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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 350 395
Rank change year-on-year +4 +45 +136
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 73 131 114
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.65% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 1.49% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 56 105 98
10th Percentile £52,500 - £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £97,500 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,229 £135,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.46% +68.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £87,813 £147,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £165,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £121,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -38.14% +51.56% -

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 5,821 8,808 10,760
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.71% 43.99% 48.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,092 5,743 9,185
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,522 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £82,243 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 29 October 2025.

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 (8.22%) Tomcat
1 6 (8.22%) WebSphere
1 6 (8.22%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (4.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (39.73%) AWS CloudFormation
3 28 (38.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 25 (34.25%) Serverless
5 23 (31.51%) AWS Lambda
6 21 (28.77%) GitHub
6 21 (28.77%) GitHub Actions
7 20 (27.40%) Azure
8 19 (26.03%) Amazon S3
9 17 (23.29%) Azure AKS
10 16 (21.92%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (19.18%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (19.18%) GCP
11 14 (19.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (16.44%) SaaS
14 10 (13.70%) Datadog
15 9 (12.33%) Amazon MSK
15 9 (12.33%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (12.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) SSL
2 4 (5.48%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.48%) VPN
3 3 (4.11%) DNS
4 2 (2.74%) BGP
4 2 (2.74%) Firewall
4 2 (2.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.66%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (19.18%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.22%) DB2
3 6 (8.22%) DynamoDB
3 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.11%) Apache Ignite
4 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.37%) Flink
5 1 (1.37%) Redis
5 1 (1.37%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 30 (41.10%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.70%) TeamCity
3 5 (6.85%) Cypress.io
3 5 (6.85%) Git
4 4 (5.48%) GitLab
5 2 (2.74%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.74%) IntelliJ
5 2 (2.74%) JUnit
5 2 (2.74%) Maven
5 2 (2.74%) Mockito
6 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (34.25%) Finance
2 19 (26.03%) Banking
3 15 (20.55%) Financial Institution
3 15 (20.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (17.81%) Law
5 12 (16.44%) Back Office
5 12 (16.44%) Retail
6 6 (8.22%) Social Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Front Office
9 1 (1.37%) Games
9 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (31.51%) Senior
2 18 (24.66%) Software Engineer
3 17 (23.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (20.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (17.81%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (13.70%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (13.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Principal Software Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) Applications Support
9 6 (8.22%) Applications Support Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) Developer
9 6 (8.22%) Lead
9 6 (8.22%) Support Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Java Developer
10 5 (6.85%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) Spring
2 13 (17.81%) Spring Boot
3 12 (16.44%) Kafka
4 9 (12.33%) React
5 8 (10.96%) Node.js
6 7 (9.59%) RESTful
7 6 (8.22%) LAPP Stack
7 6 (8.22%) LDAP
7 6 (8.22%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (6.85%) Jest
8 5 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.85%) Redux
9 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.48%) AWS CDK
10 3 (4.11%) ARM Templates
10 3 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (2.74%) ActiveMQ
11 2 (2.74%) JMS
11 2 (2.74%) REST
11 2 (2.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.99%) Cloud Native
2 10 (13.70%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.22%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.74%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (32.88%) Linux
2 16 (21.92%) Windows
3 7 (9.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (9.59%) Unix
4 1 (1.37%) CentOS
4 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (76.71%) CI/CD
2 46 (63.01%) DevOps
3 33 (45.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (39.73%) Software Engineering
5 20 (27.40%) Microservices
6 18 (24.66%) Agile
6 18 (24.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (20.55%) Mentoring
9 14 (19.18%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (17.81%) Incident Response
10 13 (17.81%) RBAC
11 12 (16.44%) Cloud Security
11 12 (16.44%) Containerisation
11 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (15.07%) Test Automation
13 10 (13.70%) Clean Code
13 10 (13.70%) Continuous Deployment
13 10 (13.70%) Observability
14 9 (12.33%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (52.05%) Python
2 30 (41.10%) Java
3 19 (26.03%) Bash
4 16 (21.92%) PowerShell
5 13 (17.81%) Bicep
6 7 (9.59%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.11%) Go
7 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.11%) SQL
8 2 (2.74%) C++
9 1 (1.37%) C#
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (34.25%) AWS Certification
2 19 (26.03%) SC Cleared
2 19 (26.03%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.33%) Azure Certification
4 7 (9.59%) Degree
5 6 (8.22%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (1.37%) MCSA
9 1 (1.37%) MCSE
9 1 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (8.22%) SLA
2 5 (6.85%) PCI DSS
2 5 (6.85%) QA
3 4 (5.48%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.74%) GDPR
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.37%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (17.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (69.86%) Terraform
2 43 (58.90%) Kubernetes
3 31 (42.47%) Grafana
4 17 (23.29%) Ansible
5 12 (16.44%) Prometheus
6 9 (12.33%) Argo
7 5 (6.85%) Kibana
8 1 (1.37%) Cilium
8 1 (1.37%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) IBM
2 6 (8.22%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.48%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.11%) Google
4 3 (4.11%) PagerDuty
4 3 (4.11%) Solace
4 3 (4.11%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.74%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.37%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) Pega
6 1 (1.37%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) WSO2