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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 301 428
Rank change year-on-year +30 +127 +27
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EKS 130 127 144
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 0.85% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 2.10% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 63 49 108
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £105,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% -7.35%
75th Percentile £102,875 £127,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £73,500 £101,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -27.41% +26.56% -5.88%

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 7,129 6,036 13,994
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.97% 40.27% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,872 4,401 11,914
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,272 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 21 May 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 3 (2.31%) Apache
1 3 (2.31%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.77%) Drupal
2 1 (0.77%) IIS
2 1 (0.77%) JBoss
2 1 (0.77%) nginx
2 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 126 (96.92%) AWS
2 67 (51.54%) GCP
3 42 (32.31%) SaaS
4 23 (17.69%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (17.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (17.69%) GitHub
5 22 (16.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 22 (16.92%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (14.62%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (14.62%) Azure
7 18 (13.85%) Amazon S3
8 17 (13.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (11.54%) Serverless
10 10 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (6.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 9 (6.92%) OpenShift
12 8 (6.15%) Amazon MSK
12 8 (6.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (6.15%) CloudFront
13 7 (5.38%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.69%) VPN
2 9 (6.92%) Firewall
3 5 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.31%) BGP
4 3 (2.31%) DNS
4 3 (2.31%) VLAN
5 1 (0.77%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
1 15 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (4.62%) Flink
4 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.77%) Big Data
5 1 (0.77%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.77%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.77%) Redis
5 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (41.54%) TeamCity
2 14 (10.77%) GitLab
3 12 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.15%) Git
5 2 (1.54%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.77%) Gatling
6 1 (0.77%) JIRA
6 1 (0.77%) JMeter
6 1 (0.77%) JUnit
6 1 (0.77%) MLflow
6 1 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.77%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.77%) Vagrant
General
1 74 (56.92%) Banking
2 67 (51.54%) Retail
3 65 (50.00%) Finance
4 60 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 60 (46.15%) Law
5 42 (32.31%) Back Office
5 42 (32.31%) Financial Institution
6 21 (16.15%) Social Skills
7 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.62%) Front Office
9 3 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 34 (26.15%) Senior
3 30 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (20.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (16.92%) Lead
6 17 (13.08%) Java Engineer
6 17 (13.08%) Lead Software Engineer
7 16 (12.31%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (12.31%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (10.77%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (10.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 13 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (10.00%) Software Team Leader
10 13 (10.00%) Team Leader
11 12 (9.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (9.23%) Customer Engineer
11 12 (9.23%) Customer Service Engineer
12 11 (8.46%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.62%) React
2 16 (12.31%) Kafka
3 9 (6.92%) Node.js
3 9 (6.92%) Spring
4 8 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (5.38%) Loki
5 7 (5.38%) REST
5 7 (5.38%) Sass
6 6 (4.62%) AngularJS
6 6 (4.62%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.85%) RESTful
8 4 (3.08%) AWS CDK
8 4 (3.08%) Web Services
8 4 (3.08%) YAML
9 3 (2.31%) ARM Templates
9 3 (2.31%) JSON
9 3 (2.31%) Mustache
10 2 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.54%) XML
11 1 (0.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (52.31%) Cloud Native
2 21 (16.15%) Blog
3 20 (15.38%) Product Ownership
4 16 (12.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (8.46%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.38%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.31%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.54%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.92%) Linux
2 3 (2.31%) Android
2 3 (2.31%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.54%) CentOS
3 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.54%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.77%) Debian
4 1 (0.77%) Windows
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 75 (57.69%) DevOps
3 63 (48.46%) Deployment Automation
4 57 (43.85%) Software Engineering
4 57 (43.85%) Test Automation
5 56 (43.08%) Clean Code
6 55 (42.31%) Continuous Deployment
7 47 (36.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 46 (35.38%) Microservices
9 38 (29.23%) Fintech
10 34 (26.15%) Mentoring
11 32 (24.62%) Platform Engineering
12 31 (23.85%) Disruptive Innovation
12 31 (23.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 28 (21.54%) Observability
14 26 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (19.23%) Agile
16 24 (18.46%) Cloud Security
17 23 (17.69%) Coaching
18 17 (13.08%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (58.46%) Java
2 50 (38.46%) Python
3 27 (20.77%) Go
4 19 (14.62%) Bash
5 13 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.23%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.31%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.31%) SQL
8 2 (1.54%) Bicep
8 2 (1.54%) PHP
9 1 (0.77%) Groovy
9 1 (0.77%) Perl
9 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (8.46%) AWS Certification
1 11 (8.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.92%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) Degree
4 3 (2.31%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.31%) OSCP
5 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.62%) SOC 2
2 3 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.31%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.77%) NCSC
3 1 (0.77%) QA
3 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (22.31%) Docker
2 9 (6.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 118 (90.77%) Terraform
2 115 (88.46%) Kubernetes
3 76 (58.46%) Grafana
4 25 (19.23%) Ansible
5 20 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 9 (6.92%) Argo
7 8 (6.15%) Istio
8 7 (5.38%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.54%) Puppet
10 1 (0.77%) Consul
10 1 (0.77%) Kibana
10 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.77%) Packer
10 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (6.15%) Confluent
2 7 (5.38%) VMware
3 5 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.31%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.54%) Google
5 2 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.77%) IBM
6 1 (0.77%) Mercator
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle
6 1 (0.77%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.77%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.77%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.77%) Splunk
6 1 (0.77%) TOWER Software