Amazon EKS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Amazon EKS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EKS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 405 469
Rank change year-on-year +138 +64 +10
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 137 192 209
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.92% 0.57% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 1.31% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 59 113 167
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £85,625 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.71% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £138,750 £97,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £147,500 £111,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +35.48% -3.13% +11.08%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,878 14,660 20,366
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.31% 43.32% 47.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,639 12,011 14,950
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,640 £37,790
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +1.28%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%

Amazon EKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EKS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EKS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon EKS.

Amazon EKS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Amazon EKS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon EKS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (24.82%) Apache
1 34 (24.82%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (5.84%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (43.80%) Azure
3 59 (43.07%) Amazon EC2
4 54 (39.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (32.85%) GCP
6 43 (31.39%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (24.82%) Dagster
7 34 (24.82%) dbt
7 34 (24.82%) Snowflake
8 30 (21.90%) Serverless
9 29 (21.17%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (18.98%) Amazon S3
11 15 (10.95%) Datadog
12 9 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (6.57%) Amazon MSK
13 8 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (4.38%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (4.38%) OpenShift
14 6 (4.38%) Slack
15 5 (3.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (36.50%) Elasticsearch
2 34 (24.82%) Amazon Athena
2 34 (24.82%) Apache Arrow
2 34 (24.82%) Apache Iceberg
2 34 (24.82%) Apache Ignite
2 34 (24.82%) Data Lake
2 34 (24.82%) Dremio
3 10 (7.30%) MySQL
4 8 (5.84%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.11%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.73%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.73%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (18.25%) GitLab
2 24 (17.52%) Git
3 20 (14.60%) Jenkins
4 17 (12.41%) Cucumber
5 14 (10.22%) IntelliJ
5 14 (10.22%) JUnit
5 14 (10.22%) Maven
5 14 (10.22%) Mockito
6 11 (8.03%) JIRA
7 4 (2.92%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.73%) TestRail
General
1 56 (40.88%) Finance
2 52 (37.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 51 (37.23%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (30.66%) Banking
5 34 (24.82%) Front Office
5 34 (24.82%) Investment Banking
6 7 (5.11%) Social Skills
7 6 (4.38%) Electronics
7 6 (4.38%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.73%) Games
8 1 (0.73%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 68 (49.64%) Developer
2 49 (35.77%) Software Developer
3 46 (33.58%) AWS Engineer
4 44 (32.12%) Software Engineer
5 40 (29.20%) Senior
6 34 (24.82%) AWS Software Engineer
7 25 (18.25%) AWS DevOps
7 25 (18.25%) Java Engineer
7 25 (18.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 19 (13.87%) Senior DevOps
8 19 (13.87%) Senior Software Engineer
9 18 (13.14%) Java Developer
10 15 (10.95%) Senior Developer
11 14 (10.22%) AWS Developer
11 14 (10.22%) DevOps Developer
11 14 (10.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (10.22%) Senior Java Developer
12 13 (9.49%) Java Pricing Developer
12 13 (9.49%) Senior Java Engineer
12 13 (9.49%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (60.58%) Pandas
2 52 (37.96%) .NET
3 50 (36.50%) Node.js
4 34 (24.82%) gRPC
4 34 (24.82%) NumPy
4 34 (24.82%) Protocol Buffers
4 34 (24.82%) PySpark
4 34 (24.82%) SciPy
5 22 (16.06%) Spring
6 19 (13.87%) Spring Boot
7 14 (10.22%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (10.22%) JMS
8 11 (8.03%) Kafka
9 7 (5.11%) React
10 6 (4.38%) Django
10 6 (4.38%) Flask
10 6 (4.38%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (2.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 49 (35.77%) Cyberattack
2 34 (24.82%) Derivative
2 34 (24.82%) Equities
2 34 (24.82%) Fixed Income
2 34 (24.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (24.82%) Hedge funds
3 14 (10.22%) Credit Derivative
3 14 (10.22%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (10.22%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.11%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.38%) Molecular Biology
6 3 (2.19%) BBC
6 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.46%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 71 (51.82%) Linux
2 49 (35.77%) Android
3 3 (2.19%) Windows
4 2 (1.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (80.29%) Software Engineering
2 101 (73.72%) Agile
3 79 (57.66%) CI/CD
4 64 (46.72%) Containerisation
5 52 (37.96%) Collaborative Working
6 49 (35.77%) Android Development
6 49 (35.77%) Design Patterns
6 49 (35.77%) Kanban
6 49 (35.77%) Line Management
6 49 (35.77%) Mathematics
6 49 (35.77%) OO
6 49 (35.77%) OOP
6 49 (35.77%) OWASP
6 49 (35.77%) Secure Coding
6 49 (35.77%) Statistics
7 36 (26.28%) DevOps
7 36 (26.28%) Migration
8 34 (24.82%) Asset Management
9 28 (20.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (16.06%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (82.48%) Java
2 111 (81.02%) Python
3 93 (67.88%) JavaScript
4 63 (45.99%) C++
5 56 (40.88%) Go
6 50 (36.50%) Rust
7 43 (31.39%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.38%) SQL
9 5 (3.65%) Bash
10 3 (2.19%) Groovy
10 3 (2.19%) Perl
10 3 (2.19%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.73%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 57 (41.61%) Security Cleared
2 49 (35.77%) DV Cleared
3 5 (3.65%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.11%) QA
2 5 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.73%) NCSC
3 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (46.72%) Docker
2 6 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 87 (63.50%) Terraform
2 82 (59.85%) Kubernetes
3 68 (49.64%) Ansible
4 8 (5.84%) Grafana
4 8 (5.84%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.11%) Kustomize
6 6 (4.38%) Istio
7 4 (2.92%) Argo
8 3 (2.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.73%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.73%) Kibana
9 1 (0.73%) logstash
9 1 (0.73%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (12.41%) IBM
2 6 (4.38%) Confluent
2 6 (4.38%) Sawtooth Software
3 4 (2.92%) AppDynamics
3 4 (2.92%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.73%) Imperva
4 1 (0.73%) Okta
4 1 (0.73%) PagerDuty