 (3.18%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.83%) Databricks
6 8 (2.83%) IBM
7 6 (2.12%) Google
8 5 (1.77%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.06%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.71%) Pega
11 2 (0.71%) WSO2
12 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software