Hybrid/Remote Amazon EKS Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Amazon EKS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 355 404
Rank change year-on-year +104 +49 +114
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 124 82 113
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 1.07% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 78 57 88
10th Percentile £54,250 £80,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £98,750 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,750 £107,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.95% +40.98% +1.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £150,000 - £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £107,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -30.23% +43.33% -6.25%

All Cloud Computing 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 5,745 7,641 11,768
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.73% 46.71% 46.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,014 4,854 10,250
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,575 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Amazon EKS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EKS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Amazon EKS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon EKS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon EKS over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Amazon EKS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Amazon EKS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (4.84%) Tomcat
1 6 (4.84%) WebSphere
1 6 (4.84%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (3.23%) Apache
3 3 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.42%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 121 (97.58%) AWS
2 39 (31.45%) GCP
3 35 (28.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 34 (27.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 29 (23.39%) GitHub
5 29 (23.39%) SaaS
5 29 (23.39%) Serverless
6 28 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (20.16%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (19.35%) Azure
9 21 (16.94%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (16.94%) Azure AKS
10 20 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (16.13%) Amazon S3
10 20 (16.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (9.68%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (9.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 11 (8.87%) Route 53
14 9 (7.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.26%) VPN
2 7 (5.65%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.84%) SSL
4 5 (4.03%) BGP
4 5 (4.03%) VLAN
5 4 (3.23%) Firewall
6 2 (1.61%) DNS
7 1 (0.81%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.74%) Amazon RDS
1 22 (17.74%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.06%) Flink
3 6 (4.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (4.84%) DB2
3 6 (4.84%) DynamoDB
3 6 (4.84%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.42%) Apache Ignite
4 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.81%) Big Data
6 1 (0.81%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 34 (27.42%) TeamCity
2 28 (22.58%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.03%) Cypress.io
3 5 (4.03%) Git
3 5 (4.03%) GitLab
4 3 (2.42%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (44.35%) Banking
2 53 (42.74%) Finance
3 43 (34.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 41 (33.06%) Retail
5 40 (32.26%) Law
6 32 (25.81%) Financial Institution
7 29 (23.39%) Back Office
8 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
9 10 (8.06%) Front Office
10 6 (4.84%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (33.06%) Software Engineer
2 29 (23.39%) Senior
3 27 (21.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (20.97%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (20.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (16.13%) Lead
7 12 (9.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 12 (9.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 12 (9.68%) Java Engineer
7 12 (9.68%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (8.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) Linux Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (7.26%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
10 8 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.16%) Kafka
2 23 (18.55%) React
3 18 (14.52%) Spring
4 16 (12.90%) Node.js
5 15 (12.10%) Spring Boot
6 10 (8.06%) RESTful
7 8 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (4.84%) AWS CDK
8 6 (4.84%) LAPP Stack
8 6 (4.84%) LDAP
8 6 (4.84%) Loki
8 6 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (4.84%) REST
8 6 (4.84%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (4.03%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.03%) Jest
9 5 (4.03%) Redux
9 5 (4.03%) Sass
10 3 (2.42%) ARM Templates
10 3 (2.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (44.35%) Cloud Native
2 19 (15.32%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.68%) Blog
4 10 (8.06%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.84%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.42%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.00%) Linux
2 15 (12.10%) Windows
3 10 (8.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (7.26%) Unix
5 4 (3.23%) CentOS
5 4 (3.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.81%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (84.68%) CI/CD
2 75 (60.48%) DevOps
3 50 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (38.71%) Software Engineering
5 42 (33.87%) Deployment Automation
6 37 (29.84%) Microservices
6 37 (29.84%) Test Automation
7 34 (27.42%) Clean Code
7 34 (27.42%) Continuous Deployment
8 33 (26.61%) Agile
9 30 (24.19%) Observability
10 29 (23.39%) Mentoring
11 28 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (18.55%) Fintech
14 22 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 20 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (15.32%) Cloud Security
17 18 (14.52%) Coaching
17 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 68 (54.84%) Java
2 56 (45.16%) Python
3 25 (20.16%) Bash
4 15 (12.10%) Go
4 15 (12.10%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.48%) Bicep
5 13 (10.48%) JavaScript
5 13 (10.48%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 23 (18.55%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.68%) Degree
5 9 (7.26%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.81%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (5.65%) PCI DSS
1 7 (5.65%) SOC 2
2 6 (4.84%) SLA
3 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) NIST
4 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 19 (15.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 95 (76.61%) Terraform
2 94 (75.81%) Kubernetes
3 67 (54.03%) Grafana
4 22 (17.74%) Ansible
5 19 (15.32%) Prometheus
6 16 (12.90%) Argo
7 5 (4.03%) Kibana
8 2 (1.61%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.81%) Cilium
9 1 (0.81%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (5.65%) Red Hat
2 6 (4.84%) IBM
3 5 (4.03%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.23%) Google
4 4 (3.23%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (3.23%) PagerDuty
5 3 (2.42%) Solace
5 3 (2.42%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.42%) Splunk
6 2 (1.61%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.61%) VMware
7 1 (0.81%) Mercator
7 1 (0.81%) Pega
7 1 (0.81%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.81%) WSO2