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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 319 331
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +72
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 130 100 156
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.60% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.74% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 42 46 119
10th Percentile £52,750 £52,500 £75,500
25th Percentile £61,378 £61,250 £97,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £67,500 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -38.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £147,500
90th Percentile £89,750 £107,500 £165,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £107,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -30.23% +34.38%

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 8,607 5,738 9,261
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.70% 34.16% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 6,307 4,055 6,096
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%

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 8 October 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 2 (1.54%) Camunda
1 2 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (0.77%) JBoss
2 1 (0.77%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 117 (90.00%) AWS
2 84 (64.62%) GCP
3 78 (60.00%) SaaS
4 16 (12.31%) Amazon S3
5 14 (10.77%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (10.00%) Serverless
7 11 (8.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.69%) Azure AKS
8 10 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
8 10 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (6.15%) Azure
9 8 (6.15%) GitHub
10 7 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
11 5 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (3.85%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.23%) VPN
2 10 (7.69%) BGP
2 10 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 7 (5.38%) Firewall
4 5 (3.85%) Network Security
4 5 (3.85%) VLAN
5 4 (3.08%) Broadband
6 3 (2.31%) DNS
7 2 (1.54%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (14.62%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.62%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.08%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.08%) DocumentDB
4 4 (3.08%) MySQL
5 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.54%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 83 (63.85%) TeamCity
2 10 (7.69%) GitLab
3 8 (6.15%) Git
4 6 (4.62%) JIRA
5 4 (3.08%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.31%) JUnit
7 2 (1.54%) Mockito
7 2 (1.54%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
General
1 81 (62.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 80 (61.54%) Finance
3 79 (60.77%) Banking
3 79 (60.77%) Law
3 79 (60.77%) Retail
4 72 (55.38%) Back Office
4 72 (55.38%) Financial Institution
5 27 (20.77%) Social Skills
6 17 (13.08%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.77%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 76 (58.46%) Software Engineer
2 49 (37.69%) Senior
3 24 (18.46%) Senior Software Engineer
4 21 (16.15%) Java Engineer
4 21 (16.15%) Lead
4 21 (16.15%) Lead Software Engineer
4 21 (16.15%) Software Team Leader
4 21 (16.15%) Team Leader
5 19 (14.62%) Java Software Engineer
6 15 (11.54%) Senior Java Engineer
7 14 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (10.77%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 12 (9.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (8.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Project Manager
11 7 (5.38%) Technical Manager
11 7 (5.38%) Technical Project Manager
12 6 (4.62%) Developer
12 6 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (83.85%) Terraform
2 10 (7.69%) RESTful
3 6 (4.62%) Spring
3 6 (4.62%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (3.85%) React
5 4 (3.08%) .NET
5 4 (3.08%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.08%) Node.js
5 4 (3.08%) PySpark
6 3 (2.31%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.31%) Flask
6 3 (2.31%) REST
6 3 (2.31%) Vue
7 2 (1.54%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.54%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.54%) Next.js
7 2 (1.54%) Play Framework
7 2 (1.54%) React Native
7 2 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 82 (63.08%) Cloud Native
2 45 (34.62%) Product Ownership
3 24 (18.46%) Blog
4 20 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.62%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.62%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (3.85%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.08%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.31%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.54%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.62%) Linux
2 6 (4.62%) Unix
2 6 (4.62%) Windows
2 6 (4.62%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.77%) Android
3 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (91.54%) CI/CD
2 80 (61.54%) Microservices
3 78 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 74 (56.92%) Clean Code
5 70 (53.85%) Test Automation
6 69 (53.08%) Deployment Automation
7 68 (52.31%) Continuous Deployment
7 68 (52.31%) DevOps
8 60 (46.15%) Mentoring
9 54 (41.54%) Coaching
10 52 (40.00%) Fintech
11 50 (38.46%) Disruptive Innovation
12 35 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (17.69%) AI
13 23 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 18 (13.85%) Observability
16 14 (10.77%) Agile
17 13 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 91 (70.00%) Java
2 31 (23.85%) Python
3 18 (13.85%) Go
4 16 (12.31%) Bash
5 14 (10.77%) SQL
6 6 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.08%) C#
8 3 (2.31%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.54%) PHP
9 2 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (6.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 5 (3.85%) CCSP
3 5 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (3.85%) CISM
3 5 (3.85%) CISSP
4 4 (3.08%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.08%) Degree
5 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.77%) CREST Certified
5 1 (0.77%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 10 (7.69%) SOC 2
2 5 (3.85%) NIST
3 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.77%) NCSC
4 1 (0.77%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (8.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (83.85%) Kubernetes
2 94 (72.31%) Grafana
3 10 (7.69%) Ansible
3 10 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.85%) Cilium
4 5 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.54%) Istio
5 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.54%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.77%) Argo
6 1 (0.77%) Opsview
Vendors
1 10 (7.69%) Google
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.08%) Databricks
4 2 (1.54%) Splunk
4 2 (1.54%) VMware
5 1 (0.77%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.77%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.77%) ForgeRock
5 1 (0.77%) Okta
5 1 (0.77%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.77%) YouTube