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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 417 520
Rank change year-on-year -57 +103 -39
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 243 238 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.56% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.58% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 126 99 188
10th Percentile £50,000 £62,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +35.48% -3.13%
75th Percentile £103,625 £123,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £147,500 £109,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £73,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year -13.56% -4.84% +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 27,721 15,016 34,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.90% 35.45% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 14,398 11,000 26,689
10th Percentile £30,625 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,956 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £61,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -45 224 £80,000 -25.58% 55
Work from Home -12 130 £77,500 -27.91% 41
London -35 122 £110,000 +2.33% 20
UK excluding London -83 104 £63,750 -13.56% 35
North of England -25 46 £65,000 -25.71% 12
South East -57 40 £62,500 - 9
Yorkshire -41 24 £65,000 -3.70% 1
North West -27 20 £65,000 -38.10% 8
Midlands -25 11 £50,000 -
West Midlands -23 9 £50,000 -
South West -45 7 £54,750 - 11
East of England -28 6 £85,000 +17.24%
Wales -29 2 £54,060 +43.27%
Scotland -30 2 £76,783 -7.49% 2
East Midlands -48 2 £75,000 -
North East - 2 £65,288 - 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 12 (4.94%) OpenStack
2 11 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.70%) Apache
4 7 (2.88%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.23%) Confluence
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Qpid
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 230 (94.65%) AWS
2 79 (32.51%) Serverless
3 72 (29.63%) GCP
4 62 (25.51%) Amazon S3
5 60 (24.69%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
6 54 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 43 (17.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 43 (17.70%) SaaS
8 39 (16.05%) Azure
9 37 (15.23%) GitHub
10 36 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (9.88%) Azure AKS
13 23 (9.47%) OpenShift
14 20 (8.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (6.17%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (5.35%) Route 53
17 12 (4.94%) Amazon Kinesis
18 10 (4.12%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.17%) Firewall
2 14 (5.76%) VPN
3 6 (2.47%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.06%) AMQP
5 4 (1.65%) BGP
5 4 (1.65%) VLAN
6 2 (0.82%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.40%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.93%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (8.64%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.76%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.94%) Flink
6 10 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.70%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.88%) MySQL
10 6 (2.47%) Redis
11 5 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (2.06%) Big Data
11 5 (2.06%) Cloudera CDH
11 5 (2.06%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.23%) Looker
12 3 (1.23%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.41%) InterSystems Cache
14 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (19.34%) TeamCity
2 42 (17.28%) Jenkins
3 40 (16.46%) GitLab
4 31 (12.76%) Git
5 8 (3.29%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.29%) JIRA
5 8 (3.29%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.88%) JUnit
7 5 (2.06%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.06%) MLflow
8 4 (1.65%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.65%) JMeter
9 3 (1.23%) Mockito
9 3 (1.23%) NUnit
10 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.41%) Gatling
10 1 (0.41%) Gradle
10 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.41%) Vagrant
General
1 72 (29.63%) Banking
1 72 (29.63%) Finance
2 63 (25.93%) Retail
3 56 (23.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (22.22%) Law
4 54 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 38 (15.64%) Back Office
5 38 (15.64%) Financial Institution
6 20 (8.23%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.12%) Front Office
9 9 (3.70%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.23%) Advertising
10 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) iGaming
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (23.05%) Software Engineer
2 55 (22.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 54 (22.22%) Senior
4 49 (20.16%) AWS Engineer
5 31 (12.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 29 (11.93%) Developer
7 28 (11.52%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (9.88%) Lead
9 23 (9.47%) AWS DevOps
9 23 (9.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 21 (8.64%) Java Engineer
11 20 (8.23%) Java Developer
12 18 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 18 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (7.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 16 (6.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 15 (6.17%) Java Software Engineer
16 14 (5.76%) Lead Software Engineer
17 13 (5.35%) Senior Software Engineer
18 11 (4.53%) Customer Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (18.93%) React
2 36 (14.81%) Kafka
2 36 (14.81%) REST
3 33 (13.58%) Node.js
4 29 (11.93%) Spring
5 26 (10.70%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (10.70%) Spring Boot
6 20 (8.23%) RESTful
7 19 (7.82%) AWS CDK
8 18 (7.41%) Web Services
9 15 (6.17%) AngularJS
10 13 (5.35%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (4.53%) JSON
12 10 (4.12%) Mustache
13 9 (3.70%) YAML
14 8 (3.29%) Loki
15 7 (2.88%) Sass
16 6 (2.47%) Apache Camel
17 5 (2.06%) Swagger
17 5 (2.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (29.22%) Cloud Native
2 38 (15.64%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (8.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (7.82%) Blog
5 16 (6.58%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.53%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.70%) Private Cloud
8 8 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.47%) Algorithms
10 5 (2.06%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.06%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.23%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
14 1 (0.41%) Client/Server
14 1 (0.41%) Equities
14 1 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 1 (0.41%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 55 (22.63%) Linux
2 10 (4.12%) Ubuntu
3 8 (3.29%) CentOS
3 8 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.88%) Debian
5 3 (1.23%) Android
5 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.82%) Unix
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Windows
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (79.42%) CI/CD
2 140 (57.61%) DevOps
3 122 (50.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (34.57%) Microservices
5 81 (33.33%) Agile
6 77 (31.69%) Software Engineering
7 69 (28.40%) Deployment Automation
7 69 (28.40%) Observability
8 68 (27.98%) Test Automation
9 57 (23.46%) Platform Engineering
10 54 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
11 51 (20.99%) Clean Code
12 48 (19.75%) Containerisation
13 42 (17.28%) Mentoring
14 41 (16.87%) Fintech
15 40 (16.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 38 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (15.23%) Cloud Security
18 35 (14.40%) Scrum
19 29 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 107 (44.03%) Java
2 97 (39.92%) Python
3 37 (15.23%) Go
4 34 (13.99%) JavaScript
5 31 (12.76%) TypeScript
6 29 (11.93%) Bash
7 14 (5.76%) SQL
8 6 (2.47%) Groovy
9 5 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.06%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.65%) C#
10 4 (1.65%) Perl
10 4 (1.65%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.23%) Bicep
12 2 (0.82%) Rust
13 1 (0.41%) C
13 1 (0.41%) C++
13 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 32 (13.17%) AWS Certification
3 29 (11.93%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.70%) Degree
5 6 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.23%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.23%) OSCP
9 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.41%) CISM
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.41%) GIAC
9 1 (0.41%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.12%) QA
2 8 (3.29%) SOC 2
3 6 (2.47%) NIST
4 5 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (28.81%) Docker
2 8 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 192 (79.01%) Terraform
2 189 (77.78%) Kubernetes
3 83 (34.16%) Grafana
4 57 (23.46%) Ansible
5 28 (11.52%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.58%) Argo
7 10 (4.12%) Istio
8 8 (3.29%) Kibana
8 8 (3.29%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.47%) Puppet
10 5 (2.06%) Packer
10 5 (2.06%) Rancher
11 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.41%) Consul
12 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (4.53%) Confluent
1 11 (4.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.12%) AppDynamics
3 9 (3.70%) Google
4 8 (3.29%) IBM
4 8 (3.29%) VMware
5 7 (2.88%) Splunk
6 6 (2.47%) Oracle
7 5 (2.06%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.06%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.65%) Databricks
9 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.23%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.82%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.82%) Pega
10 2 (0.82%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.82%) WSO2
11 1 (0.41%) New Relic
11 1 (0.41%) Solace