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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 440 449
Rank change year-on-year -84 +9 +72
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 288 250 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.50% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.59% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 147 71 162
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,250 £86,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £82,500 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -23.26% +34.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £110,250 £127,500 £165,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +5.66%

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 27,838 15,677 24,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.75% 31.62% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 18,777 10,595 16,042
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,500 £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 £100,300 £102,400
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 9 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 9 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 -105 238 £67,500 -20.59% 264
UK excluding London -114 130 £65,000 -13.33% 123
London -78 116 £85,000 -10.53% 186
Work from Home -28 111 £65,576 -2.85% 129
North of England -19 56 £65,000 -10.34% 27
South East -52 37 £70,000 - 19
North West +2 23 £67,500 -28.00% 15
South West -63 20 £100,000 +11.11% 17
Yorkshire -36 17 £65,000 - 6
North East -49 16 £57,500 - 6
Midlands -54 11 £62,500 +15.74% 10
West Midlands -38 6 £67,250 -1.47% 5
Wales -68 6 £80,000 +45.45% 1
East Midlands -34 5 £62,500 +15.74% 5
Scotland +5 4 £58,565 - 32
East of England -54 1 £72,500 -27.50% 11

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 (2.43%) Apache
2 6 (2.08%) Confluence
3 5 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.39%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.69%) 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 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 269 (93.40%) AWS
2 111 (38.54%) Amazon ECS
3 109 (37.85%) Serverless
4 88 (30.56%) Amazon S3
4 88 (30.56%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (26.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 72 (25.00%) GCP
7 66 (22.92%) Amazon EC2
8 61 (21.18%) SaaS
9 58 (20.14%) Azure
10 44 (15.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (12.15%) GitHub
12 28 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (9.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (8.68%) Azure AKS
15 20 (6.94%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (6.60%) Amazon EventBridge
16 19 (6.60%) OpenShift
17 18 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
17 18 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.86%) Network Security
2 8 (2.78%) Firewall
3 7 (2.43%) VPN
4 5 (1.74%) AMQP
5 4 (1.39%) Broadband
5 4 (1.39%) DNS
5 4 (1.39%) IPv4
5 4 (1.39%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (6.94%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.56%) MySQL
5 12 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 11 (3.82%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.47%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.78%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.08%) DocumentDB
10 5 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.74%) Big Data
10 5 (1.74%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.74%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.74%) Redis
11 4 (1.39%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.04%) Flink
12 3 (1.04%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 58 (20.14%) TeamCity
2 52 (18.06%) Jenkins
3 45 (15.63%) GitLab
4 44 (15.28%) Git
5 15 (5.21%) JIRA
6 10 (3.47%) JUnit
7 9 (3.13%) Mockito
8 8 (2.78%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.78%) JMeter
9 7 (2.43%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.08%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.74%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.39%) MLflow
12 4 (1.39%) Snyk
13 3 (1.04%) Maven
14 2 (0.69%) Gradle
14 2 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.69%) Terragrunt
15 1 (0.35%) Gatling
15 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 98 (34.03%) Finance
2 70 (24.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 70 (24.31%) Law
3 69 (23.96%) Banking
4 60 (20.83%) Retail
5 58 (20.14%) Public Sector
6 48 (16.67%) Social Skills
7 47 (16.32%) Back Office
7 47 (16.32%) Financial Institution
8 27 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.82%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.82%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.04%) Marketing
12 2 (0.69%) Games
12 2 (0.69%) iGaming
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (28.13%) Senior
2 75 (26.04%) Software Engineer
3 47 (16.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 46 (15.97%) AWS Engineer
5 37 (12.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 37 (12.85%) Developer
6 30 (10.42%) Lead
7 23 (7.99%) Senior Software Engineer
8 22 (7.64%) Java Engineer
9 21 (7.29%) Consultant
10 20 (6.94%) Architect
10 20 (6.94%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (6.94%) Senior Consultant
11 17 (5.90%) Software Team Leader
11 17 (5.90%) Team Leader
12 16 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (5.21%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (5.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.21%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (77.08%) Terraform
2 45 (15.63%) REST
3 35 (12.15%) Spring Boot
4 30 (10.42%) Spring
5 27 (9.38%) AWS CDK
6 26 (9.03%) Kafka
6 26 (9.03%) Node.js
7 25 (8.68%) React
8 21 (7.29%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (6.94%) AngularJS
9 20 (6.94%) RESTful
10 17 (5.90%) FastAPI
10 17 (5.90%) RabbitMQ
11 15 (5.21%) Web Services
12 13 (4.51%) LangChain
12 13 (4.51%) LangGraph
13 12 (4.17%) JSON
14 11 (3.82%) Hibernate
15 10 (3.47%) Apache Camel
16 9 (3.13%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 104 (36.11%) Cloud Native
2 41 (14.24%) Product Ownership
3 40 (13.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (12.85%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (10.76%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 13 (4.51%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (4.51%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.82%) Low-Code
9 9 (3.13%) Blog
9 9 (3.13%) Data Centre
9 9 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.43%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.08%) Digital Wallet
11 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (2.08%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (22.22%) Linux
2 12 (4.17%) Windows
2 12 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.43%) CentOS
3 7 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.43%) Ubuntu
3 7 (2.43%) Unix
4 5 (1.74%) Debian
5 2 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.69%) Android
5 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (73.96%) CI/CD
2 165 (57.29%) DevOps
3 152 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 116 (40.28%) Microservices
5 113 (39.24%) Software Engineering
6 91 (31.60%) Agile
7 83 (28.82%) AI
8 78 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 78 (27.08%) Test Automation
9 77 (26.74%) Deployment Automation
10 76 (26.39%) Containerisation
11 71 (24.65%) Cloud Security
12 69 (23.96%) Observability
13 66 (22.92%) Mentoring
14 65 (22.57%) Clean Code
15 61 (21.18%) Continuous Deployment
16 59 (20.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 50 (17.36%) Migration
18 47 (16.32%) Platform Engineering
19 46 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 137 (47.57%) Python
2 120 (41.67%) Java
3 59 (20.49%) Bash
4 29 (10.07%) JavaScript
5 25 (8.68%) TypeScript
6 23 (7.99%) Go
7 22 (7.64%) Ruby
8 19 (6.60%) PHP
9 18 (6.25%) Perl
9 18 (6.25%) SQL
10 16 (5.56%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.13%) C#
11 9 (3.13%) Groovy
11 9 (3.13%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.08%) COBOL
13 5 (1.74%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.39%) C++
14 4 (1.39%) Scala
15 3 (1.04%) Bicep
16 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 77 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.97%) AWS Certification
3 36 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.43%) Degree
6 6 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.08%) OSCP
6 6 (2.08%) RHCSA
6 6 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.39%) CCNA
8 4 (1.39%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.39%) RHCE
9 3 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.51%) QA
2 8 (2.78%) NCSC
3 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
4 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.39%) NIST
4 4 (1.39%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) GxP
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 105 (36.46%) Docker
2 8 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.39%) Squid
3 4 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.39%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.39%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 206 (71.53%) Kubernetes
2 78 (27.08%) Grafana
3 50 (17.36%) Ansible
4 20 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.86%) Kibana
5 14 (4.86%) Packer
6 12 (4.17%) Argo
6 12 (4.17%) Puppet
7 8 (2.78%) Istio
8 7 (2.43%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.08%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.08%) Rancher
10 4 (1.39%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.35%) Consul
12 1 (0.35%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 17 (5.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.21%) Dynatrace
3 14 (4.86%) Splunk
4 11 (3.82%) Oracle
5 10 (3.47%) AppDynamics
5 10 (3.47%) Confluent
5 10 (3.47%) VMware
6 9 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.78%) Databricks
7 8 (2.78%) IBM
8 6 (2.08%) Google
9 5 (1.74%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.39%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.04%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.69%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.69%) Pega
12 2 (0.69%) WSO2
13 1 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
13 1 (0.35%) TOWER Software