Amazon EKS Job Trends in the West Midlands

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 205 -
Rank change year-on-year +42 - -
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 13 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.11% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.34% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,550 -
25th Percentile £49,063 £60,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% - -
75th Percentile £52,250 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £54,575 - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £107,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -25.58% +38.71% -3.13%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,051 1,458 1,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.77% 33.00% 37.74%
Number of salaries quoted 887 837 1,129
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EKS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EKS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon EKS in the West Midlands

Amazon EKS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EKS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Birmingham +31 6 £48,750 +21.88% 5
Staffordshire - 4 £51,500 - 2
Coventry +4 3 - - 1
Amazon EKS
England

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (46.15%) GitHub
4 5 (38.46%) Azure
4 5 (38.46%) Azure AKS
4 5 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Datadog
5 4 (30.77%) Serverless
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 2 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (15.38%) SaaS
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (7.69%) PaaS
7 1 (7.69%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) Delta Lake
2 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 2 (15.38%) Metadata
2 2 (15.38%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) MLflow
3 1 (7.69%) Snyk
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
1 4 (30.77%) AWS CDK
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) Keras
2 2 (15.38%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (15.38%) Metaflow
2 2 (15.38%) NumPy
2 2 (15.38%) Pandas
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) PyTorch
2 2 (15.38%) scikit-learn
2 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
2 2 (15.38%) YAML
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Task Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) RBAC
3 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (30.77%) Runbook
4 3 (23.08%) AI
5 2 (15.38%) Information Security
5 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
5 2 (15.38%) Metadata Management
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) OO
5 2 (15.38%) OOP
5 2 (15.38%) OWASP
5 2 (15.38%) Time Management
5 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
2 4 (30.77%) Bicep
2 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Kubeflow
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Argo
4 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
3 2 (15.38%) Databricks